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Palestinians have dug up more than 400 bodies from mass graves at two Gaza hospitals. Some have shown signs of torture and possible executions. The International Court of Justice had already issued a preliminary order against Israel after finding that its actions in Gaza might amount to genocide. So how will the world respond to this?
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Especially on this topic, the mainstream news-media have lost much of their humanity and independence. Today’s legacy 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.
I 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.
Palestinians have long been collectively perceived thus treated as not being of equal [human] value to Israelis. This might help explain the relative poverty, with Palestinian children picking through the mountains of Israeli waste basically dumped on territory annexed or on the way to being annexed.
Ergo, their great suffering and deaths are somehow less worthy of our actionable concern.
Could it be that Israel and Westerners in general, including our news-media, have been getting too accustomed to so many Palestinian deaths over many decades of violent struggle with Israel?
And while U.S. President Joe Biden had — finally! — called for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, it appears to have been for political reasons — for re-election purposes. A sizable chunk of traditionally Democrat voters, adamantly against and angry about the unrelenting bombing and mass slaughter by Israel, were/are credibly threatening to abandon Biden at the ballot box.
The Biden administration and too many Democratic senators and congressional representatives have wanted it both ways: to unconditionally heavily arm the Israeli state against Gaza AND to keep the anti-war voters actively onside come election time.
It’s doubtful that Arabic/Palestinian/Muslim voters will collectively compromise, sell their souls, by giving Biden a pass on the consequential pro-Israel/-IDF stance he took/takes towards the mass slaughter of Palestinian non-combatants, especially women and children. And who could honestly blame them?
U.S. Republicans, meantime, went into their good-Christian mode by withholding their political support for helping literally starving Palestinian children.
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