” Israel will lose the PR war. “
This phrase has appeared on just about every thread on FR concerning this situation - more often than not, posted by someone who signed up to FR in 2010.. (Draw your own conclusions..)
1. Why should Israel engage in, or worry about, something it can’t win?? It’s easy to get the impression that the only way Israel could possibly satisfy the screeching voices would be to line its population up and meekly march them to the gas chambers and ovens..
2. In the last two dust-ups in the ongoing war (Lebanon and the Gaza Incursion), Israel did make the mistake of deferring to “world opinion” (”Inappropriate Force”, indeed...) and pulling its punches - setting the table for this next, more dangerous, go-around..
3. “PR War” is, itself, a false concept - it’s a poisonous smokescreen that the enemies of Israel hide behind to sap the will and strength necessary to win, once-and-for-all, its battle for peaceful survival....
Then you've read the Book, Israel will be fine in the end. America is the one we have know idea of their outcome.
PR is part of war, and the fact that you fail to grasp that is on you. It's more than the raid. This will hurt Israel's economy and such, all the sake for not doing the raid in that manner, instead of a different use of force and time.
Not only that, but they put IDF troops in harms way by going in that matter of execution.
Unfortunately the PR (aka Propganda) War and Lawfare has been amazingly effective against us and the Israelis. Why do you think our troops have such insanely restrictive ROEs and have even been sent on patrol with no rounds in their weapons? (Hell, why do we have Obama for Presisdent?) Or that the pirate towns in Somalia haven’t been burned to the ground?
In a sane world, the attack on the Israeli troops trying to inspecting the “relief convoy” would have been grounds to sink the d@mn convoy. But instead, we have every news outlet screaming against the Israels.
You ignore the “PR War” at your our peril.