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Leaked videos, starving prisoners and biblical revenge – RAMZY BAROUD peels back the layers of Israel’s desperate bid to restore fear after October 7 shattered its myths

ON October 25 2023, Israeli politician Moshe Feiglin told Arutz Sheva-Israel National News that “Muslims are not afraid of us any more.”
It might sound odd that Feiglin saw the element of fear as critical to Israel’s well-being if not its very survival.
In actuality, the fear element is directly linked to Israel’s behaviour and fundamental to its political discourse.
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