Israel’s PR battle is getting harder

As Israel’s bombing of Gaza intensifies, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu faces a rift in his war cabinet and growing international pressure. And yet, this is a war that the vast majority of Israelis continue to support – thanks in no small part to one-sided coverage by Israeli media.

How PR professionals manipulate us

 

Just how unscrupulous are international PR agencies that work on election campaigns? Using a fake identity, investigative journalist Peter Kreysler infiltrates their inner workings.

Myanmar Junta Hires PR Firm

 The leaders of the military junta in Myanmar have hired a PR firm to help them rehabilitate their incredibly crappy image. How does one make the killing of unarmed protesters and the nightly arrests of opposition leaders look good?  By blaming the victims of course. If they would just accept their ruthless military overlords and their return to a dictatorship as fait accompli all would be right with the world. Just remember these are the same ass holes who allowed the army to attack the Rohingyas in Rahkine state along with fighting against an insurgency in the north of the country which has been on going since the end of World War II. 

Ari Ben-Menashe, a Tehran-born, Israeli-Canadian lobbyist, was hired by the Tatmadaw this week to “assist in explaining the real situation in the country”, according to a consultancy agreement reported by Foreign Lobby, an outlet that tracks foreign government influence operations in Washington.

In a decades-long career rarely out of the headlines, Ben-Menashe, a former arms dealer, has worked for the longtime Zimbabwean ruler Robert Mugabe, Sudan’s military junta and presidential candidates in Venezuela, Tunisia and Kyrgyzstan, among others 

How is he going to sell this bs? By claiming the former government was leading Myanmar into the hands of the Chinese. Who fully support the militaries actions and will prevent the UN from taking any action against them.