Of course, this is the 'Daily Mail,' so you can discount it

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After all, how could the "middle class" and "xenophobic" Mail possibly be right about anything? Financed by the British taxpayer, brutal torturers of the West Bank[^] At the same time, nothing Arabs claim ... whether about Jews or about other Arabs ... should ever be taken at face value. Perhaps this report is just Hamas trying to spin Western public opinion.