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
Unfortunately, all the gaslighting seems to have worked. If they get away with this future wars will depend on the number of civilians your 'most moral' military can murder until your enemies/human animals are battered into submission or eradicated entirely.
I've been thinking about the many parallels to the US invasion and occupation of Iraq. I don't know if the US corporate media ever faced accountability or any reckoning for laundering the lies that launched the war. The shameless jingoism and cheerleading was sick. And in the pre-social media age, the human toll of those lies was largely hidden from the mainstream discourse.
Between social media and independent media (like yours, Owen) it's much harder to pull of that kind of obfuscation, but sadly it doesn't seem to translate into actual changes to policy or accountability.
Accountability Anjali? There is no need for that quaint concept for the leader of the free world, so unlikely their press/media would be any different.
How did Major General Ghassan Alian not get an arrest warrant?? The man actually in charge of the troops on the ground who have been murdering civilians.
The hope has to be that further arrest warrants are on their way, and there's no actual requirement for them to be made public: they may be private from now on. (Some think this should have applied in this case, too, not least given it allowed Israel time to fight a rearguard assault, but then there would have been deafening public outrage over the apparent lack of accountability).
Unfortunately, all the gaslighting seems to have worked. If they get away with this future wars will depend on the number of civilians your 'most moral' military can murder until your enemies/human animals are battered into submission or eradicated entirely.
I've been thinking about the many parallels to the US invasion and occupation of Iraq. I don't know if the US corporate media ever faced accountability or any reckoning for laundering the lies that launched the war. The shameless jingoism and cheerleading was sick. And in the pre-social media age, the human toll of those lies was largely hidden from the mainstream discourse.
Between social media and independent media (like yours, Owen) it's much harder to pull of that kind of obfuscation, but sadly it doesn't seem to translate into actual changes to policy or accountability.
Accountability Anjali? There is no need for that quaint concept for the leader of the free world, so unlikely their press/media would be any different.
Well done! A useful summary.
How did Major General Ghassan Alian not get an arrest warrant?? The man actually in charge of the troops on the ground who have been murdering civilians.
The hope has to be that further arrest warrants are on their way, and there's no actual requirement for them to be made public: they may be private from now on. (Some think this should have applied in this case, too, not least given it allowed Israel time to fight a rearguard assault, but then there would have been deafening public outrage over the apparent lack of accountability).