(Telegraph-UK) Jake Wallis Simons - The West has been played by Hamas. Morality has been turned on its head. Hamas attempts an act of genocide, yet that same crime is pinned on Israel. Hamas butchers hundreds of innocents, yet Israel gets the blame. The terrorists know that they need only enable a supply of videos of civilian casualties and the journalists, diplomats, jihadi sympathizers, and useful idiots will do the rest. During a lesson on Lord of the Flies, my daughter's English teacher cited the actions of the IDF, not Hamas, as a modern example of "savagery." The truth remains the truth: Israel is acting as any other democracy would in impossible circumstances. The writer is editor of the Jewish Chronicle-UK.
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