FIRST BENEFIT TO ISRAEL: PUBLIC RELATIONS BONANZA -

FIRST BENEFIT TO ISRAEL:  PUBLIC RELATIONS

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Firstly, Ariel Sharon’s coldly calculated and manifestly provocative visit to al-Aqsa Masjid in Jerusalem in September 2000 deliberately provoked another gruesome and bloody chapter of Israeli oppression in the Holy Land and another chapter of defiant Arab Muslim resistance to that oppression. After Sharon’s visit and until the September 11^th  attack on America one year later, the world witnessed a constant Israeli effort to escalate the flames of war while deceptively adopting the pose of the aggrieved party.  The world recognized Israeli oppression and this resulted in a public relations disaster for Israel when the whole world (except CNN and its sisters) united in condemnation of Israel at the Durban World Conference on Racism held in South Africa in August/September 2001.

The September 11^th attack on America resulted, however, in such a complete and instantaneous reversal of Israel’s public relations disaster that Arabs and Muslims suddenly found themselves confronted with their own public relations disaster far worse than Israel’s. Television really came of age on September 11^th when television stations around the world shamelessly joined American TV in a media Crusade that used War on Terrorism as a euphemism for War on Islam. The fact that Arabs and Muslims were innocent of the September 11^th attack on America merely added salt to their wounds.

Source:A MUSLIM RESPONSE TO THE ATTACK ON AMERICA.