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Teh Narrative vs Reality
...Once upon a time “making a difference” meant changing reality. It meant winning actual victories, making actual things, saving actual lives. Today it means changing the narrative, altering perceptions, hiding brutality, or better yet, convincing the audience that brutality happens only when the dramatic cues come on.
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*So what better way to change the narrative than to use the word ‘new’ as in ‘new and improved’ Colgate Dental Cream? ...
Who’s actually going to go into Gaza and keep Hamas from re-arming without actually doing something? France? Britain? Egypt? That’s too much to ask, isn’t it. Because they might actually need to shoot somebody. Then the optics will be bad. So dollars to donuts, they’ll go for the optics and inaugurate some fancy port called the Mahatma Gandhi Mother Theresa humanitarian pier and then forget about it. And it will become an Iranian port on Gaza.
Then one of these days a real war will break out and real people will die. But nobody will connect the addiction to fantasy with those broken bodies, those smashed buildings, those shattered lives. Because the camera will move on. The moving finger writes … ‘new’.
Plus:
Hamas officials on Wednesday refused to allow into the Gaza Strip 21 truckloads of humanitarian aid that had been offloaded from the Gaza-bound flotilla ships currently docked at Ashdod Port, until “all” of those detained in Monday’s naval raid were released.
...“People in Gaza have been claiming that there is a humanitarian crisis there for years,” [COGAT spokesman Maj. Guy Inbar] said. “I find it difficult to believe that they don’t know what to do with medicine, food, clothes and blankets. ...”
“This proves that the whole thing was a provocation and a propaganda move and that no one really cares about the people of Gaza,” he said.
Least of all HamAss.
“Hamas officials on Wednesday refused to allow into the Gaza Strip 21 truckloads of humanitarian aid...”
Way to go, Hamas! That’ll really teach Israel a harsh lesson.
Posted by ZZMike on 06/04/10 at 03:27 PM
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