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If Israel is losing the propaganda war, it's because propaganda can only take you so far when the facts are telling a story you'd rather people didn't hear. Social media has something to do with it, but it's still traditional media that show the largest numbers of people what's going on. And when you have a Palestinian death toll that now exceeds 500 and is going nowhere but up while the numbers of Israeli civilians who have died is still in the single digits, you just aren't going to be able to spin a story of equal suffering and blame. It's as though Hamas said, "I dare you to kill those people," and Israel replied, "You got it," then turned to the rest of the world and said, "Hey, what do you want — he dared me!"
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http://prospect.org/article/are-medi...aza-war-fairly
Why are the people vigorously defending Israel so thoroughly ignoring the human cost in Palestine? And latching on to anything that will deflect the conversation away to how bad Hamas is?