>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.
So why haven't Sabra and Shatila, or the routine bulldozing of houses, had a similar effect on Israel's image? Is it because the attentions of the image-shapers are, um, asymmetric, to use an economist's word?
Doug