Let’s talk about…MSM Coverage of Israeli War Crimes
Kit Knightly
Two weeks ago, it was widely reported across all the Western legacy media that Israel had fire-bombed a hospital leaving patients to burn to death in their beds.
A few days later, we were told by the same Western legacy media that Israeli strikes inside Lebanon had destroyed a 2000-year-old village.
Today, CNN’s front page hosts an IDF soldier describing Israel’s practice of using civilians as human shields in Gaza, while the Guardian details an Israeli strike on school-turned-bomb shelter in Gaza.
Now, it’s not at all unusual that Israel should be committing war crimes, they’ve been doing so unchecked for decades.
But what is less usual is seeing these war crimes appearing on front pages and in headlines in the controlled media.
We’ve all been doing this long to have dispelled any idea the MSM cares about truth.
They don’t care about truth. Not at all. In fact these days their internal structures barely permit them to recognize truth as a concept.
Nothing – nothing – is so true the media have to report it, no crimes are so brutal they can’t be ignored.
Case in point, in Odessa in 2014 civilians protesting the NATO-backed coup in Ukraine were chased inside the Trade Union building by pro-coup neo-Nazis.
The building was barricaded and set on fire. People climbing out of the windows to escape the flames were shot at.
Forty people died, shot or burned to death. The neo-Nazis responsible celebrated by showing pictures of beetles being set alight (their disparaging term for ethnic Russians was “Colorado beetles” in reference to the orange and black ribbon of St George they wore).
How did the legacy media respond to this murder?
Well, they just lied.
They claimed the protesters set the fire by accident when they were throwing Molotov cocktails off the roof. This was a complete fabrication, contradicted by CCTV evidence, blaming the victims and covering for the fascists, but so what? They media didn’t care, they just kept repeating the lie and are still doing so today
Truth is irrelevant, narrative is all. That’s how the media works.
They’ve done the same in the past for Israel , the US, Saudi Arabia, NATO…whoever…countless times over the years.
And yet here we are, in 2024, with these Israeli crimes all over the controlled news.
They could lie if they wanted, as they usually do.
But they aren’t.
It prompts the eternal question: “Why this? Why now?”
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Music. The road to peace… (worked for King Saul)
Shiviti Adonai (from Sh’ma Yisrael)
What I’ve notice about the Christian Conservative MIC media is…
the lesser mentioning of things over there but also selling the fact it cant be that bad
as normal lot is mentioning it.
Israel strikes Iran on October 26th, 2:00 AM (Israeli time). Essentially one year between Feasts (old-style calendar).
Shemini Atzeret (8th [day of] Assembly) infamously occurred last year on October 7th; this year on October 24th. The Feast of Tabernacles concluded this year on Oct. 23th (Sukkot, Oct 17 – Oct 23, 2024), followed by Shemini Atzeret. Both October 7th, 2023, and October 26th, 2024 being Saturdays.
So Israel strikes Iran in 2024 a day (or so) following the end of this year’s 8th Day Assembly (Shemini Atzeret). With the 25th as a respectful hiatus day in-between. Perhaps subtly making the connection to Hamas as Iranian proxy.
Justice (or Vengeance). The dish best served BOTH cold AND at the most apt time?
Would seem to be a simple puzzle:
– The MSM says Israel committed war crimes
– The MSM always lies
Ergo, there were no Israeli war crimes. QED
Brave Zio-willie Lee Kern (who blocked me from his entertaining twitter feed) vents:
https://leekern.substack.com/p/darkness
“Deeper than thoughts” indeed. Indeed, no thought is involved at all!
The Israelis are losing the optics/PR war with their genocide of the Palestinians and their wanton aggression against the Lebanese, Syrians and Iran. The legacy media which is controlled by global Ashkenazim is rationalizing that an invader/settler land grabbing “nation” has the right to “defend” itself against indigenous people throwing rocks sticks and stones but overlooks the facts when the Israelis get thumped by Hezbollah militias. This is the state of media today. Eric Arthur Blair aka George Orwell said, “During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.” Long live the revolution!
Hmmm, ok cop. Sounds like textbook antisemitism, so not so sure really any friend of Palestinians as such views aren’t welcome.
“EU President Likens Free Speech To Infectious Disease.”
“EU President Ursula von der Leyen just joined the ranks of former Senator John Kerry and other globalist ghouls in declaring war on free speech by perversely proclaiming that the EU citizenry needs to be “vaccinated against disinformation.”
Who elected this Bitch?
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/eu-president-likens-free-speech-infectious-disease
Catapulting the propaganda.
https://misinforeview.hks.harvard.edu/article/global-vaccination-badnews/
Odesa
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odesa
Odessa, the transliteration of the name from Russian, was the traditional English spelling of the city’s name favoured before Ukraine’s independence in 1991 (similarly to the spelling of Kyiv versus Kiev).
Odesa became the internationally standardized Latin-alphabet transliteration of the Ukrainian name according to the Ukrainian National romanization system, which was adopted for official use by Ukraine’s cabinet in 2010, approved by the UN Group of Experts on Geographical Names in 2012, and adopted by the BGN/PCGN in 2019.[23][24][25][26] This spelling appears in Encyclopædia Britannica[27] and in dictionaries as the spelling for the Ukrainian city.[28][29][30][31] As noted by the Christian Science Monitor, many in the English-language media outlets historically spelled the city Odessa, even after changing the spelling of Kiev to Kyiv, but since the beginning of Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine more outlets[4][5] and style guides[32][33][34] have been shifting away from Russian transliterations.
Not going to happen at Off Guard: lets-talk-about-msm-coverage-of-Arab-war-crimes
Same as the old Guard.
Arab war crimes wouldn’t fit neatly with any ‘Elders of Zion’ / NWO secretly ruling the world narrative.
Nor with Russia’s anti-US ties with Arab nations. Hence, a no-go. A deliberate blind spot.
But in some sense it is ‘discussed’, With the regular award of double digit down-votes to anyone making a vaguely pro-Israel comment or to any suggestions of (pleas for) balance / less one-sidedness.
MSM media says – it can not win with you people.
😂
<Case in point, in Odessa in 2014 civilians protesting the NATO-backed coup in Ukraine were chased inside the Trade Union building by pro-coup neo-Nazis.
The building was barricaded and set on fire. People climbing out of the windows to escape the flames were shot at.
Forty people died, shot or burned to death. The neo-Nazis responsible celebrated by showing pictures of beetles being set alight (their disparaging term for ethnic Russians >
I don’t remember OffG commenting on this atrocity in Odessa when it happened – the first U$ funded Ukro-nazi massacre and the prelude to the Anglo-Zio-nazi genocidal attempt to set up a New Khazaria with Jewish-only Presidents in Kiev; a war that left a million dead and is now mercifully ending in failure.
Nor did OffG comment much, if at all, on the terrible cost in lives and suffering in both of these Anglo-Zio-nazi Capitalist genocidal wars: the one in land-rich Ukraine and the one in oil-rich Middle East.
So I ask OffG: “Why this? Why now?”
OffG didn’t exist when the Odessa massacre happened. We were launched in Feb 2015. We have however discussed the event many times since then.
Our primary aim at our outset was to correct the appalling lies being generated in the media about the NATO-backed coup in Ukraine and Russia’s then response. We have featured this and the US invasions of Iraq & Syria as major aspects of our output over the years, as you will find if you search our archives.
The entire basis of this comment is false and an obvious clumsy attempt at misdirection. In fact we were routinely dismissed as “Russian-backed trolls” prior to 2022, by those with as little respect for the truth as you seem to have.
PS – please cease attempting to post as “0…” – you will not succeed.
There was no OG when the Odessa Massacre happened and not several months after as far as I remember. As for the claim they didn’t cover the NATO coup in Ukraine, that’s just insane! OG covered Ukraine more than anything else, it’s what I used to come here to read. You’re just talking rubbish
Am I allowed to complain?
No – Back in Your Box FOAD
I bought the air pistol in Shudehill, though trained to shoot air rifles in Langley Estate close to where my Mum was The Dry Cleaners about the same time as the Moors Murderers
It was just an airpistol, so made a wooden stock on it – such that it was almost like an air rifle
I was 14 years old, and I lined up to shoot, this Sparrow, in a tree, just outside my Mum and Dad’s Bedroom window
I could feel the excitement and the adrenaline building up in me as I lined up for my first kill as if I was a hunter and needed to kill to eat.
I shot her dead – The Sparrow…..Why did I do that? I haven’t a Kestrel, or any excuse to kill a sparrow.
I was totally disgusted with myself…hid the sparrow behind the shed and put the airpistol at the bottom of the bin, and never told anyone – not my mum anyone
It was just a Sparrow.
Now My Government is Doing Head Shots For Free…
How Many Palestinians, Isralies, Russians and Ukraian’s…
Compared to the covid jabs?
This is Mass Genocide on us Human Beings including you and me
and almost no one says a word, whilst I confess to the death of one sparrow maybe because I saw the film KES when I was 14
According to Ed Dowd Ex Blackrock covid jabbers about 50 Million deaths ahead of war casualties
Line up For Yours
You already posted this – word for word – a few months ago. Only the last couple of paras are different. You’re clearly copying and pasting from some source document you have. What on earth is that all about?
Troll army lunacy in a bid to piss people off and deter them from the site.
This is because only a fraction of the deep state is neocon and zionist. The British elites are antisemites, they funded Hitler you know and only after ww2 when the jews threatened them to expose their collaboration with the nazis and to hunt the remaining nazis which were transferred to the US and Latin America the zionists gained power and became genocidal. So the elites tolerated them, but as illustrated by Brzezinski and Mearsheimer or shock therapy Jeffrey Sachs,or Soros-the elite of the elites is not zionist and no friend of Netanyahu. Why now? I noticed that since the second nomination of zionist Trump for president the fake alt media and the mainstream media started to talk about things that should be known since the first Trump presidency, e.g. how zionist loving Trump is and so on. And the masses seem to be shocked to learn that the populist hero Trump is in fact Netanyahu’s best friend.So I guess this is part of the elections circus.Another thing that the elites did was to frame the zionists/the jews as “the globalists” as they always do in the last several hundred of years. And when constantly showing to the world the crimes of Israel, they are preparing again large numbers of dupes which I can see on social media, who are spreading again neonazi conspiracy theories about “the jews”. Because it is not only the alt media and the mainstream media who are spreading Israel atrocities. It is all over social media. How is it possible that Israel controls information in Gaza and we are watching their live genocide for more than one year?
“Why this? Why now?”
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Consider that disclosing the horror show instead of obfuscating it perversely normalizes it.
I know it sounds counterintuitive, but I’ve become cynical of legacy humanitarian themes, e.g. “the whole world is watching”, and the related naïve assumption that if the general (world) public only knew what was actually happening, surely the outrage and blowback would prompt “civilized” nations to swiftly take decisive action to end the carnage, Israel (or Ukraine) be damned!
That was the assumption, or presumption, that animated all of the thoughtful, agonized discussions of the Nazi regime’s genocide in parochial and high school classes– that the genocide only proceeded, substantially uninterrupted, for years because neither the German people nor the rest of the world were truly aware of the horrors being perpetrated.
It’s an inversion of the “someone would have talked” canard beloved by trutherphobes when seeking to discredit challenges to official narratives about some heinous state crime: if there was more mass-media “talk” about the harsh and brutal facts on (and under) the ground, the evildoers wouldn’t be able to get away with it.
I think it’s tragically the case that people typically retreat from exposure to the horrors described in the article, and this new twist of the media admitting the crimes and horrors may simply make people glaze over all the more rather than galvanize the populace and their political leaders into actively opposing and ending the vicious and depraved oppression.
This is compatible with the simpleminded, pseudo-commonsensical false equivalence belief that “both sides” have been at it in the “Middle East” for centuries, oceans of blood have been mutually spilled, and obviously there’s nothing that “the world” can do about it except impotently wring its hands, and eventually just shrug. 😡
I think the view among the people is also that “Well, it’s all been exposed – now someone will do something about it. So we can attend to other matters. It’s no longer our concern.” As if to say exposure is itself an action taken.
Yes, good point! 👍
Visited last night and there was comments and today some are deleted.
doesn’t make your argument any stronger Off gr when your deleting comments.
It’s you me are the only ones that can control this our destinies. Don’t let them make you feel afraid it’s all lies.Only way to defeat this onslaught is to not be afraid.
Is the “pending” I experience at every post of more than one paragraph a form of shadow banning in the works? To a non-censorship advocating publication i do not understand the everyday “pending” business. Does WaPo and LAT lack of endorsement signal PTB wanted MrT all along? And the incredibly incompetent Harris-Biden tag team was a placeholder to guarantee return of the Orange one? Or is PTB just flailing away like the Tazmanian Devil to see how much chaos is possible?
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/wapo-bails-kamala-wont-make-presidential-endorsement
A couple of other ideas. The media no longer make an effort to cover up the atrocities, because they know hardly anyone is watching. With the vast majority being disembodied by digital conditions, the media no longer find it necessary to carry as much disinformation as they used to.
The vast majority limit their exposure to external information to texts from friends about the color of their piss or what their latest cocktail contains, and maybe to a news feed from a specialized site which discusses celebrity news, sports,….
And lots of people who still bother looking up from their MeDevices will take media evidence of genocide to mean that it’s just fake news, i’ve even seen it here in this forum.
The colour of your piss changes drastically with certain foods or drinks. Maybe some bars can take this up.
We all know there’s going to be perpetual wars and fear mongering that’s the way they control you by fear. There’s been experiments done before we were born howcto control us we to them are the same as lab rats?!.
What ever they broadcast, tell the public is either what they want or is OK for readers to receive. After the war coverage of the Vietnam invasion fueled the success of the anti-war movement and eventual shutdown of the war, the PTB seem to have decided to serious limit the public from seeing the PTB’s harsh reality products.
I can tell y’all that news in the 60’s was actual journalism. How censored it actually was was a fraction of the 21st C. I remember watching 15 minutes of Cronkite’s CBS national news running through explicit details of the Watergate scandal many months before any action was happening. Also a CBS white paper on the Iran Iraq War being lubricated and milked by administration & high-ups with profit flowing in. Then Bill Moyers Secret Government uncovered the CIA coke and arms dealing corruption of the Reagan admin. That video was blacklisted out of public access for decades. Amazingly it now resides on Youtube and on Moyer’s site for anyone to see. I advise everyone watch that report. Apparently they like being in our face fascist, now, showing us they can do anything without repercussion. Decades later. Meanwhile the everyday now, is more highly manipulated than ever. Obviously why/confusion slows public response.
https://billmoyers.com/content/secret-government-constitution-crisis/
In common English, an adviser is like an aide or secretary whom a government official appoints to assist him. The adviser is not answerable to the rest of government or the public. He has no authority announce or explain policy. Of course, the Empire is exceptional.
Improved technology. The important word ‘ROTHSCHILD’ hardly ever gets mentioned. They may think it has to be now for reasons that only they understand, or think they understand.
Pike’s scheduled time for WW111? 3rd Temple and Messiach time? Bring on the dancing Nephilim?
I was in Israel for a couple of months in 1995, subsequent to which I warned people that it was definitely going to boil over at some point. I’m surprised it took nearly 30 years But it was running in slow motion all the time anyway. I saw it. At ground level normal everyday Israeli hostility and group punishment of the whole Palestinian nation.
They just pretended it wasn’t actually happening.
Every Christian visiting his Holy Land has pretended studiously not to notice the treatment and genocide of his “fellow Christians” Palestinians. Blessed are those who can double-think.
History will condemn all corporate media as complicit in this genocide. Maybe they’re telling the truth to save face. Unfortunately, that’s too late.
Given that history is written by the winners, I hope to god you’re right.
Corporate Media is effectively State Media, a literal Ministry of Information.
Muslims will stay a minority, victims of violent self-defenders as long a woke neo Marxists are still alive. Check with the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran for example.
From what I understand, they are actually the majority in certain places
When something becomes too obvious to completely ignore or even to sugar coat – as, e.g., video of burning patients still on their hospital beds – then The Lie be damned: The Truth must be told.
The saving grace for the MSM is, of course, that not everything is so in-your-face as the genocide in Gaza has been; so it isn’t necessary to report everything – such as the incident Mr. Knightly cites, or the thoroughly debunked Syrian chemical attack on its own people which the infamous White Helmets supposedly witnessed.
Besides which, the US/MSM is still desperately trying to hide the massive gas/oil reserves offshore of Gaza – but that’s becoming too well exposed for comfort. (They are still able to hide the even more massive reserves just offshore of Port-Au-Prince, Haiti with idiotic Trumpisms about Haitians eating American pets and with stories about gangland killings in Haiti itself.)
Why? So they can check whether or not the the brainwashing is still effective. I’m confident that it is everywhere but in the tiny minority who seem immune. If public opinion wavers the media will focus on a few Muslim criminals and talk about the hollow cost.
worldwide broadcasting of live demonstration of weapons and capabilities.
free advertising!
list of atrocities without criticism or condemnation becomes a list of Achievements!
You always ask the questions I find myself asking…
But as for an answer, I really don’t know.
Have these mouthpieces of the New Establishment been instructed to cover these stories to help maintain the fiction that they are impartial, and shore up the crumbling reputation of the mainstream media? Maybe.
Or maybe highlighting Israel’s war crimes is part of the domestic agenda: it’s apt to enrage Muslims living in western countries. Perhaps the plan is to incite vast numbers of Muslims to take to the streets in protest, knowing that nationalist groups will immediately organise and go out to confront them (as described in points 2 and 9 of this recent OffG article).
I guess time will tell…
All this horror has been part of ‘the great noticing ‘ and it seems to be a case of the best place to hide a needle is not a haystack but a stack of needles.
Why? That’s just how they are
How? That’s just the list of accomplices.
MSM may be exposing “the truth” about Israel atrocities, but they do not go far enough.
Israel is the bad guy. But who is supporting Israel behind the scenes? Who is funding israel with millions of dollars every year? What about AIPAC?
The MSM does not expose the power of the Israel lobby in the United States.
From everything I have read and heard, it seems that Israel is the 51st State.
As long as the United States is connected at the hip then the United States bears responsiblity for what is happening in Palestine and the Middle East.
No real pushback from the US Presidential Candidates and their entourages. Too busy throwing sand at each other.
Actually, the msm has been revealing the truth and the message from the powers that control them.
Couldn’t have been clearer than on Novermber 22, 1963. In broad daylight.
You just have to block out the narrative.
macron warned israel against barbarism.
the message will probably go down like this: genocide is good. it is the barbarism that is bad!
antony Blinken is a military strategist?
he told israel earlier to use small bombs on Civilians in Gaza. now we can figure out how he finished the sentence:
“save the big bombs for Beirut”
For the answer, look no further than the Merriam Webster dictionary definition of the term “Sublation” :
“to negate or eliminate (something, such as an element in a dialectic process) but preserve as a partial element in a synthesis”
Its simple logical deduction, the goal is to ‘externalize the hierarchy’ and bring in a draconian masonic age, complete with new ‘law’ for the gents, simply whats happening, work backwards and look at whats possible. This is the back-story for yet another WW2 style-great-hoax where the masses will accept this new paradigm, for the greater utopia.
Yup. The Zionists are the new ‘Nazis’ — they exist only to start WW3, in which they (and we!) are to be destroyed so that the elites can roll out their New World Order at last.
Because it’s not getting through?
Sorry off topic:
It’s official; Australians are the most gullible and desperate gamblers in the world:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-10-25/health-impact-gambling-worldwide-much-worse-research-says/104516794
No wonder we grovel to the USian and UK governments.
We can’t think for ourselves.
Curious how the article and study repeatedly frame gambling as a “public health issue”, emphasizing the “health impact” in the headlines. Yet it is never or barely specified in the articles what this connection between gambling and “health” is supposed to be.
Aside from gambling addiction itself, there obviously would not seem to be any direct connection between games and “health” in the sense the word is normally used (physical diseases). And the notion that gambling itself is the cause of gambling addiction as opposed to other factors and mental illnesses leading this behavior seems questionable at best.
Despise this, the Lancet goes out of their way, contorting their study in order to conflate certain behaviors with disease/“public health”. Much like we’ve seen before with other things like “climate change”
Exactly.
A void that must be filled,
one way or another.
And the exploiters, private and government, provide the means
200+ vermin posted clips of themselves torturing or sexually abusing Palestinians. A Belgium-based NGO collected this as evidence, prompting the vermin to delete the social media accounts. As an earlier article mentioned (here?), vermin have demonstrated publicly and rioted for the release of fellow vermin rapists who were arrested.
In the mainstream media ‘a day late and a dollar short’ is always the modus operandi on ‘important’ stories. Probably two other factors for the truth bombs: a) to give the media itself some credibility to tell further lies, with a pretence of balance; b) to taunt the public about what the Israeli regime capable of, thus warning off opponents to the Israeli regime. The latter is actually a common tactic of evil people in ordinary life – when they realise their lies have stopped gaining traction, they plumb new depths in an attempt to ‘show who is boss’ and provoke outrage.
Yup, the feeling of powerlessness created by this endless massacre is part of the ‘narrative’. Somewhat like when they put out images of their bogeymen coming to a very bad end – it’s a warning for everybody else.
Obviously, the surveillance they want to bring in as part of their future plans is not mentioned in the MSM (as far as I know, I defer to Knightly’s superior knowledge about whatever is published there) : https://www.uncaptured.media/p/us-authorizes-cia-mercenaries-to
I think it’s the next phase in the education programme. Now that they can no longer hide it, now that their cover has been blown, they’re showing it to us. To make us realise: some are allowed to do anything. Some, of which you are not one, get away with any crime. And there’s nothing you can do about it. Get used to it.
And when it’s your turn, you know how it ends and you’ll be grateful if you’re only locked up in 15-minute cities. If you only have to eat vermin and not starve. Because we can do otherwise. Any time. And you can do nothing.
War crimes? Yes, there many committed by Palestinian terrorist scum and that is why Palestinians now have to pay the bill…same holds for Hezbollah terrorists and Lebanese people!!!
😂 😂 😂 😂 😂
“Why this, why now ?” you ask. If I take your basic premise to be correct then I could say “revelation of the method”. Normies that I speak to realise that Israel is committing a genocide. What can be done ? Meaningful dissent against what is happening is basically either illegal, politically suicidal or considered morally dubious for complex cultural reasons. It really does Israel’s aims and plans no damage to have their brutality exposed. They have the kill switch and their lobby has taken over the West. They are mad supremacists who care little or nothing about public perceptions anymore.
I do not actually accept your premise anyway. You present as an example the Odessa fire, which to anyone reading concertedly about it, is clearly a very complicated/ contested matter, not a simple (fake) binary of ‘pro-Maiden thugs murdering anti-Maiden innocents’ vs. ‘pro-Russian thugs throwing Molotov cocktails at the crowd from the roof and getting torched for it ‘. The context is what counts : a coup revolution sponsored by the Western agents, a stirring up of genuine divide in Ukrainian society. The Guardian (MI6) are not going to provide that context for sure, but even they reported later in a far more balanced way viz a viz who started the fires. (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/30/there-was-heroism-and-cruelty-on-both-sides-the-truth-behind-one-of-ukraines-deadliest-days).
What I am reading less and less of from nominally ‘Left’ media critics is any meaningful context to what is happening in the world. To say that ‘the media lie, and therefore only print the truth when it suits an agenda’ is not really a great logic in my book.
Jonathan Cook writes that the media are messing with our heads (https://www.jonathan-cook.net/blog/2024-10-19/media-messing-heads-hostages/). The MSM are reporting things that are actually happening, ignoring other things, and they are still distorting coverage as much as they can to render interpretation of the events warped and opposition to them dead.
I think this article (above) is simplistic.
While I do not think the above article simplistic, I do agree with your points about msm coverage.
Distorted and confusing. Which is all part of the plan I suppose.
Can you help me with the logic Judith ?
If the media lie, and sometimes are silent about things that are newsworthy, why does it necessarily follow that all that is in the MSM is there solely because ‘they want us to think about it’ ?
Thinking more about this article, Kit’s example surely contradicts his own argument. Why was the Odessa fire reported at all ? Everyone seems to be in agreement that it was Pro-Russian protestors who were burned to death in the building at the instigation of their opponents. It hardly serves the Western coup organisers to have people aware of this atrocity. Surely they could have just blanked it out like many other things that have been censored by omission ?
I suspect a degree of ‘cope’ going on. The last year has shown that the general Leftist position that ‘Israel is a client state of the US’ to be wrong. Kit in another article asks if Israel will be ‘let loose’, as if on a leash held by the US. I think a lot of people are realising that the leash is held by Israel and this raises discomforting questions for some.
I don’t pretend to know the logic, but as to the leash, perhaps it’s the US one one leash, and Israel on another. Being walked by the same Power.
The change is immaterial, as long as the flow of weapons to Israel continues. For that matter, condemnations by Turkiye, UAE, Saudi, Jordan, Russia and China are immaterial, they are continuing to supply Israel with critical materials or enabling the transport thereof (Turkiye allowing transport of oil from Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan). The media now covering the atrocities is part of a PsyOp, make it look like the US, UK, … are really trying to stop things from escalating while they actually fully enable it.
Going back to Sumer it has always been a two headed eagle running the chessboard and their shills have always mixed truth with their lies.
Its difficult to not believe in or create fantastic theories of the world being governed behind the scenes by a small cabal because of the way the reporting of our world is manipulated. Even when actual manipulation is reported, as one CNN staffer did relatively recently (I believe), a traces of such contradictory information just disappear, disappear as surely as if they’d been dropped into Winston Smith’s Memory Hole.
(The fact that this was described in “1984” suggests that this practice has been going on for generations.)
Its not the fault of reporters in general but rather the people who take their information and ‘shape’ it — the sub-editors and editors, the people who decide what to put in, what to leave out and how to shape and mold the story to suit the narrative of their employers. You’d think it was difficult to pull this off these days with the myriad of original sources and indeed it is — I know about Odessa, for example, but I didn’t read it in an American news source, for example — but you can see how increasingly large amounts of effort are being used to choke deviant news sources off. Sometimes a had is overplayed — being a journalist in the West Bank, Gaza or anywhere like that is known to be hazardous to one’s health (you’re likely to be ‘accidentally’ shot or bombed) — but even then the popular narrative, the one sold to us by our MSM, holds sway.
One story I’m watching with interest is the deployment of North Koreans in the Russia / Ukraine “SMO” (war, to you and me). This is not just because of the way stories are being planted here, there, and everywhere but also the rather unlikely and essentially illogical nature of this story (i.e. Why would the Russians want a couple of thousand DPRK troops milling around on an unfamiliar battlefield thousands of miles from home?) and the way its spawning meta-stories (e.g. South Korea says its going to send weapons to Ukraine). There’s obvious some method to this madness, some reason behind it, but the story itself is so preposterous that it only makes sense to someone completely unaware of what’s happening in that part of the world. (There’s also the notion that who the Russians work with is really the business of the Russians, not Lloyd Austin.) Its a trivial example but its isolation makes it easy to monitor. Its possible that is a ‘watch the birdie’ type diversion that’s distracting us while something bigger, more important and a whole lot nastier happens elsewhere. Like in the ME or Iran.
This wall of text has nothing to do with the question of why the western media are finally reporting Israel’s genocide in a way they never have before.
You’re just smoke blowing like the establishment shill you are.
The MSM is beginning to maybe talk of atrocities in WB and Gaza because there’s real fear that the Zionists are overplaying their hand. But coverage is still muted — a couple of dozen killed as the last hospital in north Gaza is razed, three journalists killed in Lebanon, just a couple of stories from yesterday that aren’t in my paper (or any of the other larger US outlets I’ve glanced at this morning).
BTW. I’m not an ‘establishment shill’, I’m just old. Sorry if I come across as “I’ve seen this all before”.( Because I have.)
Re the North Koreans: apparently the DPRK soldiers are in far Eastern Russia, doing training exercises – which has been an on-going arrangement for decades (North Korea shares a border with Russia). They are not in Ukraine fighting.
No, it’s not a war, or Zelensky and the Verkhovna Rada would be dead, and the kiev nightclubs definitively closed.
The sheer scale of the cruelty and barbarity being perpetrated by NATO through Israel and to a certain extent, Ukraine … appears to be quite deliberate. Therefore, one would have to conclude that the desperation level to provide compelling ‘distractors’ … have reached unprecedented degrees of urgency, to mask what is being engineered ‘in-the-background’ . Moreover, any mug would by now realise that the economies of most Western-democracies are not looking too good. So, something has got to blow … s-o-o-n. I just hope that my version of common-sense is deceiving me …
Some of us remember the Vietnam war and the nightly reporting of atrocities by U.S. and allied forces, always covered by the excuse there were Viet Cong and People’s Army of terrorists in the area or hiding in the villages, etc. Same thing only different.
“Israel has a responsibility to do more to avoid civilian casualties — and what happened here is horrifying, even if Hamas was operating near the hospital in an attempt to use civilians as human shields.”
So, they report it, but it’s still on the enemy and war is hell.
Sometime back Thierry Meyssan of Voltaire.org predicted that if Israel attacked Lebanon US would turn against Netanyahu. I didn’t understand his reasoning & now can’t find the article. Israel is becoming more violent against Lebanon & US appears to be using truth bomb against them. Or could there be a disagreement between the Israeli govt & other branches of the global pestilence about Israel’s attacks on the UN?
If neither of these, then US govt is distancing itself in advance from a known (& agreed upon) future act of the Israelis. I would certainly guess a nuclear act, no?
Everything can be easily explained by that one all-consuming magical word: Elections. The US is desperately trying to keep Israel from attacking Iran until after November 5th. So perhaps the sudden appearance of atrocity stories in the MSM is to hold Israel at bay till after the election.
Howard, good thinking, man. Certainly likely.
Incendiary. Front page legacy media reports about Israels war crimes and a growing Islamic population in the west, legal and illegal. Not sure what I am trying to say really. But when you can’t catch the dog that bit you, becomes easy to fear or hate all dogs.
Not really that surprising. CNN & Guardian are leftist / Democrat-biassed outlets. Kamala Harris a thinly-veiled (or even overt?) anti-semite.
Try finding similar articles in Fox News, The Daily Mail or the Telegraph
I thought her husband was of that ethnicity, this is how far the “anti” goes?
Has Kamala ever expressed any pro-Israel, pro-Zion sentiment or action (other than rearranging her husband’s kippah and the odd visit to Israel)?
If not, then ‘perfect cover’ springs to mind
the snake perpetuates itself by periodically shedding its skin
when one henchman of empire has covered himself in so much blood that the stench becomes intolerable, he is duly hung out to dry, and the next henchman comes in to the cheers of the masses, hailed as a savior, cf Starmer, Sisi in Egypt, Iliescu in Rumania etc
the War Criminal is dead! long live the War Criminal!
New York Times editorialists have been calling for Netanyahu’s head, or sober think tank pundits are gravely concerned about this or that rabid wing nut in the Israeli ruling cabal, so those Bad Apples will have their comeuppance and with them all these confessed sins are washed away
in any case it’s likely that not even a fraction of all the shit that’s really going down over there has actually seeped out to us from under the Iron Dome of Israeli military censorship
where are the reports, for instance, about the vast torture apparatus which has swallowed up tens of thousands of Palestinian prisoners whose dismal fate was after all the principal motivation for the October 7th attack by the Gaza resistance?
remember that according to official establishment editorial policy, Israel is “the Jewish state”, though it serves the interests of Jewish people about as well as the Islamic State of Daesh served Muslims
just as in the Middle Ages of Europe Jews were organized into a useful pariah class of money-lenders, for the benefit of aristocrats who could keep their hands clean and let that minority act as a lightning rod for popular resentment, nowadays Zionist exceptionalism, cynically justified by appeal to the special victimhood of the Holocaust which somehow confers on descendants of those victims a unique status under international law, represents a convenient shield for the dirty business of global domination
Your last para. overlooks the fact that no mediaeval Jew was organised in a body (a State) that had the equivalent of 400 nuclear weapons incl. ICBMs and the Samson Option (Seymour Hersh, Martin van Crefeld)