The primary goal of Hamas is to destroy Israel and their primary strategy is to wage a war against Israel in such a way that the latter can be made the baddie in world opinion, thus limiting or even stopping the IDF’s attacks on Hamas. To support that strategy requires tactics that are war crimes – specifically the endless use of Gazan civilians as human shields, by hiding Hamas terrorists, their weapons, ammunition and other supplies, inside civilian structures like schools, hospitals and ordinary houses, so that if Israel hit those places civilians will die.

But there is another tactic which is essential to that: the pro-Gaza/Palestine groups in the West must not criticise that military tactic, and neither can the Western MSM. Unlike Israel’s attacks on such civilian sites, Hamas’ selection of those sites for military purposes must never be mentioned as a war crime. The most blatant way to do that is the usual Leftist Newspeak inversion of words, phrases and language in general: “Powerless, oppressed people cannot be restricted in how they fight back”.

For the most part the MSM goes along with this and so it’s not surprising that they can then push forward into excusing the motivations of Hamas in almost every aspect of their fight against Israel. This latest from senior journalist, Leslie Stahl, a host of CBS’s current affairs show, 60 Minutes, is the worst yet as she interviews an Israeli who was a hostage of Hamas:

AYFKM? I’m beyond words: just fire her aging butt from the show and hope she vanishes into history.

Perhaps she can become a documentary maker about the Israel-Palestine issue? She’d fit right in:

Text key text from that X-link, which Erez deleted from his Facebook account after experiencing significant backlash from other pro-Palestinian activists. The X-account lists the key quotes:

I just want to say that the film in question is a staged production made at the expense of the very residents whose outcry it claims to represent…..This is an opportunistic family [referring to co-writer & co-director Basel Adra] that has made a name for itself at the expense of the residents of the village of Al-Tuwani.

The family stages supposedly violent incidents involving settlers, yet at the same time has no qualms about working in Israel or even with settlers. This is a family that spends plenty of time in Europe, funded by European grants aimed at supporting the rural population of the South Hebron Hills, driving luxury vehicles in stark contrast to the rest of the region’s residents.

Grifters in other words. But worse than that, grifters with intentions more evil than just greedily sucking up money:

Hedonists and opportunists like these are very familiar to us, and they exist within Palestinian society as well—people who know how to exploit certain situations for their own personal benefit…..I’ve encountered this family staging incidents on multiple occasions while I was volunteering, transporting sick children and carrying out rehabilitation work among the rural population in the Hebron area.
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Upon thorough investigation, it turned out they were receiving donations and selling them…..The biased film produced by the Adra family, supposedly crying out the voice of the dispossessed, is actually a mockery of the poor. Anyone who genuinely cares about the well-being of the Arab population should seek the truth and not rely on dubious sources of information. And to those who aren’t interested in the truth—so be it.

I still do feel a bit sorry for people like Erez because they’re naive and when they try to speak actual truth they suddenly discover that the people they’ve been working with are a den of vipers. TBF to his opponents it probably is because he broke the line of solidarity, rather than just because he’s a Jew.

No Other Land has a long history behind it of similar Palestinian efforts, all designed to fool Western journalists like Stahl, but aided immensely by their desire to be fooled, rather like Water Duranty in Stalin’s USSR. In the case of Stahl and others I do not accept any claim that they’re naive.