Aurélien

‘Parts of the media and political class know mass death in Gaza cannot be obscured for much longer, not even after Israel has barred foreign journalists from the enclave and murdered most of the Palestinian journalists trying to record the genocide.
Cynical political and media actors are trying to get in their excuses before it is too late to show remorse.‘

https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/gaza-genocide-wall-silence-finally-starting-crack-why

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Why the wall of silence on the Gaza genocide is finally starting to crack

As Israel unveils its final genocide push, and mass death from starvation looms in Gaza, western media and politicians are tentatively starting to speak up

Middle East Eye
May 16 at 2:17pmWeb
Show threadAurélienMay 16
‘It was easier for the Guardian, the FT and old-school Tory MPs to watch the extermination of Gaza’s Palestinians in silence when it was kindly Uncle Joe Biden and the US military industrial complex behind it. 
Unlike his predecessor, Trump too often forgets the bit where he is supposed to put a gloss on Israeli crimes, or distance the US from them, even as Washington ships the weapons to carry out those crimes.’
Show threadAurélienMay 16
‘(…) Israel and western capitals insisted on the story that Hamas "ruled" Gaza, and that it alone was responsible for what went on there. 
That fiction was very important to the western powers. It allowed Israel to evade accountability for the crimes against humanity committed in Gaza over the past two decades – and it allowed the West to avoid complicity charges for arming the criminals.’
Show threadAurélienMay 16
‘Instead, the political and media class perpetuated the myth that Israel was engaged in a "conflict" with Hamas – as well as intermittent "wars" in Gaza – even as Israel’s own military termed its operations to destroy whole neighbourhoods and kill their residents “mowing the lawn”. 
Israel, of course, viewed Gaza as its lawn to mow. And that is precisely because it never stopped occupying the enclave.’
Show threadAurélienMay 16
‘Even today western media outlets collude in the fiction that Gaza is free from Israeli occupation by casting the slaughter there - and the starvation of the population - as a “war”. ‘
Show threadAurélienMay 16
‘Jonathan Turner, chief executive of UK Lawyers for Israel, argued that critics were unfairly condemning Israel for starving Gaza’s population, and ignoring the health benefits of reducing “obesity” among Palestinians. ‘