Why don’t we hear more about Israel’s stunning blow against Hamas’s fascists?

Imagine if, following an Allied raid on Nazi positions, the newspapers the next day told us about nothing but the civilian casualties. No mention of the fascists who were killed. No utterance of their names, no information about their ranks. Instead, just pained commentary on the suffering of the innocents who tragically found themselves swept up in this act of war.

We would think that strange, right? We would consider it a reneging on the journalist’s duty to tell the truth about war. Well, that’s how I feel perusing the coverage of Israel’s resumption of its military crusade against Hamas. Open a paper or dip into social media and you could be forgiven for thinking this is a blindly barbarous assault in which only the guiltless have perished. It’s not true.

In reality, Israel appears to have landed a brilliant blow on the new fascism.