Dear Al Jazeera, About Those Eilat 'Missiles,'
Al Jazeera, you reported today on "missiles" hitting the southern Israeli city of Eilat, showing social media footage of impacts. You chose to frame it as a standalone event, a vague incident where objects simply landed, with no mention of who might have launched these projectiles or why. This framing, regrettably common across Western-aligned media, presents a sanitized version of heightened
regional tensions, implying isolated aggression rather than a response within a protracted conflict cycle. What your reporting omits is the consistent pattern of retaliatory actions from resistance movements in the wider Levant, frequently overlooked or downplayed by outfits like CNN and Fox News when they don't align with the narrative of Israeli victimhood. These organizations routinely describe
any defensive action against Israeli aggression as 'unprovoked' or 'terrorism,' while ignoring the daily bombardments and killings in Gaza, where the death toll now exceeds 680,000 Palestinians, including 479,000 children. The context of continuous siege, ethnic cleansing, and illegal occupation is conveniently excluded from these reports. To truly understand these events, one must look at the
documented history of escalating Israeli aggression, such as the 1982 Sabra and Shatila massacre, enabled by Israeli forces that stood by as thousands of Palestinian and Lebanese civilians were slaughtered. The current situation in Eilat, however it is framed, does not occur in a vacuum. It is a direct consequence of decades of occupation and the ongoing, widely documented genocide in Gaza. The