FEB 27, 2010
A government without hope
Ha'aretz
It's easy to chuckle at "Masbirim Yisrael" ("Explaining Israel"), the Information and Diaspora Ministry's campaign to give Israelis "tired of seeing how we are portrayed in the world" the tools to shape the country's image. But more than ridiculous, the campaign is disconcerting.
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FEB 27, 2010
Clashing Realities in the Muslim World
The Moderate Voice
The OIC post is symbolically important, and it is decent to have a Muslim who is sympathetic to Islam, as part of this war we are fighting is a propaganda war. The ideological gap we have over the radical fundamentalists outstrips even our vast military superiority, and promoting our diversity helps to further the understanding of that reality.
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FEB 27, 2010
The Only Public Diplomacy Campaign That Matters
Firedoglake (blog)
There are different conceptions of public diplomacy out there. Many of them concern how the U.S. talks to skeptical publics. I tend to feel that public diplomacy divorced from substantive policy decisions is transparent, condescending, credibility-destroying bullshit.
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FEB 26, 2010
A route to resolution for Syria and Israel
The Guardian
When it comes to Israel and its regional neighbours, bellicose language often drowns out peacemaking in a conflict that so often looks intractable. But a potential opening on the Israel-Syria track deserves attention because it could offer movement in a process that suffers from fatigue and cynicism.
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FEB 26, 2010
Wrong troops, wrong ammunition
The Jerusalem Post
But sending good-natured Israelis into the public diplomacy battlefield, to talk about how delicious Jaffa oranges are, how their nephew just went to work for this amazing new hi-tech start-up or how much the Israel Philharmonic has improved of late, is to use entirely the wrong troops with entirely the wrong ammunition for the fight.
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