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Hamas’s PR War Against Israel Has Misfired, Too
The record shows that Israeli strikes were remarkably precise, contrary to the “war crimes” narrative that has been peddled.
Secretary of State Anthony Blinken isn’t buying the false narrative.
Photographer: Haim Zach/GPO via Getty Images
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The shooting war between Israel and Hamas is on hold, but the intense public relations battle continues.
It is not a new battle. In the summer of 1982, during Israel’s war against the Palestinian Liberation Organization in Lebanon, Prime Minister Menachem Begin came to Washington. Western media coverage featured nightly footage of Israel’s invasion and exaggerated casualty figures supplied by the Palestinian Red Crescent (run by the brother of the late Yasser Arafat).