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Source: https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/israel-middle-east/articles/winning-the-culture-war
Hamas Is Winning the Culture War
(Tablet) Liel Leibovitz - For weeks, Hamas passed off photographs of people suffering from genetic disorders as evidence of Israeli cruelty; at the same time, it prevented ample aid supplies from reaching those very people by hijacking more than 90% of UN aid trucks, selling family aid packages - which enter Gaza for free - at insane markups. What's new is how avidly European presidents, editors, intellectuals, and activists are going along for the ride, parroting the Hamas propaganda line like toddlers. In pictures from actual famines, you see skeletal mothers along with skeletal babies. Not in Gaza, though. That's because the point of the photographs was to provide onlookers with a fig leaf of an excuse to embrace the narrative of a terrorist organization whose aims are, in fact, openly genocidal. How is a terror group that livestreamed hundreds of gruesome snuff films and posted them on YouTube ascendant, supported by the leaders of Europe, the Pope, and the editors and writers of nearly every newspaper and magazine and broadcast network on the planet? Israel is not fighting against Hamas, a small and malicious terror group tyrannically oppressing its own population. Israel is at war with the Palestinian people, who have adopted the political program of replacing the Jewish nation-state of Israel. We know this from the accounts of hostages who were held by civilians as slaves, while small children and elderly women alike mocked them. We know this from the accounts of Oct. 7, showing that the ghouls who entered Israel to pillage, murder, and rape included ordinary Gazans who relished the opportunity to afflict pain and suffering on the Jews next door.