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Propaganda broadcasts: We are left with an out-of-date law

2020-02-16T22:20:48.976Z


When is Tochfeld


The year 2009, the year Netanyahu rose to his current reign for the second time, marked the end of the dying broadcasts of television and radio broadcasts.

In the same electoral system 11 years ago, the parties even managed to make the first broadcast, two weeks before the election, an event. Journalists were invited to the halls, where the broadcasts were screened with the participation of senior politicians. In an election campaign after which reporters were no longer invited and no halls were rented. The opening day of propaganda broadcasts became another day of sand in the election campaign. Just like today. In the evening, the broadcasts of the current election campaign will begin, but hardly anyone knows.



All parties have long since abandoned the television broadcasting arena for frenzied campaigns on social networks and the Watsap groups. What remained of those invested videos and deep messages that then went through the backgrounds became a thorn in the backs of broadcasting franchisees due to their daily broadcast time and general lubrication for the rest. The only reason we are still communicating with us is the language of the law that no one has changed and nobody seems to be sleeping in the foreseeable future.



Shortly after the election, politicians are no longer interested in the propaganda or electoral law in general, and so we are left with an updated 1959 law that regulates the issue to this day, with the exception of minor changes over the years.

The exact same method

One of the broadcasts engraved in the collective memory of propaganda viewers is the video produced by the late strategic consultant Arthur Finkelstein for Netanyahu in '96 "Peres will divide Jerusalem." Exactly the same message day after day, it worked, and Netanyahu won and conquered power.

Without even noticing, Netanyahu is repeating exactly the same method today. Two weeks ago, PM and Likud started pumping out that Benny Gantz has no government without the joint list and they haven't stopped since. Each video starts or ends with the exact same message. Every interview from one of the Likud executives, every advertisement on the Internet and most likely, yes, even the television broadcasts tonight, will convey the exact same message over and over.

Gantz mainly provided evasions



Over the weekend, Gantz broke a long interview silence and was interviewed by the media. In all interviews, he was asked about his expected future reliance on the joint list as a necessary condition for forming a government headed by him. However, despite coming well prepared for Gantz interviews, he provided mostly evasions. Last time, he explained that he might form a government with the Likud without Netanyahu or through rebels from the right-wing bloc. He was wrong. The Likud did not oust Netanyahu and the right-wing bloc remained stable and firm until the bitter end of further elections.

This time, in the third election, not only did his situation improve but even worse. After the primaries in the Likud to say Gantz without white sounds less ridiculous than the Likud without Netanyahu. The right-wing revolt also looks more like a hallucination than a work plan. Especially when all the bloc parties sign their opinion and not the prime minister's request, a commitment to their voters to support and only him. Likud will not have a government, but Gantz, without the joint list, certainly does not. It would be better if the following interviews provide a bit more clever answers, or simply answer them from the evening, on the broadcast.

See more opinions by Matti Tochfeld

Source: israelhayom

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