One question, wouldn't it be better to put all the stuff of the Israeli invasion of Gaza into it's own, separate thread? After all, this isn't just US politics. And especially now where things are slowly heating up for the elections in the US.

I was also going to make the same statement that while what is happening in Israeli has US political interest, its not isolated only to the US and probably is the best time to open its own thread like Ryuu did with Ukraine.  As we start to move in the GOP primaries, there probably is going to be a shift towards those topics.

I don't know what it is exactly, greed, fear of the Muslim world or caught like a deer in headlights. Western governments have always been pro Israel and not immune to Hasbara either. Some might simply refuse to believe what's actually happening, politicians are just people after all and maybe even more easily influenced by propaganda and dogmatic thinking. Politics are the original echo chambers.

Governments are also full of old people, most set in their ways, rigid in their thinking. Most of the opposition voices come from the younger generations, more resistant to propaganda and disinformation, more used to the lies of the internet and far less prone to take government officials and major news outlets at their word. Which are just as complicit with their self censorship, selective coverage and pushing their own agendas.

The irony

https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/israel-palestine-bbc-news-coverage-bias-gaza-war/...

One question, wouldn't it be better to put all the stuff of the Israeli invasion of Gaza into it's own, separate thread? After all, this isn't just US politics. And especially now where things are slowly heating up for the elections in the US.

I was also going to make the same statement that while what is happening in Israeli has US political interest, its not isolated only to the US and probably is the best time to open its own thread like Ryuu did with Ukraine.  As we start to move in the GOP primaries, there probably is going to be a shift towards those topics.

Jumpin

Yeah I think Svenno requested one too, it's just a case of someone making the OP.

From your link:

"We found that “murder”, “murderous”, “mass murder”, “brutal murder” and “merciless murder” were used a total of 52 times by journalists to refer to Israelis’ deaths but never in relation to Palestinian deaths. The same pattern could been seen in relation to “massacre”, “brutal massacre” and “horrific massacre” (35 times for Israeli deaths, not once for Palestinian deaths); “atrocity”, “horrific atrocity” and “appalling atrocity” (22 times for Israeli deaths, once for Palestinian deaths); and “slaughter” (five times for Israeli deaths, not once for Palestinian deaths)."

A mix of tribalism and horrible media coverage have successfully manipulated the public for decade. Don't underestimate tribalism, I assure you if Trump had any hands in this the coverage would be different, just remember the outcry that resulted from the assassination of Qasem Soleimani lol

Thankfully, Tiktoc and Twitter have ensured Israel and its genocidal supporters from both parties have lost this conflict, and it will be forever remembered as the most avoidable mass murder that we watched happen in front of our eyes, all while we're being asked to be mad at the only war criminal like Putin but not Netanyahu and the people who arm him unconditionally, what a joke. 

It's still baffling that Trump is allowed to run again. You'd think the minimum penalty for his treachery of American democracy would be that he will be banned from political jobs on any and all levels.

What isn't baffling is all the support Trump is getting, because Americans have proven time and time again that they are always up to the challenge of growing their own level of stupidity. The world can only hope that Biden will be incapable of running again, because that guy is just too old to win another election.