The details of the joint US–Israeli military operation that killed and wounded almost 1,000 Palestinians in the Nuseirat refugee camp on Saturday hardly speak of the celebratory heroism or precision that western media headlines gushingly splayed on their front pages.
But in a dystopian world where the graphic killing of at least 50,000 men, women and children in the span of eight months hardly warrants batting an eyelid among the ruling echelons of the Global North’s ruled-based order, one could be forgiven for thinking that any mission that destroys hundreds of civilian lives while retrieving four captives is a cause for celebration.
Even worse is when the 274 Palestinians killed and 698 wounded in Nuseirat refugee camp massacre are deliberately erased from news coverage, or pithily acknowledged either as an afterthought in a headline or vaguely in a subheading.
The Sunday cover of the New York Times, a newspaper that has willingly destroyed its last vestiges of credibility to act as a blatant stenographer for Israeli propaganda, proudly displayed the headline “Israeli military frees 4 hostages in Gaza mission”. ….more
