Netanyahu adviser in Newsweek op-ed: Stop promoting Hamas narrative

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s senior adviser Aaron Klein writes in a Newsweek op-ed that Hamas is intentionally trying to “set the Palestinian arena ablaze” in order “to solidify its own domestic position ahead of any election and to present itself as the savior of the Palestinian cause.”

Klein calls the growing violence in Jerusalem over recent weeks part of a deliberate Hamas campaign, whose narrative many around the world have accepted.

“To help quell this calculated Hamas terror campaign, the international community must immediately condemn the Palestinian aggression and fully support Israel’s right to self-defense,” writes Netanyahu’s adviser. “And the international news media must stop promoting Hamas’s transparently false pretenses that seem to legitimize the bloodshed.”