{"id":138409,"date":"2023-11-19T17:37:06","date_gmt":"2023-11-20T00:37:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=138409"},"modified":"2023-11-19T17:37:06","modified_gmt":"2023-11-20T00:37:06","slug":"israels-ludicrous-propaganda-wins-over-the-only-audience-that-counts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2023\/11\/19\/israels-ludicrous-propaganda-wins-over-the-only-audience-that-counts\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel\u2019s Ludicrous Propaganda Wins Over the Only Audience That Counts"},"content":{"rendered":"

Courtesy The Nation<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n

On November 11,\u00a0an Arabic-language Twitter account<\/a>\u00a0maintained by Israel\u2019s Ministry of Foreign Affairs posted\u00a0a video<\/a>\u00a0purporting to be a selfie by a nurse in al-Shifa hospital in Gaza, a major battlefield in the current conflict that was taken over by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) a few days later. In the startling video, as bombs went off in the background, the tearful nurse warned Gazans to heed the call of the IDF to flee to the south. She also affirmed many IDF talking points, notably that Hamas had taken over the hospital and were stealing morphine and fuel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The video gained millions of views\u2014but was also widely mocked by many, particularly Arabs, who questioned its authenticity<\/a>. For one thing, none of the staff in the hospital knew who this supposed nurse was. For another, she spoke in English with an accent that resembled no known Arab lilt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As Marc Owen Jones of The Daily Beast<\/em> observed<\/a>, Everything about it smacked of high school theater\u2014from the botched accent that sounded like it was straight out of an Israeli soap opera to the perfectly scripted IDF<\/a> talking points rolling off her tongue.\u201d Jones also noted the pristine white lab coat looking like it had just come back from the dry cleaner, the audio track of bombs falling that sounded like samples from a late-\u201980s Casio keyboard, and the contrived stethoscope-waving you\u2018d expect from an extra on Grey\u2019s Anatomy<\/em><\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Within a day, the tweet of the video was deleted<\/a> by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. But of course, downloaded versions continue to circulate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Israel\u2019s Ludicrous Propaganda Wins Over the Only Audience That Counts | The Nation<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Courtesy The Nation On November 11,\u00a0an Arabic-language Twitter account\u00a0maintained by Israel\u2019s Ministry of Foreign Affairs posted\u00a0a video\u00a0purporting to be a selfie by a nurse in al-Shifa hospital in Gaza, a major battlefield in the current conflict that was taken over by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) a few days later. In the startling video, as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-138409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138409\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}