If Russia or China did one tenth of what Israel has done, it would be nonstop news for months. Western media is so corrupt it can’t even bring itself to mention Israel in articles about Gaza Palestinians starving. From Caitlin Johnstone at caitlinjohnstone.com:
It’s almost cliché at this point to say “imagine if Russia or China did this”, but such comparisons are important for retaining a sense of perspective on just how evil the western political-media class is being about Gaza right now.
Imagine how the western political-media class would be acting if Russia or China was bombing and starving a walled-in population of two million, half of them children. Seriously, imagine it. Imagine the rage and vitriol. Imagine the nonstop media coverage.
When Russia invaded Ukraine, US media coverage of that war exceeded the media coverage of all US wars in the previous three decades. If Russia were deliberately and systematically exterminating civilians in Ukraine or anywhere else, the western media coverage of those war crimes would be many times more.
It’s almost cliché at this point to say “imagine if Russia or China did this”, but such comparisons are important for retaining a sense of perspective on just how evil the western political-media class is being about Gaza right now. We’re seeing articles come out in the mass media about starvation in Gaza which never once even mention the word “Israel”. Do you think that would be happening if this were being perpetrated by a government which defies the western empire? Of course not.
They would be condemned and war declared.
Congress might even back away from the bribes, insider trading, senate room sex parties, pots of gold and golden parachutes for a few minutes.
I kid, it keeps morale high.
Watched a great Judge Nap and Prof. Mearsheimer which laid how hypocritical and absurd it all is regarding out relationship with the Sh1t Gollum.
(h/t-JN & PM)