The Palestinian Authority and, indeed, all jihadist entities use propaganda and lies as weapons, and have been quite effective in doing so. Supporters of the Palestinian jihad will lap up the words of Ashraf Jalal and repeat them widely, despite how obviously ludicrous they are, given the facts about October 7 and the testimonies of some of the hostages who have been released. Jalal is head of Radio and TV Department at Cairo University’s Faculty of Mass Communications, so one can only imagine what young Egyptians are being taught as well.
In the West, many useful idiot supporters of Hamas will parrot the same propaganda; in their case, however, they have no idea what the “resistance” against Israel is really all about. They simply follow the crowd and join in.
“Outrageous lie: Israeli hostages in Gaza “left happy and laughing” – they received “generous treatment” – PA TV interview,” by Itamar Marcus, Palestinian Media Watch, April 4, 2024:
Recently, an Israeli woman aged 40 who was held hostage by Hamas revealed that she was sexually assaulted by her captor. And she is not the only one. Other hostages have also testified about sexual abuse, torture, and beatings while being held by Hamas in the Gaza Strip.
As more testimonies from Israeli hostages who were freed last November after almost two months in Hamas captivity are being published, the war of narratives has become urgent.
The Palestinian and Arab narrative is entirely fictitious and is intended to humanize Hamas and deny its atrocities. One example is this outrageous claim made to official PA TV by a lecturer at Cairo University that the Israeli hostages received “generous treatment” and left captivity “happy and laughing”:
Head of Radio and TV Department at Cairo University’s Faculty of Mass Communications Ashraf Jalal: “The generous treatment Palestine gave the Israeli prisoners (i.e., kidnapped women and children) caused an enormous positive response, because after [the Israelis] lied and said that [Hamas] is abusing them, the [Israeli] people left [Gaza] happy and laughing… What is required is that we redirect the media spotlight to this issue.”
[Official PA TV, From Cairo, Feb. 12, 2024]
This brazen lie follows those made by senior PA officials, which have been documented by Palestinian Media Watch. In November 2023, Minister Qadura Fares, who is the director of the PLO Commission of Prisoners’ Affairs, said that Israel “made up this story and said: They [the Palestinians] raped, killed, and burned” [Official PA TV, Nov. 20, 2023]. In December 2023, PLO Executive Committee member and PLF Secretary-General Wasel Abu Yusuf said: “Since October 7, there has been a Zionist version that [Israel] has attempted to spread worldwide out of tendentious propaganda, [claiming] that there was murder of children, rape of women, crimes, and the like” [Official PA TV, Topic of the Day, Dec. 3, 2023].
Freed Israeli hostages have reported that they were sexually abused, tortured, beaten, and starved. The question is: why is it so important for the PA, Hamas, and their supporters to deny the sexual abuse? Certainly, kidnapping and holding civilians as hostages is by itself a horrific crime, but these they are not denying….
somehistory says
First, the lying ghoul in the photo looks very much like a mafia enforcer.
Second: if any hostages were “laughing and happy” as they were leaving captivity/sex-slavery, it was hysterical feelings of relief; and due to the idea of being *released*…the laughing/smiling is a response like crying uncontrollably
They were not “laughing and happy” while being raped, tortured, etc. The lying scum have no videos of that because it didn’t happen.
As for the “treatment”….”“generous treatment”….it was generous only in the amount of horror, terror, ghoulish treatment meted out to these poor helpless girls and women. There was no *generosity nor hospitality* on the part of the murderous slime to make the captives, the victims, more comfortable while they wait.
No reasonable person will believe these outlandish, demonic lies. Only those who side with the evil scum will pretend to believe.
maria says
the worst nazis “palestinians” should be treated like the nazis during the Nuremberg trial-all were executed for the terrible murders of men, women and children.
The same must be now used on the” palestinians”
Ray Jarman says
One only has to read the unholy Qur’an and hadith to understand that the slugs are lying as Muhamad said, “War is deceit.” (Sahih al-Bukhari, Volume 4, Book 52, Number 269) This basically means that Muslims can use lies and deception when they feel that they are in war against the unbelievers and since Muslims are in a perpetual state of war against non-believers, one must never trust an inbred sub-human as it can cost one his/her life. The slaughter of Khaybar is more than enough evidence of Islam’s pure perfidy.
hillel says
Hamas has bragged that some of its victims have starved to death. HAM-ass brags that they will commence with starving the remaining prisoners. I can not conceive of such perversity.
hillel says
The German nazis ( yimchu sh’motam….may their names be erased) once produced a movie entitled “The Fuhrer (far-furhrer?) is building a city for the Jews about the ghetto concentration camp in Theresienstade designed to assuage Germans’ concerns and rumors about what the Jews in the East were undergoing (real genocide!).
James Lincoln says
The title of the feature article starts out:
“Palestinian Authority TV lies…”
Really? How could that be? Are you serious?
(sarc off).