Israel’s response to the Oct. 7th attack by Hamas has eclipsed the horror of that day.
Israel’s Overreaction Erases October 7th
Ted Rall
Ted Rall is a syndicated political cartoonist for Andrews McMeel Syndication, WhoWhatWhy.org and Counterpoint. He is a frequent contributor to The Wall Street Journal, a graphic novelist and author of many books of art and prose, and an occasional war correspondent. He is, recently, the author of the graphic novel "The Stringer."
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A bunch of people, minding their own business, were some combination of murdered, kidnapped, mutilated, or raped on Oct. 7. Here’s my questions: How many times did this happen during the Reagan era in Central America? How many times in the past 40 years has this happened in Africa, in no small part due to the destabilizing effects of American foreign policy? And the coverage of those events is, rarely, a brief flare-up of outrage, occasionally some minimal coverage, and usually crickets. Sierra Leone? I’ve never seen her movies.
….and much of “the horror of that day” turns out to have been either perpetrated by the IDF, one way or another, or manufactured out of whole cloth and sold to gullible Western media…..
To brother martin: Thanks for getting that out straight!
The stenography this cycle has more of the media putting in qualifying phrases, such as “according to the IDF.” As if to say: “We have no way of knowing what or who was in here, it’s an empty room.”