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OPINION - Rape, murder and mutilation on an industrial scale — why I had to watch the film of Hamas’s atrocities

Source: Mark Harrison

I couldn’t sit through Schindler’s List when the children were little and found even March of the Penguins, when an egg rolls from the snug of the daddy penguin’s crotch to freeze solid on the ice, a truly tough watch.

No way then could I sit through the 43 minutes spliced together by the Israeli state of the atrocities of 7/10 to provide real-time testimony of brutality and slaughter on a scale not seen since the Holocaust.

When I told LBC’s Nick Ferrari I

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