Joel Leyden : Gaza Freedom Flotilla

Gaza Freedom Flotilla

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By Joel Leyden
Israel News Agency
http://www.israelnewsagency.com/gazafreedomflotillairanturkeysyrialebanonpeacehumanitarianaidactivistsprpublicrelationselectronicjihadisraelidfblockade48061910.html

Jerusalem ---- June 19, 2010 …. No one is dying in Gaza. No one is starving in Gaza.

Fact is, tons of food, water, fuel and medicine flow into Gaza from Israel every day in cooperation with the UN and EU.

So why is it that so many world leaders, the UN, newspaper editors and the general public believe that the people of Gaza are suffering from famine? That Israel is attacking "humanitarian" ships and "peace activists" from the Gaza Freedom Flotilla?

That Turkey deserves to demand that Israel apologize for simply defending herself from more than 12,000 terror rockets that have fallen on the Israel cities of Sderot, Ashdod and Ashkelon since Israel left Gaza five years ago?

We must ask ourselves how has the grotesque absurd transformed itself into a clear perception of reality in every capital around the world?

Creative satire from Israel has become the sole magical bullet in
responding to the Iranian, Hamas and Turkish Islamic Jihad PR machine.

Not since Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels engineered the creative propaganda of the Nazi regime has the world witnessed such professional and sophisticated public relations and public affairs.

Iran is using her petrol dollars to buy the best PR professionals on the world market. And the results have been nothing less than stunning.

Where Islamic suicide bombers could not and did not succeed, Iran today is using her puppet organizations Hamas in Gaza and Hezbollah in Lebanon to wage not only a Jihad (Holy War against Jews and Christians) of bullets and bombs, but an electronic Jihad that incorporates the best of show business.

The invention of the Gaza Freedom Flotilla was a brilliant move. It was nothing less than a laser guided weapon that found Israel's large and exposed Achilles Heal - PR.

Israel suffers from a lack of budget and PR professionals. The money in Israel goes to F-16's, submarines, the Mossad, the Shabak and combat units in the IDF. So when so called "peace activists" with direct ties to Hamas and al-Qaeda arrived from Turkey, Iran and those who are waging Islamic Jihad against the West prayed that Israel would not know how to handle it. And they were right.

Rather than respond with Israel naval officers in their dress white uniforms passing out flowers and food to the "peace activists" for the world media to record and upload, black masked commandos stormed the Gaza Freedom Flotilla with paint ball guns. And to add to Iran's joy, these Israel commandos had orders not to shoot, even as their comrades were being knived, shot and clubbed as they boarded. There were no Israel snipers. There was no cover fire to take out the Islamic attackers.

But then something of a miracle emerged on YouTube. It was not the standard dry and academic videos that one would find being uploaded from the IDF. Rather it was pure satire produced by the private sector.

The "We Con The World" video went from a handful of viewers to over 100,000 viewers within 24 hours. Within a week and half over 3 million people viewed this creative and factual version of reality in Gaza and Israel. Eventually YouTube removed the video even as the Latma production team yelled Fair Use and foul. The video may have been produced with all of the elements of Fair Use, but YouTube, which is a corporation that makes a commercial revenue is not Fair Use.

WeJew.com, an Israel based video provider then picked up where YouTube left off.

As the US warns Europe of Iran missiles and as Iran dispatches "humanitarian" Gaza Flotilla Ships from Iran, Turkey and Lebanon to provoke Israel into a war, we should all sit back and take another look at the Gaza Freedom Flotilla.

As "We Con The World" simply states in its lyrics, all you have to do is call yourself an activist. And with that magic word you may just be able to enter Gaza with more lethal missiles, rockets, bombs and bullets to attack Israel towns and cities with. Iran, Hamas and Islamic Jihad failed to deliver weapons with the Karine A carrying over 50 tons of weapons, including short-range Katyusha rockets, antitank missiles, and high explosives. But the "activists" might just succeed in softening up Israel's legal blockade of Gaza. Create a hole just big enough to add a few more rockets among the sacks of rice and plastic baby toys.

It's time that Israel wakes up and provides a realistic budget for public affairs and crisis communications management for both the Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Israel Defense Forces. That in the next Security Cabinet meeting held in Jerusalem by the Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Israel Defense Minister Ehud Barak that the missing and critical issue of public relations and public affairs be addressed.

The cost of a news release, a Twitter and Facebook account plus a YouTube video is far less expensive than an all out war which could cost the lives of thousands of Jews, Arabs and Christians in Israel, in Iran and around the globe.

Public affairs has a direct affect on life on the ground. So far Iran, Turkey, Syria, Hamas, Islamic Jihad and the Gaza Freedom Flotilla which want to take away your basic freedom and democracy are winning big time with a 1-0 score.

Just call yourself an activist.

The Israel News Agency, which is accredited by Israel Government Press Office, was the first on line news organization in Israel. The INA reaches up to 60 million readers through Google News and Internet social networking channels such as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube from New York, London, Moscow and Paris to Toronto, Los Angeles, China and India. Leyden is presently launching the United States News Agency using the INA as a successful working model.

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