Yesterday afternoon, Phil concluded, “Despite Hamas’s having rejected cease-fire offers for months even as Israel made more and more concessions, the media — as well as much of the Biden administration — will adopt the Hamas spin.”

Well, check out the headlines this morning ...

Those headlines all make Hamas sound reasonable and conciliatory, and Israel sound like an intransigent warmonger. This is exactly the result that Hamas wanted, and all Hamas had to do was announce that it had agreed to a cease-fire proposal that it wrote. And, as far as we can tell, the U.S. government played along with the ruse.