Hoodwinked: How Hamas influenced int'l media to not cover emaciated hostages - opinion

 The Jerusalem Post  

"It is no wonder that young people, who have been statistically proven to be more impressionable than their parents, could think that Israel perpetrated a genocide in Gaza and not believe that more Israelis were murdered on Oct. 7, 2023, than any one day since the Holocaust."

A photo of my frail grandmother helping her even more gaunt sister choose a dress after the liberation of the Bergen-Belsen death camp graces the wall at the Yad Vashem World Holocaust Remembrance Center.

"My grandmother recovered physically but was scarred emotionally. Nevertheless, she still managed to move to Israel, run a business, raise a family, and live long enough to see her grandchildren thrive in the Jewish state.

"Her sister, however, was not so fortunate, and that photo, which was apparently taken two days before she died of typhus in the camp, is all that is left of her. The only consolation is that the image of the sick and sicker women that paints the picture of the challenges after the camp’s liberation remains seared in the minds of anyone who visits the museum.

"Therefore, I was genuinely startled by the top media outlets in the world that did not deem the frail images of the three Israeli hostages released on Saturday worthy of an immediate story. For even the most jaded journalists, how could the emergence from Gaza of the emaciated Eli Sharabi, Or Levy, and Ohad Ben Ami not move you?

"Israeli media and influencers immediately made the connection between Holocaust survivors and the hostages released after 491 days in Hamas captivity. The president of the United States got it, too." . . .

. . ."Under the direction of an Al Jazeera producer in Doha, Hamas has been staging hostage releases to get across its messages on the stages erected for its cynical shows, with full cooperation of the international media.

"Hamas wisely released the hostages who were in the best condition first when the world was watching. Now that the releases have become routine, and the top media are no longer paying attention, they are unchaining the skeletal men from the terror dungeons where they have been tortured." . . .