Often blogs comment on events that have occurred and then look at what might happen next. This one is different. It starts with what will happen in the future and then predicts what is likely to happen as a result and why it serves no real purpose.
Tonight Channel 4 airs the first of a four part series ‘The promise’. Judging by the advanced publicity and what I’ve been told it is about how the early idealistic efforts to re-establish a Jewish homeland turned into ethnic cleansing of the Arabs and worse by the Jews.
Now here’s where I predict the future. This website and many others sympathetic to the Israeli cause, as well as a small number of print media, will be full of rebuttals. Facts and logic will be paraded by Israel’s defendants.
Will it make a difference? Will anyone change their attitudes and beliefs? Generally, no! Of those in the general public who currently ‘sit on the fence’ a very small number will fall off into the anti Israeli camp but all the pro Israel arguments, so righteously paraded, will not change anybody’s mind.
If I’m right and if there is this avalanche of Israel defence then I will have more to say because just defending Israel doesn’t work; it doesn’t achieve its objective of reducing the deligitimisation, demonization and double standards applied to Israel. In fact things are getting worse. Even the Israeli government admits it is losing the battle for people’s minds.
There must be a better way! More to come………….