The Dishonesty of Western Media on Gaza
Genocide? What Genocide?
A fascinating interview, well worth watching.
Suella Braverman is a Tory MP in Britain. Here she debates a student about Gaza and the ongoing genocide there.
Watching this interview exposes the playbook of Western politicians and the media. It’s about accusing student protesters of antisemitism; of getting them to denounce Hamas; of asking them about Israel’s “right to exist”; of starting the debate with the Hamas attacks on October 7th. Those are the “facts” that matter to the Western media and politicians like Suella Braverman.
Fiona Lali, the student here, does a superb job of focusing on the facts that matter: the roughly 40,000 Palestinians already killed by Israel, the more than 100,000 wounded, the millions displaced from their homes, together with the Western policy of covering for Israel while sending them more weaponry to kill more Palestinians. Those facts don’t seem to matter to the mainstream media, and politicians are careful to ignore them or to dismiss them as “necessary” since Israel has “a right to defend itself.”
Apparently, Fiona Lali is associated with “the revolutionary communist party” and is a critic of capitalism. Perhaps the British establishment believed that she’d come across as a crazy radical. As you watch the interview, you realize Lali is the rational “conservative” in that she’s trying to conserve the lives of Palestinians while arguing for free speech and a system that doesn’t exploit the many for the benefit of a few.
I hope Lali is correct that the majority of Britons are against sending more weapons to Israel, though I doubt the Tories in Britain care here.
It’s rather incredible that this Tory MP argues there is no evidence of genocide in Gaza and that the real issue is antisemitism and Israel’s right to exist.
I've observed over the last decade the attacks of the elites on selected segments of their society. This appears to be a common tactic of the supposedly enlightened western civilizations in North America and Europe.
From the vile H. Clinton's "basket of deplorables" and Obama's "clinging" to their religion and guns in 2016; to Biden and essentially all of Congress calling students and others "Hamas supporters" and lawbreakers for protesting genocide; and now this example from Britain; this all about vilification and silencing the citizenry to maintain control.
While difficult to observe, these are all the lasts gasps of the fading empire led by the US. Somewhere out there, if hasn't already happened, is the next Suez Crisis that ends the empire.
I have reached a point where the horror of all the evil our country imposes on others leaves me speechless and utterly sad and depressed. The daily bombardment of lies by our oligarch owned Mainstream Press has left this country ( and I fear the entire planet) hopelessly and helplessly bereft of any possibility of improving this nightmare situation of death and destruction along with the destruction of all life on this planet deliberately allowed by the oil,coal and gas companies along with those who run the companies that create machines and poisons that kill everything - every type of animal including human, all plants - including everything edible found on land or sea. The news is full of stories of purposeful death, torture and betrayal. I am now, along with my longtime anti-Americanism, now also anti-Israelist. I find it difficult to decide which Government I despise more. Both governments are as corrupt as it is possible to be, and the citizens of each country have been imbued by their educational systems to go along with whatever their corrupt leaders tell them. Critical thinking has been killed off. Both Americans and Israelis are capable of seeing daily news casts of 100's of thousands of children being murdered or tortured by starvation or other cruelties and believing somehow that this is the fault of the children and their parents so we have no responsability to stop this, while the minority who speak out against it are arrested, beaten or attacked in multiple other ways. (University presidents have devised several unique forms of financial torture for poor young people)
I see no end to this because almost everyone I know has decided to let it go on. Elections are coming in a few months and it appears that almost everyone in this country has decided NOT to try to change anything, but to vote for one of the two most corrupt politicians this country has ever produced. The same goes for Israel. The citizens of both countries prefer to have very old evil men as their ruler than even consider taking a chance on someone who appears noticeably less corrupt. (There are several out there.) Our lying corrupt education system has won out and the students have graduated with a degree in believing lies and being afraid of opposing the criminals who run their lives.
P.S. I just read this quote from West Point Modern War Institute "War happens when a society or its leader is unaccountable, ideological, uncertain, biased or unreliable." Biden fills all those traits, and so does Trump, and we're supposed to choose?