<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><oembed><version><![CDATA[1.0]]></version><provider_name><![CDATA[Occupied Palestine | فلسطين]]></provider_name><provider_url><![CDATA[https://occupiedpalestine.wordpress.com]]></provider_url><author_name><![CDATA[occupiedpalestine]]></author_name><author_url><![CDATA[https://occupiedpalestine.wordpress.com/author/hajarhajar/]]></author_url><title><![CDATA[ISRAEL SEEKING INTERNATIONAL APPROVAL FOR&nbsp;MURDER]]></title><type><![CDATA[link]]></type><html><![CDATA[<p class="byline"> Posted  			by desertpeace	at PS.HADNEWS.COM on Monday, 			March 7, 			2011 			at 8:40 am. </p>
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<p><span style="color:#808000;font-family:Verdana;font-size:large;"><strong>Israeli Air  Force Launches New Media Campaign to Gain International  Approval</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:medium;">By Tania Kepler</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:medium;">The  Communications Unit of  the Israeli Air Force (IAF) is launching a new  media program targeting the  English-speaking world in order to promote  their military activities and gain  international approval.</span></p>
<p>International New Media program will include a  constantly updated  website, Facebook page and Twitter feed, according to the  news site  Arutz 7, and will be under the auspices of IAF Spokesperson Lt. Col.   Assaf Librati.</p>
<p>The program will include staff 20 writers, photographers,   videographers and editors who support the entire IAF Communications   Unit.</p>
<p>Explaining the reasoning behind the new campaign, Lt. Col. Librati   said, “The Israeli Air Force is a center of profound research,  international  cooperation, immense diversity, and advanced technology  within the Israel  Defense Forces. We believe that we have much to share  with the world about who  we are, what we do, our capabilities, and our  ongoing participation in  humanitarian operations around the world.”</p>
<p>It is unclear at this time as  to whether the IAF will also be  including Twitter updates on its regular attacks  on the Gaza Strip and  it’s training in the occupied West Bank.</p>
<p>“We see  this as a force multiplier and an important step forward in  communicating about  Israel, the IDF, and the IAF directly with  stakeholders around the world,”  Librati stated.</p>
<p>The Israel Defense Forces already has a very active  spokesperson  unit, operating daily with 500 media outlets and 2500 journalists  and  civilian agents working to promote their activities worldwide.</p>
<p>The  country actively uses social media like Facebook for public  relations  particularly during its controversial attacks, such as the  attacks on Gaza  during Operation Cast Lead, the fatal naval assault on  the Freedom Flotilla aid  convoy.</p>
<p>In 2009 the Israeli Foreign Ministry <a href="http://www.alternativenews.org/english/index.php/topics/news/2013-israeli-foreign-ministry-presents-talkbacks-in-the-service-of-state-"><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:medium;">announced</span></a><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:medium;"> that NIS  600,000 of the year’s budget would be devoted to the  establishment of a  professional team of talkback writers who will flood  websites throughout the  world with pro-Israeli messages.</span></p>
<p>The Israeli Foreign Ministry has since  established team of students  and discharged soldiers who work around the clock  writing pro-Israeli  talkbacks on internet sites throughout the world, and  participate in  discussions concerning Israel in international blogs and in sites  such  as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.</p>
<p>“The internet is an arena in every  way in the Israeli-Palestinian  conflict, and we must act here or otherwise we  lose,” said Ilan  Shturman, Deputy Director of the Department of Public Relations  at the  Ministry of Foreign Affairs at the time the project was  established.</p>
<p>“During ‘Operation Cast Lead’ we turned to Jewish  communities abroad  and with their assistance enlisted several thousand  volunteers, to  whom Israeli volunteers joined. We sent them background and  public  relations material and sent them to represent the Israeli perspective in   the news websites on the internet,” said Shturman. “Our target  audience then was  the European Left, which was not friendly towards the  government policy. We  therefore began to get involved in discussions  on blogs in England, Spain and  Germany, very hostile environments.”</p>
<p>As Ilan Shurtman of the Ministry of  Foreign Affairs said, “Our goal  is to penetrate into the world in which these  discussions are being  held, and in which news and video-clips are sent onwards  to blogs,  social networks and news sites of all sites. We are going to bring to   these places a pro-Israeli voice.”</p>
<p><a href="http://www.alternativenews.org/english/index.php/topics/news/2013-israeli-foreign-ministry-presents-talkbacks-in-the-service-of-state-"><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:medium;">Source</span></a><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:medium;"> via </span><a href="http://www.uruknet.de/?p=m75624&amp;hd=&amp;size=1&amp;l=e"><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:medium;">Uruknet</span></a></p>
<p><a href="http://ps.hadnews.com/israel-seeking-international-approval-for-murder.htm">ISRAEL SEEKING INTERNATIONAL APPROVAL FOR MURDER at PS.HADNEWS.COM</a>.</p>
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