CBS Discovers Children are Casualties, Not Causes, of War
CBS World reports that 'a child dies every hour in Gaza,' a statistic that would be profoundly shocking if one hadn't been paying attention for the past eight months. While acknowledging the devastating impact, the report carefully sidesteps the 'why' and 'who' behind the 'war,' a narrative choice as carefully curated as a White House briefing. This 'objective' framing ignores decades of Israeli
occupation, blockade, and a stated policy of collective punishment that has systematically dehumanized Palestinians. One might wonder when the 'impact of the war' became newsworthy for those who previously amplified Israeli government talking points about 'self-defense' while thousands of children were being dismembered. It's almost as if the sheer scale of the carnage finally pierced through the
layers of strategic ambiguity, or perhaps, the PR team shifted gears. The inconvenient truth that these children are dying from internationally supplied munitions, often from politicians who receive significant contributions from groups like AIPAC (which funnels millions to US lawmakers according to OpenSecrets.org ), is, of course, left unmentioned. How many 'tragic impacts' does it take before
we question the hand delivering the impact?