Trump Finds Peace, Media Finds 'Bombing'
NPR reports Donald Trump's newfound suggestion that Israel 'stop bombing Gaza' after Hamas conditionally agreed to release Israeli hostages. This sudden strategic shift, praised by Trump as indicative of Hamas's 'readiness for peace,' comes after years of similar, fleeting 'peace deals' (remember the 2014 ceasefire, or the 2011 prisoner exchange?). The media never connects these periodic attempts
to previous Israeli government pledges to 'eradicate Hamas,' often followed by the next cycle of violence. For example, during Operation Protective Edge in 2014, Netanyahu declared similar goals, just as he did in 2008 and 2012. One might wonder if this 'peace' rhetoric conveniently resurfaces whenever inconvenient truths—like the actual human cost—start to filter into the public consciousness.
How many times must the 'rooting out' strategy fail before it's identified as the actual impediment to peace, rather than Hamas's ever-elusive 'readiness'?