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Now that the top leaders in France, the United Kingdom, and Canada have publicly said they plan to recognize Gaza as a Palestinian state, that set off a prediction for the terrorist group that would benefit most. |
Within a week's time those three countries have announced recognition of a Palestinian state – presently a theory – as their official policy beginning in September. That could change in the event of a ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war.
Recognition is a largely symbolic move but adds to mounting pressure on Israel amid reports of widespread starvation in Gaza where Hamas continues to hold hostages, some living but many dead, and Israel continues to conduct military operations.
Israel contends that the West is reacting to false images being distributed by Hamas, which controls information and all manner of life in Gaza, including the theft of humanitarian aid intended for the Gazans.
"I think it's pretty amazing that the international community, the Western media, the places that we all go to find out facts, have been presenting Hamas's lies as fact really since, in some cases, since October 7th and in many, many cases since shortly after October 7th," Caroline Glick, an adviser to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, said on Washington Watch earlier this week.
"Everything that Hamas has been putting out of Gaza, and they control the information flow out of Gaza, have been deliberate lies."
A deep dive from Firstpost, an India-based news analysis website, quotes investigative journalist David Collier who says that the image of a crying Gazan child in his mother's arms with his spine so defined it seems as though it might soon break through his skin, is actually a photo of a child who suffers from cerebral palsy and other genetic disorders – not from starvation.
The image has appeared on the front pages of newspapers around the world as well as on networks BBC, CNN and Sky.
Collier in a lengthy X post explains how he tracked the photo to its original sources.
The Israel Defense Forces last week posted video of Hamas terrorists feasting on fresh fruit and other food while holed up in underground tunnels.
But the volume of Israeli rebuttal is dwarfed by the mainstream publication and social media shares of images that distort the truth, some research is beginning to show.
Images worth 1,000 words – and sometimes war
"These photos are very powerful. You look at history in the Boston massacre picture, the painting of it done by Paul Revere actually helped spark the (American) Revolution. It was a propaganda poster of the Boston massacre. If you think about other wars, pictures are very powerful – and we're seeing that again here," Casey Harper, managing editor for broadcast at The Washington Stand, told show host Tony Perkins on Thursday.
There are two ways to be misleading or inaccurate, and it's the latter, Harper says, in which most mainstream media willingly participate.
"People always think of the first, which is to say something that is not true. That's what we saw in the photo, someone starving, but there's more to the story, a medical condition.
"The other way to be biased, which is less known, is to leave out details … to be selective in what you leave out. Technically, there's no fact-check, no correction. That's what we see most commonly, the leaving out of the culpability of Hamas," Harper explained.
Still, Western governments display their compassion for Gazans, who no doubt face the stress and danger that accompanies any war-torn country, but it appears not close to the level Hamas reports.
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A Canadian educator and conservative activist says many people are shocked and disappointed their prime minister says the federal government supports a Palestinian state. |
"It's very frustrating to me that our friends in France and U.K. and Canada and others probably around the world, have caved, if you will, to this propaganda campaign," Cramer, the North Dakota Republican, said on Washington Watch Thursday.
This recognition of a Palestinian state stems from the far-left influence in western Europe and Canada, he told Perkins.
"I think what's going on is pressure from liberals in these various countries and unfortunately a successful propaganda campaign by terrorists of all people. I'm so disappointed in our friends in Canada because they've got to know better than to believe the propaganda of killers like Hamas," he said.
Some government leaders give lip service to condemnation of Hamas, but few have the stomach to allow Israel to finish the job free of the pressure that comes from calls for a two-state solution.
Even Donald Trump, Israel's closest ally, has been moved by the images. At his press conference in Scotland Monday Trump wasn't fully on board with the assessment of Netanyahu who said there's "no starvation" in Gaza.
"Some of those kids are – that's real starvation stuff. I see it, and you can't fake that," Trump told reporters.
Those who started this can also end it
Cramer, however, remembers Israeli suffering almost two years ago, when a two-state solution was in place, and Hamas terrorists left their state, Gaza, for a murderous rampage that included more than 1,200 dead Israeli citizens and many more tortured and kidnapped.
Hamas has the power to end suffering in Gaza, he notes.
"Not only did they start this issue, this problem by the October attacks a couple of years ago, unthinkable things, but they continue to do it by using phony pictures, by using children as shields and innocent people as shields," Cramer shared.
"They're the ones, remember, who are holding the hostages – not Israel. You could go on and on and on to demonstrate the obvious evidence that Hamas are the bad guys here. The Israelis are the good folks here."
