From the start of Israel’s genocidal assault on Gaza, Western media could hardly have been less subtle. Palestinian life is deemed to have very little worth, or indeed no real value at all. To be crude: Israelis are ‘us’, Palestinians are ‘them’.
Sky News offers a hideous case in point. In mid-October, an Israeli missile strike blew up yet another school in Gaza, with at least 23 Palestinians originally reported killed, 15 of them children.
Around the same time, Hezbollah fired a missile at an Israeli army base in northern Israel, killing four soldiers. The editorial choice taken by Sky News about how to cover these developments was, to say the least, revealing. Its headline: “Israel names teenage soldiers killed in Hezbollah attack — as ‘23 die’ in Gaza school strike.”….more