Watch: Netanyahu’s new comms director admits making stuff up for propaganda

Eli Hazan has reportedly just moved from running communications for Benjamin Netahyahu’s extremist Likud party to direct Netanyahu’s own press office. He’s well qualified for the position, even admitting to supporters that he “fabricat[es] fake news” for propaganda purposes.

Speaking in Hebrew, Hazan claimed Israel needs to be (even) more like Trump in its shameless dishonesty.

The only issue with Hazan’s comment is the idea that Israel isn’t already at least as mendacious as Trump.

From making up claims of Palestinians raping women and beheading babies to denials of bombing hospitals, to then making up claims of Hamas bases to justify bombing the hospitals, to smearing journalists as terrorists and murdering them with their families, Israel is a ‘dab hand’ at lies. Not to mention the whole “most moral army in the world” nonsense.

It could teach even the US liar-in-chief a trick or two. Israel is so dishonest it even has to pass laws to ban its own citizens from mentioning how its Gaza atrocity propaganda fell apart like a cheap suit.

So there’s no surprise at all that Netanyahu’s PR chief admits he made stuff up. Just that he treats it as if it’s a new or derived phenomenon.

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