(JEWISH GROUP) The media is not showing the extent of Hamas' barbarity -- is that a mistake?

[Behind the Aegis]

This devastating moment is also about what is shown and not shown. It’s about what is happening and what is not happening, what is said and not said.

Last night, I watched as Israeli television reporters explained that they would not broadcast Hamas’ staged handover of four dead hostages.

One journalist said he had wondered whether Hamas would hold one of their “cynical” ceremonies with dead hostages, “and the answer is yes.”

This morning Israeli television — 2 p.m. in Israel, 6 a.m. in Chicago — was still entirely and gravely focused on the absolute a sadness enveloping Israeli society as Kfir, Ariel, and Shiri Bibas returned dead, along with 84-year-old Oded Lifschitz, who also returned dead.

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This is one of those philosophical questions that is so tricky. There were many in the Jewish community who didn't want bodies of the Shoah to be shown and wanted the camps leveled. Frankly, I think that would have been a HUGE mistake. I understand not wanting one's beloved family members remains/corpses all over the nightly news, but....