Introduction
All governments try to manage their messages but the Israeli government, military and mainstream media are determined to hide the whole truth through language that obfuscates or minimises the reality. As said here: “We feed on propaganda. The information provided to us is not chosen according to what we need to know, but according to what television wants us to know. They’re right. The last thing we want to know is how many 10 year olds were killed in Gaza, in Lebanon, or by exploding pagers. Any such information is psychological terror that damages our fighting spirit and lowers morale.”
Of course, the western media do the same thing; we hear that Israelis are killed, even massacred, by Hamas, but Palestinians die or if they are killed their killers are rarely named. In the UK we are almost obliged to hear that Hamas and Hezbollah are backed by Iran but not that Israel is backed by the USA, UK, Germany and so on.
In this age of social media and a livestreamed genocide, ignorance is also a choice. Klein’s apparently cynical take is also laced with despair.
This article was originally published by Ha’aretz (Opinion) on Sun 29 Sep 2024.
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