Israeli Spokesperson Rattled And On The Ropes - Mark Regev Finally Under Pressure
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Owen Jones
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🗓️ 18 January 2024
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
Mark Regev is the slick PR man for Israel's mass slaughter of Gaza. Normally he's used to walking all over journalists who are pliable, ill informed, weak and not up to their job. So it's refreshing to hear LBC's Lewis Goodall actually put him on the spot - and Regev left flustered.
Here, too, is more facts which shred the false narrative Regev keeps trying to build.
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| 0:00.0 | Mark Reggev, you'll have seen him in our TV screens, no doubt, former Israeli ambassador to the UK, |
| 0:05.2 | now senior advisor to the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, |
| 0:08.7 | and if you're a country committing unambiguous rampant war crimes slaughtering huge numbers of innocent people, a large proportion |
| 0:14.3 | for whom are children, he's a sort of guy you want doing the media rounds. |
| 0:18.7 | Slick, apparently unflappable, great tone of phrase, shifting seamlessly from oh so reasonable sounding to menace, |
| 0:25.0 | if committing one of the gravest crimes of our time |
| 0:28.0 | is the sort of thing your state is into, I'd say hiring reggeve is a pretty sound bet. |
| 0:32.0 | Now, alas, reggeve has a pretty sound bet. Now alas regev has been effective |
| 0:34.2 | outwitting most Western journalists for a range of reasons not just because he's |
| 0:38.7 | good at his contemptible job always be aware of your enemy strengths, but because normally those up against |
| 0:44.8 | him, clearly a bias themselves in favour of Israel's onslaught, are ill-informed about the details, |
| 0:50.4 | are weak or generally and or generally just not up to the job. |
| 0:54.2 | So it's good to see that Regev was finally up against a journalist who did know his stuff |
| 0:59.2 | and was prepared to put him on the spot. |
| 1:01.6 | Now this has happened before. Medi Hassan had him on the spot. Now this has happened before. |
| 1:03.5 | Medi Hassan had him on the ropes on MS NBC and then shortly afterwards was fired. |
| 1:08.4 | Interesting. Anyway, Ensa, Louis Goodall, he's formerly of the BBC and now of LBC. |
| 1:15.2 | Let's just see him challenge reggev about South Africa's case alleging genocide |
| 1:20.4 | against Israel in the International Court of Justice. |
| 1:23.0 | But this charge of genocide is totally preposterous. |
| 1:26.0 | It's outrageous. |
| 1:27.0 | But Mr Regge, I mean isn't the case, isn't it the point that you have laid yourself open to that accusation in the manner in which you've conducted this war. |
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