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by Jake Wallis Simons, Telegraph:
Rampant Israel hatred means terrorist propaganda is given undeserved credence.
This week, the former hostage Mia Schem gave her first television interview. The 21-year-old French-Israeli tattoo artist described how she had been shot, groped and dragged into Gaza by her hair, where she was operated upon by a vet without anaesthetic and kept like an animal in a zoo. “I went through a holocaust,” she said.
This was not the first time her voice had been heard. Before her release at the beginning of December, she had appeared in a Hamas video parroting propaganda. “People very good, very kind to me,” she had said with fear evident in her eyes.
By normal standards, the notion that the savages who butchered babies and carried out bestial sexual violence would be credibly described as “very kind” by a hostage under duress would be dismissed. But in a world of Israelophobia, the clip went viral.
Millions of viewers began to see Hamas as noble freedom fighters maligned by the duplicitous and bloodsucking Jews. By the time the poor woman was able to tell the truth, the damage had been done.
This grim vignette is emblematic of how the West has been played by Hamas. In a climate of Israelophobia, morality has been turned on its head. Hamas attempts an act of genocide, yet that same crime is pinned on Israel. Hamas butchers hundreds of innocents, yet Israel gets the blame.
The terrorists know exactly what they are doing. For years, they have dealt with UN officials, NGO representatives and the international media. They understand the Weltanschauung of such circles. They know that they need only enable a supply of videos of civilian casualties and the credulous journalists, sneering diplomats, jihadi sympathisers and useful idiots will do the rest.
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