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<\/a><\/p>\nChi legge i principali giornali o guarda i principali TG dell\u2019occidente pu\u00f2 farsi solo un\u2019idea vaga e sbagliata di quello che sta succedendo. Ma questo \u00e8 problema annoso nel caso della Palestina, lo sa bene chi da anni segue e magari periodicamente visita quella Terra che alcuni si ostinano a chiamare\u00a0Santa.<\/p>\n
Sotto riportiamo un articolo che affronta il tema per quanto riguarda il resto dell\u2019occidente, soprattutto gli USA. Da parte nostra possiamo ricordare alcune delle perle lette o ascoltate in questi ultimi giorni. Perle tali che \u00e8 difficile pure immaginare l\u2019architettura della mente di chi le ha\u00a0prodotte.<\/p>\n
Dopo i primi due giorni di bombardamenti il TG1 in prima serata ha sostenuto che la cosa pi\u00f9 grave fosse rappresentata dal lancio da Gaza di missili verso Tel Aviv. Lancio che non aveva \u00a0provocato alcun danno mentre a Gaza gi\u00e0 pi\u00f9 di 40 erano morti, fra cui molti civili inermi.<\/p>\n
La Stampa ha pubblicato dei resoconti sul suo sito che sono delle vere e proprie traduzioni letterali delle comunicazioni di una delle due parti coinvolte: quella israeliana.<\/p>\n
Repubblica ha titola<\/a>to a tutto campo che i razzi punterebbero minacciosamente alle centrali nucleari. Da decenni le centinaia di testate nucleari che lo stato di Israele possiede non hanno mai avuto cos\u00ec tanta enfasi come i razzi artigianali che partono da Gaza senza una precisa destinazione.<\/p>\n Alcuni organi di stampa\u00a0hanno anche riferito che i tre ragazzi rapiti e poi ritrovati uccisi fossero seminaristi. In realt\u00e0 erano andati a studiare la Bibbia nelle scuole rabbiniche che si trovano in piena Hebron, dove vivono alcune centinaia di ebrei coloni e migliaia di soldati israeliani. Potremmo forse chiamarli catecumeni, ma\u00a0non saprei come rappresentare\u00a0il fatto che fossero su terra sottratta al legittimo proprietario.<\/p>\n Alla giusta empatia mostrata verso i tre ragazzi uccisi, non \u00e8 corrisposta altrettanta commozione per i palestinesi morti prima, durante il rapimento e adesso nel bombardamento indiscriminato di Gaza. Anzi soprattutto della fase precendente non si ricorda nulla ma proprio nulla, forse perch\u00e9 si trattava di provocazioni di ordinaria\u00a0quotidianit\u00e0.<\/p>\n A\u00a0tal proposito\u00a0voglio ricordare che\u00a0Netanyahu prima rifiutava di parlare con Abu Mazen perch\u00e9 non rappresentava tutti i Palestinesi e poi perch\u00e9 aveva fatto un governo di unit\u00e0 nazionale con Hamas. Argomenti talmente contradittori e pretestuosi che pure i gi\u00e0 di parte negoziatori americani si sono scandalizzati.<\/p>\n Questi solo alcuni\u00a0esempi a cui il lettore pu\u00f2 sicuramente aggiungere altre Perle.<\/p>\n Smascherare le falsit\u00e0 e rompere il muro d\u2019omert\u00e0 \u00e8 il compito unico che ci spetta, prima che occupare la nostra mente in sterili proposte di soluzione che non spettano a noi.<\/p>\n (FD)<\/p>\n Beyond casualties, as the Western media focuses on the kidnapping of three Israeli teens, none of them took into account the kidnapping of\u00a0more than 570 Palestinians\u00a0since June 12. The term routinely used is \u201carrests\u201d or \u201cmilitary sweeps\u201d which immediately conveys legitimacy and justification regardless of the fact that none of those Palestinians \u2013 including minors \u2013 had anything to do with the kidnapping<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n by Yazan al-Saadi \u2013 Al-Akhbar<\/strong><\/p>\n Roma, 7 luglio 2014, Nena News<\/em>\u00a0–\u00a0As tragedy and uninterrupted terror strikes the besieged Palestinian population once more, Western media outlets have been busy producing and presenting articles and television reports on the events taking place. These \u201cnews reports\u201d \u2013 for the lack of a better terminology \u2013 are presented as factual and true, objective and neutral, unblemished by personal, emotional, political, or historical bias.<\/p>\n Indeed, much of the traditional Western mainstream media has prided itself as being of a professional standard when it comes to producing and presenting the news. They are looming at the top spot of the international information hierarchy.\u00a0It is commonly believed that Western news items are crafted by the highest standards, drawn from cold-calculated facts, and presented in an allegedly balanced fashion to an awaiting audience, so that they can be informed<\/strong>.<\/p>\n This is frankly not true.<\/p>\n The coverage of what is happening in Palestine at this very moment is but another example, in an almost-infinite length of examples in regards to Palestine as well as other non-Western society and events, of that process.<\/p>\n COOKED FROM THE START.<\/strong>\u00a0Most of the reports by Western news\u00a0outlets about the current events in Palestine begin with the date June 12 \u2013 when three Israeli settlers disappeared in Israeli-controlled Area C in the occupied territory of the West Bank \u2013 as the start of a \u201cnew cycle of violence.\u201d<\/p>\n By starting here, the reader is in effect told that events prior are inconsequential or unrelated, or simply that all was well in Palestine<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Suppose news stories took into account the killing of two Palestinian teenagers, and the injuring of 11, by Israeli soldiers on May 15. Video footage show that the two teens \u2013 Nadeem Nawara and Mohammed Salameh \u2013\u00a0posed no threat and were not involved in the protests\u00a0at the time, yet both were shot in the chest in two separate occasions within the span of an hour.\u00a0The incident was reported and quickly forgotten, forever disconnected from the grander context.<\/p>\n Imagine, if one extends the beginning point further, and takes into account total casualties since the start of 2014, the premises that underline any story about Palestine today metamorphoses way beyond recognition to what is routinely presented by these outlets.<\/p>\n Looking at\u00a0monthly humanitarian bulletins\u00a0published by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs on the Palestinian occupied territories from January to May 2014, the numbers are striking.\u00a0A total of 22 Palestinian civilians were killed by Israeli security forces, 1,226 Palestinians were injured, and 629 were forcibly displaced since the start of 2014.<\/strong><\/p>\n According to statistics complied by the Israeli human rights organization\u00a0B\u2019Tselem,\u00a0593 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces since January 2009 \u2013 when a major, bloody assault on Gaza ended \u2013 and seven Palestinians have been killed by Israeli citizens. Of the dead are 90 minors and 21 Palestinian women.<\/strong><\/p>\n In contrast, 10 Israeli security personnel and 29 Israeli civilians have been killed by Palestinians since January 2009. Of the dead Israelis, six were minors and six were women.<\/strong><\/p>\n That alone demands a momentary pause.<\/p>\n Furthermore, this does not take into account the general repression facing Palestinians, whether it is the continual expansion of colonial settlements, heavily armed and backed by the Israeli army, and supported by the on-going illegal construction of the Apartheid wall, within the West Bank, as well as the enduring and ever-tightening seven year old blockade of the Gaza Strip, which on its own causes immense social, health, economic, and other difficulties, among other forms of repression that are part and parcel of the daily experience faced by Palestinians since 1947-48.<\/strong><\/p>\n So far, in the course of today\u2019s military operation, at least 10 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli security forces in the West Bank and Gaza. They are: Yousef Abu Zagha, 16; Mahmoud Jihad Mohammed Dudeen, 14; Mustafa Hosni Aslan, 22; Jamil Ali Abed Jabir, 60; Mohammed al-Fasih, 23; Usama al-Hassumi, 25; Ahmed Said Suod Khalid, 27; Atallah Tarifi, 30. The other two are an unnamed 11-year-old boy and an unnamed pregnant woman who bled to death under the rubble of her home after an Israeli strike.<\/p>\n Beyond casualties, as the Western media focuses on the kidnapping of three Israeli teens, none of them took into account the kidnapping of\u00a0more than 570 Palestinians\u00a0since June 12. The term routinely used is \u201carrests\u201d or \u201cmilitary sweeps\u201d which immediately conveys legitimacy and justification regardless of the fact that none of those Palestinians \u2013 including minors \u2013 had anything to do with the kidnapping.<\/strong><\/p>\n The equalization of pain is another factor that arises in the Western dispatches.<\/p>\n When Palestinian suffering is catered to, and\u00a0it rarely is, it usually has to be\u00a0presented side-by-side\u00a0with Israeli suffering. This equalization implies that \u201cboth sides\u201d are on a level playing-field.<\/p>\n The fact of the matter is that Israel is a nuclear-armed state with a sophisticated military and security apparatus, funded and backed by major powers. It is much more dominant and has free reign to do what it pleases without impunity. This key detail is practically non-existent in the picture painted by Western news outlets.<\/p>\n The lack of this vastly important distinction by Western news outlets stems and branches out from the distorted narrative that the struggle in Palestine is that of two people who have equally legitimate claims to the land.\u00a0This does not fit the historical record \u2013 in that, one people, the Palestinians, are the indigenous population while the other came into the country as part of a European militarized colonial project.<\/strong><\/p>\n But more likely than not, much of the narrative by Western news outlets is concerned with how Israel is facing an \u201cexistential threat\u201d. The reader today can seen headlines of this narrative, where Israel eternally \u201cresponds\u201d to rocket fire, Israel perpetually \u201cfears\u201d a third intifada, Israel always \u201cmourns\u201d its dead. Israel\u2019s acts are ultimately called a \u201cretribution,\u201d a term infused with righteousness.<\/p>\n THE BURNING OF MUHAMMED ABU KHUDAIR.<\/strong>\u00a0The horrible murder of Mohammed Abu Khudair, 16, from East Jerusalem who\u00a0was kidnapped and burned alive\u00a0by suspected Israeli settlers, is another representation of the Western media\u2019s bias.\u00a0Prior to the murder, Western media outlets barely covered the calls for blood among the Israeli\u00a0civilian\u00a0and\u00a0military sector.<\/p>\n As reported by Rania Khalek for\u00a0Electronic Intifada<\/em>, the fact that large mobs of Israelis were roaming the streets of Jerusalem, chanting \u201cDeath to Arabs!\u201d were\u00a0either buried or did not warrant sufficient coverage\u00a0by various media outlets, and amounted by her analysis to \u201cwhitewashing hatred.\u201d<\/p>\n None of the media outlets noted\u00a0the celebration of Abu Khudair\u2019s death\u00a0by Israelis on social media, nor did they note the hearsay or claims by Israeli police that Abu Khudair was killed due to his sexual orientation or due to a clan infighting \u2013 both outright lies.<\/strong><\/p>\n Ironically, it was only\u00a0Buzzfeed<\/em>\u00a0\u2013 not a prominent news agency \u2013 that had one report about the\u00a0victim-shaming and blaming\u00a0by Israelis, albeit coupled with examples from the Palestinian side.<\/strong><\/p>\n For its part,\u00a0The Washington Post<\/span>\u00a0did not even bother\u00a0categorizing Abu Khudair as a Palestinian teen, while\u00a0The New York Times<\/span>\u00a0decided to go with a headline referring to Israel \u201con edge\u201d after \u201cpossible revenge killing of Arab youth,\u201d coupled with a front page photo of a faceless Palestinian throwing a stone.<\/p>\n The\u00a0headline and photo\u00a0were changed only after mass criticism arose.<\/p>\n NYT\u2019s Jerusalem bureau chief Jodi Rudoren\u2019s reporting in particular is notable by the fact that her own personal coverage of the dead Israeli teens portrays are clearly more empathetic.<\/p>\n From sharing\u00a0heart-breaking images\u00a0of one of the dead Israeli teen\u2019s mother, sharing the\u00a0live-stream video of the Israeli funeral\u00a0(and not the live-stream video of protests in the West Bank), selecting\u00a0humane quotesfrom the dead\u2019s family members and\u00a0Israeli officials, to which\u00a0celebrities sent in their condolences.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, at Abu Khudair\u2019s funeral she took great pains to note \u201cmasked youths\u201d at his funeral (the only funeral she covered on the Palestinian side), noting that the crowd were chanting \u201cAllahu Akbar\u201d (rather than translating it to \u201cGod is Great\u201d) and\u00a0firing bullets in the air.<\/strong><\/p>\n The emotionally-charged responses have not stopped at the media. While many Western government officials expressed sympathy for the missing, and then deceased, Israeli teens, none directly spoke of the Palestinians other than urging an end to \u201ca cycle of violence.\u201d<\/p>\n Susan Rice, former US Ambassador to the UN and currently National Security Advisor, is a classic case.<\/p>\n On June 25, she wrote on her twitter account:<\/p>\n On June 30, she added:<\/p>\n And:<\/p>\n For the Palestinians, all she had to say were in a series of tweets on July 2, in a voice that oozes disconnectedness and protocol:<\/p>\nWestern media\u2019s coverage of Palestine: part of the problem<\/span><\/h1>\n
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