in the past couple of weeks i have been getting several chain-emails with israeli propaganda.

below are the two most common pictures being sent around. plus there is a video of an arab american lady being interviewed in al jazeera (watch on youtube).

beside the fact that i think israelis should be able to produce a propaganda in better quality, i think that is an indication of the mood in israel. it seems like the big parts of the israeli public went back to the rhetoric of 20 years ago (before the first intifada), when israel lost its moral compass (or maybe it never had one), and everything was painted in black and white, good vs. evil. arabs are ruthless savages and israel is just an innocent small country trying to defend its meager land. 

i hope that the current conflict and public despair will not erase all that was learned in recent years in terms of empathy to the other side, the realization that israel is not a saint, that the arabs are not monsters, and that diplomacy, peace negotiations and reconciliation is the only way to bring an end to the conflict.