Arab Spring

[randolph]

Originally Posted by ila

The Palestinians think that they won because they actually did win the PR war. They did this by placing their firing positions in civilian populated areas such as apartment buildings, houses, neighbourhoods. Then they would fire rockets at Israel. The Israelis would return fire to take out the firing positions. Of course there would be civilian casualties and then the Palestinians would invite in the media to look at what the big bad Israelis did. The media, like the dutiful lapdogs that they are, would immediately scream long and loud how vile the Israelis are. The world would then condemn Israel. Meanwhile nothing would be reported on suicide bombers, rocket attacks, etc. on Israel.

Until the media actually report the news instead of giving their own biased opinions the Israelis will always lose the PR war.

The Palestinians have lots of legitimate grievances including the relentless colonization of their land by Israeli settlements. But what is more important for the Palistinians, winning media points or developing some kind of dialog with Israel? Israel is a very tiny country, it's about the size of Vermont and is extremely vulnerable to attack and it has very hostile neighbors.