The overall tone of Franks’ report creates the impression of scepticism as the first quote illustrates. But what does it matter where the video was shot? Franks appears to be implying that the video is a fake let alone an 'exception’?
I still find it difficult to get my head around the so-called civilized world’s reactions—or rather lack of them—over the treatment being méted out to the Palestinian people by the state of Israel (and ably assisted by the West).
In fact, I find it inconceivable that the actions of the Zionist state—comparable to that of the Nazi’s treatment of Jews and other minorities—elicits only brief 'news’ items from the Western media and rarely without its usual 'embedded’ commentary that it reserves for the opponents of Israel.
But just in case the Independent gets accused of 'bias’, right next to this story is another one titled "Hamas fires rockets into south Israel.’ Nobody was killed or injured by these rockets, which are crude and unguided and rarely cause injury or death.
Collective punishment, denial of basic services such as food, water, medicines, electricity and even education, illegal imprisonment, extra-judicial killings, the targeting of children, women and old people, illegal evictions, restrictions on movement, denial of medical services, illegal settlements, the imprisonment of 1.5 million people in the Gaza Strip, destruction of orchards and other means of income, lockdowns, the theft of land.
Hey, how long does this list have to get before we see some kind of 'balanced’ and 'objective’ reportage in the Western media? All of the above are illegal under international laws including the very ones that the Nazis were prosecuted under at Nuremburg.
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