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Israel’s Comically Bad Disinfo Proves They’re Losing the PR War<!-- wp:html --><p>Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/Getty/Reuters</p> <p><a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/keyword/israel">Israel’s</a> official Arabic account affiliated with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs<a href="https://twitter.com/marcowenjones/status/1723747137723215970"> posted a</a> selfie video of a Palestinian nurse condemning <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/keyword/hamas">Hamas </a>for taking over <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/israeli-minister-bezalel-smotrich-backs-ethnic-cleansing-plan-to-empty-gaza">al-Shifa hospital</a> in the <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/keyword/gaza">Gaza </a>Strip on Nov. 11.</p> <p>But some things about the video didn’t add up.</p> <p>Everything about it smacked of high school theater—from the botched accent that sounded like it was straight out of an Israeli soap opera to the perfectly scripted <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/inside-israels-yahalom-tunnel-team-waging-war-under-gaza">IDF</a> talking points rolling off her tongue.</p> <p><a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/israels-comically-bad-disinfo-proves-theyre-losing-pr-war">Read more at The Daily Beast.</a></p><!-- /wp:html -->

Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/Getty/Reuters

Israel’s official Arabic account affiliated with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs posted a selfie video of a Palestinian nurse condemning Hamas for taking over al-Shifa hospital in the Gaza Strip on Nov. 11.

But some things about the video didn’t add up.

Everything about it smacked of high school theater—from the botched accent that sounded like it was straight out of an Israeli soap opera to the perfectly scripted IDF talking points rolling off her tongue.

Read more at The Daily Beast.

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