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07 Sep 2006 07:20:12 PM |
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Poll: Israelis believed Nasrallah over Peretz |
Polls conducted by Dr. Udi Lebel, political psychology lecturer, found
sad picture of Israeli PR
Anat Breshkovsky
Published: 09.03.06, 16:38
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3299073,00.html
Since the end of the war in the north, two main issues have been
keeping the public busy: The demand for an account of the failures by
the Israeli leadership, and criticism of the press and nature of
reports.
A new study, however, buy Dr. Uri Lebel of the Ben Gurion Institute,
Beer Sheva University, has found that another problem requires urgent
treatment: Israeli PR.
During the poll, entitled "the management of Israeli PR during the
second Lebanon war," members of six groups were asked to watch video
recordings of Israeli PR in Israel and abroad, and to answer questions.
Lebel says he held polls in the past on issues of strategic press,
political psychology, and army-media relations. The result of his
latest poll show that Israeli PR was so lacking, that in my cases the
public was forced to rely on the reports of Hizbullah leader Hassan
Nasrallah.
Lebel says a good media leader relies on three points - gripping the
audience, being watchable, and giving the feeling of certainty.
The participants of the poll were asked who gave the a sense of
certainty regarding the continuance of the war, and who was most
authentic. The results were unequivocal: The Israeli public chose
Nasrallah's speeches as giving it both.
'Nasrallah contradicted the Israeli spokespeople'
Asked about Nasrallah's authenticity compared to that of Israeli
spokespeople, not one Hebrew spokesperson received high authenticity
marks.
"We reached a really crazy situation," says Lebel. "A psychological
situation which seems inconceivable: Instead of the Israeli public
watching our national spokesman who tells it what is happening every
day, who will minimize the chaos and who will be seen as believable,
something unprecedented happened: The public perceived the enemy leader
against whom we fought as having those characteristics, and waited
impatiently for his speeches. Nasrallah contradicted the Israeli
spokespeople more than once, many times contradicting the minister of
defense - he was the first to announce the deaths of Israeli soldiers
and the sad circumstances which led to them."
He added: "This isn't the first time that a bereaved mother found out
the truth of the death of her son in recordings released by Hizbullah,
where a totally different picture is shown to what the IDF and its
spokespeople have provided."
Dr. Lebel believes that the figures indicate a serious crisis of
leadership down the road. "It's not important if objectively the
leadership did its best - now the public perceives it as cut off,
unprofessional, and boastful. It won't follow the leadership to the
next confrontation," he said.
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| Title: Re: Poll: Israelis believed Nasrallah over Peretz |
07 Sep 2006 07:40:06 PM |
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Time for some old Peres jokes:
1) In the early 1990's Peres Rabin and Shamir were in a bad dispute.
Each one of them wanted to be the prime minister. So they decided to
meet in 9:00 PM for a race, winner takes all. Peres reached the track
in 9:00 PM, and nobody there. So he waited til 10:00 PM, and still
nobody came. So he decided to run anyway, just for fun. He run alone,
with all his might, and reached second.
2) Peres had so many failures in his life that he decided to try to
enter the book of records as the man with the largest number of
failures.
But he failed.
3) Sharon and Peres together were like bulldozer. Sharon was the
bulldog, Peres was the loser.
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