UK ‘mainstream’ media’s collusion in government’s collaboration in Israel’s extermination of Palestinians is appalling but not surprising
Israeli media are more open and honest about the crimes of their own government in Gaza and the West Bank than their UK counterparts. This is not a new phenomenon – Israeli media have talked openly for a year or more about the slaughter of an ‘immense’ number of Israelis by their own military on 7 Otober 2023 that UK and other western media still ignore – but it is one to which new examples are constantly being added.
BBC News presenters still panic whenever a guest mentions Israel’s genocide, despite the findings of the International Court of Justice, United Nations and human rights groups, and quickly push the Israeli propaganda line – or are supporters of Israel coldly determined to do so – but in Israel many media outlets freely use the word even though the regime will not:
UK broadcasters describe Israel’s criminal forced displacement of hundreds of thousands of civilians as ‘evacuations’, but Israeli media admit their government is committing ethnic cleansing, a war crime and often a component of genocide:
ethnic cleansing, the attempt to create ethnically homogeneous geographic areas through the deportation or forcible displacement of persons belonging to particular ethnic groups. Ethnic cleansing sometimes involves the removal of all physical vestiges of the targeted group through the destruction of monuments, cemeteries, and houses of worship.
britannica.com
UK media frequently parrot Israeli claims that ‘Hamas’ is using the civilian population of Gaza as human shields – despite the obvious facts that people have nowhere else to go in the tiny enclave and that international law does not allow the killing of ‘human shields’ even if that’s what they were – but they are silent about the fact that Israel is using Palestinian hostages as human shields on a daily, and widespread, basis. Israeli media, however, make no secret of it:
The BBC and others continue to use Israel’s narrative that its slaughter of at least two hundred thousand Palestinian civilians is about securing the return of Israeli captives, despite the fact that captives who have died have been almost all killed by Israeli bombs and all could have been released within a month of October 2023 through negotiation. Israel’s media acknowledge that Netanyahu has no interest in the wellbeing and release of the hostages or of looking for a peaceful resolution and is instead looking to his own interests and is hated by captives’ families for his disdain for their loved ones:
UK media rarely mention the criminality of Netanyahu and his government, even the International Criminal Court warrant for his arrest for crimes against humanity. Israeli media, by contrast, are clear that more than one in ten of Israel’s government are under investigation for crimes ranging from corruption, fraud and bribery to money-laundering:
Like current and former UK government figures – especially Keir Starmer – the UK media are actively and even enthusiastically collaborating with the genocidal apartheid Israeli regime and in providing political and narrative cover while the extermination of two million civilians continues not just unchecked, but actively aided by the UK, US and other western governments.
Netanyahu is scheduled to visit Hungary tomorrow despite the ICC arrest warrant obliging one hundred and twenty signatory countries to detain him and deliver him to the Court. Poland, France, Germany and Italy are among the signatory governments that have said they will not carry out that obligation and Keir Starmer’s government has refused to say that it will fulfil its legal duty. There have been no ‘mainstream’ media editorials demanding that he do so.
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This represents merely one example of the way in which the UK Corporate media – along with the rest of the Western Corporate media mislead – as well as lie by omission and commission – the citizenry on any and every subject under the sun.
As Jeffrey Sachs notes here……
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/02/27/jeffrey-sachs-the-geopolitics-of-peace/
……in a recent presentation to European Members of Parliament which is just as relevant and applicable to Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Palestinian situation – along with Yemen and Iran – as it is to the examples Sachs uses::
“Let us please understand as grown-ups what this is about……
It’s a very unusual kind of foreign policy…..if you don’t like the other side, you don’t negotiate with them, you try to overthrow them, preferably, covertly. If it doesn’t work covertly, you do it overtly. You always say it’s not our fault. They’re the aggressor. They’re the other side.
They’re “Hitler.” That comes up every two or three years. Whether it’s Saddam Hussein, whether it’s [deposed Syrian President Bashar] al-Assad, whether it’s Putin, that’s very convenient. That’s the only foreign policy explanation the…. people are ever given. Well, we’re facing Munich 1938. We can’t talk to the other side. They’re evil and implacable foes. That’s the only model of foreign policy we ever hear from our government and mass media. The mass media repeats it entirely because it’s completely suborned by the U.S. (and every other Western Oligarch based) government.”
This Goebbels like propaganda model is designed to frighten the citizenry into acting against its own and everyone else’s best interests. Whether it’s foreign policy, domestic policy, economics, immigration and every other issue, the same play book is operating.
Spot on!
I have discovered this too – mainly Haaretz but also including
other more “Establishment” media like the “Times of Israel” and
those you quote
It was in the T o I that I read shortly after the October 7th
murders that “For years Netanyahu propped up Hamas”.
N will
(1) support any one or any group who will protect him from
prison ..
(2) supports any group which disrupts Palestinian Unity ..
I would hazard a guess that (1) supersedes (2) !
HF
Needless to say, if civilians sheltering in a school or a hospital etc DON’T deter Israel from bombing the location (when Hamas operatives are allegedly located there), then they are NOT human shields, and the IDF/BN & Co are lying. And they are undoubtedly ALSO lying that Hamas use such locations as command posts, or are we supposed to believe that Hamas are not only stupid, but suicidal as well.
Just came across this India Today article posted a few hours ago re the 15 paramedics and rescue workers the IDF murdered and buried in a mass grave. Here are several passages from it:
The Israeli military said Sunday that on March 23, troops opened fire on vehicles that were “advancing suspiciously” toward them without emergency signals.
It said “an initial assessment” determined that the troops killed a Hamas operative named Mohammed Amin Shobaki and eight other militants. Israel has struck ambulances and other emergency vehicles in the past, accusing Hamas militants of using them for transportation.
However, none of the dead staffers from the Red Crescent and Civil Defense had that name, and no other bodies were reported found at the site, raising questions over the military’s suggestion that alleged militants were among the rescue workers.
The military did not immediately respond to requests for the names of the other alleged militants killed or for comment on how the emergency workers came to be buried.
It also says the following, contrary to what the IDF stated and implied in many articles I’ve read – ie that the vehicles had no lights on (and so it must have therefore been night-time):
“The available information indicates that the first team was killed by Israeli forces on 23 March,” the UN said in a statement Sunday night.
Further emergency teams that went to rescue the first team were “struck one after another over several hours,” it said. All the teams went out during daylight hours, according to the Civil Defense.
And under the subheading MASS GRAVE, it says the following:
For days, Israeli forces would not allow access to the site where the emergency teams disappeared, the UN said.
On Wednesday, a UN convoy tried to reach the site but encountered Israeli troops opening fire on people.
The convoy saw a woman who had been shot lying in the road. The dashboard video shows staff talking about retrieving the woman. Then two people are seen walking across the road. Gunfire rings out and they flee. One stumbles, apparently wounded, before he is shot and falls onto his face to the ground. The UN said the team retrieved the body of the woman and left.
On Sunday, the UN said teams were able to reach the site after the Israeli military informed it where it had buried the bodies, in a barren area on the edges of Tel al-Sultan. Footage released by the U.N shows workers from PRCS and Civil Defence, wearing masks and bright orange vests, digging through hills of dirt that appeared to have been piled up by Israeli bulldozers.
The footage shows them digging out multiple bodies wearing orange emergency vests. Some of the bodies are found piled on top of each other. At one point, they pull out a body in a Civil Defence vest out of the dirt, and it is revealed to be a torso with no legs. Several ambulances and a UN vehicle, all heavily damaged or torn apart, are also buried in the dirt.
“Their bodies were gathered and buried in this mass grave,” said Jonathan Whittall, with the UN humanitarian office OCHA, speaking at the site in the video. “We’re digging them out in their uniforms, with their gloves on. They were here to save lives.”
“It’s absolute horror what has happened here,” he said.
https://www.indiatoday.in/world/story/palestinian-medics-killed-by-israeli-troops-in-gaza-buried-in-mass-graves-reports-un-2702009-2025-04-01
It was rightly said by a BBC spokesperson apropos Syria
– after the long war(s) there
“There are no good people left there now – only bad.”
(Of course he/she meant potential leaders ..)
My parents told me about the cynical reception by them and their
friends in the 1930s concerning Nazi Germany. Chamberlain’s
negotiations with Hitler waving a sheet of paper after the Munich agreement and
“Peace for our Time” was greeted by “Ha – a piece of Poland,
a piece of Czechoslovakia….” as unfortunately negotiations do not
always lead to a lasting peace against a ruthless and implacable
enemy – think Netanyahu .. think Putin. Further the West has been supplying
Israel with Arms and did absolutely nothing about Putins expansionist
policy (eg Crimea).
A couple of years ago I bought
“Diary of an Invasion” by Andrey Kurkov which gives an interesting account
of that country and its culture – which Putin wants to wipe out. (Kurkov
is an Ukrainian who writes well regarded novels in Russian.)
Contrary to what is said – Ukrainians are NOT
forbidden to speak Russian – and those who speak Russian do not
necessarily want to be ruled by Russia.
The current war between the Russians Federation and the West is not
a zero sum game ..
There was no threat of Ukraine joining NATO before it was invaded
by Russia as many or most of NATO countries were against it –
so Russia invaded a country which is NOT in NATO and justified this
in the number of NATO bases surrounding it .. resulting in a rush
of countries applying to join the group. Chomsky wrote an interesting
piece about it a couple of years ago making some of these points and
asking “Are there no Statesmen in Russia?” –
responding ironically by nominating TRUMP” as the candidate
Statesman ..
https://x.com/i/status/1906798112007757834
A tragedy against humanitarian work.
The Red Crescent emblem, meant to protect you, has instead become the shroud that wrapped your bodies.
Sami’s Pain is the Pain of Every Child in Gaza: A Doctor’s Testimony
On December 14, 2024, in the afternoon, I was working in the emergency room at Al-Aqsa hospital in Deir al-Balah. During a mass casualty incident that day, we had dozens of patients arrive after an air raid on a refugee camp nearby.
One of those patients was an 8-year-old little boy named Sami. He was carried in by another boy not much older than him. He was transported by a donkey cart because automobiles had been destroyed for the most part, and new ones were blocked from entering.
Sami had a blast injury to his face, ripping apart most of the vital structures. His mouth, nose, and eyelids were all injured.
Sami’s story, as told by the volunteer US doctor that treated him, is worth reading.
The worst thing I saw – and there have been so many horrors committed
in Gaza – was a scene of the reaction of a young child – aged 7 or 8 to
the corpse of another child – his friend maybe.
Besides grief the affected child showed both incomprehension plus HUGE RAGE,
Another possible recruit for Hamas in a few years I guess
HF
Ah, so you’ve skulked your way back onto the forum, after once again spouting your usual shite about toerag smarmerite policy….Only for them to repeatedly bollocks the imbecilic case you persist in putting up for them, and allowing them to prove beyond doubt that you’re just a know-nothing, gutless gobshite
RE: thieves’spring statement.
You told us to wait n see. We waited, and saw.
Common courtesy dictates that you owe each and every one of us an explanation, instead of disappearing for a few days, hoping things will blow over.
Therefore:
1. What was the point?
https://www.irishtimes.com/world/uk/2025/03/19/whats-the-point-of-labour-starmer-in-backlash-over-5bn-in-benefits-cuts/
2. As youll continue to insist that everyone who will not vote smarmerite is a tory, lerhaps you’ll furnish us with a smarmerite policy that isnt?
3. Where – and who, exactly – are these recipients of this so-called better future you insisted we’d get, had we voted continuation toerag, aka smarmerism?
But you’re ‘above’ answering us great unwashed, arent you?
Noncecase
https://skwawkbox.org/2025/03/23/israel-bombs-gazas-nasser-hospital-where-us-doctors-working-who-exposed-occupation-regimes-crimes/#comment-265622