There can be no more definitive proof of the times we live in than the images of the three emaciated Israeli hostages released yesterday, their gaunt cheeks and haunted eyes revealing the trauma of their 490 days of captivity as Red Cross personnel stood by and let Hamas terrorists parade them. Nor did the crowd—all presumably “innocent civilian" Gazans—watching that release spectacle seem in the least bit compassionate, much less remorseful.

It took the irrepressible US President Donald Trump to say what the so-called international community and media deliberately have not: that the male hostages looked like the Holocaust survivors, 80 years after the Soviet Red Army liberated the Auschwitz-Birkenau Nazi death camp in Poland. There is a constant clamour for “humanitarian aid" to reach “suffering" Palestinians in Gaza, but no one demanded food and medical help for the injured, starving hostages.

Equally egregiously, there has been no conversation about, much less pressure on Hamas to come clean on, exactly how many of the abducted Israelis are already dead. Why keep families in Israel and around the world in a state of uncertainty? The fact that one of the men released this week has only found out now that his wife and daughters were both killed the day he was abducted nearly 500 days ago underscores the urgency of forcing Hamas to provide information.

A few days before, the world also watched as scores of masked........

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