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Selling Israel on YouTube

January 2009

Photo: Ahmad Sanur at ground zero.

by WIP

Israel is always coming up with ingenious ways to make us love it. It believes that the bad reputation it has earned in the world is a pr issue and not a moral one. Of course, the best way to improve Israel’s image would be to end the occupation of Palestine, but that would be too practical. Instead, Israel has done everything else, from sponsor-ing a “Women of the Israel Defense Forces” bikini spread in Maxim magazine to hosting a popular reality TV show in which contestants compete to see who can be the ultimate spokesperson/apologist for Israel.

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