“On the BBC News at Six on Friday, @BowenBBC spoke to a Gazan man who, he said, is proudly ready to give not only his life for Jerusalem, but also those of his wife and child. We were left to wonder how on board with that his wife is.
Certainly Bowen didn’t seem surprised by such an outrageous statement, or seem to want to question the sense and rationality of it.
His report showed many hundreds of young Gazan men, parading along the streets and rubble, proudly claiming they have achieved victory over Israel – despite the considerable ruins of many buildings – and saying they will never give up until Jerusalem is theirs.
On social media the same comments are made over and over. Israel is behaving like the Nazis. Israel is an apartheid state. Israel (or the Jews) wants to grab all the land in the Middle East. Israel shouldn’t even exist.
Delve a bit deeper and you’ll read about organ stealing and the drinking of the blood of Palestinian babies.
Of course it is horrendous to see children killed – from whichever ‘side’. War is ugly, heinous and horrific. Civilian casualties and destroyed buildings aren’t what any normal human being wants to see.
Reporters need to stop ignoring the even uglier truth, however: that if Hamas had the opportunity, it would wipe out every Jew on Earth.
There is no equivalence between Israel and Hamas. There’s a disparity in casualties, a mismatch in military might, and an altogether different approach to the value of civilian life and protecting it.
And there’s also a disparity in how each side of this conflict is reported on in the Western media. Reporters should put their house in order.”
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George Floyd was just a man. The facts of his life are indeed tragic, but they are also mundane.
Yet he has been so valourised in death, and the events of his demise so mythologised, that meaningful attempts to reflect on his life by people who only became aware of his existence after he was gone are futile.
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The solution they chose, which party officials made clear this week, was simple: the way third-world elites always do—by using street violence to keep their clients in line.
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“You can take action today by protesting, attending a vigil, making a public commitment to Palestinian Liberation, signing a petition, or calling your government officials to place sanctions on Isreal (sic),” she wrote Wednesday morning.
“The time is now to take a stand for those impacted by state-sanctioned violence and crimes against the humanity of the most vulnerable in our world.”