Hamas won the propaganda war this weekRead the whole thing.
Our columnist says freeing Alan Johnston was no good deed
Gerard Baker
How do you like your jihadi? Is yours the avenging physician sort; self-immolating practitioner of weird medicine outside nightclubs and airport terminals who hopes to take hundreds of innocents with him on his journey to Paradise?
Or do you prefer the voice of sweet reason, the heroic freedom fighter turned politician, who magnanimously leaps into a hostage drama and helps to free your innocent journalist from his captors?
Not difficult, is it?
We’ve had an exercise in good-cop, bad-cop with our Islamist friends in the past week.
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