After a year and a half of genocidal atrocities, the editorial boards of numerous British press outlets have suddenly come out hard against Israel’s genocidal onslaught in Gaza.
The first drop of rain came last week from The Financial Times in a piece by the editorial board titled “The west’s shameful silence on Gaza,” which denounces the US and Europe for having “issued barely a word of condemnation” of their ally’s criminality, Then came The Economist with a piece titled “The war in Gaza must end,” which argues that Trump should pressure the Netanyahu regime for a ceasefire.
It is odd that it has taken all these people a year and a half to get to this point. I myself have a much lower tolerance for genocide and the mass murder of children. If you’ve been riding the genocide train for nineteen months, it looks a bit weird to suddenly start screaming about how terrible it is and demanding to hit the brakes all of a sudden.
These people have not suddenly evolved a conscience, they’re just smelling what’s in the wind. Once the consensus shifts past a certain point there’s naturally going to be a mad rush to avoid being among the last to stand against it.
This is after all coming at a time when the Trump administration is beginning to rub Netanyahu’s fur the wrong way, recently prompting the Israeli prime minister to say “I think we’ll have to detox from US security assistance” when Washington went over Tel Aviv’s head and negotiated directly with Hamas to secure the release of an American hostage. The US is reportedly leaving Israel out of more and more of its negotiations on international affairs in places like Yemen, Saudi Arabia, and Iran. Something is changing.
So if you’re still supporting Israel after all this time, my advice to you is to make a change while you still can. There’s still time to be the first among scoundrels in the mad rat race to avoid being the last to start acting like you always opposed the Gaza holocaust.
It’s not for a lack of evidence for the genocide. Probably just to save face at this point
"I’m really concerned that this is a moment in history when people look back, where we’ve got it wrong as a country,” Pritchard added.
Bullshit. The people got it right, the news media and politicians got it wrong. We always knew genocide was wrong, but AIPAC bribes and/or threatens people in media and power.
I gotta say the people are getting it wrong as well. They refuse to listen to anything except what their preferred mainstream media source tells them. Especially old people. Even when presented with clear cut video evidence of Israeli war crimes they refuse to believe their eyes and everything was a Hamaspital.
People cannot critically think and develop an opinion on every issue; they choose trusted sources to outsource their thinking to. Those trusted sources are being used to push lies now and it will take time for people to adjust.
Stack on top of that all of the AI being used to astro-turf the internet and we’re in for a shitty ride.
I’m sure in addition to what’s been publicly stated as happening right now being indefensible even to the most in-denial people out there (at least out of those who want to be able to believably claim they care at all about human rights), it helps that in the UK at least, cases have been moving forward against war criminals with dual citizenship. (Identified “veterans” of the genocidal campaign have been charged elsewhere as well but I haven’t heard how those cases are progressing yet.)
Pretty rich that these outlets condemn governments for ‘having “issued barely a word of condemnation” of their ally’s criminality’ when they should have been asking this question a year and a half ago instead of engaging in the complicity. That’s the fucking job of a free press, which they shirked.
Governments aren’t going to do the right thing without pressure, but despite everyone in the public (with a spine) yelling about genocide, they never put any pressure on.
The title would have been more accurate as Multiple UK media outlets… Western incorrectly implies this is happening in the US too
Only those in power. The rest of us complain that the Palestinian assholes started it but then the Israel assholes took it out on all the wrong people.
Who would have thought moving the inhabitants of the ghettos of Europe to Palestine was a bad idea?
Israelis started it. There is no fault with Palestinians resisting occupation.
Not the people. Only the assholes in charge. The difference is important. I’m American, I’m not an American asshole ordering shelling some innocent people. I go to work and go home and feed the kids. I vote for those who I think will make America better but that’s as far as I am to beings an asshole to other countries. Our gob right now is not aligned with our wishes. Same for the Palestinian people. Whoever started it.
Were the Nazis responsible for the Holocaust or was it all on mustache man?
But then where there good Germans? A silenced minority. Like us now. We basically can’t talk about the government or else.
If you moved to the slave states before the civil war, you would absolutely be one of those assholes even if you didn’t enslave someone, or were in charge.
If you were a white South African during the apartheid years, and didn’t leave as soon as possible EDIT: or fight the apartheid state, you were one of those assholes.
If you were a white Rhodesian… Actually, for this one, you were just an asshole, no qualifications.
Only if you consider history starting in October 7th.
Now that the genocide is all but over, it’s time to bulldoze the rubble, and rebuild. Within a few months of Oct 7, Kushner was already negotiating to build luxury hotels, resorts, and condos on the the Gaza waterfront. They had a game plan from the outset, which has likely been in place for a long time, just waiting for a justification to go after it. October 7 provided that tipping point.
Then HitlerPig started talking about taking over Gaza, and controlling it, calling it the Gaza Riviera. Clearly, they want to create a Jewish Dubai, where rich Jews, and everybody else, could spend their money with somebody other than Muslims.
HitlerPig’s “Secretary of Faith” has even come out to say that every American Christian should make a pilgrimage to Israel, or God won’t let them into heaven. Imagine if every Christian had to make the Christian equivalent of the Muslim Hajj, and they had to visit HitlerPig’s new Gaza Riviera, and stay in his hotels and eat in his restaurants?
HitlerPig was talking about this the last time he was visiting with Genocidal Bibi, talking about America (obviously meaning himself) controlling it, and clearly making his visitor very uncomfortable. This is Israeli sovereign territory, land they consider literally Sacred. They didn’t like having to cede it to the Palestinians, and they aren’t going to like ceding it to America, or HitlerPig, any more than Palestine.
Now that the genocide is all but over, it’s time to manage HitlerPig’s grand expectations, and he won’t like that.
Better 60 years too late than never
I think its pretty obvious what’s happening, the media are changing their tune right after an arab country gave Trump a luxury jet as a “gift”. Qatar has figured out that Trump can be bought, and through him get the corporate media to follow.
Cool jingoist campfire story. Maybe just as cool as the other campfire story where the premise is that Russia bought the US as soon as Trump took the helm but somehow Russia sold it back when Team Blue was in charge.
Get a grip, lib.
Every current politician in the world should be made to wear a badge, as long as they hold office, that says: “I stayed silent under the Genocide in Gaza!”
Every politician who supported this should face a Nuremberg-style tribunal.
We should carve a star of david on their foreheads.
Many of them supported it
A lot of liberal media outlets are more willing to criticize now that they can pin it on Trump specifically, rather than having to admit it’s a bipartisan genocide
The amount of people who act like all of these issues are from trump, and that the republican party isn’t the result of a larger issue is annoying.
Have to apply that thinking to Democrats, too. They were backing Israel unconditionally from the jump, and were so married to that support that it probably cost them the election.
He’s the sin eater for western capitalism
The best time to stop the genocide was a year and a half ago. The next best time is now.
Idk I feel like it could have ended a little earlier than that.
like in 1948.
Israel is having a Ukraine moment.
Probably for the same reasons: they see that Israel is on a path toward irreversible and unavoidable defeat and want to cut their losses by scraping everything they can while on their way to bail out of the sinking Zionist boat.
My understanding is that the Israeli economy relies very heavily on US support. If Netanyahu begins to turn away from the US, he’ll have to call on European nations for support, and at least in some places those populations are more aware of and disgusted by the behavior in Gaza. If Israel can’t get other foreign investment to continue propping up their economy, all those Israeli companies that have been attractive investments for the last 4-6 decades are going to tank hard. Along with trumps idiocy, an Israeli collapse could be a complete disaster for the industrialized world.
an Israeli collapse could be a complete disaster for the industrialized world.
And a triumph for humanity
It’s about time.
