Western Shocked About Blatant Israel
Western Shocked About Blatant Israel
Imagine how much Biden could achieve if he actually used his diplomatic leverage to stand up for human rights instead of being such a complicit coward.
Jerusalem, Gaza Strip, Tel Aviv 8.49pm
US soldiers, some indicating ‘SPECIAL FORCE’ not only regular soldier, are really taking part in this ground invasion even after ‘warlord of Fallujah’ James F. Glynn back to US because frustrated with heinous Netanyahu. But [gradually] refreshing amount of honesty by a great number of Western media and multilateral organizations and NGOs as to what's actually going on in Gaza.
Only 18 percent Israeli still support Bibi.
link = #saytheirnames – #freepalestine –
The BBC has been shockingly even-handed so far, the FT has had stories after stories calling for a ceasefire [BOARD EDITORIAL — arguably response after gigantic protesters day-by-day in London and entire UK], same thing for the Washington Post [started by Evan Hill - OSINT / Forensic team, repeated debunked about babies beheaded until Al Ahli Hospital].
Influencing Western-optics of foreign policy in a serious way is impossible through the formal system, which is designed to keep the global public out.
White House spokesman Kirby is asked if an Israeli strike on the Jabalia refugee camp is a war crime. “I'm not going to speculate”
I know a lot of high-ranking media, such as New York Times, Guardian, Anadolu, BILD, Spiegel, Financial Times, Strait Times, Washington Post etc subscribed my substack. Plestia Alaqad ready to be your Stringer inside Gaza under bombing by Israel. Plestiaa2011@gmail.com
Toddler with Plestia, before war, living in Northern Gaza and they evacuated to Southern Gaza. Since Friday, Oct 13, when Israel announced to every Gazans from northern move to southern, more than 5,000 killed in southern, not counting barbaric bombing in northern Gaza. Northern Gaza is being depopulated, while even residents in the south are ordered to evacuate as the israelis implement their ethnic cleansing. Refugee literally fulfilled Israel warning, and still killed with barbaric bombing by Israel. Documentation by Plestia Alaqad
Now even [indirectly] Palestine side have Piers Stefan Pughe-Morgan (yes, Piers Morgan) now writing daily tweets to denounce the ongoing massacre. I'm not even mentioning the various UN bodies, the WHO, the Red Cross / ICRC, etc. all screaming outrage at Israel's blatant disregard for human life.
That's very much new.
There were very few periods in history with such an immense disconnect between official foreign policy and the media, except maybe late in the Vietnam war; but this was really confined to America and it was after years of tiring war.
By contrast this occurs almost throughout the entire globe and it started immediately. Of course, you still have some of the usual suspects pandering shameless propaganda but all in all the "narrative Environnement" is worlds apart from, say, how the Ukraine war was covered, where you virtually couldn't find a single media source covering things even remotely fairly.
Maybe it is in fact the media learning from that latest experience, who knows? Anyhow we end up in quite a unique situation where Western politicians find themselves very much alone against the entire world really, including much of their own media and their public opinions. Again as always this isn't a strict rule, there are some exceptions. For instance Irish politicians have almost unanimously been calling the massacre for what it is. But all in all this is the general situation. Which finally leads me to my interesting observation.
Which is that we're in the probably unprecedented situation where the political representation of what the overwhelming majority of the planet believes - including in the West - can today mostly be found in the global South.
US Special Force in TEL AVIV
With again a few exceptions (like India) it is leaders of the global South who undeniably speak for the world with regards to THE most important topic of the day.
And leaders of the West are largely completely out of touch. What's also remarkable, in a very sad way, is that the Global South might have moral legitimacy today but the balance of power still lies with those Western leaders almost no-one agrees with. A recent vote in the UN had the immense majority of the world's nations voting for a ceasefire but if Biden says no (and he did say no), it's no.
This is clearly unsustainable and illustrates how badly we need to reform the global order in order to distribute power more fairly. It also, by the way, really calls into question what "democracy" means in countries like America where a president can act in total opposition to what his own population wants (66% of all Americans want a ceasefire, including 80% of Democrats). Who knows how this will all evolve.
What's pretty damn clear is that a world where what the immense majority of countries wants doesn't matter is unsustainable, and countries where what the immense majority of the population wants doesn't matter isn't sustainable either. So it's fair to say we can (and should!) expect to see rather dramatic change.
Remember: settler colonial populations are there to replace the native population, not to make peace with them, not to shares resources, not to give them their freedom. Israel is doing the only thing it knows how to do. And as long as the West is cheerleading, that includes genocide.
[English version] more than 7,000 Gazans list casualties click here. First 88 names are from the same extended family [ASTAL or ASATAL], ranging in ages from 72 years old to under a year. It goes on and on like this. The next 72 from one family [HUSUNA or HUSNA, started number 89 after all-88-of ASTAL or ASATAL] wiped out too, forever. No more ASTAL or ASATAL still living on earth forever. No more HUSNA or HUSUNA forever
I know a lot of high-ranking media, such as New York Times, Guardian, Anadolu, BILD, Spiegel, Financial Times, Strait Times, Washington Post etc subscribed my substack. Plestia ‘Bosbos’ Alaqad ready to be your Stringer inside Gaza under bombing by Israel. Plestiaa2011@gmail.com
Toddler with Plestia, before war, living in Northern Gaza and they evacuated to Southern Gaza. Since Friday, Oct 13, when Israel announced to every Gazans from northern move to southern, more than 5,000 killed in southern, not counting barbaric bombing in northern Gaza. Northern Gaza is being depopulated, while even residents in the south are ordered to evacuate as the israelis implement their ethnic cleansing. Refugee literally fulfilled Israel warning, and still killed with barbaric bombing by Israel. Documentation by Plestia Alaqad
Gazans people is normal people. Love puppy too like Caucasian and other people, other human. Via Plestia Alaqad / AlAqad, Gazans journo. 22 Palestinian journo killed. Plestia Alaqad beg to you to speak up for Palestine. Plestia, Yara Eid, Hind Khoudary are journo. Your engagement and or posting about Palestine helps Palestinian, currently not only very weak signal and electricity but also shadow banned.
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