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William Scott Ritter, Jr.: It comes down to perception vs. reality, and perception is going to win if you are not able to put an alternative point of view out there.
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My first Text~Generated AI Image by Google Gemini Titled "Lightning From the East"
Word Prompt based on Revelation 1:14-15 and Revelation 19:12-13: "Seated full-sized Guyanese-Filipino Man with medium-length curly White Hair, neatly trimmed short White Beard, Natural Bronze Skin and Bloodshot Eyes wearing a small Gold Cross Necklace, Barong Tagalog, Blood-Red Yarmulke and Blood-Red Bathrobe in Black Crocs drinking Coffee, Mango, Green Grapes, Bananas, Pineapple, Orange Juice, Spam, Fried Rice, Sunny-Side Up Eggs, and Croissant on a Private Jet Plane over Mount Olivet"
LIAT COHEN: Israel is losing the battle for information and the international narrative.
THOMAS REESE: I am sure God has a plan; I just don't know what it is.
JPOST EDITORIAL: If the prime minister doesn't present his day-after plan – in Hebrew, to Israelis – before boarding that flight he will have insulted an entire country.
Asaf Kagan: Israel's Foreign Ministry and Ministry for Diaspora Affairs have resoundingly failed, as have its intelligence and military apparatuses. But, as a result of this failure, the army and other government agencies have recognized the need for a coordinated agency and have demanded additional funding. Israel has paid a steep price for delaying such an initiative. By proactively shaping online narratives and countering negative portrayals, the NID can bolster Israel's global image and secure its position on the international stage.
DAVID BEN-BASAT: Israel's information-dissemination system is of paramount importance, particularly in these times, and the Foreign Ministry has allocated a substantial additional budget for this purpose.
YAAKOV KATZ: Civilian oversight of the IDF is an urgent necessity - The IDF should get used to it.
Reuven Chaim Klein: Rabbi Yaakov Tzvi Mecklenburg (1785-1865) writes that the word malach is related to the Hebrew word malachah (“creative labor”) because a malach is an agent — whether angelic or not — who carries out a certain task on one's behalf. Though the comparison between these two words is not readily understood, Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch (1808-1888) offers a penetrating insight: The word malachah denotes the thinking man's ability to bring his ideas into reality through creative work, while malach is the personification of the thinking man's ability to use a proxy to realize his ideas. He also writes that the word malach sometimes refers directly to G-d because He constantly engages in the malachah of creating the world.
Yehuda Kurtzer: The role of "the Rabbi," like teachers and other professions once understood to represent expertise, has become increasingly devalued. We have disempowered our rabbis for the sake of amplifying our own agency in shaping our Judaism
DANI STAUM: MICHAEL IS COMPOSED ENTIRELY OF SNOW;
Lazer Gurkow: The tribe of Reuben led to the south, corresponding to the angelic camp led by Michael.
The Midrash Abkir (l.c. 132): God appointed Michael to be the defender of Israel.
ARIEL MUZICANT: Enabling the continued hatred and murder of Jews, denying the victims the agency to stop it, and couching it in the terms of international law is antisemitism. TODAY, THE ivory towers of international justice once again believe that Jews should have no agency over the protection of their own lives. The best and most effective way to get rid of Jews is to disable their agency to act in their own defense.
Nava Freiberg: Long referred to as hasbara, a term used to denote both public relations and propaganda that has been freighted with negative baggage in recent years, the ministry now brands its approach as toda'a — which translates to "awareness" or "consciousness"— an apparent shift toward broader, more proactive messaging.
ZVIKA KLEIN: Dominate the news agenda. Own the news cycle, every day
