Israel committing crimes against humanity but western media declaring it clashes or retaliation
The 'free media' of 'free western world' continue to call the Israeli aggression as escalating violence or clashes between Palestinian people and Israeli Army. The Western media gives the impression that Israel is retaliating to the attacks carried out by palestinian militants.
Israeli bombers have so far killed nearly 50 Palestinians including young children (boys and girls), fathers, mothers, sisters and brothers in Gaza. Hundreds are injured. Many homes destroyed in the air raids. Israeli fighter jets targeted the residential areas. They are targeting civilian population. They are killing unarmed human beings. The Palestine is bleeding again. The heart wrenching scenes of young Palestinian children screaming and running in Gaza after their homes targeted by Israeli jets are not enough to prove the atrocities committed by Israel.
The western media hypocritically tries to hide the fact that Israel is occupying the Palestine lands. Israel has been using brutal state force against unarmed Palestinians. Israel is an attacker and Palestine is under attack.
Western
mainstream media portray the conflict as taking place between two equal powers
when they discuss similarities in the rhetoric of both sides, a conclusion that
is both incorrect and disingenuous.
The western media used term like genocide and gross violations of human rights when China takes action against Uyghur Muslims in Chinese province of Xinxiang. But when it comes to Israeli actions against palestinian people it becomes clashes or violent exchanges.
The main purpose of biased reporting on Israel- Palestine conflict is to cover up the Israeli aggression and accesses. The language changes to shield the Israeli crimes against humanity, occupation, land grabbing, killing, imprisoning, destroying homes and forcefully evicting Palestinians from their agriculture lands. It is not Palestinian people who are using violence against Israel but on the contrary, Israel is using violence against palestinian people to kill their resistance. Palestinian people are resisting to save their homes, lives and livelihood. They are resisting daily abuse, humiliation and sufferings meted out to them by Israeli occupation forces.
The matter of fact is that Israel is aggressor and palestinian people are victims. Israel has occupied the Palestine territories and continued to grab more Palestine lands for Jewish settlers. It is the Israel which is using force to continue the occupation.
Israel has one of the most modern war machine and military in the world. The most modern war planes, bombers, tanks, guns and missiles. And what palestinian people have, stones, some rockets and guns. There is no comparison between the two sides. How can any sane person compare the battle between F-16s and human bodies and call it clash or violence.
The western media hides the fact that Israel is using violence to suppress the Palestine people. Palestinians
are forced out of their homes, attacked at their holy sites and made to watch
as their children are once again massacred by those who have stolen and
occupied their lands, the western media is engaging in another bout of
equalising the unequal.
The media’s
language around this latest use of force by Israel in its forever war
against Palestinians takes a familiar pattern, adding to a dictionary of
distortion. The word “Palestine” has long since fallen out of use, while
occupiers and religious zealots are marketed as “settlers” engaged in the
act of “bringing to life” parched and empty land.
Language has
become as effective a tool as land grabs and military force in erasing the
aspirations and legitimate national identity of Palestinians
Now, as they
forcibly expel Palestinian families with the help of state forces, it is being
packaged as a real estate or legal dispute. As the Israeli
propaganda machine gives birth to these new terms, their adoption by the
international media allows for the omission of other inconvenient facts, such
as the expulsion of Sheikh Jarrah residents being predicated on a law of
Jewish supremacy.
As lies
perpetuate lies and “legal disputes” neatly mask a campaign of systematic
displacement and ethnic cleansing of Palestine, any reaction to this injustice
must also be distorted.
That
means using words like clashes to describe heavily armed police who
resemble a state militia storming a sacred place of worship and attacking
worshippers in the midst of their prayers on one of the most important nights
in their religious calendar. The scenes inside al-Aqsa Mosque were ones of
chaos, as smoke from tear-gas canisters, grenades and bullets shot by Israeli
police injured hundreds of worshipers. The result
is that Israel can kill with impunity. As the neoconservative worldview has
increasingly shaped the trajectory of conflicts on the international stage, the
media has followed its lead, excusing and at times promoting the invasion and
occupation of Muslim countries under the pretexts of fighting terrorism,
nonexistent weapons and women’s rights.
The latest
bout of reporting on Israel/Palestine does little more than aid the oppressor
while Palestinians are maimed and murdered.
The words
“clashes” and “scuffles” are an injustice to those attacked by a heavily armed,
technologically advanced force that assists racist Zionist mobs in
provoking a civilian population before launching attacks on them.
Khalid Bhatti
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