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Diplomacy, morality and media have failed the people of Gaza – Pearls and Irritations

Concept of military aggression, crisis in Gaza, Middle East.

Imagine this headline: “Brits bomb Belfast to obliterate IRA – 24,000 dead, 50,000 injured, all hospitals flattened – children limbless and starving”.

Source: Diplomacy, morality and media have failed the people of Gaza – Pearls and Irritations

2 thoughts on “Diplomacy, morality and media have failed the people of Gaza – Pearls and Irritations”

  1. Soon after learning of 10/7 I realized that the vicious attack [perhaps something like 9/11 and the Cheney-Bush administration’s devastating response immediately afterwards] would politically enable the Israeli-Netanyahu government to justify extreme emergency war measures then force through his/its ‘democratic reforms’ — and do who-knows-what-more to Palestine, including having more of their traditional territory annexed.

    It seems a bit convenient for Israeli power interests; notably, western world governments and especially our mainstream news-media basically all fell into line. Also, not widely publicized is that there are considerable fossil fuel reserves beneath long-held Palestinian land that are a plausible motivator for war. …

    Also, it’s an obvious atrocity that so many Palestinian non-combatants are being prevented from accessing safety/sanctuary, not to mention starved of food. Yet, U.S. Republicans have gone into their ‘Christian’ mode, admitting that humanitarian aid for Palestinian Gazans was, or still is, not their concern. [Jesus must be spinning in heaven.]

    Meanwhile, the general western corporate news-media’s ‘coverage’ of the Israel-Palestinian conflict has long been very wanting. This includes their reporting on the current and past violence but especially their non-reporting on the consequential anti-Palestinian social injustices that continue in between every military flare up over decades of Israeli occupation.

    Palestinian suffering and deaths in their entirety have not been justly represented. Their great suffering and deaths may somehow seem less worthy of our actionable concern as otherwise relatively civilized nations.

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    1. [Cont.] There’s clearly been maltreatment of the general Palestinian people by the state of Israel [i.e. its government and security/defense agencies] and, with few exceptions, Western mainstream news-media’s seemingly intentional tokenistic (non)coverage of it.

      By doing so, that media, whether they realize it or not, have done a disservice to its own reputation and the Israeli/Jewish people themselves [the road to hell, after all, is also paved with good intentions].

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