US Abstains as UN Security Council Demands 'Immediate Cease-Fire' in Gaza
Israel has put in place a complex system of laws, policies, and regulations that fundamentally curtail the rights and freedoms of nearly every Palestinian and Arab in Gaza, the occupied West Bank, East Jerusalem, and even among its own citizens.
From the River to the Sea, Not a Single Palestinian is Free
1 comment:
As Palestinians are made to needlessly suffer and are slaughtered en masse, people everywhere are understandably frustrated and angry about so many nations’ political inertia and apparent apathy towards the Palestinian noncombatants’ worst nightmare.
Without doubt, growing Western indifference 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, the mainstream news-media I consume daily, even the otherwise progressive outlets, are giving the daily Gazan death and suffering noticeably less coverage.
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, including present Ukraine, ever since I began regularly consuming news products in 1988.
Still, 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 and duration of protracted conditions under which it suffers, especially during wartime; and this effect can be exacerbated when there's also racial contrast between the news consumer and news subject. Therefore, when that life is lost, even violently, it can and often enough does receive less coverage.
Post a Comment