Stalin
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not all journalists are so easily bought and sold by WarParty largesse and bath in their propaganda
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"The more Israel expands its war across the Middle East, the more the western media intensifies its war on our minds
Establishment media outlets like the BBC are weaponising the language of their reporting against audiences no less effectively than Israel weaponised primitive pieces of technology against the people of Lebanon.
Thousands of Lebanese were maimed by exploding pagers and walkie-talkies last week. Likewise, the media coverage is mangling the ability of western publics to understand how and why Israel is dangerously stoking fires across the region.
Words like “audacious”, “escalation” and “targets” have become tools to conceal meaning, not to illuminate – and for good reason. Because Israel’s actions are so obviously criminal, so obviously horrifying, so obviously genocidal. Language becomes a weapon to hide the truth.
The media chorus goes like this: Israel is attacking Lebanon to stop Hezbollah rocket fire and allow the residents of Israel’s most northerly communities to return home. Or in the blunter, Orwellian language of Israeli officials framing this horror show: Israel must “escalate to de-escalate”.
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graphs showing “cross-border attacks” since 7 October last year – when Hamas broke out for one day from the concentration camp Israel had made of Gaza over decades – suggest how entirely bogus Israel’s narrative of its bombing Lebanon to “stop the Hezbollah rocket fire” really is.
Of the 9,600 cross-border attacks, Israel committed 7,845 of them – or four-fifths – and began doing so on 7 October itself. Israel actually stepped up its attacks on Lebanon in early September, just as Hezbollah was dramatically reducing its rocket fire.
What the graphs cannot convey is the asymmetrical nature of those exchanges.
Hezbollah rockets caused far less damage to Israel than Israel’s far larger number of, and far more powerful, bombs and missiles.
By the third week of September, Israel had killed more than 750 Lebanese, compared to 33 Israelis. The differential is even starker now.
And yet the western media has not framed Hezbollah’s attacks as its “right to defend itself” – a right we are continuously reminded Israel has.
www.jonathan-cook.net
comrade stalin
armagiddeo
Jonathan Cook - Wikipedia
"The more Israel expands its war across the Middle East, the more the western media intensifies its war on our minds
Establishment media outlets like the BBC are weaponising the language of their reporting against audiences no less effectively than Israel weaponised primitive pieces of technology against the people of Lebanon.
Thousands of Lebanese were maimed by exploding pagers and walkie-talkies last week. Likewise, the media coverage is mangling the ability of western publics to understand how and why Israel is dangerously stoking fires across the region.
Words like “audacious”, “escalation” and “targets” have become tools to conceal meaning, not to illuminate – and for good reason. Because Israel’s actions are so obviously criminal, so obviously horrifying, so obviously genocidal. Language becomes a weapon to hide the truth.
The media chorus goes like this: Israel is attacking Lebanon to stop Hezbollah rocket fire and allow the residents of Israel’s most northerly communities to return home. Or in the blunter, Orwellian language of Israeli officials framing this horror show: Israel must “escalate to de-escalate”.
...
graphs showing “cross-border attacks” since 7 October last year – when Hamas broke out for one day from the concentration camp Israel had made of Gaza over decades – suggest how entirely bogus Israel’s narrative of its bombing Lebanon to “stop the Hezbollah rocket fire” really is.
Of the 9,600 cross-border attacks, Israel committed 7,845 of them – or four-fifths – and began doing so on 7 October itself. Israel actually stepped up its attacks on Lebanon in early September, just as Hezbollah was dramatically reducing its rocket fire.
What the graphs cannot convey is the asymmetrical nature of those exchanges.
Hezbollah rockets caused far less damage to Israel than Israel’s far larger number of, and far more powerful, bombs and missiles.
By the third week of September, Israel had killed more than 750 Lebanese, compared to 33 Israelis. The differential is even starker now.
And yet the western media has not framed Hezbollah’s attacks as its “right to defend itself” – a right we are continuously reminded Israel has.
The BBC is weaponising its Lebanon reporting to help disguise Israel’s crimes
Western publics are being subjected to an unprecedented campaign of media propaganda to conceal Israel’s true goals as it expands the slaughter.
www.jonathan-cook.net
comrade stalin
armagiddeo
