Stuart Littlewood

Brand Israel self-destructs

“It’s more important to be attractive than right”
by Stuart Littlewood
 “Israel’s brand image does not serve its interests right now,” said Ido Aharoni, head of brand management at the foreign ministry, five years ago.
So Israel hired a British firm of image consultants.

  Quit meddling, Kerry, leave the Israel problem to the proper authorities
The former ambassador to Israel tapped by Secretary of State John Kerry as U.S. Special Envoy for Israeli-Palestinian Negotiations just a year and a half ago voiced pessimism about the prospects for a peace agreement.
by Stuart Littlewood

How UN schemers screwed up Middle East peace prospects for all time…with one 3-letter word  
  by Stuart Littlewood      Intifada Palestine

 Letter to another dishonest “peace” broker…bent on bypassing the justice process
 
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry (L) meets with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas at the Mukataa compound, in the West Bank city of Ramallah July 19, 2013. 

 UK MP and Israel critic David Ward is suspended from party
 
David Ward has been suspended from the Lib Dems
by Stuart Littlewood  -  Intifada Palestine

Israel lobby draws the ‘red lines’ and dictates ‘precise terms’ for future Liberal Democrat debate, apparently

UK government still won’t come clean on Israel’s nukes
 
 by Stuart Littlewood

 
(LONDON) – While the British government leads the charge to impose and tighten sanctions on Iran and makes other dire threats on the mere suspicion that the Islamic Republic may have nuclear weapons ambitions, its ministers continue to sidestep simple questions about Israel’s unsafeguarded nukes. Here is a recent example…
 

Quo vadis, Palestine? … as PLO prepares to get bogged down (again) in bogus US-Israel negotiations

 
 by Stuart Littlewood  – Intifada Palestine
The Palestinian embassy in London has just issued a rare media briefing. It asks “WHAT IS NEEDED FOR THE RESUMPTION OF CREDIBLE NEGOTIATIONS?” and tries to explain the Palestinian position.

Long-suffering Gaza and Bethlehem communities ignored – “no effort to go to the heart of the issues”

 
 by Stuart Littlewood
(London) Before he left for the Holy Land I telephoned Justin Welby’s office for details of his first visit as the new Archbishop of Canterbury, only to be told none were available in advance.  So I emailed a list of questions….
 

Failed ‘Hasbara’ insults just bounce off Alice Walker


by Stuart Littlewood
 
Hasbara has become a dirty word, thanks to it’s dirty practitioners and the dirty job they are trained to do.
It’s a Hebrew word for Israel’s sophisticated public relations machinery that’s set up to cynically justify the Jewish entity’s crimes and to create for Israel a ‘brand image’ completely at odds with the ugly truth.