Al Jazeera Wonders About 'Israel's Reckoning,' Skips 75 Years
The article’s premise, looking ahead to a 'two years after October 7' mark, frames the conflict's origin solely around that date. This whitewashes decades of occupation, blockade, and displacement that didn't just appear out of thin air on October 7. The media (even Al Jazeera sometimes) still struggles to contextualize; it's like discussing a house fire without mentioning the arsonist, or the
kindling. This isn't a two-year problem; it's a 75-year annexation with an escalating casualty count that only began making headlines when certain people started dying. While they muse about a future 'reckoning,' perhaps this present moment—with over 37,000 Palestinians killed by Israeli forces since October 7, 2023, according to the Gaza Health Ministry—is the reckoning they're searching for. One
might wonder how many 'two-year' cycles of destruction and displacement need to pass before enough 'reckoning' has been had for the international community. How many years will it take for the media to acknowledge the genesis of this 'conflict' isn't just an arbitrary date but a systemic project of land expropriation and ethnic cleansing?