Andrew Neil reporting on the IDF Press Conference.
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"Identified by his father as Mahmoud, the terrorist says he is calling his family from the phone of a Jewish woman he’s just murdered, and implores them to check his WhatsApp messages for further documentation."..
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"Speaking to the press corps, Israel Defense Forces Spokesman Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari said that Israel has been identifying Hamas with Islamic State (or ISIS) since October 7 primarily because of the Gaza-based terror group’s methods."..
"“When we say Hamas is ISIS, it’s not a branding effort,” said Hagari.
“We say ISIS in the sense of — [Hamas’s] media elements, cruelty, and barbarism are ISIS elements,” he said..."..
“We say ISIS in the sense of — [Hamas’s] media elements, cruelty, and barbarism are ISIS elements,” he said..."..
"He also noted “the guidance of manuscripts” found on killed and captured Hamas terrorists, the primary force of which was from the group’s Nukhba commando unit."
"“Why does a person take a GoPro [to such an attack]?” the military spokesperson continued. “Because he’s proud of what he does.”"..
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"“It’s indoctrination, and if the indoctrination is to commit crimes against humanity, it’s not just Israel’s problem,” Hagari added, alluding to a broader Western war against fundamentalist Islamic terror."
Daniel Hagari - On March 29, 2023, he was appointed Chief of the IDF Spokesperson's Unit
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"A couple of years ago,when Britain’s former Air Chief Marshal Sir Stephen Hillier,who is from Kilmarnock, first heard Richard Hecht speak,it is fair to say that his jaw dropped open. His deputy, Sir Stuart Atha, from Ayrshire, was similarly astonished."
jewishnews.co.uk
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"For Hecht was then head of the Israeli air force’s international policy relations — and despite many years living in Israel, his speech is pure, unadulterated Glaswegian English.."..
"This month [Aug. 2022] Hecht, now a Lt-Colonel, took over in one of the hottest seats in Israel as the IDF’s international spokesman, the man tasked with the challenge of explaining the actions of the military to foreign reporters in print, TV and online."..
"Hecht’s presentation to the two British RAF officers was, for him, a form of closure. “It was a secret obsession with me: my grandfather had served in the RAF and talked to me about being a Jew in the RAF, and that it had been complicated."
"The British officers came to Israel and Hecht acted as master of ceremonies. He takes great pleasure, today, in remembering Hillier and Atha’s expressions as he began to speak. “They were looking around for Candid Camera!”"
During Hecht’s tenure with the Israeli Air Force, Israeli pilots took part in joint exercises with the RAF and also took part in celebrating the RAF’s centennial. “It was a massive deal”, Hecht says, almost purring with satisfaction.
"It is certainly a long journey from the heavily Jewish suburb of Glasgow’s Newton Mearns, where Richard Hecht and most of his siblings began life (their youngest sister is the only sabra, born after the family made aliya in 1983)."
"The family went first to an absorption centre in Netanya and then to a kibbutz on the Golan, where socialist principles still ruled and Hecht and his twin were obliged to sleep in the children’s house, away from their parents. It was tough, he says,“but it made us Israelis”."
"Not every reporter was ready to accept Hecht’s painstaking assembling of data, showing that it was the shortfall of Islamic Jihad weapons which was killing Gaza’s children, rather than Israeli rockets. For most, he says, that message did make sense."
Less successful has been the media response to the most recent Israeli raids on Palestinian NGOs; Israel says they are fronts for terror organisations, but the CIA says its intelligence does not corroborate this claim.
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