The Algemeiner..
05 July '12..
“The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic”. I don’t know exactly what John F. Kennedy had in mind when he said this, but I reckon these words perfectly suit the awkward situation that we in Israel find ourselves in right now. We are living in a world where sticks and stones actually can’t break our bones that much, even if the stones are replaced by “Qassam” and “Grad” missiles. We’ve got our answer for that – thank God and the IDF. But words, lies and modern mythology have turned into much more effective weapons against the state of Israel, which no Iron Dome type defense system can withstand.
These weapons are being used on a daily basis by our foes of different orientations – from madcap leftists to Islamofascists, and have actually turned into their common trademark. It is hard to fight a myth, even if it is totally unrealistic, as Kennedy pointed out. People nowadays are too lazy to listen to or read even a short explanation, which is, naturally, much longer than any myth or lie itself.
And it takes much more time to uncover and verbalize the truth, which may have the ability dissolve the stuff people are being fed by the media. For example, there is the story of a German poet and anti-Israel activist Irena Wachendorff, who fabricated her “service in the IDF” during the First Lebanon war. She claimed that her father is Jewish and fled to England in 1936 and her mother survived Auschwitz. The Jerusalem Post and Jennifer Pyka, an investigative journalist from Munich, managed to discover that this prolific Israel-hater is not Jewish and her father was actually an officer in the Wehrmacht, which perhaps can also explain her heartfelt support for Hamas in the Gaza Strip.
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