It’s Two, Two, Two Wars in One
1 August 2006There are two different wars being prosecuted in the Middle East, and particularly in Israel and Lebanon. One war is being fought by Israel. It is a war for survival and it is being fought primarily with guns and tanks and jets and bombs The other war is being fought by Islamofacists. Their war is being fought in the media and their weapons are cameras and staged photo ops.
For its part Israel has continuously been called upon to defend herself for almost six decades. Hardly a year has gone by that Israel has not had some enemy attack her with guns, rockets and bombs. Israel has had little choice but to take harsh action to protect her citizens. To be sure, Israel has had to play for the media but her first priority has been the defense of her borders and her citizens.
On the other side there is Hezbollah, Hamas and the rest of the Islamic world that would do almost anything to ensure the destruction of Israel. But the other side uses weapons like guns and bombs only as an intermediate method. The attacks themselves are not designed to win anything. Rather, they are designed to elicit a response that can then be played politically. Hamas and Hezbollah are masters at this game because they have no need to defend anything. They have to provide Israel.
The media, always suckers for underdogs and radicals, are key players but not they way they think. In reality they are pawns in the hands of terrorists.
If you doubt any of this all you need to convince you other wise is a few pieces of information, readily available to all, even the press.
The first piece of information is mainly known by all, that Hezbollah is hiding behind civilians, itself a war crime. But Hezbollah isn’t only hiding behind willing civilian supporters, it is hiding behind unwilling hostages in its effort to stave off Israeli attacks. As we’ve seen, this in not an entirely effective tactic. It now seems, however, that the tactic was never intended to avoid attack. Instead, it was designed and intended to produce civilian casualties that can then be used to win the PR battle in the press. That has indeed been a successful tactic to date. That Hezbollah has forced civilians to remain and face Israeli attacks is documented by Heidi at EuphoricReality.
So Hezbollah orchestrates the deaths of dozens and scores of civilians at the hands of Israel, thereby creating a PR nightmare for Israel and growing support for Hezbollah. But it goes even farther than that!
Yesterday EU Referendum broke a story that graphically illustrates Hezbollah’s tactics and its complete disdain for the civilians it purports to be helping. EU Referendum, using a series of photos from different news outlets, demonstrates how Hezbollah has staged the media photo ops. The same rescue worker is shown rescuing the same dead child over and over again, at different times, photographed by different photographers working for different news organizations. And the dead child appears to have been dead for several days! And Hezbollah accuses Israel of not caring for children!
The media, of course, could have figured all this out. It wasn’t that difficult to do. But the media had no incentive to do so because, for the most part, the media supports anyone who is opposed to Israel.
The media never mentions how Hezbollah, for example, continues to purposefully target civilians in Israel while Israel places their own soldiers in harms way in its effort to avoid civilian casualties. The media never uses the phrase “war crimes” in the same sentence with Hezbollah but they readily accuse Israel of war crimes if civilians are killed because Hezbollah is hiding behind them. Using the media’s rationale, Hezbollah has found the ultimate conquest tool because hiding behind civilians (did I mention that this is a war crime?) can never be defended against.
Thanks to bloggers like EU Referendum and Euphoric Reality the truth is coming out. And if past experience is any guide, the MSM will have little choice but to cover it as the story grows over the next few days. But the MSM will not change their ways and terrorist organizations like Hezbollah will continue to have willing allies in the media. Because this is true, the role of bloggers continues to grow in importance. So be sure to keep supporting conservative bloggers. They have earned it!
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August 2nd, 2006 at 12:07 pm
there was an interesting story about all this on npr today…
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5600109
i think that’s the right link. have a goodwyne! (hahaha that kills me every time!)
August 3rd, 2006 at 12:00 pm
“have a goodwyne!” shameless!
August 5th, 2006 at 3:01 pm
What is this I’ve heard about Israel hijacking that Lebanese television company and airing a threat or something? That’s great! Fighting the PR war!