- 26 Feb 2015 02:14
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Wait, what? Since when is such coverage positive for Israel? The same people who you say tend to side with Muslims in those instances, tend to criticize Israel as well.
I'm also not sure of what real diplomatic obstructions has, say, Thailand suffered as a result of the conflict in the southern part of the country. I at least don't really see many.
Rei Murasame wrote:Actually, Gandalf has highlighted something that is even more insidious than he himself thought it was. He points out that Israel complains when no one holds other countries to the same standard as them, but actually, the effect of Israel's claim to be part of the west has almost entirely insulated it from any real diplomatic obstructions.
For example, when some Muslim group is acting aggressively in or near Israel and Israel doesn't like it, Israel immediately sets a PR campaign in motion, and then embarks on a set of attacks against those people while going on the news and basically stage managing the 24 hour news cycle, and giving detailed feedback to western nations after the fact, and has lots of media partners who immediately jump to defend whatever it is which has occurred.
When some Muslim group is acting aggressively in countries that are not Israel, the exact reverse of this happens. Suddenly, the Muslim insurgents - usually Sunni Muslims - are poor victims who are being victimised by China, Myanmar, the Philippines, India, Libyan Jamahiriyya, Syrian Baathists, Thai Red Shirts, Greeks, or whoever.
Knowledge is power, and knowledge of the differences in reaction can be really helpful. Basically what I learn from this is that it's all about the PR and how you manage the story. East Asian states in particular, need to learn to leverage their media partners and their lobby groups to get out ahead of the story, and shape the way that it is framed and the context that it is reported in before pro-Muslim groups can begin their echo-chamber of outrage routine.
For example, Thaksin Shinawatra and Yingluck Shinawatra in Thailand had immense problems with this, because they allowed the global Islamic media matrix to outmanoeuvre them every single time anything happened in the South of Thailand. The same problem exists with Myanmar, they don't have anyone who will be at CNN or at BBC, or wherever, to short-circuit the whole echo-chamber of outrage before it starts.
So rather than complain about what the Jews have done to serve themselves, I'll instead say that everyone else needs to do studies on how they've been able to accomplish this nonsense, and then do that same nonsense better than they do it. That is the only way.
Wait, what? Since when is such coverage positive for Israel? The same people who you say tend to side with Muslims in those instances, tend to criticize Israel as well.
I'm also not sure of what real diplomatic obstructions has, say, Thailand suffered as a result of the conflict in the southern part of the country. I at least don't really see many.