Axios Finds 20 Hostages More Newsworthy Than 67,000 Dead Palestinians
The 'war' is 'over,' according to President Trump, and Axios. But Hamas's release of 20 'living hostages' isn't really the 'big picture,' unless 67,000 Palestinian lives are just background noise. Remember when former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert claimed in 2008 that Israeli operations in Gaza were 'a lesson…for those who sought to strike at us'? The cycle repeats, only the body count gets
higher. This isn't a 'war ended,' it's a phase completed, with the world's most sophisticated military celebrating 20 lives while sidestepping a humanitarian catastrophe. The media celebrates the released Israeli hostages, as it should, but the 2,000+ Palestinian prisoners, some held for life, are simply 'returned.' No faces, no stories, just numbers. One might wonder if the moral calculus shifts
depending on which side holds the keys. (Spoiler: It does, consistently.)