The propaganda barrage effectively turned attention away from what Hamas had done on Oct. 7 and focused it on what the Israelis were supposedly doing to the “Palestinians.” Oct. 7 then became an understandable incidence of an oppressed people lashing out at its oppressors. Never mind that it was all nonsense and falsehood. Never mind that in Israel, non-Jews have full equality of rights and that Israel is the only state that has any legitimate legal claim to the territory it is supposed to be “occupying.”
Meanwhile, Hamas chipped in and did its part by publishing demonstrably false casualty figures of “Palestinians” in Gaza. The establishment media dutifully repeated those casualty figures as if they were reliable. Even the UN published them without caveats or even a clear indication of their source. Israel, went the claim, had committed Oct. 7 massacres for years before Hamas carried out its own and was still doing so. Here again, none of this was true, but after all these years of leftist media propaganda and miseducation, a significant segment of the American people are just as incapable as college and university students of winnowing out truth from falsehood and recognizing propaganda for what it is.
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This put Old Joe Biden and Kamala Harris under pressure. The party’s far-left base has been in a state of perpetual rage ever since Oct. 7 because even though the Biden-Harris regime has financed the jihad against Israel by sending $10 billion to Iran and one billion to Gaza, the likes of Rashida Tlaib and Nihad Awad of the Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) have repeatedly demanded that the betrayal of Israel be more comprehensive and thoroughgoing. They have threatened to bolt from the Democrats’ shaky coalition if they don’t get this full betrayal.