It must be difficult for some to understand the inversions of reality that Hamas is pulling off with the help of its friends and allies in the Western world. It almost defies belief. The leaders of Great Britain, France, and Canada have all fallen into line for Hamas.
Hamas is desperate to starve the people under its thumb for propaganda purposes and to control the distribution of food for the purpose of maintaining its power. That starvation is fabricated in part and blamed wholly on Israel.
Now Hamas is advertising its starvation of Israeli hostages. It brags about it. It is proud of it. That real and purposeful starvation is tacitly condoned.
Whatever, Hamas is quite confident of its quasi-hypnotic power over those who are not under its thumb. They meekly toe the Hamas line. The loss of their dignity must be the least of it, but they are pathetic imitations of men.
Melanie Phillips deepens our understanding of what is happening here in her column “The war of moral inversion being waged through the western mind.” Subhead: :”Why Hamas released those obscene images.” The whole thing is worth reading. This is less than the first half of it. Phillips writes:
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Hamas released the cruel images of the starved and skeletal Israeli hostages for two reasons.
The first was to demonstrate the triumph of its diabolical strategy to turn the Holocaust into a weapon to exterminate the nation that was reborn out of its ashes.
Releasing these terrible images of starved Jews, who look like inmates of the Nazi death camps, was designed to throw the Holocaust into the Jews’ faces by saying “Look, here it is again but now the world doesn’t care and is blaming you instead for being the Nazis.” It was a triumphant taunt that Israel was powerless to prevent the second Holocaust that Hamas never stops announcing it is planning.
It’s no accident that these images were released just days after Britain’s prime minister, Sir Keir Starmer, announced that the UK would recognise a state of Palestine unless the Israelis ceased fire in Gaza.
Along with French president Emanuel Macron and Canada’s prime minister Mark Carney, who have also declared they will recognise “Palestine,” Starmer thus put rocket fuel behind the lie that Israel is starving the people of Gaza to death and that Israel, not Hamas, is to blame for Gaza’s plight.
This lie has been assiduously spread throughout the west by Hamas, the Muslim Brotherhood and the Palestinian Authority, which has been promoting for decades the monstrous claim that the Israelis are Nazis bent on genocide — a stupendous inversion aimed to conceal the PA’s own Nazi roots.
Hamas hit pay dirt with their release of pictures of emaciated children who they said were being starved to death by Israel in Gaza. The media, led by Hamas’s prized agents in the west the BBC, New York Times and Guardian, duly gave these images front page and uncritical treatment — even though the children in these pictures were actually suffering from dreadful congenital diseases or some pictures had been taken in Yemen.
As a result, with the connivance of the UN working hand-in-hand with Hamas to produce twisted claims of famine, and with the media publishing yet more false allegations that the Israel Defence Forces were deliberately killing Gazans in the aid queues, much of the west — including President Trump and Vice-President JD Vance — fell for the lie.
So the images of the Israeli hostages who are are actually being starved in Hamas tunnels have met little more than a shrug, while western governments and the humanitarian establishment work out ways to punish Israel for the crimes that Hamas is actually committing.
It is the Israeli hostages who are being starved while Israel is allowing huge amounts of food into Gaza. Yet astoundingly, in the west it’s Hamas that’s gained the moral high ground.
Pictures of the aid trucks that Israel has allowed into Gaza but whose cargos are rotting because the UN refuses to distribute it are ignored. Videos of Hamas operatives beating and shooting Gazans for receiving food aid are ignored, as are contrasting videos showing Gazans in orderly queues at the Israel-US run GHF food points and who are smiling and cheering the Americans and Israelis for getting food to them safely for the first time.
Terrifyingly, people are now utterly impervious to evidence and facts….
Whole thing here.
