10/7 was not Israel's 9/11 . . .

[JudyM]

6. Who is crafting the strongest, prevailing narrative, that's key.

I have long thought that Israel (like US Dems, until very recently) lacks a good communications team. Despite my gut level belief that our general moral principles stand as guide rails to actions taken by the Jewish state, I haven’t seen much in the way of cogent, coherent justifications for the level of destruction and loss of presumably civilian life in Gaza. I don’t think Israel would need to spend a ton of time on it, but currently the narrative supporting those actions seems more or less to be: trust that it’s necessary to root out hamas and locate the captives, and that Israel is our democratic bastion in the Middle East so there’s strategic value for our support. I stand with Israel, but with so much circulating narrative - here and on the world stage - painting its actions in a bad light, including, incredibly, “genocide,” it would be great to see a more substantive narrative emerge.