Reply #6: Foreign Ministry launches PR blitz

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"Armed with the IDF's findings that the seven Palestinian deaths on a Gaza beach Friday were not caused by Israel, the Foreign Ministry launched an information campaign Tuesday night to change the minds of a world that has already largely blamed Israel.

The job, Foreign Ministry officials admitted, was not made any easier by the attack in Gaza City Tuesday that killed eight civilians and three terrorists."

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"Following Tuesday's IDF press conference, the Foreign Ministry implemented a short-term media plan that included widespread appearances of Israeli spokesmen in the foreign media explaining the IDF findings, sending out talking points to Israel's representations abroad that include statistics on Kassam rocket firings toward Sderot and the western Negev and putting an IDF film-clip on the incident on the Foreign Ministry's web site.

In explaining the recent events, the ministry is instructing its representatives abroad to stress the following points:

"The Israeli Army is a cautious, professional, accurate and ethical organization."

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