There’s a persistent effort in Israeli media to push the narrative denying there’s hunger in Gaza.
Sections of Israeli media and the foreign ministry are continuing to insist that photos of emaciated children in Gaza are fake, or only show children with pre-existing health conditions.
On Wednesday, Israel’s media highlighted a clarification issued by the New York Times, external that a child whose photo was featured in an article about the hunger crisis in Gaza had a pre-existing health condition.
A headline in the centrist Maariv daily said, external: “The fake on the front page - The truth is far behind: The New York Times is laughing at Israel.”
The popular right-wing Channel 14 News in particular has portrayed reports of hunger as “Hamas propaganda”.
Former MP Yulia Shamalov-Berkovich said on the channel that it was necessary to have a state commission investigate the conduct of media “to find out who was paying them”.
A headline displayed on the screen said “fake ‘hunger’ in the media”.
Other outlets, like Channel 12 News, have reported, external the Israeli government assessments that Qatar was behind what it described as a “Hamas campaign” to amplify the "hunger crisis in Gaza”.
I think that Gaza faces an existential crisis. There exists however a vaccum in news reporting (accurate news reporting however).
Mostly to do with Israel and their barbaric genocidal actions.
If you look at the larger picture though , the innocents are being killed because there are groups like Hamas, PA which have taken over the very legitimate Palestine nationhood aspirations and have milked every cent of money and blood out of it.
The six nation war effectively decided wha the future of Palestine is. Anything being done now is just prolonging the inevitable
Diplomatic recognition inherently is, but the map of nations that recognize Palestine has long had the West as a bloc. In a matter of weeks it may be down to almost none.
Actually, 550 officers and former dignitaries have called for this. It’s massive. Apparently, 80% of the Israeli popuklation wants an immediate end to this war, just like them.
Of course, Trump won’t listen. He hardly listens to anyone, bar to Netanyahou, Putin, and a few other arrogant alpha male types in this kind.
He goes for full dictatorship then? 80% percent of Israelis want to stop the war, and he freaking decides to extend it? And how can he fire the attorney charged with prosecuting him? That too reeks of full-on authoritarian rule, Erdogan- or Putin-style. With the difference that he has lost popular support since a long time. I wonder how people will take this. Not kindly I suppose.
Actually, I wonder how far away we are from an army-driven revolt against this government…
Moving further towards autocracy on a scale, yes. But the Knesset still have too much power to call it a dictatorship. It’s what researchers would call a Flawed Democracy.
Netanyahu is very skilled when it comes to wheeling and dealing in the Knesset and building alliances. But he is no dictator, just a very powerful Prime Minister at war.
That is, maybe, more a social commentary on the war fervor though. The idea that the Gazans should leave and that they have forfeited their right to live in the area by the Oct 7 attack, is disturbingly popular in ISR society (Israelis became quite radicalised by this attack, very many abandoned liberal ideals to pure tribalism).
Meanwhile, Netanyahu is a very skilled politician that stands with one leg in the settler camp (who is frankly much more extreme than him) and another in the orthodox camp, while also skillfully playing those who are more liberal. He is good at this, as the changes in his coalition government shows. Disturbingly, even if Netanyahu wanted to end the war, it would not at all be politically easy for him, as the settlers/Kahanists would topple the government
