Two Approaches to Israel’s Public Diplomacy by Ari Bussel Dear Readers, As the news of the Flotilla started its advance through the world, very little information was coming from Israel. It was in the late evening hours of Sunday, May 30th, and Monday was Memorial Day Holiday in the United States. The Flotilla left on its break-the-blockade-or-die mission a week earlier, on or about the 24th of May. It was a surreal feeling, would there be any response as America was in a long holiday weekend. The Tsunami waves started hitting, their height several stories high, threatening to swallow everything...