Illustrating how the poor “beleaguered” terrorists in Palestine are continually “bullied” by Israel ~
 

 
Our tiny provocateur is as adept at duping his target audience as Hamas is in deceiving western journalists ~

What makes better headlines? Is it numbing figures such as the 8,000 Palestinian rockets fired at Israel since it unilaterally withdrew from Gaza in 2005, and the 42.5 percent of Israeli children living near the Gaza border who suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder? Or is it high-resolution images of bombed-out buildings in Gaza and emotional stories of bereaved Palestinians? The last, obviously, as demonstrated by much of the media coverage of Israel’s recent operation against Hamas…
 
…Veteran journalist Marvin Kalb, writing for Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government on the terrorists’ successful media strategy against Israel, warned that “the trajectory of the media, from objective observer to fiery advocate,” had become “a weapon of modern warfare.” Kalb quotes a U.S. military expert who describes how perception has replaced reality on the battlefield and that the terrorists know it.

[Source: Falling for Hamas’s media manipulation (Washington Post Opinions) by Israel’s ambassador to the U.S., Michael Oren.