The mandatory bridge
Luntz report: 'No matter what you're asked, bridge to a productive pro-Israel message.'
How it works
Media-training technique elevated to doctrine: the question asked is never the question answered. The reply pivots to October 7, to Iran, to Hamas's charter — anywhere but the documented incident on the table.
How to recognize it
Your specific question — this strike, this village, this law — vanishes. The answer would fit any question equally well.
How to answer it
Name it once, calmly, for the audience: 'Notice my question about the mosque burnings wasn't answered.' Re-ask once. Then stop — lurkers saw it, and that was the point.