As arrest warrants are issued for Israeli leaders, it must not be forgotten that they confessed to their crimes from the start. Western media outlets chose to suppress the truth
by Owen Jones
Part 1 - Israel said exactly what it would do from the start
The International Criminal Court has finally issued arrest warrants for war crimes and crimes against humanity for Benjamin Netanyahu and his former defence minister, Yoav Gallant. Any other outcome would have defied reason - because no crime in modern history has been so confessed to by its perpetrators - with so much shamelessness, pride and relish - as Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
To understand what Israel planned to do from the very beginning, you required no special intuition, no access to leaked top secret documents. You simply needed to listen to what Israeli political and military leaders and officials said in public, and take them literally. Such statements proved the most accurate roadmap to predict the crimes Israel went on to commit.
To understand what Israel planned to do from the very beginning, you required no special intuition, no access to leaked top secret documents. You simply needed to listen to what Israeli political and military leaders and officials said in public, and take them literally. Such statements proved the most accurate roadmap to predict the crimes Israel went on to commit.
Yet Western media outlets not only failed to frame their coverage around what should have been understood as unambiguous public commitments to perpetrate grave war crimes, and to specifically treat the civilian population as a legitimate military target. In many cases, newspapers and broadcasters buried these statements, failed to explain their significance, or - in countless cases - didn’t quote them at all.
This alone should be regarded as one of the worst scandals of Western journalism in history. There was overwhelming evidence from the start that a state allied to the West - a state armed and backed by the US and its allies - was going to commit genocide. In a practical sense, the vast majority of our media outlets covered that up in one of the most extreme examples of deceit by omission in history.
Six weeks after the genocide began, I interviewed Raz Segal, an Israeli-American Associate Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies. He told me that Israel’s onslaught against Gaza was “unique in the sense of discussing it as what I think it is - that is, genocide - because the intent is so clearly articulated.” Normally, those who intend to commit genocide go to great lengths to disguise their intentions. Israel, by contrast, could not have offered the Western media clearer evidence of their intentions. Yet broadcasters and newspapers alike chose to keep the truth from their audiences.
Six weeks after the genocide began, I interviewed Raz Segal, an Israeli-American Associate Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies. He told me that Israel’s onslaught against Gaza was “unique in the sense of discussing it as what I think it is - that is, genocide - because the intent is so clearly articulated.” Normally, those who intend to commit genocide go to great lengths to disguise their intentions. Israel, by contrast, could not have offered the Western media clearer evidence of their intentions. Yet broadcasters and newspapers alike chose to keep the truth from their audiences.
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