Does Hamas think this is a good look for them?
I suppose to their followers it look like a show of strength. But to anyone the least bit objective, it looks like a pack of larping bullies lording it over a slight young woman:
Welcome home, Agam Berger – the woman in the video – as well as Arbel Yahoud, similar but slightly different optics:
Also 80-year-old Gadi Moses comes home:
I’m pretty sure ham-ass doesn’t care, and doesn’t have the intelligence, to be concerned with optics.
Praising With Faint Damns:
I strongly disagree. In fact, they are hyper-concerned with optics. Just consider Pallywood. In this case, they are not trying to appeal to the West, however. But they often are.
God bless the released women and men and may He help them heal.
Yes, it is all about the audience. Hamas is no different than any other dictatorship. The prime directive is to stay in power. They cannot risk looking weak to the people they lord over.
What Rufus said, in triplicate!
I’d agree with the Boss here…I think these optics are for Palestinian consumption… especially the ratios of the trades… hostages/Palestinian releases.
I also would think Israel can use these same optics to their advantage. There are no neutral innocents among the Palestinians. The videos are evidence of supportive mobs… women children one and all. Peace is a myth with them. Quarantine and overwatch is how it has to be.
It would be a mistake to think that Islamic societies view things the same way as a modern emasculated, self flagellated, formerly western, now multiculturalist society views things.
The Roman used to parade their prisoners in parades.
there is a reason Jesus called people like them dogs
Is the average Gazan fully behind Hamas, or is it a matter of not wanting to be the first to stop clapping after Comrade Stalin speaks? I expect it’s a mixture.
From the river
to the sea
Hamashites
must cease to be
Yasser Arafat provided the canonical example of saying one thing in Arabic to Arabs, then something entirely different in English to Westerners.
Even the “LA Times” wrote an article titled:
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Listen to Arafat in Arabic, Not in English
Opposition to the Oslo accords is not opposition to peace, but distrust of the man who has yet to reject a criminal agenda.
–“Listen to Arafat in Arabic, Not in English” (1996)
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1996-02-27-me-40531-story.html