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The “peace” schtick always was a fraud

From Legal Insurrection (and much more at link):

The Tamimi clan had a sophisticated media operation which at the core was child exploitation.

The Tamimi Clan of Nabi Saleh and their Western supporters exploit children in order to obtain viral video and photographs.

The children are used to try to provoke Israeli Border Police and soldiers. If the provocation is successful, which it almost never is, they get a photo of an Israeli being brutal towards a child. In almost every case, though, there is no reaction from the soldiers, so the video and photos are spun as reflecting “brave” Palestinian children and the “weak” Israeli soldiers.

The Tamimis are experts at manipulating images and press coverage of these child demonstrators.

The leading proponent of this tactic is Bassem Tamimi and others in the Tamimi media operation. For extensive documentations, including social media, videos and images, see our posts, Bassem Tamimi and the Use of Children as Political Props and Palestinian Child Exploitation – 10-year old “Journalist” Janna Jihad.

There was no one more useful to this propaganda effort than (at the time) little Ahed, whose flowing blond hair and ability to scream and raise her fist on cue made her particularly attractive to western liberals. Dave Lange of IsraellyCool nicknamed her “Shirley Temper”.

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