Another morning, another swiping away of news alerts telling me that Israel has killed more children in Gaza. What can the world do except to helplessly watch the likes of Antony Blinken say that ‘accusations’ against Israel are ‘meritless‘. Since this is Part 2, I’ll assume you have read Part 1 already (6 mins read), so let’s get started.
I wrote Part 1 on 6th September, and I started Part 2 on 7th September. Fresher than the bread I’d bought between these two mornings, the Western media yet again hid any wrongdoing of Israel in its reporting.
“Mystery Strikes” and Deaths
There’s a perverse insistence in Western news that the deaths of innocent children, women, disabled, and the elderly in Israel’s indiscriminate bombing of Gazan residential areas are casualties of ‘war’. Again and again, they acquit Israel of any wrongdoing by claiming that these killings are due to ‘war’ rather than a genocide, despite UN claims. The civilian death toll in Gaza is higher than any other conflict in the 21st century.
But who cares? We’re only adding a bunch more worthless Arabs to a never-ending list, not like anything was done about the countless millions killed by U.S-led wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Nobody cares of the civilians that U.S. bombed in Pakistan’s tribal regions for a decade. But what if a few Israeli citizens are killed? (Holding myself to the same standard – civilians should never be killed.)
Like Jon Polin and Rachel Goldberg-Polin, the families of five other [Israeli] hostages also found out on Sunday that they too had lost their loved ones forever. We grieve for all of them, and we demand justice for all of them.
State Dept. Press Secretary. Matthew Miller on 3rd September, 2024
The U.S. ‘demands’ justice for Israeli citizens, but when called out to demand justice for dead Gazan civilians and children, the U.S. Press Secretary will confidently smirk while dismissing the allegations. ‘I’m not going to comment on that’ and ‘Israel should conduct an investigation.’ Oh, the double standards.
As I demonstrated with a 1937 newspaper headline in Part 1, the use of pro-Zionist Media to create a pro-Israel narrative is nothing new. Here’s an example from 2018, where BBC changed its headline to make sure that Israel is once again the victim.
Let’s get back to the present Israeli genocide now:
Takeaway
Headlines are viewed in a vacuum. They have the responsibility to convey the entire story. With the rise of pay-walls and subscriptions, most readers aren’t allowed to look at anything except the headlines, especially in Western news websites. These headlines thus serve to reinforce a view that Israel is fighting a ‘defensive’ war in Gaza, and not all ‘strikes’ are committed by Israel.
We explored 11 Western headlines in this report, but only 2 contained ‘Israel’ and only in a defensive phrasing. Let’s get prepped for Part 3 of this report, shall we?
Read Part 1 of this report, or learn what the CIA said of Israel’s Irgun Terror Group (that runs Israel today).
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