Florida's DeSantis bans pro-Palestinian group from state campuses

Lerner · Nov 7, 2023

Bill Huffman said: ↑

I'm concerned that Israel seems to be losing the public relations battle to the terrorist organization Hamas. This military campaign might feel good for them right now but I'm concerned about the longer term. People seem to have forgotten the horrible October 7 attack. Israel is just looking bad to many because of the continuous stream of pictures of young children and women being destroyed in the Gaza Strip. Israel really needs to be more concerned about old fashion PR.
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Israel appears to be strugling with the public relations and it was expected, but the US support is still very strong.
Its expected that the other side will use the psychological warefare but Israel has no options but to destory hamas in Gaza.

Hamas supporters have long operated in the United States. Internal Hamas documents and FBI
wiretaps introduced as evidence in various federal criminal cases clearly show the existence of
a nationwide Hamas network engaged in fundraising, lobbying, education and propaganda
dissemination dating back to the 1980s. Together with Muslim Brotherhood.
The plan of Muslim Brotherhood in Europe and US is to have Muslims multiply and gain voting and other pwer, influence in all institutions, Universities, Congress etc. End goal Shariah law.

In general terms, political Islam or Islamism is based on the premise that the foundational textual sources of Islam (Qur’an and Sunna) should shape
society and politics worldwide.
The Muslim Brotherhood Creed “Allah is our objective. The Prophet is our leader. Qur'an is our law. Jihad is our way. Dying in the way of Allah is our highest hope.”
Historically, various members of the Muslim Brotherhood have advocated for acts of political violence. " radical political Islam.”

The impact of the Muslim Brotherhood on U.S. foreign policy in the Middle
East has been a topic of increased interest since the terrorist attacks of 9/11.

The Muslim Brotherhood is represented in over 70 countries worldwide, including Europe and the
United States of America, and has spawned generations of Islamic activists, both peaceful and violent, around the globe.

https://extremism.gwu.edu/sites/g/files/zaxdzs5746/files/2023-10/the-hamas-network-in-america.pdf

Hamas supporters have long operated in the United States. Internal Hamas documents and FBI
wiretaps introduced as evidence in various federal criminal cases clearly show the existence of
a nationwide Hamas network engaged in fundraising, lobbying, education and propaganda
dissemination dating back to the 1980s.
• The network formalized its existence in 1988, when it created the Palestine Committee in the
US. The Committee’s goals included “increasing the financial and the moral support for Hamas,”
“fighting surrendering solutions,” and publicizing “the savagery of the Jews.”
• The Palestine Committee spawned several public-facing organizations, most of which are based
out of Chicago, Dallas, and Washington DC. They included the all-purpose Islamic Association
for Palestine (IAP), the financial arm represented by the Occupied Land Fund (which later
became the Holy Land Foundation, HLF), and the think tank United Association for Studies and
Research (UASR).
• In 1993, the FBI wiretapped a meeting of top Hamas activists in the US held in Philadelphia. The
wiretaps show internal discussions on how to improve activities in support of Hamas within the
US and how to shield them from the designation of Hamas as a terrorist organization. US-based
Hamas activists agreed that hiding their affiliation and intentions was the best tactic to avoid
negative consequences. “I swear by Allah that war is deception,” said one senior leader,
“[d]eceive, camouflage, pretend that you’re leaving while you’re walking that way. Deceive your
enemy.” “Let's not hoist a large Islamic flag and let's not be barbaric-talking. We will remain a
front so that if the thing [the U.S. government ban on Hamas] happens, we will benefit from the
new happenings instead of having all of our organizations classified and exposed.”
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Bill Huffman · Nov 7, 2023

Everything you say is true.

I still think that Israel would be better off in the long run if they tried just a little bit harder to win the PR war. For example, there was a statement made by Israel's Heritage Minister Amichai Eliyahu. He was suspended indefinitely after he said in an interview that dropping a nuclear bomb on the Gaza Strip was “one of the possibilities”.

Now admittedly he was suspended but it still looks really bad that such things are said in a public forum.

SteveFoerster · Nov 7, 2023

To be honest, I can understand why Israeli policymakers seem to believe that they're going to be hated no matter what they do, so they may as well do whatever they think is best for themselves and/or their own people.

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