Praise Allah, he has risen! The medias' favorite faker, Mr. FAFO has emerged from the rubble to grace our televisions again

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but where’s greta?

Of All the People to Survive in Gaza, You Knew Mr FAFO Had to Be One of Them

The infamous, legendary, risen-and-rerisen-from-the-dead master of the theatrical 'Pallywood' propaganda short, the one and only Mr. FAFO himself. There he was, gleefully trudging through the evening light, weeping for joy and wearing what looked like a new generic press vest for the occasion.

Ah, schweet, schweet peace at last.

If you are unfamiliar with this notorious character, let me assure you, he is world-famous among the innerwebs and social media savvy. His name conjures an immediate picture of some sort of over-the-top emotional appeal with a threat of imminent danger - all pure theatrics for a gullible Palestinian sympathizing population in productions known as 'Pallywood.' He derisively became the subject of an ongoing, farcical game of 'Where's Waldo (aka FAFO)' the second his face appeared in any video of supposed carnage or exceptional cruelty perpetrated BY THE JEWS.

And there were many.

Here he is, a victim of an Israeli air raid, writhing in pain in a Gaza hospital, his slender frame dotted by wires and electrodes. And there he goes again, a day or two later: He’s a radiologist now, helping a blood-smeared patient into a small MRI machine. Since Oct. 7 he has died on camera—not once but twice—and then, like Lazarus, come back to life. He sired a (fake, plastic) child, then lost it in a bombing; found work as a foreign correspondent; picked up a gun and joined the fighting; laughed joyfully when Jews were slaughtered; wept bitterly when the Jews struck back; discovered his calling as a singer; led us on guided tours of his shelled-out hometown.

Who is he? He is Saleh Aljafarawi, 25, Gazan, Hamas supporter, and professional social media influencer. The genre in which he works is Pallywood, the term coined by scholar Richard Landes to describe a long Palestinian cinematic tradition, in which a wide variety of political parties and terrorist groups create fake dramatic videos and peddle them to sympathetic Western media outlets who pay for these comically obvious fabrications and then cynically or cluelessly present them as indictments of the Jewish state’s cruelty.

But such literal-minded answers miss the larger point. #MrFAFO—the acronym means “f**k around, find out”—matters because his work is the best prism we’ve got if we wish to truly gaze into the heart of darkness.

Because #MrFAFO, truly, c’est nous.

Some of his greatest hits put Barrymore's silent films to shame.

This one was dramatic - fiery special effects and all.

Here he is writhing in pain after an undisclosed injury at a local hospital.

This is one of his deathbed scenes. Not exactly Aida or Madam Butterfly, but he did practice quite a bit with these. 'A' for effort.

He was routinely featured in sympathetic Western news broadcasts until his fame spread so much that they realized the joke was on them.

Well, that and he got suspended from TikTok for a while.

Probably died and came back because of it.

Somehow, they even caught a quick glimpse of Mr FAFO doing his green screen work for what was sure to be another thrilling installment of THE JEWS DID IT.

Of course, there was the occasional slack off in production values...

And now he can finally celebrate Trump’s Triumph with all his fellow grateful, starving victims of Israeli genocide