Israel has recently found effective PR responses to its enemies, but the reality of heavy-handed policing is undermining them.
In the last few months, a very significant change has taken place in the nature and success of the public relations of the State of Israel. In the past, indifference (“But we’re right!”) or shrill anger alternated in ineffective and often counter-productive ways. Public relations, sometimes called public diplomacy, was relegated to the back halls of the foreign ministry and its understaffed embassies and consulates abroad.