"Israel bombed Sanaa airport in Hodeidah during Houthi leader's 'victory' speech," the Jerusalem Post headline read. "Capable of much more," the Israel Hayom headline read in quotation marks, alongside photos of air force pilots with their backs to the camera.

"The frequent shelling that residents of central Israel suffered this week due to the missile launches from Yemen have cast a somewhat ridiculous light on the government's attempts to boast about a complete victory, which is supposedly on the verge of being achieved," Amos Harel begins his column on the front page of Haaretz.

"There is no doubt that Israel has recorded a series of impressive strategic achievements, on all fronts, after the terrible shock of October 7, but the Houthi fire, which in most cases is intercepted by the Arrow system, provided a reminder that the whole affair is far from over. Israel finds itself in the midst of a new war of attrition, this time being waged from Yemen, and indirectly, apparently, from Iran."

Hamas, Harel continues, "is not letting go of its grip on most of the population of the Gaza Strip. The government's refusal to deal with the day-to-day arrangement in Gaza only strengthens its control. An intelligence officer in the Southern Command admitted this week, at a conference attended by many participants, that the military wing's recovery rate is high. In the tent camps in the Mu'assi area, in the south of the Gaza Strip, Palestinian boys aged 16-18 undergo accelerated training in shooting, operating RPG rockets and explosive devices, and are sent to fight against the IDF, mainly south of the Netzarim Corridor."

In his column at the beginning of the political supplement of "Israel Hayom," Amnon Lord writes another propaganda column in the service of Netanyahu and Trump. The column opens with a mockery of Israel's real enemies (in the Bibi universe): opponents of the government, who do not understand that "military pressure returns hostages." But what is interesting to note is how Lord admits, between the lines, that the slogan of "total victory" of Netanyahu's propaganda is a lie.

Hamas still controls the Strip, the population and 40% of humanitarian aid, writes Lord. And it cannot be ignored: "Hamas' goal is to survive. The IDF continues to harm and reduce Hamas' capabilities, and the commanders feel it, 'but it won't be zero,' the IDF says.

When one of the bureau's chief propagandists conveys such a message, it makes sense to pay attention to the sharpening of the narrative. "The forces are already aware somewhere that they may leave the area," Lord teases. When that happens, the lies of the previous propaganda attack will have to be dealt with. Someone has to prepare the area.

Netanyahu is investing enormous resources in preparing the area in the field of internal propaganda, but is there anyone preparing the area in actual reality? Dealing with with what the media has given the code name "the day after,"? the truth is that the "the day after" is in fact yesterday and the day before yesterday and all the days since Netanyahu came back to power and moved the national button to "conflict management".

In the page after Lord's weekly propaganda column, you can find Yoav Limor's column: "Those who think the The troubles is over are mistaken," he writes about the Palestinian Authority's operation against the terrorist cells in Jenin. "It has barely begun. The Palestinian territory is seething."

Beneath the Jerusalem Post's celebratory headline, mocking a Yemeni militia leader, are printed pictures of two IDF soldiers, the latest to fall in the Strip so far. "The painful price: Two IDF officers fell in the Gaza Strip," reads the headline on the cover of Israel Hayom, below a picture of two IDF pilots who bombed Yemen. "Two officers killed in the Gaza Strip, IDF checking to see if one of them was accidently hit by our troops," reads the cover of Haaretz.

The main picture on the cover of Haaretz is of a Palestinian looking at a tiny baby on a plastic bed, probably a medical one, in a bare room. The photo has no caption attached, but below it are references to page 9: "Babies froze to death in the Gaza Strip." "New York Times investigation: IDF assassinated Hamas members even though it knew hundreds of civilians would be harmed."

Long after Netanyahu and his wife will die in an ripe old age, we, all of us, together with the poisonous Netanyahu propagandists who will continue to live among us, will have to deal with the tens of thousands of graves on both sides of the fence. With the soldiers who fell in vain, just So Netanyahu will escape conviction. With the babies we crushed in order to satisfy a monstrous discourse of revenge that was cultivated here by a collection of mentally ill people, sex offenders, uninhibited opportunists and messianic Lunatics.

The collective nausea that will finally arise here will drown the memory of these years in rivers of vomit and tears. This will be Netanyahu's legacy.

Excerpt from the press review column of "The Seventh Eye", 28.12.2024 (HEBREW)