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Hamas Is Now Deploying Its Most Powerful Weapon - Ignorant Western Public Opinion
(JNS) Melanie Phillips - In the face of an unprecedented global campaign of lies demonizing Israel as a means to its destruction, there is a duty based in Jewish values, as well as in common decency, to call this out as a great evil. Israel is certainly not using starvation as a weapon of war. On the contrary, it has allowed into Gaza tens of millions of tons of food since the war began. It has also instituted with the U.S. the only means of delivering food safely to Gazan civilians to stop Hamas stealing it for its own purposes. There is no evidence of starvation. Images of skeletal children published by the New York Times and other media were fraudulent. These children weren't skeletal because they were being starved in Gaza. They were either suffering from dreadful congenital diseases, or the pictures had been taken in Yemen. The giveaway was that adults and other children in the pictures were obviously well-fed. The Times cropped one horrific picture they prominently displayed to exclude just such a normal-looking child. The relentless bombardment of words and images denoting intolerable suffering in Gaza has been so overwhelming - striking the deepest chords of our humanity, even though the words and images may be false - that this manipulative campaign has had its intended effect. Conscience and compassion have been weaponized to service pure evil. Yes, there is hunger and misery in Gaza as a result of the war started by Hamas on Oct. 7, 2023. But this has been caused not by Israel but by Hamas. Gaza's civilians are an enemy population. Yet Israel is aiding them, in accordance with Jewish values of compassion, even to the enemy. The writer is a columnist for The Times-UK.