Mark Regev, World's Best Known Spinner, In An Unwinnable War Of Words

[Purveyor]

When a 22-year-old Mark Regev finished his exams at Melbourne University, he didn't even wait to graduate. He got on a plane to Israel as soon as his last essay was filed, leaving his mother to pick up his degree certificate in absentia.

Back then, before he was the prime minister's spokesman and most ubiquitous Israeli face on your TV screen, he was Mark Freiberg, but the name sounded too German for the ambitious Zionist. Once he had officially emigrated, he chose the name Regev, a Hebrew surname meaning 'a small clod of earth', fitting for a man who would come to embody, at least to nightly news watchers, a small piece of the Middle East.

Even from his critics, the perpetually sharp-suited Regev inspires some praise for his brazenness. "If the men from Mars ever wanted to manufacture a PR man, they would model their robot on Regev," wrote Ruth Sutherland in the Guardian, when Regev was on TV defending the IDF (Israeli Defence Forces) killing of pro-Palestinian protesters aboard the Mavi Marmara flotilla in 2010.

"No matter how formidable the interviewer, or how aggressive the questioning, he never buckles under pressure. Viewers are reduced to a trance of slack-jawed amazement at what he is prepared to say with a straight face. He is unlikely to win sceptics to Israel's cause, but as a PR performer he is horribly compelling."

Sutherland's analysis is kind compared to much on the internet. 'Propagandist', 'apologist', a 'masochist' spouting 'verbal pornography' and 'poisonous bile'. There is even a Facebook group 'I want to punch Mark Regev very hard'.

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[Comrade Grumpy]

1. Every time he opens his mouth, corpses fall out.

Anymore, I just hit mute when he and Wolf have their little gabfests.

[countryjake]

2. Well, you should have heard the two of them at about 3:30 this morning...

Regev was struggling mightily to get "the correct story" out there, after Wolfie had literally cut off the reporter who was stating matter-of-factly what he'd seen on the ground in Gaza. Poor Mr. Freiberg was sweating bullets (along with those unmentionable corpses pouring from his pie-hole). Haven't seen him quite that rattled since Cast Lead.