CBS Demands Aid for Gaza, Ignores Blockade Enforcer
CBS reports that 'demands mount' for Gaza aid and Hamas to return more hostage remains, framing this as a balanced moral imperative. What's notably absent is any strenuous demand for Israel to lift its suffocating siege—a blockade that has persisted for 17 years and is the primary impediment to aid. It seems the 'demands' are rather one-sided, focusing on Hamas while ignoring the entity with the
tanks and the checkpoints actively preventing food, water, and medicine from reaching a devastated population already enduring unspeakable horror. This framing isn't news; it's a genre. The humanitarian crisis is depicted as a tragedy without a perpetrator, a natural disaster, perhaps, rather than the intended consequence of a military strategy. The CBS piece dutifully reports on the need for aid
as if the gates to Gaza are locked by some ethereal force, not by Israeli policy, which has included the deliberate targeting of aid convoys and infrastructure, all with unwavering US support. How many demands for aid need to 'mount' before the source of the blockage is actually identified and pressured?