A message sent to Israeli journalists in the name of a “diplomatic source” accuses Hamas of imitating the Nazis in trying to score PR points with its release of two elderly Israeli hostages.
“Just like the Nazis gave engineered and staged tours to the Red Cross of a ‘clean’ concentration camp, to fool the world and present itself as humane, so too does Hamas, while butchering babies, raping women and shooting kids, try to present itself as humane by releasing some hostages it seemingly treated,” the government statement reads, referring to Theresienstadt.
A scene from incomplete Nazi propaganda film, ‘The Fuhrer Gives the Jews a City,’ staged at Theresienstadt during the summer of 1944 (photo courtesy: National Center for Jewish Film)
The comments come as Israel scrambles to do damage control after freed hostage Yocheved Lifshitz appeared to praise her treatment at Hamas’s hands in a press conference earlier.
“The world cannot buy Hamas’s propaganda. Hamas is worse than Islamic State. Hamas is the new Nazis,” the statement reads.
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