Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley):

There was another IDF massacre in Gaza on Saturday, reportedly killing dozens of Palestinians.

Israel as usual claimed it was responding to a ceasefire violation by Hamas, but of course there’s absolutely no evidence for this to be found. AP reports that according to the IDF the strikes were launched after a Hamas fighter “shot at troops in southern Gaza,” but that “no soldiers were hurt” in this alleged attack. Not so much as a scratch. So I guess we’re just expected to take Israel’s word for it.

Now check out these western media headlines about the massacre and notice the disgusting spin they are placing on the narrative to normalize the continued slaughter of Palestinians:

  • “Israel launches strikes in Gaza ceasefire’s latest test as hospitals say 24 killed,” by AP.

  • “Israel launches strikes in Gaza ceasefire’s latest test as hospitals say more than 20 killed,” by NBC News.

  • “Israel launches strikes on Gaza in further test of fragile ceasefire,” from Sky News.

  • “Israel launches strikes on Gaza in latest test to fragile ceasefire,” from France 24.

  • “Israeli Strikes Kill at Least Two Dozen in Gaza Amid Fragile Ceasefire,” from Newsweek.

Do you see what they’re doing here?

The western press see the killing of Palestinians as such a baseline norm that Israel can massacre dozens of people in Gaza and they’ll go, “Gosh I sure hope this doesn’t lead to any violations of the ceasefire!”

It’s never a ceasefire violation to commit mass murder against Palestinians. It’s only ever a “test” of the ceasefire, or something that happens “amid a fragile ceasefire”. If Hamas suddenly attacked and killed dozens of Israelis, these empire propagandists wouldn’t be saying “Hmm I sure hope the fragile ceasefire holds up amid this challenging test.” They’d just call it what it is. And it would be the main news story in the world.

  • Doorbook@lemmy.world
    3·
    12 天前

    The legacy media already gone far. I do hope other journalists with integrity do come up with their own platform as having scattered news makes it harder to track.

  • PhilipTheBucket@piefed.socialEnglish
    510·
    13 天前

    The article is fine. Caitlin likes to be aggressively pro-Palestinian to give cover to some of her other views:

    And of course we’ve still got the horrifying US proxy war in Ukraine, where men continue to be dragged off against their will to fight in a nightmarish conflict that most Ukrainians now oppose, but which Zelensky is saying he intends to keep fighting for years against the will of the public. This whole miserable ordeal could have been avoided with a little diplomacy and a few low-cost concessions, but the western power alliance avoided off-ramp after off-ramp in order to ensure that Russia would get sucked into another costly military quagmire.

    https://caitlinjohnstone.com.au/2025/10/29/its-just-wall-to-wall-news-stories-about-the-us-and-its-allies-abusing-the-world/

    You’ll still periodically see online liberals trying to shame leftists for not voting for Kamala, but the more information comes out about what the Biden administration was up to during that time the more genocidal they look. Biden-Harris are looking worse with time, not better.

    https://caitlinjohnstone.com.au/2025/11/15/the-empire-only-de-escalates-in-one-area-so-it-can-escalate-in-another-and-other-notes/

    And, of course, OP really doesn’t like Bernie Sanders, AOC, or Mamdani, really doesn’t want people supporting them or voting for them. Wonder why.

        • IndustryStandard@lemmy.world
          61·
          13 天前

          You can make a case for Mamdani fighting against Israel but not for AOC and Sanders who voted to send weapons to Israel

          • PhilipTheBucket@piefed.socialEnglish
            25·
            13 天前

            * voted for a doomed amendment one time which included funding for a grant program which among some other things had missile defense along with defunding all of Israel’s offensive weapons, and then after that doomed amendment failed and everyone moved on, continued their extremely vigorous opposition to sending weapons to Israel including obviously voting against the big bill which included sending both offensive and “defensive” weapons to Israel and made it vocally clear that sending weapons to Israel was part of why they were voting against it, which makes it weird that particular people are spinning up that one vote about the amendment into the whole of their Israel action and policy

            ** Also I think it was only AOC that voted for the stupid amendment, right? Obviously that one never made it to the senate, when did Bernie ever vote for weapons for Israel?

            • IndustryStandard@lemmy.world
              4·
              13 天前

              It does not matter whether it is doomed. What matters is the support it gets. By not voting for it she showcased that a “progressive” should vote to send free interceptors to Israel while it is committing genocide. Who introduced the bill does not matter either. Hakeem Jeffries is voting with Republicans to condemn socialism and nobody bats an eye.

              Are only progressives supposed to take it on the chin while the establishment shows no gratitude for any concession they make?

              If you really want to be disappointed in Bernie Sanders I recommend this video. This timestamp tells you all you need to know. https://youtu.be/nC6xiDKnMzA?t=23m38s

                • IndustryStandard@lemmy.world
                  31·
                  12 天前

                  Bernie Sanders opposed a ceasefire three months into the genocide. I am sure he also voted to send interceptor missiles to Israel many times, but if I provide you with evidence of that, would it change your mind?

                  I just provided you with a video which shows you how Bernie Sanders has concretely supported Israel and opposed Palestinians for decades.

        • geneva_convenience@lemmy.mlOP
          5·
          12 天前

          They’re spamming their own “meanwhileatgrad” link from months ago, which makes them look even stupider considering how Zohran is steadily caving to Israel in actions.

          The amount of effort they put in to do ad-hominems without ever addressing the argument leads me to believe it’s cm0002. It requires a severe amount of cognitive dissonance to do purity testing on an entirely unrelated post by complaining about someone doing purity testing while staying on topic.