by Daniel Greenfield
Debate, like war, is won on the offense, not the defense.
While the video is about Israel, but overall the situation applies to most of the Western world. It’s just most clearly and most sharply defined when it comes to Israel.
The Islamic and leftist side plays the same game. It denies any guilt, projects all of it on us, screams as loudly as possible, lies constantly, exploits every misstep and invents plenty of its own.
The enemy and its collaborators are in full attack mode 24/7, crying victimhood and simultaneously celebrating their own atrocities.
Their goal is to always be on the offense.
Faced with this, the side of civilization all too often defaults to the defense. It explains, it clarifies and it tries to prove. And all of this is moot.
The enemy’s goal is not to win any particular argument. It constantly lies and rarely bothers to back up those lies, moving rapidly from one to the other, because its object is to shape the trajectory of the overall fight.
When Hamas and its supporters claim X and then Y amount of casualties dead, when they claim that Al-Shifa hospital was blown up by Israel, it’s because the tactic is to constantly hurl accusations in order to have the side of civilization debate them. Once that’s done, the debate is about how many civilians Israel has killed.
In all the months since Oct 7, too often the debate has been allowed to drift from the touchstones to countering enemy propaganda.
And that is ultimately a losing proposition.
Debate, like war, is ultimately won on the offense, not the defense. When you amplify the enemy’s message, even to counter it, you lose the long game.
Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center, is
an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and
Islamic terrorism.
Source: https://www.frontpagemag.com/why-israel-keeps-losing-the-debate-video/
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