How Bashar al-Assad Helped to Create Islamic State
Shaping reality to resemble a lie.
June 20, 2017
It’s stupid to believe atrocity stories about the Jewish state.
In a recent interview, the secretary-general of the Red Crescent spoke frankly about Hamas’s policy of deliberately launching rockets from hospitals during the 2014 Gaza War and noted that jihadists working with Hamas in the Sinai even opened fired on him and other Muslims aid workers. While such brazen behavior is hardly news, Western journalists, readers, and State Department officials have time and again shown themselves gullible enough to believe Hamas’s version of events. Liel Leibovits comments:
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Redirecting the country’s moral power.
David deserves our respect not despite his sins, but because he sinned and repented.
It’s stupid to believe atrocity stories about the Jewish state.
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