"you have not explained why you did it."

Keith I appreciate that you have not yet had time to read the article in the Huffington Post from last year
How Israel's Propoganda Machine Works

before replying to my last post with more nit picking totally diverting attention away from the BBC report about the failure to allow the UN to complete desperately needed reconstruction of schools and homes by the Israeli authorities.

If I was as cynical of other peoples motives as you appear to be of mine I might wonder why you continually do this.


"Because it recognizes the importance of the propaganda war, Israel fights on this front as vigorously and disproportionately as it engages on the battlefield."

"Be everywhere, and say the same thing -- and make sure your opponents remain as invisible as possible"

Although this paragraph refers to the reporting of the war the same propaganda methods were applied to the attack on the flotilla and its aftermath

" The work of their propaganda operation, which spreads multiple spokespersons in venues across the United States with consistent talking points, guarantees success.
At the same time, they are able to deny media access to Gaza, only allowing the Western reporters to operate near the war zone under IDF supervision, guaranteeing Israel the opportunity to shape every aspect of the story while removing the possibility of independent verification of the horror unfolding in Gaza."

You emphazized the report that

"Hamas, meanwhile, said it wanted either all the aid or nothing."

I pointed out that in fact Hamas had declared it would accept the aid in its entirety

Now, while the two statements represent the same situation, there is a world of difference in the way they are reported and I think the Israeli propaganda machine has more than enough resources without my needing to repeat this heavily loaded line fed to the, mainly American, press.