Israel Defense Forces use Twitter tweets
p2pnet news view | P2P:- There’s a military channel on YouTube, “where you can watch suspected Hamas sites being obliterated by ordnance; blogs that spread the message of the [Israel ] foreign affairs ministry; and in the newest wrinkle, a news conference conducted through the microblogging service Twitter”.
Is that taking the message to the people, or from the people?
Either way, it’s how the Israel Defense Forces are, “recognizing that success in neutralizing the Hamas movement in Gaza is as much a public relations challenge as a military one,” says the International Herald Tribune.
And why not? Terrorist organisations have long been using the Net to carry their messages, including grissly videos of kidnap victims being manually decapitated.
Now, “Since the definition of war has changed, the definition of public diplomacy has to change as well,” he story has David Saranga, head of media relations for the Israeli consulate in New York, which conducted the Twitter news conference on Tuesday, stating.
MSNBC anchor Rachel Maddow, “mocked the idea of a government spokesman addressing the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in tweets barely a sentence long,” says the story, but, “I speak to every demographic in a language he understands,” Saranga states.
“If someone only speaks Spanish, I speak in Spanish; if someone is using a platform like Twitter, I want to tweet.”
(Thanks, nomaduzzu on Twitter 
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International Herald Tribune – Israel uses Twitter to explain conflict, January 4, 2009
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January 5th, 2009 at 11:35 am
well, these media channels handled by the Government is one thing.
many more Israelis are trying to tell a different side of the story,
you can helpuswin.org
thanks for this post of yours.
may god bless ALL his children (arabs, jews, blacks, whites and purples..)
no more war – no more bloodshed.
January 5th, 2009 at 9:22 pm
History tells us that the best way to destroy a people is sack their cities, displace them, to refugee camps, put them in slavery and exterminate them if they try to rise up. This same tactic was used by Nazis in WW2 on Jews and other undesirables [according to Nazi view].
It is obvious Israel and USA have become such Nazis … but they now call it the New World Order. Anyone who is supporting such actions are by their actions Nazis as well.
Only way to solve this and all other problems is go back to original and oldest way of life and laws set forth by our first civilization, Sumeria. This and much more is what powers that be don’t want you to know.
January 6th, 2009 at 9:22 pm
long live Sumeria!