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| Children who were injured during an Israeli attack in the Jabalia refugee camp await treatment at Al-Ahli Arab hospital on 21 October 2024 (AFP) |
"Doubtless some Nazi concentration camp guards committed suicide in the
1940s after witnessing the horrors there – because they were responsible
for them. Only in some weird parallel news universe would their
"psychological burden" be the story. "
"The echoes from history are apparently entirely lost on officials: the UK is once again associating the Mandela family with terrorism. Before it was to protect South Africa’s apartheid regime. Now it is to protect Israel’s even worse apartheid and genocidal regime."
They would hedge every report of a new Israeli atrocity – if they covered them at all – with a "Hamas claims" or "Gaza family members allege". Everything would be presented in terms of conflicting narratives rather than witnessed facts. Audiences would feel uncertain, hesitant, detached.
Israel could shroud its slaughter in a fog of confusion and disputation. The natural revulsion evoked by a genocide would be tempered and attenuated.
For a year, the global networks’ most experienced war reporters have
stayed put in their hotels in Israel, watching Gaza from afar. Their
human-interest stories, always at the heart of war reporting, have
focused on the far more limited suffering of Israelis than the vast
catastrophe unfolding for Palestinians.... READ MORE https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/gaza-israel-kills-journalists-western-media-killing-truth-genocide
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