
The episode discusses Israel's spending on a US influence operation and the absurdity of its messaging.
Right, so Israel has torched millions on a US influence operation that includes telling Americans that the starving children, shattered buildings, and eyewitness footage coming out of Gaza might all be some elaborate ruse. Nothing to see here, really. Move along. Don't trust any of that, says the advert. It might all be a coordinated propaganda effort and it’s not like Israel would ever do such a thing is it? Here's a right wing mouthpiece. Here's a hospital. Here are tunnels. Here's Trump. Here's Netanyahu. Here's the word PEACE in letters large enough to be spotted from the Moon. And then, right at the bottom, once the music has done its work and the messaging has been pushed into your head, comes the bit they hoped you wouldn't read, but that by law they had to tack on. Distributed by Clock Tower X LLC on behalf of the State of Israel. Israel paid for an advert warning Americans about propaganda, then literally signed off on the propaganda at the bottom. Honestly, you could hardly script it any better. Here’s a figure for you, and no, this one thirty-second advert did not cost fifteen million dollars. That is the reported scale of money the Clock Tower received through the…
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