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For all the periodic meltdowns about foreign interference in US elections and politics by countries like Russia, it’s actually Israel, a nominal ally, that has done far more meddling in American politics — with far more influence.
It’s worrying enough that a foreign government — and increasingly, its right-wing faction — has such sway over the US political establishment. That Israel does so while bleating about outside meddling in its affairs, all while simultaneously demanding handouts from US taxpayers, makes it positively absurd.
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You get the feeling that among the jaded Beltway establishment there is a belief that the horrified reaction against Trump's Hitler analogies is just a bit overwrought. Sure it's discussed and analyzed but there's a perfunctory vibe about it that makes it seem as if it's just another of those "Trump says the darnedest stuff" things. And sure, the idea that he's been studying Hitler's speeches because he once had a book of them is a stretch (even though he has said that Hitler "did some good things") because Trump doesn't study anything. He is an instinctive autocrat and he's got a few people around him who do understand the power of fascist imagery. Contrary to popular belief, much of the most outrageous rhetoric Trump spews at his rallies isn't off the cuff, it's scripted.
So now we've all absorbed the comments about immigrants "poisoning our country" and calling his political opponents "vermin." He said that if he doesn't win there will be a bloodbath and everyone responded that it was taken out of context, as if he doesn't promise political violence if he loses (or is convicted of one of his many crimes) all the time.
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The mainstream news-media know quite well what readership butters most, if not all, of their bread and accordingly go in that self-compromised editorial direction.
The most journalistically compromised news-media I've read is Canada’s National Post newspaper. It epitomizes an extreme example of an echo chamber promoting unconditional support for the state of Israel, including its very-long-practiced cruelty towards the Palestinian people. And I mean unconditional support.
More progressive outlets like Canada's other national newspaper, The Globe and Mail — progressive in regards to essentially following “woke” ideology — can be more deceitful and/or apologist in their pro-Israel coverage and especially op/ed writing since the 10/7 Hamas attack on Israel.
And even otherwise progressive mainstream news outlets are largely replacing daily Gazan deaths and suffering with relatively trivial news as leading stories. Sadly, that's what most of those news outlets’ subscribers or regular patrons want, although that fact does not morally justify it.
Growing western indifference — including that of our mainstream news-media — towards the mass starvation and slaughter of helpless Palestinian civilians will only further inflame long-held Middle Eastern anger 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 that's always seeking eye-for-an-eye redress.
Yet, 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, including present Ukraine, ever since I began regularly consuming news products in 1988.
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.
Indeed, I cannot help but feel that genuine journalists with integrity would tender their resignations and publicly proclaim they can no longer help propagate their employer’s corrupt media product, be it from the Right or Left. They’d definitely not excuse themselves with: ‘But I have a spouse and kids to feed!’, as though they were forced into coupling, copulating and procreating.
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