Retired Lt. Col. Jonathan Conricus, a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, told Newsmax on Monday that Israel is losing the propaganda war against Iranian-backed Hamas, which has appeared to gain sympathy among the international media since its terrorist attack on Oct. 7, 2023.

“Sadly, I have to agree. We are not winning the battle of the narratives,” Conricus said during a special edition of “Carl Higbie FRONTLINE” from Jerusalem. “I don’t think that we’re fighting seriously enough, and I regret the fact that we’re not allocating the resources and that we’re not applying the same level of creativity and investment into fighting this battle as well. Because sadly, our enemies are good at it and they’re getting a lot of free support by international media.

Conricus, a former spokesman for Israel Defense Forces, said Al Jazeera, a media outlet banned in Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates, and Egypt, is “perhaps the biggest and most important terror outlet mouthpiece that there is in the world.”

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