Media see Gaza starvation, but not its cause
JVL Introduction
Starvation in Gaza can no longer be ignored, and a growing number of media interviews are showing Israel’s monstrously duplicitous spokespersons for what they are, damned out of their own mouths as they blame the UN and Palestinians themselves for the catastrophe they are facing.
As reported in the Guardian, Israeli officials and ministers “either deny that Palestinians are being affected by hunger or say it is not Israel’s fault”.
But most mainstream platforms – the BBC is just one example – present the issue as one of a regrettable aid delivery problem which world leaders are working hard to persuade Israel to resolve. Rarely are audiences reminded that there are malnourished babies on our screens now because Israel has been laying waste the infrastructure that supports Gaza’s beseiged population for 21 months. Even more rarely are Western leaders called to account for their own complicity in the genocide.
The article we reproduce below discusses this phenomenon in US corporate media. It quotes one comment on a headline which read “Mass Starvation Stalks Gaza”, noting: “it’s actual human beings stalking Gaza, who could right now choose to act differently.”
NWI
This article was originally published by Common Dreams on Fri 25 Jul 2025. Read the original here.
'A Horror So Vast, It Could No Longer Be Ignored': US Media Finally Centering Starving Gazans
However, one critic lamented that corporate media “continues to act like starvation is the unfortunate byproduct of ‘war.’”
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Timely. MSM have been showing graphic images of obvious famine, at the least hinting that Israel is reponsible Apologists like David Mercer and Elon Levy (interviewed by an incredulous Stephen Nolan on Radio 5 last night) sound ever more ridiculous. But… they are still seeing it as a problem of logistics, failing to link it to Western complicity (arms sales, trade etc.), Israeli refusal to contemplate a ‘2-state solution’ let alone any historical context (the settler-colonial basis of Zionism) apart from the occasional perpetuation of the myth that Israel was born out of Jewish experience in the holocaust rather than an ideology that predates that by at least 50 years….
An excellent piece. Peter Beinart is admirable. The situation is horrifying, and the sense, over almost two years (and of course much longer), of waiting for international condemnation and action on Israel, that suspension while incredibly allies and especially the US continue to excuse, to palliate, to offer meaningless hand-wringing, is nauseating and fills me with despair. Thank God for those voices that do speak out – many of them in aid or UN roles – and for JVL for their fearless clear-sighted communication and analysis, bringing humanity and ethical rigour to this tragic and cruel scene.
It’s disgusting how the news hides these facts. Covering up, hiding the facts that the west has really supported this Genocide and did their best to make it happen.