Ridiculing - mocking the "useful idiots" of falestinian dezinformatsiya™

In my youth growing up in Alabama my Momma told me that one should not mock the "least able minded".

Yet, ridiculing - mocking the "useful idiots" of falestinian dezinformatsiya™ in my humble opinion is allowed.
Replying to them, requires "finese" since it is unfortunate that so many of them are most definately "least able minded".
It is regretful how a lie (fake news) spreads faster than true facts on social media.

The creators and spreaders of falestinian dezinformatsiya™ use: false narratives, fabricated sometimes ridiculous "farfetched" and absurd stories, AI produced videos, fake screenshots and easily debunked claims whose sole, callous purpose is to create an obsessive hatred of Israel.
When the real truth and facts are inconvenient, they simply resort to mendacious lies and fabrications and rely on their bots and minions of supporters to hide their incompetence as they continue to spread their lies.

So in my Hasbara work on "social media" I remembered my history and literary knowledge to honor one of the best who lampooned idiots.

Benjamin Franklin, at the age of 16, was was an apprentice in his older brother James’s printing shop. He chose the persona of Silence Dogood primarily to bypass the gatekeeping of his older brother.
Benjamin Franklin wanted to contribute to James's newspaper, the New-England Courant, but James had already made it clear that he had no interest in publishing anything written by his younger brother.
Benjamin Franklin choose the persona Silence Dugood - a character type of a "widowed grandmother" of a country minister who described herself as an "Enemy to Vice, and a Friend to Vertue" that commanded a certain level of respect and curiosity.

This "mask" of a "widowed grandmother" persona allowed him mock the local clergy or the intellectual elite (like those at Harvard) with less risk of direct retaliation.

"Silence Dugood" mocked the Puritan ideal that women should be seen and not heard.
"Dogood" was a direct jab at Cotton Mather, a prominent and strict Boston minister who had recently published a book titled "Essays to Do Good".

Franklin used the persona to gently parody Mather’s moralizing tone while actually promoting more liberal, Enlightenment ideas.

Benjamin Franklin created Silence Dogood to practice "ventriloquism"—the art of writing in a voice entirely different from his own—which became a lifelong habit (he later used names like Poor Richard and Polly Baker).

The letters of the "widowed grandmother" became a sensation in Boston.

The persona was so convincing that several male readers even wrote to the newspaper offering to marry the "widow" Dogood.

When Benjamin eventually confessed to being the author, his brother James was reportedly angry and jealous of the praise the letters had received. This tension contributed to Benjamin eventually breaking his apprenticeship and leaving for Philadelphia.

While Franklin is famous for his teenage wit as "Silence Dogood," his most impactful work was written decades later when he used his pen as a weapon against British colonial policy.

Initially, Franklin was a "loyalist" who wanted the colonies to remain part of a grand British Empire. However, as Britain tightened its control, his writing shifted from polite advocacy to biting satire and, eventually, revolutionary propaganda.

Franklin used humor to humiliate British officials and highlight the absurdity of their policies by works of masterful satire.

Here are some examples:

"Rules by Which a Great Empire May Be Reduced to a Small One" (1773): Written as if he were giving "helpful advice" to a king, Franklin listed twenty ways to lose an empire. He suggested things like:

• Treat your colonies like conquered enemies.
• Appoint corrupt and ignorant men to govern them.
• Ignore their petitions and punish them for complaining.

"An Edict by the King of Prussia" (1773): In this hoax, Franklin wrote a fake decree from the King of Prussia claiming that because the ancestors of the English people had originally come from Germany, Prussia had the right to tax England. It was a mirror of British logic toward America, and it famously fooled many British readers before they realized they were being mocked.

To me the most famous satirical work was Franklin’s satire of the Hessians, titled "The Sale of the Hessians" (1777)

"The Sale of the Hessians" is considered one of the most savage and effective pieces of propaganda from the Revolutionary War written while Franklin was in France.

The piece is a "hoax" letter purportedly written by a German prince, the Count de Schaumbergh, to his officer in America, Baron Hohendorf regarding blood bounty" bonus from the British for every one of their soldiers killed in action

The satire focuses on a dark reality of the war as the The Count calculates exactly how much money he will receive for the dead.

In his "lettter" the "Count" expresses pure joy over the high death toll of his own soldiers at the Battle of Trenton as he complains that the British "Lord North" is trying to cheat him by only counting 1,455 dead, when the Count believes he is owed for 1,605.

"I have learned with unspeakable pleasure the courage our troops exhibited at Trenton... and that of the 1,950 Hessians engaged in the fight, but 345 escaped."

He explicitly instructs the Baron to tell the surgeons not to save the wounded. He argues that a crippled soldier is a "reproach" to the profession and a financial burden, whereas a dead soldier is a profit.

"I do not mean by this that you should assassinate [the wounded]; we should be humane, my dear Baron, but you may insinuate to the surgeons... that there is no wiser course than to let every one of them die when he ceases to be fit to fight."

The Count hilariously (and chillingly) claims that his soldiers should be happy to die because "Glory is true wealth," while he stays safely in Europe to collect the actual gold.

Note how this attitude of NOT caring for the Count's soldiers "his subjects" in "The Sale of the Hessians" readily "fits" the discription of the actions of Hamas and their leadership towrds the "Innocent Civilians of Gaza".