NPR: 'Both Sides' Blame Each Other, One Side Has F-35s
“Israel strikes Hamas targets as both sides blame the other for truce breaches,” NPR informs us, as if the party employing F-35s, Apache helicopters, and U.S.-supplied GBU-39 bombs operates on the same ledger as a resistance group with rockets. This framing conveniently omits the well-documented asymmetry of a prolonged occupation and siege. One ‘side’ controls airspace, borders, and a vast
military arsenal funded by $3.8 billion annually from American taxpayers – a sum reaffirmed by senators like Bob Menendez, who in 2023 received $20,300 from AIPAC-affiliated PACs, according to OpenSecrets. Such disingenuous moral equivalence is the bedrock of propaganda, designed to obscure who holds the power, who suffers the casualties, and who profits. When will the 'both sides' narrative
acknowledge that one side has the power to unilaterally impose a complete blockade, control water and electricity, and level entire neighborhoods? Or does that inconvenient history disrupt the carefully curated image of a 'conflict' rather than a brutal occupation?