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2010-06-02 Israel-Palestine-Jordan

Noah Pollak: The Problem with Playing Defense

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Posted by Chunter Hupalet8364 2010-06-02 06:17|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 Pollak has a good point on the armenian genocide issue.

Israel has been treating this low key for many years (although so has Armenia for that matter).

Posted by lord garth 2010-06-02 08:07|| 2010-06-02 08:07|| Front Page Top

#2 All great ideas. Also publicize the flow of arms into Gaza and by whom. Publicize every incident where a rocket is fired into Israel from Gaza--scream bloody murder. Insist the UN act (which they won't of course). Publicize the fact that Israel has a representative government of which Palestinian-Israel citizens have a voice in the Knesset. Bring in the human rights organizations. Publicize the effect the wall has had on eliminating terrorists from Gaza. Publicize all the warlike rhetoric from Iran. Publicize the connections between Iran and proxy terrorist groups. Keep up a steady drumbeat daily or hourly.

Posted by JohnQC 2010-06-02 09:21|| 2010-06-02 09:21|| Front Page Top

#3 The only problem with these ideas is.... no MSM outlet will ever let those stories see the light of day.

Israel can scream all they like. The western press will make sure it is never heard.

Posted by DarthVader 2010-06-02 09:59|| 2010-06-02 09:59|| Front Page Top

#4 This is the wrong approach, because it is the "schoolyard" approach, which accomplishes nothing. Emotional gratification is not worth spending money on, compared to tangible exchange.

If Israel truly wanted to light a fire under the Turks, in a way that achieved results, it could do so with as little effort. For example, let slip that Israeli intelligence has discovered that the Turkish PM wants to humiliate the Turkish military, as an excuse to purge the general staff and replace it with Islamists.

Posted by Anonymoose 2010-06-02 13:55|| 2010-06-02 13:55|| Front Page Top

#5 THose are all good shivs in the ribs, but they won't change the fundamental fact here, which is that there's a new power in the middle east, and it's determined to bash Israel wherever it can. This is a big loss for Israel, and for us.

We've got our work cut out for us. I have to hink the odds of war btn Israel and Iran before we can dump Barry and get a serious CinC in the WH have just gotten a lot higher. Seems pretty likely now.

Posted by lex 2010-06-02 15:12|| 2010-06-02 15:12|| Front Page Top

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