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Eitan Haber
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A question of credibility

Israel needs strategic coordination office to avert embarrassing statements

Here is a suggestion for the officials responsible for public relations at the Prime Minister’s Office in Jerusalem: Establish a strategic coordination office.

 

This office will be approached by each and every official before they are about to say something or make any statement or declaration. For example, when it comes to statements in respect to the Iranian nuclear threat.

Such office will prevent incidents where Mossad Chief Meir Dagan, who we can reasonably assume knows something, will be talking about an Iranian nuclear bomb in 2014 (assuming he was quoted accurately,) while the man in charge of him, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, will at the same time stress the great urgency needed to neutralize the bomb and declare that the State of Israel has no other matter that warrant such focus at this time.

 

Such statements, or more accurately such reports, portray the leaders of the State of Israel as people who tell tales; as ones who cannot be trusted.

 

The damage to our image on the international and diplomatic front is unbearable.

 

Follow the American example on this one: When they decided to turn their attention to the illegal West Bank outposts and to the settlements, everyone – ranging from the president, to his vice president, to the last official in Washington – sang the same tune, as if they are part of the same choir.

 

You see, the Americans are not geeks about everything.

 


פרסום ראשון: 06.22.09, 00:55
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