Images of Palestinians in US media

[Brad DeLong]

>Brad DeLong wrote:
>
>>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

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