Western media parrots Israeli narrative on Beit Hanoun Massacre

Khalid Amayreh, thepeoplesvoice.org

..Interestingly, nearly none of these news media, "the voices of the free world, " bothered to ask or even wonder why "mistakes" and "technical errors" and "errant artillery shells" are invoked whenever Palestinian (and Lebanese) children and women are killed in the streets of their neighborhoods, while on vacation along the Gaza beach, while fleeing bombardments, as in Mirwaheen in southern Lebanon, or, indeed, while sleeping in their beds as were the latest victims of Israeli savagery. Unfortunately, most western reactions to the massacre didn’t go beyond the usual platitudes and routine statements such as calling on both sides to show restraint. Here are some examples, which show the extreme flaccidity with which the West treats Israeli criminality...

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