War, Media and Hypocrisy: Western Complicity in Israel’s Genocidal Campaign in Palestine
Palestine vs Ukraine | The West’s hypocritical support of Israel’s genocide while condemning Russia's attack. The media’s role in distorting global perceptions of justice and conflict
Whatever direction the West Asian crisis turns, one fact is clear in the last year, after the Ukraine war, the Western media organisations claiming to be liberal, democratic and respecting the dissent have gone for a toss. BBC and CNN have been thoroughly exposed for their reporting on the Ukraine War and the Palestinian issue. Now, a few journalists from BBC and CNN have claimed how their editorial bosses wanted them to push the one-sided narrative ‘Israel has a right to defend itself’. The result is that even when experts pointed out the brutalities of the Israeli regime and its continuous disregard for all the ‘international norms and practices’ that various Presidents and Prime Ministers emerging from Western capitals harp so much under their ‘ruled-based’ rhetoric. Why do the West have two sets of narratives? Israel has the right to defend itself, and carry out the genocidal campaign against the hapless neighbours’ but the Russians can’t do the same in Ukraine.
Imagine if Russia had done a similar thing in Ukraine. I am sure the West knows well that if Russia wishes, it can flatten Kyiv any day.
Western leadership has turned out to be senseless and disgraceful. In the name of democracy, they have exposed themselves and the world is watching now that their ‘democracy’, ‘Human Rights’, ‘Liberalism’ and ‘dissent’ are ‘respected’ as per their convenience and their business interests. The fight in Ukraine or West Asia is related to ensuring who leads the world. Will the Americans remain unchallenged or the Russians are now building an alternative model along with the Chinese as well as BRICS?
It is also sad part that dissenting voices in the Western world are now being targeted. YouTubers being charged under different anti-terror laws. All online platforms have been guided by the Western interest order hence your posts and views can be deleted or reduced to nothing if they look contrary to the American interests.
In this entire game of media hegemony, a lot has happened. For West Asia, the BBC hegemony has been challenged by Al-Al Jazeera English as well as the Arabic language channel. While Al Jazeera has been active for nearly a decade, the most refreshing and interesting thing is happening on the other front. It is the emergence of RTV (Russian TV) as a global player. Their reports are brilliantly done and they provide us with alternative viewpoints so much so that the American and European ‘liberal’ regimes don’t want RTV to be aired in their countries. Not satisfied with that, it is being reported that they want India to ban RTV.
I know like Fidel Castro, the Western ‘democratic’ ‘liberal’ elite hate Vladimir Putin, simply because this man has all the qualities of being a great leader. I have not seen any one of his contemporaries in the Western world coming near to him. They all look too small in comparison to Putin. Listen to his speeches, his interaction with common people and his understanding of the issue. I am sure, Vladimir Putin can be the hero that the anti-colonial world is looking for today. He has brought back the sense of being a great country among the Russian people. Russia today is a country full of confidence and rising as a great economic power apart from being a military power and having a dominant role in space technology.
Many people might wonder why Russian deterrence is not there in West Asia. True but all these countries are working as per their national interests. There are layers and layers of complexities of the issue. Israel’s 15 to 20% population is actually of Russian origin. They are Jews but they are of Russian origin. Both the countries had great relations despite Israel behaving as an American enclave but it is also a fact that Iran has a great relationship with Russia. An all-out war between Iran and Israel could spill over the Middle East and could be extremely dangerous for the global economy but perhaps the Western world is interested in escalating and the reason looks simple. They want to thrive on the War Economy, perhaps learning from Vladimir Putin and the rise of Russia during the Ukraine War. But the question is who will rise in this war when all will die.
War must stop at all cost and the historic issue of Palestine has been acknowledged and given dignity. Palestine deserves their country. The only way for the future is for all the parties to sit together and speak to each other. Enough destruction has happened in Gaza and other places. It is time to stop this. Western leadership has not been able to control Israel and pretend as if nothing has happened. The stories of the last year that took place in Gaza are nothing but plain genocide and not only Israel but the Western world is complicit in it.
Without accepting a two-state solution and Palestinians’ right to exist, there can’t be any peace. It is time, the world wakes up to this reality and starts negotiating. Any attempt to allow Israel to escalate the war will not help and can be extremely dangerous for all including Israel. War economies thrive on people’s miseries. It is time to call for a complete stoppage of this war killing numerous innocent people, particularly children, women and older people. There can not be a final solution to anything through war, It never happened even during the First and Second World Wars. The only solution that can happen is, through negotiations and the acceptability of the fact that Palestine is an independent and sovereign state.
