21 Jul

The Information War Against Israel

0 Politics Israel

JL;DR SUMMARY The episode discusses the ongoing information war against Israel, highlighting false narratives about its actions in Gaza and the broader regional implications of its geopolitical strategies. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski.

At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself.
This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude.
Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from.
But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me.
And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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Israel

"So, you know, we're about a month after Israel's and the United States' extraordinarily successful strike on Iran and the 12-Day War, which seems to have concluded, at least if you take the first month past the 12-Day War, with Iran very profoundly compromised, at the very most, if you can say."

United States

Doha, Qatar

"while the Hamasniks in Doha, Qatar, are receiving certain Israeli moves, apparently with some favor,"

Iran

"extraordinarily successful strike on Iran and the 12-Day War"

Gaza, Palestinian Territories

"weekend of, or weeks now, of continuing negotiations between Israel and Hamas that seem to be taking place in Qatar, that are frozen, sort of like the... the Greek army outside of the walls of Troy for 10 years. They're sort of frozen in place with proposals that are sitting, waiting for Hamas and Gaza to respond,"

Syria

"Israel intervening in Syria, exercising its new status as a regional hegemon in order to protect the Druze population there."

Yemen

"Israel fighting the Houthis continually."

Palestinian Territories

"But there seems to be some question and idea that, you know, Christians are being targeted in some fashion. And that visas are being denied to Christian groups."

New York, United States

"The charge is biting. I hear it from people now, you know, two, three days, who are not paying that close attention, but are like, why is Israel shooting the Gazans? I don't understand. And if you say they're not shooting the Gazans, Hamas is shooting the Gazans, issuing press releases saying that Israel is shooting the Gazans, and those press releases, they're saying, these press releases are reported uncritically and as though they have been put directly into the queue to have the button pushed at the printing plant to come out in the New York Times and on its website as though the Gaza health ministry is speaking truth rather than lies."

Washington, United States

"It's another front in this information campaign. And it's extremely frustrating to hear these lies repeated over and over again, because I think it's doing real damage. The way that this conflict is turning into a frozen conflict is not to Israel's strategic advantage."

Gaza City, Gaza, Palestinian Territories

"And it also suggests to me that this is why Israel is beginning to lay the groundwork to go into a part of Gaza City, which it has never gone into before."

France

"Right? Because if we were those sophisticated wine drinking, smoking French people, they would say, ah, what is this? It's nothing, right?"

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The Information War Against Israel

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