Of course you do, either because you love having your opinions reinforced or because you like tearing apart those of your opponent.

We’ve reached the stage in the West now where we actually respect really good propaganda. One of the reasons that the Israelis are so hated (just one of hundreds) is that their enemies regard their propaganda as being very well done, while the pro-Hamas, pro-Gaza, pro-PLO, pro-Palestinian side is crude and reductive – when it’s not just plain stupid.

The Jews have Hollywood, the Arabs have Pallywood.

Having seen this fucking clown over the years, one Saleh Aljafarawi, 25, from Gaza, I can see why. You can read about Mr FAFO (Fuck Around & FInd Out) in this article – or you can just watch the following brief and brutal TV clip of his many, many personas and adventures.

Here he is, a victim of an Israeli air raid, writhing in pain in a Gaza hospital, his slender frame dotted by wires and electrodes. And there he goes again, a day or two later: He’s a radiologist now, helping a blood-smeared patient into a small MRI machine. Since Oct. 7 he has died on camera—not once but twice—and then, like Lazarus, come back to life. He sired a (fake, plastic) child, then lost it in a bombing; found work as a foreign correspondent; picked up a gun and joined the fighting; laughed joyfully when Jews were slaughtered; wept bitterly when the Jews struck back; discovered his calling as a singer; led us on guided tours of his shelled-out hometown.