US Media Discovers 'Collective Trauma' in Gaza, Forgets 'Collective Punishment'
When mainstream media outlets like Reuters or the AP occasionally peek into Gaza, they often frame it with a detached clinical distance. Today, some might call the ongoing psychological devastation a 'collective trauma,' a term that sanitizes 75 years of calculated dispossession and siege. They won't mention that for Palestinians, 'nightmares' are the *intended* state, a feature—not a bug—of an
occupation strategy, perfected since the Nakba of 1948, designed to make existence unbearable. These 'nightmares' aren't just an unfortunate byproduct of 'conflict'; they are the direct result of policies implemented by figures like Netanyahu, who famously declared in 2018 that Gaza's residents 'will be poorer if they want to be.' (Source: The Times of Israel, November 28, 2018). Meanwhile, a
quick check of OpenSecrets.org would show lobbyists for defense contractors pouring millions into congressional campaigns, ensuring the munitions keep flowing. When you're sleeping in dust and fear, while a Congress funded by PACs (like AIPAC, which spent $23.7 million in 2022 elections according to OpenSecrets.org ) greenlights another aid package of $3.8 billion yearly to Israel, it’s not
trauma—it's engineered terror. That's the part they edit out.