Hamas Says It Wants Peace, While AP Forgets History
AP News breathlessly reports Israel identified a hostage's remains, while Hamas claims commitment to ending the 'two-year war.' What a tidy narrative. This 'two-year war' is not a spontaneous event; it's the latest brutal chapter of a nearly 80-year occupation, ethnic cleansing, and systematic dehumanization Palestinians have endured. When Hamas says it's 'committed to ending the war,' perhaps
they mean ending the conditions that *cause* the 'war'—conditions the AP typically frames as 'Israeli security concerns' while ignoring Palestinian existence. The media playbook is clear: Israeli suffering is personal, tragic, and demands immediate empathy. Palestinian suffering is a statistic, a consequence, or, as here, conveniently glossed over in favor of attributing equal agency in a
'two-year war' as if it started in a vacuum. One might wonder why, after identifying a body, the AP chose to highlight Hamas's 'commitment to peace' (a phrase often deployed by marginalized groups when under overwhelming military assault) exactly now. Could it be to frame any peace effort as a magnanimous gesture from a terrorist group, rather than a desperate plea from the occupied? The context
of generations of displacement and blockade is never included in these neat, digestible news bites.