Islamic Jihad tries to spin every setback as a "victory"

Israeli forces arrested Saeed Nakhleh, a leader of Islamic Jihad, along with 17 other suspected terrorists early this morning in the Jalazone camp near Ramallah.

Islamic Jihad's Palestine Today's coverage of the raid shows a typical progression of how terrorist media deals with such major setbacks.

First, it reported the story straight, with a hint of panic:

The "Israeli" occupation forces arrested, at dawn today, Thursday, September 7, 2023, the leader of the Islamic Jihad movement, Sheikh Saeed Nakhleh, after storming his house in the Jalazoun camp, north of Ramallah.

...It is noteworthy that the occupation forces are escalating the assassinations and arrests against the Mujahideen of our people and the leaders and cadres of the Islamic Jihad movement in the occupied West Bank and Jerusalem.

Then came the first spin: that Nakhleh was ill and warning of consequences if anything should happen to him:

Dr. Jamil Alayan, a leader in the Islamic Jihad Movement and Director General of the Muhjat al-Quds Foundation, said the “Israeli” occupation is fully responsible for the life of Sheikh Saeed Nakhla and for his health condition, as the Sheikh suffers from a number of chronic and serious diseases, and that this arrest will further complicate the health situation .

Then came the assertions that this arrest shows Israeli weakness and that will not negatively affect Islamic Jihad in any way:

Leader Elayan said: The Zionist enemy's arrest at dawn of the leader and great national symbol, Saeed Nakhla, constitutes a miserable step and a failed attempt to hide its security failure in the West Bank and to give a false image of reassurance to its soldiers and settlers.

And he considered that the enemy's continuation of the arrest campaigns against our people in an unprecedented manner, in addition to the killing operations, will not achieve security for this enemy and will increase the strength and flames of the resistance in the West Bank and everywhere.

And then another spokesman to reassure Palestinians that these arrests and neutralization of their members is really a good thing:

Musab al-Baram, spokesman for the Islamic Jihad Movement in Palestine, confirmed today that the campaign of "Israeli" arrests against the cadres of the Islamic Jihad Movement, the last of whom is Sheikh Saeed Nakhla, reflects the anxiety experienced by "Israel" at the security and political levels.

The occupation forces are escalating their frantic campaign against the Palestinian resistance, especially the Islamic Jihad movement, with assassinations and arrests against the mujahideen in the occupied West Bank and Jerusalem, the latest of which was the arrest of Sheikh Saeed Nakhla from his home in the Jalazoun camp, north of Ramallah.

Al-Buraim explained that the Zionist enemy lives in a political security concern, which explains the persecution and arrest of the resistance men, especially the Islamic Jihad cadres and members of the Al-Quds Brigades in the occupied West Bank.

The spokesman for the Jihad confirmed that if the occupation tried assassinations, the resistance would become more severe for the occupier and carry the message of the martyrs and their commandments. It is an open battle with the enemy."

If the killings and arrests make them stronger, then they should welcome them!

The more they claim that these raids are showing that they are winning, the less convincing it seems - to Palestinians, let alone Israelis. 

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