War on Gaza: The West is buying Israel extra time to accomplish its genocide
Israel - with full western backing - continues to subject 2.3 million beleaguered men, women, and children to a relentless campaign of displacement, extermination, and starvation without much external distraction
It is not only astonishing that Israel and its allies have utilised virtually every propaganda twist and lie to portray genocide as a “just” war of self-defence, but also that they have every confidence that the public will be repeatedly deceived.
“Buying time” to accomplish the destruction of Gaza is the ultimate objective of the deception campaign, as stated by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in October 2023.
The vaunted Israeli hasbara (official narrative-spinning) borrows from the well-tested and widely applied Euro-American colonial discourse to dehumanise the Palestinians.
High-ranking Israeli political, military, intellectual, and media figures have presented Palestinians as "human animals", "sons of darkness", savages, uncivilised, terrorists, beheaders, burners of babies, sexual predators, new Nazis, and the like, all to paint genocide as a legitimate course of action.
Therefore, it did not take much for the western liberal establishment and corporate media to embrace this discourse and to go even further by erasing Palestine and the Palestinian dispossession from the narrative. The New York Times is a case in point.