Read thru' the responses to my #79
None of them will "go there" to discuss the matter.
I say that's emblematic of hasbara in 2013-10-06 I/P, and that hasbara in I/P follows an extremely right-wing model that isn't oriented toward communication and mutual peaceful interaction.
IMO extreme hasbara after an extreme right-wing model can't possibly be the only hasbara, and I look elsewhere for a positive model.
King_David thinks I shouldn't use the term 'hasbara', since the term is Hebrew in origin and meaning.
This in disregard of the fact that
http://www.hasbara.com/
and
http://www.hasbarafellowships.org/
are written in English.
King_David suggests that because I'm "white skinned" my motives in speaking about Palestinians are somehow disgraceful.
That's one of the most *sensible* responses I've gotten from an extreme right-wing hasbarist. Much beyond that doesn't happen.
On the other hand if hasbara is to promote both an intelligible and positive image of Israel, your own approach succeeds.
It isn't a mere matter of attitude, it's a matter of communication vs an unwillingness to communicate.
E.g., some on the hard-right in I/P have already concluded, from your communications, that you would be *betrayed* by anyone not hard-right in attitude toward I/P that you attempted to communicate with.