Their annual al Nakba commemoration reminds their people and ours, that for the Palestinians the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948 was The Catastrophe that must be avenged and effaced. The Palestinians are indeed winning the other half of this war the war of words for world opinion. CNN and BBC are The main reasons for their success. Their news correspondents, editors and presenters, it seems, were mostly reared on the milk of pervasive anti-Jewish bigotry. Their anti-Israeli spite has been deeply internalized.
Newsreaders assault Israeli spokespersons with argumentative opinions.
Their baleful message is aired to a world audience in the 300 million range. That s a circulation 200 times bigger than the most widely read English newspaper. Where the message and the medium coalesce into a massive synergy of persuasive power. That is where the war of words for public opinion is won or lost. And where, for the present, the Palestinians are clearly winning - and Israel is clearly not.