MITCHELL BARD
The pro-Israel community was completely and inexcusably unprepared for the public-relations nightmare following the events of Oct. 7. It took two months for major organizations to create the "10/7 Project" to push "for accurate and complete coverage of the Israel-Hamas war."
Does anyone know anything the project has done in the last 10 months? If it did anything at all, it was a total failure. War with Hezbollah and Iran was as predictable as a confrontation with Hamas, and yet the community seems equally inept, so let me lay out what we know will happen:
The media will:
- Ignore Israeli casualties and focus on Arab victims.
- Accept fabricated Arab statistics.
- Interview unreliable Arab sources.
- Air stories without researching their accuracy.
- Focus on dramatic photos and stories without context.
- Fail to explain Hezbollah dictates what can be reported.
We know Israel will be accused of disproportionality, provoking a refugee and humanitarian crisis, denying health care, and committing "massacres" and "genocide." Israelis will be charged with being aggressors and compared to Nazis. The usual epithets unrelated to the war will be tossed around, such as comparing Israel to South Africa and accusing it of "settler-colonialism."
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