Gaza: The Liberal Media Bias Very Clear in Guardian Article

 

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Richard Mellor

Afscme Local 444, retired
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3-30-24

I just read an article from the self- proclaimed “liberal” British paper, The Guardian, (US version) and it disgusts me. If it was Fox news it would be one thing but this publication paints a picture of itself as the voice of reason, the liberal democratic alternative to right wing media

The Guardian headline reads: Famine is now probably present in Gaza, US says.

The headline alone is infuriating enough, it should read: Zionists Using Famine as a Weapon of War. but on reading further I had a powerful urge to vomit.  The Guardian informs us that an unnamed US state department official claims that famine is “probably present” in Northern Gaza.  Beyond this, other areas are in danger of falling in to conditions of starvation apparently. The reason starvation or famine might only be “probably” present in Northern Gaza is that the population in the north, that has not been slaughtered by the Zionists bombing has been driven south. There’s not too many people there I would assume.

The Guardian should be shocked at such hypocrisy coming from the mouth of a US government official as the US government is the primary supporter of the Zionist genocide in Gaza. Instead, the Guardian tells us that the US comments “….add to a growing and powerful consensus that Israel’s military offensive in the Palestinian coastal territory has triggered a famine.”

 

Interesting term “triggered”. It implies that the famine and starvation the Palestinian people are facing is an unintended consequence of the Zionists assault on the population when the truth is that it is a weapon of war. The Zionist regime is consciously starving the people of Gaza by denying them food. We have all seen the images of the fascist settlers arriving in droves at the checkpoints and blocking trucks from entering Gaza with the support of the IDF soldiers.

 

The Guardian’s reluctance to point the finger at the actual source of the crisis in Gaza is bad enough, but the US state department’s comments are straight out of the Joseph Goebbels school of journalism. Joseph Goebbels was the Nazi minister of propaganda from 1933, after the election that brought the Nazi’s to power, until 1945.

 

The US spokesperson’s comments are beyond belief

 “You need to address the full nutrition needs of the population of Gaza of all ages.” he says, and,  “That means more than just that minimal survival level feeding,” stressing that malnutrition and “infant and young child mortality was a significant problem”

 

Is that so! We are in what we refer to in the US as Bizzaro world. A toady speaking for the Biden Administration shares with us the concern that Biden, an avowed Zionist, and the rest of the US Congress no doubt, has for the starving people in Gaza.

 

It is no wonder politicians are so hated in the US. But while there is much animosity toward the fascist Netanyahu as the cause of the famine, the starving of young children, adults, anyone that is Palestinian. It is after all, a key strategy in the Zionist regime’s conscious desire to drive the Palestinians and their culture from the region. Behind Netanyahu and the Zionists is Biden.

 

The Zionists have already murdered thousands of Palestinian children; “From October 2022 to February 2023, the number of children killed, according to the Health Ministry's count, is more than that of children killed in conflicts around the world from 2019 through 2022, according to the UNRWA” MSNBC. In addition, there are untold numbers lying beneath the rubble.

 

The unnamed US government spokesperson is quick to remind the Guardian’s readers that an air corridor and a floating port promised by, “US president Joe Biden…would be ready in late April.”. It’s hard to restrain oneself at such brazen hypocrisy, expecting the reader to give such a statement any credibility at all.

 

Genocide Jo Biden himself has a few words to say, as we are entering Arab American Heritage month; “We must pause to reflect on the pain being felt by so many in the Arab American community with the war in Gaza…….The trauma, death and destruction in Israel and Gaza have claimed, and continue to claim, far too many innocent lives – including family and friends of Arab Americans across our nation.”

 

Poor old Biden is running a little scared as his role in the Gaza genocide threatens to undermine his chances for re-election this year. It’s all about the votes folks and people know it.

 

It's hard for me to find words in response to Biden’s comments. Staggering is one, nauseating another. They make me angry I know that. Initially chutzpah came to mind. Leo Rosten in his great book, The Joys of Yiddish, described chutzpa as, "that quality enshrined in a man who, having killed his mother and father, throws himself on the mercy of the court because he is an orphan." But that does not suffice. That Biden can utter them with a straight face knowing that he could have stopped this 5 months ago is beyond belief.

 

He’s the good guy that will save us from Trump and fascism.

 

The catastrophic humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip is, “….man made and worsening” says Philippe Lazzarini, the head of Unrwa. Well, that’s true, but only partially.

 

The cause of it is the Zionist regime and its conscious strategy aimed at eliminating the Palestinian people and their culture from the region. This has been the goal of Zionism since its presence in Palestine.

 

The events of the past five months have had a huge effect on world politics and has certainly discredited further the US rogue regime in the eyes of millions. The endless wars and the death and displacement of millions of people due to US imperialism’s efforts to remain the global hegemon in the face of increasing competition cannot be buried beneath the rubble of the corporate mass media’s propaganda. With all its failings, the genocide has been brought to the rest of the world on social media. No one, not even the US and British populations give the likes of CNN, MSNBC or the BBC any credibility at all.

 

This latest assault on the people of Palestine by the Zionist regime, despite the immense suffering it has brought in its wake, has ushered in a new era in global relations between the major powers and the relationship between the former colonial powers and their victims. English/British capitalism’s first colony, Ireland, and another former British colony, South Africa are leading the resistance in the established institutions of capitalism.

 

Here in the US, the leaders of organized labor will be focusing their attention and their members’ dues money on getting their man, Joe Biden another four years in the White House. That he denied workers the right to strike, or hugs fascists like Netanyahu, is brushed aside all for the seat at the table. The political crisis in the US will deepen as more and more workers abandon the electoral process altogether. Whether Trump or Biden sits in the Oval Office the attacks on workers at home and workers abroad will continue.

 

It’s an untenable situation and will at some point in the not so distant future, be resolved in the streets, workplaces and universities of America.