Israel needs to up its PR

Here's a Jerusalem Post article reporting how an "international human rights lawyer," Irwin Cotler, has said that Israel needs to ""take back the narrative" in the Middle East conflict." It doesn't need to stop killing Palestinian families wholesale. It needs to make sure its story gets heard in place of the facts of what is actually happening. Whose human rights did this guy ever defend? I should point out that this chap was also, once upon a time, Justice Minister for Canada. What kind of justice did he dispense? Anyway get this:

Cotler, who spoke at the annual general meeting of the Israeli branch of the Lions of Judah - the international Jewish women's organization that raises money from women for Israel projects run by women for women - rejected as untrue the widely held idea that the root of the conflict is occupation, with Israel perceived as an apartheid state.

The conflict was not about borders, said Cotler, but about the refusal of the Hamas-led Palestinians and most Arab states to accept a Jewish state in the Middle East.

Ok, the zionists have driven the Palestinians from what became Israel in 1948 onto the West Bank and Gaza and beyond. This was necessary to establish a Jewish majority. They then moved to conquer what was left of Palestine in 1967 and they continually dispossessed the Palestinians of the occupied territories since then. Then Ariel Sharon hit on to the splendid subterfuge of punishing the Palestinians by withdrawing settlers and soldiers from the ground in Gaza whilst bombarding the people from the air and keeping the border closed most of the time so as to make the Palestinians "get a whole lot thinner."

Now, Israel has taken out (as they say) 60% of Gaza's electricity supplies so that water cannot be treated and people will surely die. According to Virginia Tilley (see below) this will take a good six months to repair. And what we need is a new story from Israel. I'm sure Israel can muster enough apologists in the mainstream media to do this for them. But will anyone believe them now?

On the subject of Israel's PR, Deborah Fink has posted her JC letter in full to the Just Peace list. Here it is with what they didn't publish in bold:

Considering that 20% of Israelis, including one in three children, live
below the poverty line, I'm glad that Israel's supporters feel that the best
way to help Israel is to spend millions of pounds on it's PR! (JC front
page, 23rd June). It is also interesting that BICOM feels the need to step
up its PR in the aftermath of the Gaza bombings.

Yet facts on the ground cannot be covered up for ever. Surely it would be
better if BICOM took off Israel's pretty blue and white dress so its
supporters can see her true colours? That way, they can try and make Israel
a better place by putting pressure on her to end the siege of Gaza and
occupation of the West Bank, which is killing both peoples. Better to change
the reality than the image.

Deborah Fink

Taking these two things together, the British zionist PR campaign and this "human rights" lawyer from Canada's plea to zionists to "take back the narrative," I think we are looking at a worldwide campaign here. We can expect lots of stories (for that is what they are) about driving Jews into the sea, threats of annihilation from Iran and antisemitism in the media every time someone has the temerity to expose some of Israel's crimes. And all the while the elimination of the Palestinians continues.