U.S. Media’s Doublespeak: Israelis Live in “Densely Populated Areas” (theintercept.com)
| | | | | | | | | | | U.S. Media’s Doublespeak: Israelis Live in “Densely Populated Areas,” Pa... Ahmad Wuhidi But Palestinians in densely populated Gaza are all Hamas’s “human shields” — letting Israel deflect the blame fo... | | | Palestinians in densely populated Gaza are all Hamas’s “human shields” — letting Israel deflect the blame for civilian deaths. On Tuesday night, CNN reported that Israeli civilians in parts of Tel Aviv were in the potential line of fire from an Iranian missile attack aimed at the headquarters of Mossad, the Israeli state intelligence agency. The cable network described Mossad’s central location as a “densely populated area” — a civilian area in which a key asset of the Israeli state military is embedded. One phrase was conspicuously missing from CNN’s coverage, a term I grew up hearing in Gaza: “human shields.” For decades, Israel has attributed the vast number of civilian deaths in Gaza by alleging that Hamas decided to locate itself within civilian infrastructure. The huge numbers of Palestinians killed by Israeli bullets and bombs were, according to this narrative, not Israel’s victims. Instead, they were Hamas’s “human shields.” The label arose because of the proximity of these civilian casualties’ homes and workplaces to sites of Hamas operations in, to borrow CNN’s words, “densely populated areas.” -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#32717): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/32717 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/108827450/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/13617172/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
