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The Media's Misplaced Sympathy for the Hamas Lynch Mob
(Fox News) Alan Dershowitz - As evidence mounts that Hamas intended to murder Israeli children, women and men after breaching the border fence to Israel, Hamas apologists must ask themselves why they are on the wrong side of morality. It was a lynch mob. The goal of the lynchers, according to Yahya Sinwar, the Hamas political leader, was to "take down the border" and "tear their hearts from their bodies." According to the Wall Street Journal, "Hamas posted maps for their operatives showing the quickest routes from the border to Israeli homes, schools and day care centers." Thankfully, the Israeli military, who are the good guys in this encounter, were there to protect innocent civilians from being lynched. Only Hamas can stop the bloodshed. But it won't as long as the media gives it public relations victories every time Israel kills in self-defense. The media incentivizes this Hamas tactic by its gruesome focus on the body count. The writer is Professor of Law, Emeritus, at Harvard Law School.