That loss of credibility could end up as an absolute disaster for both Trump and the United States. From Martin Jay at strategic-culture.su:
The Iranians have been fooled more than once in recent years and now they can’t be fooled again.
The recent news which floated to the top of the media cesspit in the UK that BBC journalists had been compromised by Israel shouldn’t have surprised anyone. It was really a ‘dead donkey’ story which many of us could have guessed. But it does remind us that Israel’s cash and political influence is not limited to the U.S. but has permeated all levels of British society including media. The recent outrage of the BBC filming a rapper at Glastonbury open air pop concert who chanted ‘death to IDF soldiers’ got a disproportionate amount of coverage to the actual genocide in Gaza on the same day by about a million to one. The chanting was vulgar but the point most pundits missed, regardless of where they stood on Israel’s daily holocaust in Gaza, was that Bob Vylan shouldn’t have had to go as far as he did if the coverage of the genocide was even vaguely fair. Of course, it isn’t. It is absurdly tipped in favour of Israel which creates a ground swell of ignorance from the average white van man in the UK who doesn’t really understand anything about international politics but who needs to align himself with a narrative. That ignorance leads to the ‘Israel has the right to defend itself’ narrative having no caveats or nuances being attached to it as we have left the free speech zone a long time ago. People don’t get that free speech is ugly. If you believe in free speech this is the first barb you have to deal with.
And so, the comfort zone of ‘controlled speech’ is what we have signed up to. We have stopped questioning our politicians and media. We allow Israel to block journalists entering Gaza on the hilarious assertion that it’s for their own safety when IDF soldiers use journalists for target practice (regardless of who they seem to be embedded with); our media continues to be controlled by the IDF media machine to such an extent that when the big screen explanations are given about the recent Israel-Iran 12 day war, there is no reference at all to Iran’s attacks in Israel. Nothing.
The truth is that we are no longer living in times where 80 percent of what we are seeing on our own legacy media is Israeli propaganda. It’s closer to 100 percent manufactured consent which pushes anyone with any level of intelligence towards alternative media and its commentators’ analysis. If you want to get an insight into the war in Ukraine or the Gaza genocide the chances are you’re not going to switch on Sky News or the BBC. You’re going to head towards X.
Most of what we are reading in the UK and U.S. press about Trump’s recent attacks in Iran are simply fake. They’re not even vaguely true. Even today U.S. media is largely supportive of Trump’s bunker buster attack on Iran’s underground nuclear simply by the fact that it chooses not to question the narrative offered by Trump himself. The reality is a stark difference to what is being presented. In brief, the attacks were an outright failure in every respect and, if anything, have created a pause for Iran to rebuild part of its military which was destroyed – even its command hierarchy – and to come out stronger and more defiant than before.
