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Israel uses a special dictionary to speak to Americans?!

TashaN

TashaN

Veteran Member
Premium Member
Every one of the 112 pages in the booklet is marked "not for distribution or publication" and it is easy to see why. The Luntz report, officially entitled "The Israel project's 2009 Global Language Dictionary, was leaked almost immediately to Newsweek Online, but its true importance has seldom been appreciated. It should be required reading for everybody, especially journalists, interested in any aspect of Israeli policy because of its "dos and don'ts" for Israeli spokesmen.

These are highly illuminating about the gap between what Israeli officials and politicians really believe, and what they say, the latter shaped in minute detail by polling to determine what Americans want to hear.

Israel-Gaza conflict: The secret report that helps Israelis to hide facts - Comment - Voices - The Independent

What do you think?
 
Thana

Thana

Lady
Shock and awe, A government has a PR strategy.

This is not news, This is common sense and if you think your government doesn't have the exact same thing then you're not thinking objectively.
 
LuisDantas

LuisDantas

Aura of atheification
Premium Member
It is still worth checking how misleading that PR strategy is. At some point it becomes fraud, and at some point after that it is betrayal.
 
Sunstone

Sunstone

De Diablo Del Fora
Premium Member
In domestic American politics, Frank Luntz never met a truth he couldn't subvert or pervert. Not a good sign that he's put this together for the Israelis.
 
Sunstone

Sunstone

De Diablo Del Fora
Premium Member
Thana said:
Shock and awe, A government has a PR strategy.

This is not news, This is common sense and if you think your government doesn't have the exact same thing then you're not thinking objectively.
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Professional lying is professional lying even if it's both common today and widely approved of.
 
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Thana

Thana

Lady
Sunstone said:
Professional lying is professional lying even if it's both common today and widely approved of.
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That would be true, If people actually cared about this because of it and it alone, Not because Israel is in the spotlight and people are looking for any dirt they can drudge up so they can join the Israel-hating fad.
 
LuisDantas

LuisDantas

Aura of atheification
Premium Member
It is not a fad, at least if we can believe anyone who actually lives there. Caring about that and attempting to explain or deal with it does indeed manifest as fads.

I must attempt to learn why Israel's public image is so fiercely protected by so many people sometime.
 
Thana

Thana

Lady
LuisDantas said:
It is not a fad, at least if we can believe anyone who actually lives there. Caring about that and attempting to explain or deal with it does indeed manifest as fads.

I must attempt to learn why Israel's public image is so fiercely protected by so many people sometime.
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I could care less about their image, What I care about is ignorance, hypocrisy and pretty blatant anti-Israel agenda's.
 
Sunstone

Sunstone

De Diablo Del Fora
Premium Member
Tarheeler said:
I think it's nothing more than what every other nation/state/public entity does: Attempt to portray itself in a positive light no matter what.
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Just because everyone does it, doesn't mean everyone is right. I know you can't set the clock back to before the day nations didn't exercise lying as a science, but I still think it's reprehensible that they do. And Frank Luntz is one of the worse PR people on the planet.
 
CMike

CMike

Well-Known Member
TashaN said:
Every one of the 112 pages in the booklet is marked "not for distribution or publication" and it is easy to see why. The Luntz report, officially entitled "The Israel project's 2009 Global Language Dictionary, was leaked almost immediately to Newsweek Online, but its true importance has seldom been appreciated. It should be required reading for everybody, especially journalists, interested in any aspect of Israeli policy because of its "dos and don'ts" for Israeli spokesmen.

These are highly illuminating about the gap between what Israeli officials and politicians really believe, and what they say, the latter shaped in minute detail by polling to determine what Americans want to hear.

Israel-Gaza conflict: The secret report that helps Israelis to hide facts - Comment - Voices - The Independent

What do you think?
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Wow what a travesty. The government spokespeople are cautioned what to say and what not to say.
 
Sleeppy

Sleeppy

Fatalist. Christian. Pacifist.
It's a good thing we're exposing at least some of these deceptive measures.. It's too bad it may not prove efficient at reversing, or even stopping, the deception employed.
 
Kilgore Trout

Kilgore Trout

Misanthropic Humanist
I hope this isn't the start of a new disturbing trend of deceipt and rhetoric in diplomacy. I can only imagine what would happen in the world if nations ever started being anything other than completely straightforward with each other.
 
Sunstone

Sunstone

De Diablo Del Fora
Premium Member
Kilgore Trout said:
I hope this isn't the start of a new disturbing trend of deceipt and rhetoric in diplomacy. I can only imagine what would happen in the world if nations ever started being anything other than completely straightforward with each other.
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Nope. This traces back to the work of Edward Bernays and others in developing the field of public relations. Bernays ideas were most notoriously applied during the 20th Century by the Nazis to convince people of, among other things, that Jews were subhuman. The ancient lies of diplomats to one another are nothing in comparison to what public relations has become. It's like comparing model Ts with modern cars.
 
Sleeppy

Sleeppy

Fatalist. Christian. Pacifist.
CMike said:
Wow what a travesty. The government spokespeople are cautioned what to say and what not to say.
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You know better than some what is abominable.. Exodus 20:16, Exodus 23:7, Leviticus 19:11, Psalm 5:6.
 
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