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1. The news-media I consume daily, even the otherwise progressive outlets, are replacing Gazan death and suffering with relatively trivial stories. Perhaps that’s what most of those news outlets’ subscribers or regular patrons want.

   Apparently growing Western apathy towards the mass starvation and slaughter of helpless Palestinian civilians will undoubtedly only further fire long-held Middle Eastern anger collectively towards us. Some countries’ actual provision, mostly by the U.S., of highly effective weapons used in Israel’s onslaught will likely turn that anger into lasting hatred always seeking eye-for-an-eye redress.

   Meanwhile, with each news report of the daily Palestinian death toll from unrelenting Israeli bombardment, I feel a slightly greater desensitization and resignation. I’ve noticed this disturbing effect with basically all major protracted conflicts internationally ever since I began regularly consuming news products in 1988. And I don’t think I’m alone in feeling this nor that it’s willfully callous.

   It has long seemed to me as a news consumer that the value of a life abroad is typically perceived according to the abundance of protracted conditions under which it suffers, especially during wartime, and that this effect can be exacerbated when there’s also racial contrast. Therefore, when that life is lost, even violently, it typically receives lesser coverage.

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