Mixed Messages: Arabs Challenge Israeli Hasbara (Ramzy Baroud)

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Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust

Mar. 3, 2011 -- When the Libyan people took on their reviled dictator, Moammar Gadhafi, Israeli officials seemed puzzled by the alarming and unprecedented trend of popular awakenings in the Arab world.

Israel's Foreign Minister, Avigdor Lieberman, has claimed that these awakenings are only proof of the "weakening" of the Arabs -- even at a time when international consensus points to the opposite conclusion.

According to Israeli daily, Haaretz, Lieberman claimed, “the Arab world is becoming increasingly weakened.”

Worried perhaps that all rational analyses will show how Israel’s decade-long aggression has been a major contributing factor to instability in Middle East, Lieberman decided to dismiss the notion altogether. “Whoever thinks that the Palestinian-Israeli conflict is part of the problems in the Middle East is trying to escape reality,” he said.

It must be a strange "reality" which Lieberman subscribes to, but he isn’t the only Israeli official that sees the world through such tainted logic.

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