The author (Jennifer Murtazashvili, currently in Tel Aviv) describes daily life under rocket alerts and praises the high success rate of Israel's Iron Dome (around 92% interception). She argues that online propaganda and disinformation are misleading both the political left and right about the actual situation on the ground in Israel, creating a distorted view compared to real wartime experiences.
The world is truly upside down! The Washington Post has published a brilliant article, written by, get this, a professor! To give you some flavor, here are a few choice lines by :
1) "We are living through the first alt-war: a conflict in which the war fought online and the war fought in reality have diverged so completely that they might as well be happening on different planets. It’s not that people lack information, it’s more that they are constructing an entirely different alternate reality — one that confirms what they already believe."
2) "What worries me more than the fake videos are the people who cannot fathom that this war is going well for the United States, for Israel and maybe even for the long-suffering people of Iran. The strategic picture is more favorable than the online narrative suggests."
3) "Two weeks into the war, I watch otherwise reasonable analysts sprint to catastrophe. Former officials, thinktank scholars, credentialed professionals who are supposed to know how to read a conflict. Within days they had written the obituary: quagmire, overreach, disaster."
4) "The liberal internationalist left and the isolationist right — two camps that have agreed on almost nothing for decades — have suddenly found themselves in lockstep, racing to declare the war a failure before it had barely begun. This is the new blob: not the old foreign-policy establishment that the term originally described but a new amalgamation that has arrived at the same conclusion from opposite directions. Together they are the most powerful engine of the alt-war."
The truth. In the mainstream media. By a professor. And written well. Four things I thought I'd never see again in my lifetime.
Mike- welcome to the reality that Israel has been up against for 80 years- the reality on the ground is one thing, and the alt-reality in academia, the media, and leftist/groyper circles something altogether untethered from anything resembling reality on the ground..even completely inverted from that reality-
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