Note the time change. We’re going on the air 30 minutes early today for scheduling reasons, which gives you just enough time to get comfortable and tune in. Everything else – from where you can find the show to the structure of the segments – should be familiar. You can listen live either via the main Omri Ceren Show page or through the page for today’s episode. As always the phone lines will be open and the chat room will be available for questions and comments.
The bulk of today’s program revolves around anti-Israel media bias and propaganda. You’d think being the global leader on Haiti would be a public diplomacy boon, but it turns out not so much. Ditto for investigating alleged IDF misdeeds. Ditto for trying to make concessions to West Bank Palestinians. Ditto for minimizing Hamas’s exploitation for human shields in Gaza. Instead those either become reasons to attack Israel or – at the very least – they embolden anti-Israel partisans by signaling uncertainty and weakness.
Today’s Diker segments deal specifically with the two controversial Israeli investigations into Cast Lead. The first investigation is the one that the IDF just concluded, with its results being handed over to the UN. The second probe is the one that Netanyahu is considering, which would involve another huge and hostile inquiry into the behavior of Israeli soldiers operating under almost impossible conditions. There’s a point during the second part of today’s interview that’s pretty much required listening, where Diker very calmly and very systematically explains the precise degree to which another investigation would be a total disaster.
References:
* The Omri Ceren Show [Blog Talk Radio]
* Incoherent Success [Omri Ceren Show]
* Israel to UN: We launched 150 investigations following Gaza op [YNet]
* Israel ‘war crime’ probe urged [The Age]
Related Mere Rhetoric Categories:
* The Omri Ceren Show
* Anti-Israel Journalism
* Cast Lead
