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Starved Israeli Hostages Didn't Make the Front Page
(Jewish Chronicle-UK) Editorial - Western newspapers and television screens recently filled with images of two emaciated Palestinian children, presented as proof that Israel is starving Gaza. Yet both were later revealed to suffer from pre-existing muscular diseases. Now contrast that with the world's reaction to the videos of two skeletal Israeli hostages - the latest grotesque propaganda released by Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad. These images were not splashed across front pages. It took days for many outlets even to report them - and with none of the intensity that attended far shakier claims about Israel. These emaciated, brutalized, traumatized hostages simply don't fit the narrative that much of the media, NGOs, and even some Western governments have spent the past 22 months carefully constructing. In this script, Israel - the victim of a genocidal assault - is recast as its perpetrator.