It is only 17 days since the atrocities of October 7 in which 1,400 people were slaughtered by Hamas in southern Israel. And yet, unbelievably — obscenely — a process of erasure is already under way. Wilful amnesia is beginning to do its terrible work.
This process is, once you start to look at it, a cousin of Holocaust denial. Start with the outright falsehoods: in television interviews, Khaled Mashal, leader of Hamas Abroad, has insisted that the terrorist organisation “does not kill civilians on purpose” and that all claims to the contrary are “fabrications”.
