
16/12/2024 إنكليزي

16/12/2024 إنكليزي

16/12/2024 إنكليزي

16/12/2024 إنكليزي

16/12/2024 إنكليزي

1. The Washington Post, October 5, 2024
Mossad’s pager operation: Inside Israel’s penetration of Hezbollah by Joby Warrick, Souad Mekhennet, and Loveday Morris
Some of the most egregious headlines were published on Oct 7, 2024, marking one year since the genocide in Gaza began. In the world of the Washington Post, suffering only befalls American Jews and Israelis — Palestinians surviving a genocide do not exist. Some of the headlines include “Israelis still at war, pause to remember the attacks of one year ago,” “American Jews cope with the fallout a year after the Oct. 7 attacks,” and “The land is full of blood: An Israeli kibbutz where Oct. 7 never ends.” For Washington Post readers, Palestinians don’t exist, U.S. collusion in the genocide in Gaza is overlooked, and the relentless terror unleashed by the Zionist Israeli state is erased.
On Oct. 5, the Washington Post published an article with the headline: Mossad’s pager operation: Inside Israel’s penetration of Hezbollah. The piece, published three weeks after Israel’s military terrorized Lebanon’s population by setting off explosive pagers that intentionally sought to maim people’s faces, is an exaltation of Israeli military strategy. The use of penetration in the headline recalls a Western fantasy of male sexual dominance in war. It is a disturbing choice of words considering Israel’s widespread use of sexual violence in its genocide of Palestinians in Gaza.
References to penetration appear two more times in the article. One line reads like it was written by war enthusiasts rather than professional journalists, the authors write, “As an act of spy craft, it is without parallel, one of the most successful and inventive penetrations of an enemy by an intelligence service in recent history.” This blatant applause of the “technology” and “intelligence” of an attack that qualifies as a war crime, minimizes and erases the human cost. The story is narrativized like a film critic of an action picture; devoid of empathy. It focuses on the “genius” of the operation and exhibits a jarring lack of compassion for the cost — dozens of deaths and thousands of lives permanently scarred.
2. The Wall Street Journal, October 4, 2024
How the Massacre of Ignored Female Soldiers Came to Symbolize Oct. 7 Failures by Anat Peled
On Oct. 4, both the Wall Street Journal and Washington Post published articles profiling female soldiers in the Israeli Occupation Forces. The headline for WSJ reads: How the Massacre of Ignored Female Soldiers Came to Symbolize Oct. 7 Failures. The article proclaims that these soldiers are young women whose voices have been overlooked due to sexism, rather than depicting them as the soldiers choosing to carry out the orders of war criminals, committing heinous acts themselves. Their gender identity doesn’t absolve them of genocide.
Whereas Palestinian children are constantly maligned as adult militants, the authors emphasize the “youth” of these women, painting a picture of innocence and naivete. This is reinforced by the images selected by WSJ editors to illustrate the piece. Images of the soldiers are in color, with bright hues that invoke the feeling of being on the social media sites they were pulled from. The soldiers are smiling and appear to be “hanging out” with friends, rather than enforcing an illegal occupation. The images post-Oct. 7 are forlorn and in black and white, an explicit attempt to solicit sympathetic responses to the loss of color from these women’s aesthetic.
The scale of sexual violence inflicted on Palestinian women by occupation soldiers in the last year is never noted. The authors make no mention of the obscene theft and social media bragging od soldiers wearing the undergarments of Palestinian women displaced or killed. Nor do they include any reference to the assault and rape that has been reported by women kidnapped and imprisoned over the last year.
3. The New York Times, October 20, 2024
He Dreamed of Escaping Gaza. The World Watched Him Burned Alive by Bilal Shbair and Erika Solomon
In October, The New York Times appeared to include stories of Palestinians. Following Israel’s obliterating airstrike on Oct. 14 in Deir Al Balah, displaced Palestinians asleep in makeshift tents at Al Aqsa Hospital were suddenly on fire because of Israel’s bombs. People in hospital beds were burned alive while attached to IV drips. NYT published a number of articles that appeared sympathetic: when reading them, however, no one appears to be responsible for the catastrophe. The airstrike is described as separate from the Israeli soldiers who ordered it.
In a profile of Shaaban al-Dalou, who was burned alive by the fires Israel created that terrifying night, the headline reads, He Dreamed of Escaping Gaza. The World Watched Him Burned Alive. This skewed framing is inauthentic at best and dehumanizing at worst, as if nineteen-year-old Shaaban was simply dreaming of escaping Gaza for the sake of it, rather than the sentiment undergirding the dream expressed to his aunt — a dream of escaping Israel’s U.S.-funded genocide in Gaza and saving his family. Instead, he was killed alongside his mother. A few days later, his younger brother died from burns caused by the Israeli strike.
The piece appears to “humanize” Shaaban presenting hi as the perfect Palestinian victim. The young engineering student is remembered as lamenting over his conditions, yet not once does the New York Times contextualize the very conditions he was speaking on. Instead, readers are given statements from the Israeli military justifying attacks on mosques and hospitals targeting what they claim to be “Hamas command centers.” The New York Times does not challenge or even question this narrative, implying that the preventable deaths of Palestinians were simply casualties of a “legitimate” war.