The Western media doesn't report the news, the facts.
Imstead, It brokers a narrative.
No deeper example is Gaza where Hamas criminal barbarity disappears and every report posits Israel as the war criminal.
Just listen to Sky News UK where poisoned lies drip out of their mouths from their planted reporter in Jerusalem to the despicable Anna Botting in their London studio.
Botting exposed herself when accusing my Israeli colleague, Mark Regev, of slaughtering 500 Palestinians in an Israeli bombing of the Al-Ahli Hospital in Gaza.
When Mark suggested she wait until the facts are in, Botting terminated the interview with two words that any self respecting journalist should never use, "not Interested!"
It turned out that Mark was correct. The hospital was bombed by an errant Palestinian Islamic Jihad rocket, one of many that misfired or fell short, killing hundreds of Gazans.
You have never heard that fact from Sky, or BBC.
Nor did they apologize.
It doesn't fit their narrative. So, instead, they maintain a complicit silence, waiting instead to ambush any mistake by the IDF and turn it into a deliberate genocide.
And what they can't do with weapons, they do with food.
Even that is a weapon to target Israel.
When Israel directs the population away from war zones to safe zones, these deviant media outlets call it "displacement" or "ethnic cleansing."
As Israel is busy setting up new humanitarian aid areas to ensure that food goes directly to the people,, and not stolen by Hamas to be sold on their markets, the media rant about insufficient supplies and a "deliberate starvation policy by Israel."
In other words,banti-Israel news, both print and media as personified by the BBC and Sky UK, have become the Western version of Al Jazeera, and we know how poisonous that channel of disinformation has been.
Watch out for my upcoming article on the invisible wars you haven't heard about in which the death toll, rapes and dispossesed dwarf that of Gaza even as Sky, BBC and others obsess against Israel.
Barry Shaw,
Israel Institute for Strategic Studies.
