The man with the silver hair and sky blue shirt walked up to me in downtown Tel Aviv last Thursday and inquired, gently, what country I hailed from.
"Ireland," I said. He shook his head."You are not with us," he replied, emphasising the final two words.
But he informed me that his brother, a soldier, had been listed as missing in Egypt after the Yom Kippur war in 1973. He knew what these families were going through. The Lieutenant Colonel said he wanted to debunk"fake nonsense" being advanced by Hamas to a gullible media regarding the deadly strike on the Al-Ahli hospital in Gaza city.From conversations cameraman Owen Corcoran and I had with people in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem over the past week, it is pretty clear that many Israelis believe that Ireland is a country which falls into the"Hamas trap.
Well-informed on Irish history and media, he said he knew about RTÉ, the Irish Times and the Irish Independent. He spoke about Charles Stewart Parnell and Daniel O'Connell. Word trickling back from Israelis, he said, who had picked-up jobs in the tech sector in Dublin over the past few years, was one of disbelief at the tenor of political debates in the Dáil and Seanad.He said the new Israeli arrivals in Ireland cannot understand how reports from Hamas, that had just carried out an horrendous massacre on civilians, are automatically held up as the truth whereas the information provided by Israel is treated with the utmost suspicion.
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