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Ukraine clearly honed their comms style to appeal to a western audience. It seems Israel didn’t have any such planning in place for a possible war.
As alluded to by Chas, I think this isn't true. The Israeli government has, I think, decided that they have enough support in the corridors of power, that they don't need to try and justify things to the moderates.
Instead they are pushing the "you either support us unquestioningly, or you're an enemy" line, which may be helping them in the short term, but provides no room to maneuver politically if they don't achieve their military goals quickly and get bogged down in a post 9-11 style asymmetric war.
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I think you’re right. Thanks, also @ChasnotRobert.
Leshaches
Thoughts from a friendly discussion today:
-Israel is not coming across as a country with which NATO countries should share nuclear capabilities or know-how.
-Ukraine clearly honed their comms style to appeal to a western audience. It seems Israel didn’t have any such planning in place for a possible war.
-Israel isn’t giving any context for their actions. They aren’t giving numbers on Hamas fighters killed, or the profiles of commanders killed, or even how many attackers actually invaded Israel a month ago. This plays to Hamas’ hand because all we can see is the horror of civilian casualties. I’m not saying that it would excuse these gross numbers of dead civilians, but in the battlefield of public opinion, which can shape geopolitical realities in the Middle East that later lead to worse conflicts, they’re letting Hamas indirectly control the narrative.
Misplaced the source but one of the big intl news agencies quoted a Hamas leader saying they had 40,000 fighters in Gaza. That’s half the size of the UK Army. Afaik Israel hasn’t said anything to help the public understand the scope of the threat they face (beyond the horrifying images of the 7/10 slaughter)