Thanks to global coverage, refugees have nowhere to run

After an in-depth experience and a close look at the role played by the global media, the historical importance of her work is revealed.

Public relations man Kobi and Ron took part in a humanitarian delegation to the Ukraine-Poland border.

What was revealed before his eyes he was not ready |

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Kobe and Ron, guest column

09/03/2022

Wednesday, 09 March 2022, 14:32 Updated: 14:50

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In a freezing cold of minus five degrees, we found thousands of women and children who had lost their homes and all their property crossing the border into the unknown

I boarded a Bezeq flight with an Israeli rescue team that landed at a war scene - the Ukraine-Poland border.

After long hours on the road we reached the town of Medica.

We chose this border crossing precisely because we knew that there we would meet the constant stream of refugees and locate the Israelis.

We saw it as our mission to be there for those who had fled the inferno and were looking for a way out.

Israelis and Jews first.

When we arrived, we saw a social attack before our eyes.

In a freezing cold of minus five degrees, we found thousands of women and children who had lost their homes and all their possessions crossed the border into the unknown.

We arrived armed with food, winter supplies for distribution and a warm hug (a rare commodity in the forgotten days of the Corona), but for the harsh sights that unfolded before our eyes we were not ready.

During World War II, the media was even poorer and more subject today to state interests.

It is said that the world turned a blind eye to the Holocaust perpetrated by the Germans, to the refugee crisis of World War II.

And the truth is that just then it was much harder to know what was happening in German-controlled territories.

Today's Putin is using a similar media tactic.

Through censorship and silence, and the blocking of social networks, it paralyzes modern means of information transmission and creates a reality of journalistic reliance solely on government sources.

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We were not ready for the difficult sights that unfolded before our eyes.

The town of Medica (Photo: Kobi and Ron)

Infinity of pictures and stories that open the editions and are displayed in the front pages of newspapers around the world with a clear warning that it is a global responsibility to take care of the lives of those who fled the war zones, provide them with shelter and food

But fortunately the reality has changed a lot since then, and thanks to modern media heroes like Zlansky we know that the Ukrainians are not finished and will not be finished anytime soon.

He manages to revive the biblical stories we grew up on, the myth of Masada and King David who defeated the Philistine Goliath in stone.

Just as Zalansky fought the Russian attempt to control the collective stream of consciousness, so we on the Ukrainian-Polish front brought to the media consciousness the refugee crisis that was brewing before our eyes.

Yes, it's a front, even though it does not have a war of arms, because it still has a war for life and death.

Life and death of people without shelter or food in the frost of northeastern Europe in winter.

A war that is not bloody but no less important, since human life is still at stake.

Gradually, we saw more and more Israeli and international media outlets coming to cover the refugee crisis.

Infinity of pictures and stories that open the editions and are displayed in the front pages of newspapers around the world with a clear warning that it is a global responsibility to take care of the lives of those who fled the war zones, to provide them with shelter and food.

And with the coverage - comes the public pressure on governments.

Kobi and Ron (Photo: Inbal Marmari)

In this war, journalists play a significant role, precisely the role that Putin is trying to prevent them from.

They put a spotlight on those in need, and open a humanitarian corridor for them.

The narrative battle continues, alongside the physical battle and probably also after it, and in this case the media coverage turns out to be almost and no less important than the activation of the fire at the front.

For two years the world has collaborated in the fight in Corona over drugs and vaccines to save lives.

How did it happen that in one moment the value to human life was lost again and humans went back to exterminating each other and the Western world is indifferent to it?

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