It’s not an invasion, it’s a “forceful entry”
It’s rather amazing how the New York Times covers ethnic cleansing and genocide in Gaza. Today’s NYT features an article (in my email newsfeed) that talks about the “war” on Hamas and identifies the key issue as the hostages and their return. From this article, you’d never know Gaza has been reduced to rubble in a bombing campaign equivalent to seven Hiroshima atomic bombs. You’d never know that more than 60,000 Palestinians have been killed, but that the likely number of killed is probably twice or three times that. You’d never know the Israeli government’s plan is to kill or push out all the Palestinians in Gaza, a “final solution” to the Gaza problem. You’d never know the main victims of Israel’s “war” have been innocent women and children in Gaza.
And while the NYT does mention starvation and the spread of diseases, it provides no estimate for the number of Palestinians killed as a result of Israel’s blockade.
Also, the NYT mentions that Israeli’s latest invasion may endanger the hostages. Nothing is said about endangering the lives of Palestinians in Gaza. Basically, all those who live in Gaza are treated as Hamas, as terrorists, who must either be killed or removed.
This is your “paper of record,” America, with all the news that’s fit to print.
Here’s what appeared in my news feed from the NYT. Judge for yourself:
WAR RETURNS TO GAZA
After an Israeli airstrike in Gaza on Saturday. Amir Cohen/Reuters
Over the weekend, Israel decided to call in military reservists and escalate the war in the Gaza Strip again.
The news reflects a sharp turn of events. Earlier this year, Israel and Hamas agreed to a cease-fire. That deal held for months, during which Israel halted operations in Gaza and Hamas handed over some Israeli hostages. But the cease-fire ended in March. Now, it seems the war is truly returning.
Why escalate now?
Israel has pressured Hamas to return all of the remaining hostages, especially the 24 who officials believe are still alive. Officials also say that Hamas must disarm as part of any future deal. But Hamas has refused. Before it makes further concessions, it wants the war over and Israel out of Gaza.
Israel hopes escalation will get Hamas to capitulate and return all of the hostages — while giving its troops a chance to destroy the group’s remaining infrastructure.
What is Israel’s plan?
The generals are calling up tens of thousands of reservists to expand operations in Gaza. They plan to occupy the region, forcibly relocate Palestinians in affected areas and oversee aid distribution.
Israel has blocked all aid, including food and medicine, from entering the territory for more than two months. (Some aid workers are accused of participating in the Oct. 7 attacks, The Times explained, and a lawsuit claims that Hamas skimmed $1 billion in U.N. aid. But the blockade has led to starvation and the spread of diseases, as The Times documented.) With direct control, Israel says, it will allow distribution to resume.
Will the plan work?
Israeli leaders say that military pressure secured the release of hostages before. They hope to replicate that success. Critics argue that Israel has by now exhausted its ability to pressure Hamas with force. They worry more fighting will put the surviving hostages at risk. — German Lopez
Related: Israel’s prime minister said the country was “on the eve of a forceful entry to Gaza.”
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Please pardon my almost regular presence on your site, but I need some place to give expression to the enveloping dystopia. Let me know if I am abusing the invitation to do so.
Interesting you mention the NYT’s interpretation of journalism, as I’ve recently been engaged in examining the multi-faceted Hasbara apparatus, especially as it plays out in Trump’s extortion of Harvard unless it comes clean on alleged and unsubstantiated antisemitism at the university, an issue that was manufactured in response to the campus demonstrations protesting the genocidal entity’s treatment of Gaza.
Of note in the Hasbara crime syndicate is the “Network Contagion Research Institute,” which describes itself as “the world’s foremost expert in identifying and forecasting the threat and spread of misinformation and disinformation across social media platforms.”
When you see wording like that you know automatically that the genocidal entity’s expertise in technology (e.g., rigging pagers used by Hezbollah and Lebanese civilians to explode in their hands) and in monitoring social media platforms means trouble, big time.
The NCRI is itself funded by the “Israel on Campus Coalition,” describing its mission as “To unite the many pro-Israel organizations that operate on campuses across the United States by coordinating strategies, providing educational resources, sharing in-depth research, and increasing collaboration.”
Again, wording that sends up all sorts of warning flags.
It gets even better, the Coalition is, in turn, bankrolled by the “Jewish National Fund,” a group that works hand-in-hand with the Israeli Defense Forces and builds illegal Jewish settlements on Palestinian land.
Rather than go on and on, I urge you to check out two exceptional pieces by Alan MacLeod at Mintpress News from Feb. of 2024 that reveal the Hasbara assault on universities in “NCRI Exposed: Israel Lobby-Linked Group Tied to Illegal Settlements and Campus Censorship” https://www.mintpressnews.com/?s=from+illegal+israeli+settlements+to+us+campus+censorship
and the similar modi operandi employed in infiltrating and influencing the media in “Study Finds Media Giants New York Times, CNN, and Fox News Pushing for US War in Yemen” https://www.mintpressnews.com/new-study-shows-media-pushing-us-war-yemen/286754/# which although was addressing Yemen back then is readily germane to Gaza today (and for that matter Yemen today too).
Can’t recall if I had said it previously, but the Zio-virus is re-writing this country’s DNA.
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The JNF funded the signs seen at so many synagogues before Oct 7 that showed the American and Israeli flags with the caption, “Together for Good”
All of these signs have disappeared. I am about to contact a Jewish elementary school to ask that the Israeli flag on the pole under the American flag be removed.
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“The JNF funded the signs seen at so many synagogues before Oct 7 that showed the American and Israeli flags with the caption, ‘Together for Good.’”
The JNF and its mutant forms are as ubiquitous in the environment as PFAS chemicals, though arguably more of a threat to health.
“All of these signs have disappeared.”
What happened, couldn’t be any moral qualms or sense of irony or shame or embarrassment, in which the Zionists are completely lacking.
“I am about to contact a Jewish elementary school to ask that the Israeli flag on the pole under the American flag be removed.”
If possible, try to go early to hear how the “Pledge of Allegiance” is recited there.
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I regularly write to both of my senators regarding Israel’s atrocities that we fully support.
Invariably the responses will begin with the politically necessary invocation of Oct 7 as the horror of horrors and how America must stand with Israel. Only then will the destruction of Gaza be mentioned and NEVER will there be a single word about history since the creation of Israel in 1948. No mention of the 20 to 1 kill ratio (Palestinian to Israeli) before Oct 7, or of the “mowing the grass” operations that started in late 2009 that killed thousands in Gaza, putting Oct 7 in the shade.
The effect of these letters is to have the reader feel that Israel is the victim of a completely unwarranted attack on Oct 7, barbarism out of the blue with absolutely nothing happening in the past that would justify it for the Palestinians. This is the power of Zionism in America to have members of Congress framing everything to the Israeli narrative.
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Undoubtedly the Israeli embassy, the ADL, and/or the Diaspora Affairs Ministry (where the Israeli propaganda apparatus is headquartered) supplied the template for the senators’ rote responses. If any of them were to write an authentic, ingenuous, knowledgeable letter to you, such is the technological surveillance reach of the Hasbara juggernaut that they would know of it, and make that senator’s political as well as personal life miserable.
“This is the power of Zionism in America to have members of Congress framing everything to the Israeli narrative.”
One of the more telling and chilling explanations as to why we don’t have a democracy.
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I’ve been reading the NY Times for 50 years & I had to stop. I couldn’t take the passive tone with all the crapola going on in the world. Like it’s just business as usual & it’s all OK. But maybe that’s the truth & that’s even worse.
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