Trump Urges 'Fast' Peace Talks, Media Forgets Gaza's Two-Year War
Mainstream outlets eagerly parrot the line about a "nearly two-year war" in Gaza. One might wonder where they've been since October 7, 2023, when this 'new' war officially began, according to their own pages. The casual rewriting of history, even by reputable sources like Al-Monitor, conveniently erases the prior 18 months of relentless Israeli bombardment and blockade, not to mention the 75 years
of occupation and displacement that preceded it. It’s almost as if the suffering only counts when it's politically convenient or when a U.S. election looms. This rhetorical sleight of hand transforms a brutal escalation of an ongoing occupation into a discrete, recent conflict. The calls for 'moving fast' now ring particularly hollow when you consider the decades of diplomatic inertia and the
billions in U.S. tax dollars annually funneled to one side. Perhaps Trump's urgency is less about peace and more about an election cycle that requires a distraction from inconvenient truths. How many 'nearly two-year wars' did we miss before? And what does 'peace' even mean when the history itself is constantly being renegotiated?