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LurkerJ on 18 November 2023
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SvennoJ said:

The western media is drifting further and further apart from middle eastern news.

While CNN keeps going on about limited evacuations, weapons found at Al Shifa and now updates on oct 7 casualties and investigations into rapes (disgusting) on October 7th, the bombing of civilians continues. https://thepeninsulaqatar.com/article/17/11/2023/casualties-mount-in-attack-on-gaza-school (Al-Fakhoora School) women are getting stripped naked and strip searched before getting ordered out of Al Shifa, people beaten at check points, people now told to leave parts of Southern Gaza again with the IDF ready to expand it's operations to the South while food is running out, diseases are breaking out and there is no access to safe drinking water.

CNN did call out the IDF for mismatches in earlier videos of the so called 'found' weapon caches and those the IDF presented to embedded Fox and BBC news reporters. But even the more liberal CNN reporting seems to be pressured to keep things more positive than they are.

Yet the bombing of Al Fakhoora School is the most telling yet, no mention in major western media at all

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/middle-east/israel-hamas-war-news-live-updates-palestine-conflict-gaza-pm-netanyahu/liveblog/105270768.cms
https://auburnpub.com/partners/video-elephant/news/graphic-video-israeli-warplanes-struck-at-al-fakhoora-un-school-in-jabalia/video_f4170692-3be8-5810-9fc5-2b215ef0b76d.html
https://www.teletrader.com/shsrael-reportedly-raided-al-fakhoora-school-in-gaz/news/details/61012133?internal=1&ts=1700317157732

Meanwhile Elon Musk is censuring sensitive terms like "decolonization" and "from the river to the sea" on Twitter, ironically exactly what Israel is doing now. Even with members of cabinet calling to burn down Gaza
https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/deputy-knesset-speaker-calls-for-burning-gaza/
https://www.palestinechronicle.com/we-are-too-humane-burn-gaza-now-knesset-deputy-speaker/


The Western narrative seems to be things are getting better: some fuel allowed in, some patients evacuated, some communications restored, some progress with negotiations and the military campaign won't last that much longer, while the Eastern news keeps showing the daily atrocities, ever worsening conditions on the ground, violence and occupation in the West Bank, only allowing women to flee to the South at checkpoints, and more and more calling for investigations into war crimes and genocide happening in Gaza.


"Why do they hate our freedom" comes to mind. This shit will fuel terrorism all over the world, recruiting idiots will be easy as the West continues to show its bias and ignorance while supporting war crimes and genocide happening right in front of their eyes, paid for with their tax dollars.


Dark times ahead even if this somehow ends.

Israel's response and publicly stated intents are obscene, there is no reasonable pro-Israeli argument left at this point, because even if you think their response is proportional it will never justify the monstrosities that are happening simultaneously in the West Bank. 

Last edited by LurkerJ - on 18 November 2023