Palestinians gather around rubble following an Israeli airstrike in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on May 20, 2021. (Photo: Abed Deeb/APA Images)
The U.S. corporate media usually report on Israeli military assaults in occupied Palestine as if the United States is an innocent neutral party to the conflict. In fact, large majorities of Americans have told pollsters for decades that they want the United States to be neutral in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
But U.S. media and politicians betray their own lack of neutrality by blaming Palestinians for nearly all the violence and framing flagrantly disproportionate, indiscriminate and therefore illegal Israeli attacks as a justifiable response to Palestinian actions. The classic formulation from U.S. officials and commentators is that “Israel has the right to defend itself,” never “Palestinians have the right to defend themselves,” even as the Israelis massacre hundreds of Palestinian civilians, destroy thousands o
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The U.S. corporate media usually report on Israeli military assaults in occupied Palestine as if the U.S. is an innocent neutral party to the conflict.
But U.S. media and politicians betray their own lack of neutrality by blaming Palestinians for nearly all the violence.
The disparity in casualties in Israeli assaults on Gaza speaks for itself.
The U.S. corporate media usually report on Israeli military assaults in occupied Palestine as if the United States is an innocent neutral party to the conflict. In fact, large majorities of Americans have told pollsters for decades that they want the United States to be neutral in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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