The biggest mistake was trying to get the secular street understand our point of view. That caused just the opposite, all of the newspapers and commenters making fun of this statement. would the publisher in de tzitung have brains, he would release a statement saying: "editing the picture was definitely a big mistake, and was done by one of the employees without permission, for his particular reasons, therefore he was fired". after such a statement, no newspaper would have what to say, except of writing a short article with 0 comments. the trying to explain jewish point-of-view made the worst out of it.
I think nobody from us needs the white house and the state department to understand why we are dressed with tzitzus. same is to this issue, we are perfectly fine with ourselves, and we don't need all these people to understand us. That is a thing that de tzitung didn't get and understand.
