In Europe, the media is quietly inching away from its unwavering support of Israel. From Patrick Lawrence at scheerpost.com:
A couple of weeks after Israel began its campaign of terror in Gaza two Octobers ago, a journalist and novelist named Omar El Akkad published a note on X, formerly known as Twitter, that has stayed with me ever since:
Pure pith, if you ask me, a trespass onto that forbidden land where humanity’s taboos are ignored and acid truths openly articulated.
El Akkad, an Egyptian by birth who has lived, reported and written in Canada the whole of his adult life, already had some honored novels to his credit — “AmericanWar,” 2017, and “What Strange Paradise,” 2021 — by the time he offered the above observation. This past winter he published his bitter reflections on Gaza and the West’s hypocrisies thereupon under the title One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This. The thought altogether merits the recycle, digital media message to hard covers.
I have wondered lately whether the day El Akkad anticipates with raw indignation may be hard upon us. Those who purport to lead and speak for the Western world — parliamentarians, senior foreign policy people, various corporate media — seem to be breaking their disgraceful silence 18 months after they ought to have spoken up in condemnation of the Zionist state’s primitive savagery.
Only two governments in the entire world are down for the Gazacide.
Well three if you count Germanystan but they part of the fourth reich EU rump vassals so you can lump all of them together.
Sad really.