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Source: https://www.thejc.com/opinion/how-the-west-prolonged-gazas-misery-in-the-name-of-virtue-u9eyrdcm
How the West Prolonged Gaza's Misery
(Jewish Chronicle-UK) Saul Sadka - At a critical point in the Israel-Hamas hostage negotiations, Western governments effectively emboldened a terror organization, putting all the blame for the food situation and the pressure to agree on a ceasefire on Israel alone. Hamas's position then hardened despite many Israeli concessions, leading to a collapse of the talks. The Gazans mostly want to flee the war zone - but Hamas wants them to stay and die, for the photo ops. The Gazans want to eat - but Hamas wants to make that as hard as possible, to promote a false famine narrative. By amplifying the jihadist narrative, the global media, the NGOs and the UN are giving Hamas false hope and in the process, they're prolonging Palestinian suffering. Without all that international pressure on Israel, Hamas may have folded already. Hamas didn't just lose a war, they turned their Jewish neighbors, including many former supporters of a two-state solution, against giving them sovereignty for at least a generation.