Opinion  Ben-Dror Yemini
As global press ignores swastika kites, Hamas is winning propaganda war
Ben-Dror Yemini
Published: 27.04.18, 23:27
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1. Lies
Growl ,   Durham   (04.28.18)
Yemini, you are a real piece of work. Just have to point out some of the outright lies in your screed:

"Let’s put things in order. First of all, any killing of an innocent person is unfortunate. Hamas gains, Israel’s enemies celebrate, and Israel is the only one that loses from the situation. No one has placed cameras on the US-Mexico border, although 412 infiltrators or work migrants were killed there in 2017, and 498 in 2016, including children."

Yep, you got the numbers correct in terms of deaths, but it is an outright lie that these deaths were due to them being killed:

Let's really put things in order: According to https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/feb/06/us-mexico-border-migrant-deaths-rose-2017 (which gives the same statistics) ... "Violence does not appear to be a main cause of migrant deaths near the border." These people were not actively targeted and killed by heavily armed snipers, they died due to the hardships of crossing the desert, for the most part. Yet you claim that they were (actively) killed... by who, Mother Nature? God?

Now for another egregious lie: "Israel is the only one that loses from the situation". Wow, such humanity you show. The victims didn't lose, the families and friends didn't lose their loved one, only Israel lost.

Sorry, I think I erred in calling you a piece of work. Piece of feces is probably more appropriate.


2. Lieberman is fighting Arabs' war for them
Dan   (04.28.18)
How is it possible that Israel can't see that it's been losing the propaganda war for decades, simply by giving the Palestinians all the opportunities they need to portray themselves as the victims? The settlements in occupied territory are the main cause of Israel's delegitimisation and paraiah status: why give the Arabs this gift? Every unarmed Palestinian shot: another gift. Lieberman and his boss Netanyahu are idiots if they think such tactics work: they are doing exactly what the Arabs want and fighting the Arabs' war against Israel for them. Wake up and get smart, Israel. Stand back and let Gazans breach the fence if they wish: then and only then take action: the world will understand. Abandon the settlements and let the world see how unjustified terrorism continues. Then act: the world will understand. Or contnue behaving like an especially stupid gorilla, and lose everything.
3. Don't Like the Label?
Mark ben Josef ,   USA   (04.28.18)
Stop ordering your soldiers to shoot children.
4. at it again ?!
yosef ,   florida-israel   (04.28.18)
Hey Ben-Dror - are you at it again ? With your cry-baby "pontifications" about Israel "losing" the propaganda war ?! Perhaps with multitudes of mentally defective Jew-haters: a built-in customer base ! Your pitiful lines seem to belong smack in the middle of that disgraceful crowd...
5. Propaganda is easy. Truth is hard.
manic drummer ,   Haifa   (04.28.18)
God is love.
6. EU applauded Abbas Jews poisoning our wells in EU Parliament
(04.28.18)
7. AL-Husseini built own Nazi Brigades was not just fan active
(04.28.18)
8. Hamas calls fGlobal Jewish Genocide World Support on our own
(04.28.18)
9. Most UN officials in Gaza are members of Hamas - insanity
(04.28.18)
10. Global press hid mass rape/grooming gangs/HOLOCAUST
(04.28.18)
11. Most MSM actively supporting terrorist groups 1984 is here
(04.28.18)
12. There's no propaganda "war", there's only endemic Jew hate!
(04.28.18)
13. "Global press" does not exist,"global community" is imagined
(04.28.18)
but "global antisemitism" is very alive, real and kicking!
14. Swastika kites don"t kill, bullets do, Israel is criminal
Hans Brown ,   Berlin   (04.28.18)
15. Anti-Israel propaganda is a fact of life
C   (04.28.18)
such propaganda will exist for as long as the jewish state exists.
jew hatred has existed for over two thousand years.
jews did not create this hatred.
chrisitians and muslims have created jew hatred.
they are envious of the jews who were the original
monotheists.
christian europe hates both jews and the jewish state.
six million jews were annihilated in the holocaust.
the muslims have expelled all jewish populations,
some of which had existed for over two thousand years.
mohammed's first military act was the slaughter of the
jews in medina.
the only reason that jews still survive is the existence
of the sovereign jewish state of israel.
16. ben dror-you are full of it
harold   (04.28.18)
fears of the world scare the hell out of you so you don't think straight.

Lieberman and Israel's message is this-cross Israeli lines and you will be stopped period, no ifs and or buts.

so ben dror fidgets and says oh my god we are losing the propaganda war.

what can we say. Israel is losing nothing. it earns grudging respect when it acts with authority. as for ben dror, hussein, macron and the eu, they can all kiss off.
17. it takes a russian to improve idf self confidence
jake   (04.28.18)
what a difference 1 person makes. Israeli media refuses to acknowledge that yvet is handling Gaza smoothly and firmly, not backing up 1 inch while ben dror fidgets, and zionist union barely say a word. they refuse to see that he responds to Iran's threats to wipe out Israel by saying firmly that Tehran will be hit. this sends a message to enemies, who are nervous about him.while the big stick is what is important, rhetoric has its place in confronting the regime of nada killers.

in fact, bibi is pushed to the side, his contributions do not count since he only chases ceasefires and settlement suspension in Judea. and lieberman will go all the way if attacked by nasrollah.in fact the arabs might be doing israel a favour if they attack.


i feel more confident with avigdor. Bibi, forget about him, gabbay and lapid-both security ignoramuses, livni and herzog waive concessions and run to peace talks.

the idf is energized by leiberman who talks bottom line. he can look at the battlefield with a dry eye unlike olmert livni and bibi. even ehud barak was a flop in fighting terror towards the end of his pmship

the Arabs see a bit of Putin in Lieberman and they are dead scared of him as they should be.
18. Lieberman, the next Arik Sharon
Lucifer69   (04.28.18)
19. From crisis to crisis the author becomes
Stan ,   Israel   (04.28.18)
more "yemini" which in Hebrew also means right wing.
He compares here the numbers of those killed on our border with Gaza, with the numbers killed on the US - Mexico border. A very poor comparison, considering the ease with which Americans kill one another as well as others.
Mr Yemini says that members of Breaking the Silence are lying when they claim that the snipers have received orders to "shoot to kill"
Lets put it this way, the officers decide whether the snipers use live ammunition or not. (Other ammunition can also cause fatalities, but far less)
In Afghanistan snipers have killed people as far as two kilometers away. Here the demonstrators are within half a km. of the fence. So live ammunition used close up is going to cause fatalities, These are not cases of a crowd storming the fence and entering Israeli territory, but people demonstrating within the Palestinian territory.
20. Ben-Dror Yemini you disappoint me.
Stan ,   Israel   (04.28.18)
The Palestinians in the Gaza Strip can't do anything to hurt Israel. So they are flying these swastika kites in order to annoy silly people like you.
21. Media ignored Yemini's remedy
Isaac Storm   (04.28.18)
Mr. Yemini's suggestion that damage from the media could have been lessened if Israel had conveyed that Gaza's problems are the fault of Hamas had been conveyed by Israel. The media ignored that. Hamas and the PLO know that any protest against Israel generates negative publicity for Israel - which exists even outside of protests. As for the 15 year old being killed, Hamas had children and infants being brought to the protest - so it is a wonder even younger children had not been killed.
In my view, the IDF/Israel needs to respond quicker to the negative publicity - for example, the 15 year old or the press photo journalist killed. Are they part of Hamas? Don't leave it for others to speculate - tell the media. Why was the 15 year old shot? Was he a part of Hamas or was he doing something violent or was it an accident? A quick response is also needed against allegations that the UNHRC makes - and it needs to be loud and clear.
22. Winning the propaganda war.
tiki ,   belgium   (04.28.18)
Mr. Yemini, please grow up and stop caring what the International Community of Israel/Jew haters thinks.

The only thing that matters is that Israel wins the war.....for it can't afford anything else.
23. Israel excells as everything except seven pees.
(04.28.18)
The low intensity conflict veils the real nature of the war: propaganda, perception, pandemic photos and pallywood public psychology. Call it the 7P war.

Israel excells at almost everything, except these seven p's. It sucks at them because it chronically fails to internalize it insisting in translating all of it primarily into a security-military challenge.

So Hamas, Palestinians, Leftists, anti-Semites, all exploit this particular Israeli stiffness, which amounts to fighting a XXIst Century 7P wars with WWI tanks.
24. Mass social media campaigns showing true colors would work
(04.28.18)
25. Israel has a right to secure its borders.
David ,   New york   (04.29.18)
We will always be the devil to the likes of the New York Times and Washington post. Are you expecting to get sympathy from them if you let the terrorists kill us?
Because - guess what - they won't.
26. send kites with pics of mohammed and others of pigs and
(05.10.18)
others of mohammed eating a roasted pig
27. Tit for tat
BUILD BABY BUILD !!   (06.04.18)
how about some Israeli kites set ablaze and aimed for Gaza?
Let's see if that helps gets the message across, you burn me I burn you back only harder?
28. Only criminals are the fictitious Arab pals.
(06.04.18)
29. Israel losing the propaganda war?
BBB   (06.04.18)
No, the real loss is the dumb Arabs losing their lives in vain trying to invade Israel.
Hamas is the real criminal.
Israel can't lose and the Arab pals can't win.
30. Only criminals are the fictitious Arab pals.
(06.04.18)
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