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This would be funny if it weren’t so sad:

A marketing campaign launched by the Ha-Ir chain of local Israeli newspapers has been used by Hizbullah to spread anti-Israel propaganda, according to which “Israeli poisonous balloon attacks” have left eight Lebanese nationals in the hospital.

Hizbullah’s campaign appears to have paid off, after it created a wave of hysteria in Lebanon. Reports of ‘poisonous’ balloons have subsequently been picked up by the Associated Press (AP) and Al-Jazeera, which quickly followed suit in a report entitled: “Israel dumps suspicious green balloons on Lebanon”.

From the absurd to the ridiculous. Some people will literally believe anything.

After all, it’s not as though any of the other claims that Hezbollah makes against Israel contain any more truth than this one. And that hasn’t stopped the whole world from adopting them as truth, either.

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