Obama's speech last night at the Dem. Party convention was a masterpiece of rhetoric ... equal to M. Luther King's "I have a dream" speech. Calculated to the last syllable, following all the rules and tricks of classical rhetoric, it was very stirring and emotional aimed to make the audience decide. But the thing that stole the show wasn't Obama's speech but Bill Clinton's pin on his jacket - "Hillary" written in hebrew. It was extremely subtle but absolutely calculated to catch the world's press attention. Here in Israel, it's all over media. Powerful non-verbal communication. My students of communication should see the video of Obama's speech with Clinton's pin.
http://www.haaretz.com/world-news/u-s-election-2016/.premium-1.733846
Another hot topic in today's news is the PM's revisionist interpretation of the Holocaust to victimise his enemies. If anyone else had done it, he would be accused of anti-semitism, Holocaust denial and manipulation of the truth. In the article, the PM is accused of using the Holocaust to demonise the arabs ... saying that "Hitler was influenced by a Palestinian to kill the jews".
https://www.thenation.com/article/netanyahus-holocaust-revisionism-actually-reflects-widespread-dehumanization-of-palestinians/
Yesterday's double bombing that killed 50 people and injured 170 others in Syria has gone unnoticed. Highlight has been the murder of Fr. Jacques in France. The tragedy in France is a daily occurrence in the Middle East. Priests, bishops and nuns are being slaughtered everyday here ... but it never makes it to the headlines like a western tragedy does.
http://www.catholicherald.co.uk/commentandblogs/2016/07/26/a-priest-is-slaughtered-at-mass-in-rural-france-this-is-what-life-is-like-for-christians-in-the-middle-east/
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France should really learn from Israel in terrorist prevention. Instead it is so buried in being politically correct ... it has become a suicide wish. I couldn't imagine how extreme political correctness was until BBC interviewed a priest from the neighbouring Normandy parish, asking him what he thought of ISIS attacking his neighbour priest in a Catholic Church; his reaction? "It's not an attack on Christianity! It's not an attack on the Catholic Church! It was a random attack". I couldn't believe my ears!!! The old priest was made to kneel and had his head chopped off ... like the 21 Copts killed in Libya and other christians in Syria and Iraq. This type of political correctness - fear of offending Islam - is simply burying the head in the sand, pretending there is no problem ... which works to the killers' advantage because they have tacit permission to continue their massacre. As long as christians in France think that this is not a muslim - christian conflict ... they will continue to be killed one by one until reality slaps them awake. News media and the rest of the world, especially here in the Middle East are more than clear IT IS a muslim-christian conflict. That is the new twist in ISIS strategy.
http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Analysis-Islamic-States-first-act-of-war-on-European-Christianity-462442
And tragedy on a different level - the rise of Pokemon Go. Utterly destructive ... yesterday a 17 yr old Israeli fell into the sea (from a cliff) while chasing a pokemon. Was unconscious and nearly drowned if not for his brother who pulled him out of the water.
http://virtualjerusalem.com/news.php?Itemid=22953 Who knows? Pokemon Go might be an ISIS invention to kill the Western infidels.
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