"Reason alone is not enough, we must be able to win." If you wish to use a slogan that can be summed up in the strike situation in Israel this sentence is the ultimate synthesis. Otherwise, one might add, would be sufficient to morality, and doing so could undermine the role and policy space. If you want to understand something in the recent events off the coast of Gaza, all the drama of Israel is enclosed in this great difficulty in not being able to get out of a logic of moral law that sets the pattern syllogistic reasoning in a relentless, leaving no in his escape mechanism that begins with a moral premise to justify the use of the instrument of force as a method of conflict resolution. Rightly obsessed by the question of security, the Israeli government can not get out of a logic of military response even in fields that do not immediately put into question the safety of the Israeli state. The structure of the reasoning is always and only the following: "If I'm right, and I, if Israel is a sovereign state, and it is, the flotilla of peace in breach of an entirely legitimate military bloc, and then is making an illegal in which the state, the country of David, has the right to respond with force. "
Reasoning flawless but you forget the street a truth equally fundamental of modern conflicts where the field of battle from physical space emerges from the clash involved to engage the real space of world public opinion thanks to the speed of stratospheric media. Not to mention the hackneyed formulas of the "global village" or the wars in the age of CNN, but one thing is certain. In asymmetric wars, hybrid, post-modern or among people, space policy, and then communication is perhaps more important than physical strength. It 's always been that way since the war in Algeria, Vietnam when the battle is decided not only in the jungle or on the streets of the casbah, but in French and American plazas, courtyards of colleges, in the assembly UN in courtrooms. Armies invincible on the field had to retire defeated by adverse world opinion. Win from then on it was no longer synonymous with battles, fights to the death of muddy trenches. The victory smiled on the litigant who had more patience, who could make better use of the media, who could better manipulate world public opinion, to make people forget their massacres and to believe that their struggle had a liberating universal meaning.
Today, over fifty years ago that the role of media is far multiplied exponentially, the land of communication is found to be crucial to emerge victorious in a conflict. If Israel does not want to remain isolated in its battle to convince himself that not all conflicts require the use of force, and indeed the management of world public opinion is always essential, especially in conflicts fought "among the people" and hence the difficulty of Jerusalem. The image of the Jewish state, the heir of the Holocaust and formed in the clash with the Arab countries, has been transformed since the peace with Egypt, when the Israeli-Palestinian issue has taken precedence and since then the conflict management , although easier from a military standpoint, has become an issue between two parties and peoples to world public opinion, have been reversed: since the invasion of Lebanon, David '48 has become the Goliath that tramples the rights of the Palestinian people.
course it is not true! Of course, that killed more Palestinian Arabs that Israel, some Arab homosexuals fleeing from the territories to go to Jerusalem, true that the Palestinians are lining up to go for treatment in Israeli hospitals, to be sure that the anti-war organizations on ships belonging to wire Hamas! But what if nobody wants to see, if nobody wants to know? Sabra and Shatila, the two intifada, the Gaza War of 2006 have been manipulated for the consumption of political correctness ready to rely on the moral sensibilities of democracies regardless of the nature of enemy of truth. Little, however, are the complaints, this is the new battlefield.
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