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Losing the fight - JPost - Magazine - FeaturesAs Arabs and pro-Palestinian supporters logged on en masse to tweet about the nakba, highlight Israels injustices against the Palestinian people or launch outright attacks on the Jewish state, the voices of Israels advocates were silent by comparison. It was only sometime in the early afternoon, when Israels somewhat social media-savvy supporters in the US woke up, that the case for the Jewish states right to exist was even mentioned.
True, that was already more than a year ago and, as with all trends digital, it is possible that even in the past 13 months much has changed online with regard to the habits of Israelis and Israels supporters worldwide on social media. However, what continues to be starkly apparent to me as I interact widely on social networking sites is that traditional hasbara, or the set of arguments used in the past to defend Israels right to exist or explain its right to act or react, is becoming less and less effective or believable.
The perception of Israel's image has plummeted proportionately with the rise of the internet over the last decade and the only thing that will change that is a change in policy.
On the Internet truth rises and bullshit sinks.
Israeli hasbara no longer works
Israel puts their energy into better lipstick and expanding the shades available. what they fail to realize is no amount of lipstick will change the pig. the occupation is a pig and people know its a pig. get rid of the pig.
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kureFeGmoDI&feature=player_embedded]Declassified: Massive Israeli manipulation of US media exposed - YouTube[/ame]