Hamas’ first hostage release has confirmed some very telling facts about the terrorists: 1) They’re ruthless liars; 2) they’ll victimize anyone they can, and 3) they think they can get America to break with Israel.
One of those released Friday was Hannah Katzir , 77 — a woman whom Palestinian Islamic Jihad (the No. 2 terror group based in Gaza) repeatedly announced days ago was killed by an Israeli airstrike.
That is, PIJ reported her as dead for pure propaganda purposes — to make the world think the Israeli government was killing hostages.
The lie had at least two purposes — to increase divisions with Israel, and to tar Israel’s global image (the strike really must be “indiscriminate” if they’re killing their own people, you were supposed to think).Fine: It’s no surprise that terrorists lie — but US and world media keep giving Hamas’ claims equal footing with anything Israel’s government says, […]
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