Thursday August 3, 2006

I've Been Thinking:

Hezbollah is not only waging a military war against Israel, Hezbollah is waging a media war against Israel.

For Hezbollah the media war has two equally important fronts:
the Western world
the Arab and Muslim world

The stage was set with the Israeli attack on the city of Qana.
Hezbollah rewrote the script turning the awful true-life reality of an air strike into Hezbollywood, an even more devastating display of staged carnage and destruction including close-up shots of already dead children.

For the Western world the staged incident was intended as a vehicle to turn the tide of Western support away from Israel and towards Hezbollah. It was supposed to be a way to apply pressure on the world to stop Israel's assault.

For the Arab and Muslim world it was a horrifying example of the evil of Israel and was intended as a vehicle to unify the Arab and Muslim world, to give them purpose, meaning and direction, to back Hezbollah against Israel, the US and the West.

We must be aware of the multiple levels of the Hezbollah agenda.
To Hezbollah's dismay, Israel is doing well in the media war.
Why? Because Israel has the upper hand on the moral front - and the moral front is something Hezbollah cares nothing about.