Opinion |
The American pro-Israel pundits joining Netanyahu’s grand framing of the Gaza and Lebanon wars as the defense of the liberal, Western world are a cohort of reactionaries inflamed by Islamophobia and egregiously ignorant about Netanyahu himself and what Israelis themselves actually think or want
On Sunday, four days after Yahya Sinwar was killed by Israeli soldiers, the right-wing British author and journalist Douglas Murray went to the Tel al-Sultan district of the southern Gazan city of Rafah and sat on the easy chair where the Hamas leader met his end. Accessorized with a helmet and sunglasses, Murray struck a defiant pose – a reenactment of Sinwar’s famous “victory photo” from 2021, after an 11-day conflict between Hamas and Israel.