Hamas will always win the PR war, even as Israel wins the military victories

Israel is constantly subjected to double standards - by the UN, by biased journalists, by anti-Semites on social media. In choosing to use this morally charged locution, "abomination," with regard to the IDF, even the brilliant and knowledgeable and honourable Terry Glavin, whose writing on foreign affairs I greatly admire, has not only succumbed to uncharacteristic rhetorical carelessness, but in doing so, has given comfort and ammunition to polemical jackals for whom he normally and justifiably feels the greatest contempt.

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