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Distract, deflect, disinform: Israeli politics in spin cycle

By The Listening Post November 23, 2019

References Yara Hawari

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On this episode of The Listening Post: Caught in a political tangle, Israeli politicians are demonising Palestinians and using Gaza to score points. Plus, Algeria's viral stars.

Israel: War as a political weapon

In Israel, war, usually waged on Gaza, can be a means of distraction; a political weapon. And that context is often missing in the news coverage.

Last week Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu launched air raids on the Gaza Strip, what his government called "a targeted killing" of an Islamic Jihad commander.

However, in political terms, those missiles weren't even aimed at Islamic Jihad.

The real target was Benny Gantz, Netanyahu's political rival.

Netanyahu is fighting for more than his job. He's just become the first sitting Israeli prime minister charged with a crime: indicted for bribery, fraud and breach of trust.

So Netanyahu could use the distraction and he knows that conflict with Palestinians - military and political - can pay off.

He can also count on those in the media, who tend to shorthand the political context - and go long on the dominant narrative - that Palestinians somehow pose an "existential threat" to Israel.

Lead contributors:
Yara Hawari - Palestine policy fellow, Al Shabaka
Anat Balint - Media scholar
Tareq Baconi - Analyst, International Crisis Group
Edo Konrad - Editor-in-chief, +972 Magazine

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