The absolute worst thing Israelis and Jews in the Diaspora can do is engage in propaganda, specifically the disingenuous information techniques exploited by enemies.

What I call “The Islamic Small Wars” in which Israel is in inseparable element revolve deeply around the social grammar of family and tribal loyalties and consequent to that the diminishment of integrity as the highest of social values. To put it bluntly, to curry favor — often the favor of thugs — with lies is fine as it may appear to align with perceived personal security and survival. There is in that a civilizational principle that the Jews en masse and the decent and good of humanity must reject outright. To do otherwise, condones, engages in, and encourages evil.

A writer had expressed doubt about the Palestinian “three-fingers campaign” celebrating the kidnapping (later, murder) of three Israeli teens.  The note was to the effect that there may have been some confusion with a sports figure also associated with integer three.

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