While it fights Iran, Hamas in Gaza, Hezbollah in Lebanon, the Houthis in Yemen and groups in the West Bank, Syria and Iraq, Israel is also engaged in an information war — and on that battlefield, it is losing.
Major international news outlets have increasingly portrayed Israel as a heartless aggressor in Gaza, running front-page images of skeletal children suffering starvation in the Strip.
Evidence showing that some of them were misleading or staged has done little to repair Israel’s image.
On Monday alone, US President Donald Trump, his deputy JD Vance, and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer all cited these viral images in their calls for drastic policy changes in Gaza.
What to think about: https://www.theyeshivaworld.com/news/general/2430201/mailbag-rachmanim-bnei-rachmanim-have-we-forgotten-who-we-are-in-gaza.html
ReplyDeleteWhat to think about it? That those who are kind when they need to be cruel will be cruel when they need to be kind.
DeleteIf we are kind to Gaza, our children grow up living in bomb shelters and run from exploding balloons that land in their streets.
It's terrible what the people of Gaza are going through but they started this war and they refuse to end it so they are responsible. Jews should never feel bad about surviving. I can assure you that if October 7 had gone as Hamas and Hezbollah planned, no one on the Arab side would be teaering his clothes saying "But what about those poor Jewish children?"
The Rambam rules that when laying siege to a city one must leave a side open for those who don't wish to fight to leave. There is no side open in Gaza. Please don't distort Torah values and conflate them with cruelty. The Israeli policy is a disaster on both moral and practical grounds
DeleteThe Arab league have condemned Hamas. This is a first. maybe because of American pressure.
DeleteBut it is in the right direction. I think that the gulf Arabs are tired of war.
A lot to think about I suggest you read it again slowly and then explain how it is ok to scream maves laravim, sing may your village burn and rampage through Palestinian villages.
DeleteThe war for public sympathy is fought on social media now. China and Russia dominate so no matter how much Israel spends or how many speakers they send out, they will fail. They are outspent and outnumbered.
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