Washington Welcomes Journalist Slayer Benjamin Netanyahu
The staggering number of journalists killed in the Israeli government’s war on Gaza must be front and center as the Israeli prime minister visits Washington
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As Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visits Washington to address the United States Congress, the staggering number of journalists killed in the Israeli government’s war on Gaza must be front and center yet not without recognizing that the war makes freedom of the press impossible.
President Joe Biden fast-tracked the shipment of Hellfire missiles, artillery shells, tank cartridges, and 1000-pound and-2000 pound bombs. Such weapons are not only responsible for a Palestinian death toll that could be as high as 186,000, but also the deaths of more than 150 journalists and media workers and family members.
“The occupation is committing one massacre after another against Palestinian journalism, attempting to kill the witnesses of truth in an effort to obscure it and hide the voice and image of the massacres it commits against our people in all Palestinian territories, especially in the Gaza Strip,” declared the Palestinian Journalists Syndicate (PJS).
Additionally, a censorship regime imposed by the Israeli government has resulted in the arrests of more than 100 Palestinian journalists and the detention of 85 Palestinian journalists. PJS says that 52 “colleagues” remain in Israeli prisons (as of July 7).
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Great title and super important topic similar to the cold shoulder the Assange story received. The US media is debating truth in the wake of 45’s fake news but like comfortably with the zone of interest over the blood stained censorship from Gaza.
It's disgusting that western governments are supporting this horrible carnage.