Light defeats darkness
Hamas is now propagating the claim that they had never targeted civilians and that a massacre did not happen.
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Daily TribuneHamas is now propagating the claim that they had never targeted civilians and that a massacre did not happen.
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While the Israeli forces' ground offensive has been achieving its target of crippling the terror organization Hamas, a different war is being waged on a global scale, which is the struggle for the truth.
In this particular field, the terrorists have gained the support of all anti-Israel forces. They amazingly peddle the narrative that the assault on civilians was accidental or did not even happen and that much of the carnage on 7 October was manufactured by Israel.
Hamas' army of more than 3,000 that stormed the border was after military camps and installations in Israel, so goes the lie.
The rewriting of the events was needed to draw the maximum anti-Semitic sentiment into the cause of Hamas, which was to obliterate Israel. Gauging by the spread of protests against Israel, the deception has gained ground.
What transpired cannot be erased, however. On 7 October 2023, an unprecedented assault by a horde of terrorists from the Gaza Strip, driven by bloodlust, massacred over 1,400 innocent people and abducted over 240 hostages.
The aim of exterminating Hamas all of a sudden is equated with the supposed desire to occupy Gaza, continues the Hamas tale.
Hamas has to be made accountable for the heinous acts against civilians of different nations who were brutalized, which were deeds the terrorists took pride in and even recorded for the world to see.
Videos showing Hamas terrorists killing, torturing, raping, and kidnapping were uploaded by the barbaric horde on social media to flaunt their acts and glorify themselves, incite others, and terrorize the rest of the free world.
The global reaction was immediate, and the civilized world condemned the deeds. Even nations that had not supported Israel or frequently criticized it called for support for Israel and joined the voices calling for an end to Hamas's reign of terror.
As expected of those used to employing fear to subjugate people, Hamas failed to anticipate the unprecedented international reaction.
It later worried about the support for calls for its termination and began to change course. The terrorists then launched what seemed at first a futile effort to take down the videos and images posted on the web and changed their tune.
Hamas is now propagating the claim that they had never targeted civilians and that a massacre did not happen.
"Israel manufactured much of the civilian casualties, the images, and the narrative," goes the revision of the events.
Hamas has proven itself to be a master of lies and manipulation in the more than one month of the terror crisis.
Basem Naim, head of international relations for Hamas, shamelessly lied during an interview as he asserted that "We (Hamas) didn't kill any civilians" on 7 October," calling it Israeli propaganda.
Naim knew that there were suckers who would happily adopt his outrageously twisted narrative.
"Despite the magnitude of the event and the evidence demonstrating it, we rightly predicted that the anti-Semites around the globe would begin to deny the unprecedented evil that occurred. For that, we have started the painful process of securing the evidence, proving without a doubt the horrors of that fateful day, ensuring they live on in infamy," Yifa Segal, Esq., an expert in international law and former chairperson of the International Legal Forum, said.
Israelis are now using the same videos that Hamas uploaded to counter the so-called "Hamassacre denial" and to remind the world of what happened on 7 October.
The videos that Israel accumulated were mostly raw footage taken from the GoPro cameras worn by the terrorists as they were rampaging and murdering.
Adopting the Hamas narrative, anti-Semites have flipped the blame on Israel and the Israel Defense Forces for the scores of civilian casualties.
"As Holocaust museums and other memorial projects have taught us, one of the most powerful tools against denial is meticulous documentation," Segal said.
Hamas had learned from Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels who said that repeated often enough, a lie becomes truth.
The battle between light and darkness is written in the Bible, which is now playing out in the war in the Gaza Strip.
Truth always prevails over deception, as plainly stated in the Holy Book.
