ISDEF 2017: Perceptions and challenges of war
A day after the anniversary of the D-Day landings in Normandy, which saw the beginning of the end of the Nazi occupation of Europe, Israeli officials are troubled by the continent’s perception of Israel and the different challenges that today’s wars present.
Miri Eisin, deputy head of the combat intelligence corps of the Israeli Defence Forces, said that Israel found itself winning battles but losing the war of public perception in the aftermath.
Delivering a presentation at the ISDEF 2017 exhibition in Tel Aviv, Eisin claimed that Western and Northern Europe had become a post-colonial, post-national, post-religious, post-holocaust society.
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