> I think Said underestimates the long-run effect of the hijackings of
> the early 1970s: the images of hijacked airplanes in the Jordanian
> desert, the murder of the Israeli Olympic athletes at the Munich
> airport in 1972, Entebbe--these are very powerful images that have
> shaped the international response to the Palestinian cause, images
> that return to the mind's eye of everyone who passes through an
> airport metal detector.
>
> I suspect that when historians look back, they will find these
> episodes of "propaganda of the deed" to have been decisive in
shaping
> at least the American view of the conflict.
>
>
> Brad DeLong
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Surely, the sheer amount of images of what the Israeli's have done
since that time necessitate equally harsh condemnation from civilized
nations? Are you saying the Palestinians need better videographers and
'spin doctors'?
Ian