EP 30 With Former Bibi Speech Writer Ruthie Blum, Are Jewish Leftists Responsible for Israel's Lagging PR?
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As the insanity revolving Israel’s war to defeat Hamas and rescue the hostages continues to grow by the day, many of us keep asking ourselves, how did we get here?
How did we get to a point, that Israel, the lone democracy in the Middle East, whose civilians were savagely murdered on October 7th, and whose kidnapped hostages are still being held in the hells of Gaza tunnels for almost 2 years, HOW did we get to a point where Israel and it’s Government have become the war criminals while Hamas and their supporters are being viewed as activists seeking “justice?”
How many people even remember the names Kfir Bibas, Ariel and Shiri Bibas?
How many people would know who I’m talking about if I said the names, Rom Braslovski or Evyatar David?
All you have to do is turn on the news or go to your favorite social media platform to see that Israel is “starving innocent Gazan civilians, including many children. And if you need “evidence” that children are starving, the NY Times will be happy to provide a front page photo of a child with a genetic disease which causes him to look skeletal, and report this is a “victim of Israeli war crimes.”
How did we get here? If you ask me, I’ll tell you that American Jewry has failed in it’s mission to support Israel and the Jewish people
But if you ask today’s guest, someone a lot smarter than I am, and certainly more connected to the Israeli Government than I’ll ever be, Ruthie Blum, who is a former adviser at the office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who is an award-winning columnist and a senior contributing editor at JNS, And Co-host with Ambassador Mark Regev of the JNS-TV podcast “Israel Undiplomatic.” In a recent column featured in JNS, Ruthie penned a column titled, Hasbara and the traitors Among us’ where Ruthie calls out, people like Israel’s Channel 12 anchorwoman Yonit Levi who accused the government of a “moral failure,” rather than a PR failure, former corrupt Israeli Prime Minister Olmert who said this was an “illegitimate war being waged by Netanyahu for personal and political reasons, and award winning novelist, David Grossman who said the “images” he sees on the news justify accusing Israel of genocide.
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