The battle over narratives: How Israel can fight misinformation - opinion
Whether we like it or not, this is a post-fact era. It's time for Israel to craft its own narrative.
Israel and the West confront hostile adversaries, including Iran and Islamist terrorism. The concept of "narrative" has supplanted facts and truth in the discourse surrounding global events. Smart individuals can espouse contradictory positions, such as "Queers for Palestine." The Western narrative portrays Israel as a colonial occupier, Palestinians as innocent victims, and the Israel-Palestinian conflict as the sole global conflict, due to the all-powerful, diabolical Jews' responsibility for the world's ills.
Accepting this narrative, bolstered by Israeli government missteps, has cost Israel much Western support. Ignoring facts in favor of narrative, Israel has lost much support in the Western world. Here are well-documented facts that have become irrelevant due to the prevailing narrative:
1. No Israeli-led genocide in Gaza.
2. No mass starvation in Gaza.
3. Illegal and immoral homosexuality exists in much of the Arab world, including Gaza, where gay people have been thrown from apartment-building roofs.
4. Israel facilitated shipments of enough food into Gaza to satisfy the needs of everyone there—a rare humanitarian gesture during an active war.
5. The combatant-to-civilian death ratio during three years of war in Gaza is nearly 1:1, contrasting with eight civilian deaths per combatant death in US-led wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Voice your opinion, I shall.
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