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The Owen Jones Podcast

This One Huge Media Failure On Gaza Says It All.

The Owen Jones Podcast

Owen Jones

Politics, Government, News & Politics, News

4.41.4K Ratings

🗓️ 19 February 2024

⏱️ 15 minutes

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How can this possibly be defended?

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0:00.0

I've been planning on talking about this for a while because it is so egregious and sums up the systemic problem with the Western media, how its failure to frame what's actually happening in Gaza, the genocide,

0:13.0

lonslaw against Gaza by the Israeli state,

0:16.0

its failure to actually frame it

0:19.0

according to the actual facts

0:21.0

has had catastrophic consequences.

0:23.2

Now there are always and I should say this,

0:25.7

courageous exceptions to that.

0:28.1

But what I'm talking about here is the failure to link together

0:31.1

statements of intent, things which Israeli leaders

0:33.6

and officials say and linking those to the scandalously underreported multiple

0:38.7

atrocities on the ground I think well if this doesn't appall you what I'm going to go through, then I don't even know what to say.

0:45.4

The war crimes have been committed by the Israel Defence Forces, which most Palestinians refer to as the Israeli occupation forces,

0:52.1

are now clearly just too grave and

0:53.8

blatant and unapologistic to hide. Well they have been for quite a long time.

0:57.8

IDF soldiers keep posting war crimes gleefully. Why? Because they think they're funny and more importantly they

1:03.9

think a large audience at home will find these war crimes amusing and

1:07.7

thrilling because both the soldiers and the audiences do not see

1:12.4

Palestinians as human beings.

1:14.5

But as well as that, after over 36,000 Palestinians have now suffered violent deaths,

1:19.6

including over 14,000 children, the evidence of Israeli war crimes is just beyond monumental.

1:26.0

So you keep getting a certain type of self-described liberal or centrist commentator.

1:31.3

Often being genuinely horrified, I'm not belittling their horror when they write what I'm going to go through now,

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