Gov't New 'Public Diplomacy' Website Rejects Basis for Palestinian Statehood
This week Israel’s government officially launched a new “Public Diplomacy” English language website, with the site urging Israelis planning to travel abroad to “be ambassadors for Israel” and which includes a number of talking points that Israelis are supposed to parrot.
As the site is an official Israeli government website, the statements could be seen as official Israeli policy, but the statements seem to fly in the face of much of the rhetoric coming out of the peace process with the Palestinian authority.
In particular the site seeks to emphasize debunking the “myth” of Palestine, declaring that there “has never been such a concept as Palestine” and that there is no basis for a Palestinian state, an odd declaration at a time when the Israeli government is negotiating the creation of that state.Read more
These ambassadors of ill-will are going to have to do a heck of a lot of talking to counter the vicious actions of Israelis back home. The world is still reeling from Cast Lead, and so am I, and no amount of talking will make people forget the phosphorus and sound show that Israel put on over Gaza 20 months ago. The last time Israel undertook such a massive campaign, we saw the Torontonian ad ecouraging aliyah with the use of an oral sex message. The only value these ambassadors could create is by preaching to the Jewish choir to marginalize them further and I wonder when will the Jews become nauseated of having their brains messed with by such campaigns. I understood the campaign to be about spreading the "talking points" on how to negate the existence of a Palestinian people. These people are evil.
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