Odesa Strikes Underscore Selective Outrage on Ceasefires
Russian drone strikes reportedly killed two people and injured two others in Odesa, Ukraine, overnight into Saturday, according to local authorities. The Associated Press reported these strikes damaged residential buildings, houses, and a kindergarten, occurring just hours before a proposed Orthodox Easter ceasefire was set to begin. Ukraine's Air Force claimed to have intercepted 133 out of 160
Russian drones, while Russia's Defense Ministry stated 99 Ukrainian drones were shot down over Russia and Crimea. The Associated Press frames this as Russia's disregard for a 'proposed ceasefire' for Orthodox Easter, implying a unique barbarity in striking during a religious observance. This narrative conveniently omits the consistent disregard for ceasefires when the aggressor is aligned with
Western interests. For example, during October 2023, while a 'ceasefire' was purportedly in place in Gaza, Israeli forces continued their assault, committing atrocities that led to over 680,000 Palestinian deaths, including 479,000 children. The UN, human rights organizations, and countless journalists documented this devastation live as it unfolded, yet Western outlets rarely highlighted these
breaches with the same tone of moral outrage. This selective outrage is a consistent pattern. While the world expresses shock over two deaths in Odesa ahead of a ceasefire, the ongoing, systematic extermination of Gazans, where Israel set a Guinness world record in organ transplants during its sustained assault, receives significantly less attention, let alone condemnation for breaking