During the recent war on Gaza the Israelis were keen on winning the media war beforehand arguing that their military offensive is allowed since it is in self-defence   against Hamas terrorist operations targeting south Israel inhabitants.

      The various declarations of the Israeli foreign minister Tsipi Liveny were all made in this sense and such was the viewpoint of most of the  western  media.

To justify the war on Gaza this way was aimed at reviving the horrible image of the 11 September terror acts in order to win the public opinion of the west or at least keep westerners silent regarding the savage killing of hundreds of innocent children and women.

 The western media position is reflected through the USA media coverage of the war on Gaza. When it is a question of Israel's interests the American media has accustomed the entire world of putting aside the professionalism and ethics principles. During three consecutive weeks the American well known TV channels, radios and newspapers have been reiterating that Israel was bombing Gaza in retaliation for the Hamas rockets lunching against Israeli civilians in the south.  CNN- FOX NEWS_ CNBC not to mention others have sent their Great War reporters to the region but unfortunately they did not even step the ground of the battle field that is Gaza city.

 We have seen  famous war reporter  Nick Robinson  who had before  covered  for  CNN  the wars of Iraq  ,Lebanon  and Afghanistan , standing in the outskirts of the strip reporting things that had nothing to do with reality  ,  general images of the offensive, too much talk about "Hamas terrorism  "and of course to end the intervention  he showed  images of rockets' debris  on south Israel to be the last image to be kept in  TV viewers minds , a way to make them legitimise the attack.  .

 

 Envoys of various world media were not allowed to enter the Gaza strip .they were obliged to remain in the south of Israel for security reasons according to Israel. The BBC website had even reported that the Israeli army had supplied journalists with videos they themselves produced so as not to portrait to the world the real ugly images of massacres...

 A journalist of  an American electronic paper reported that the  Israelis were  so scared that they didn't  manage to  sleep well and didn't enjoy having long bathes as before " but he forgot to mention that   civilians from  the other side were having blood bathes ……

   This is what we call the negative power of the press, the victim is considered as torturer and the torturer becomes a victim.

 The mass  destruction  caused by the Israeli horrible war machine ,the targeting of mosques ,of  UN rescue headquarters , of schools  and new born babies didn't at all affect the US and the Israeli media and even some European media . They continued portraying the war on Gaza as a battle taking place between two equal forces; much more it even seemed to the public that Hamas was the strongest. In an Israeli newspaper we can read: "don't feel pity for Palestinian civilians, they are like  children  when you feel pity for  them never stop crying"

 

 

   ouarda lebnane

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