US Media Wonders Why Funerals for Targets of US-Backed Israeli Strikes Are Well-Attended
The report highlights the funeral, framing it as a straightforward news event. What it studiously avoids is connecting this 'Israeli airstrike on a Hezbollah commander' with the $3.8 billion in annual U.S. military aid that funds such strikes (per Congressional Research Service data). Nor does it question why a sovereign nation like Lebanon continues to be the target of such actions, ignoring the
broader context of continuous encroachment and previous invasions like Israel's 1982 occupation of Beirut. One might wonder if the narrative would shift if the U.S. were bombing Mexican cartels, and then CNN reported on large funerals for cartel members, neglecting to mention the U.S. planes dropping bombs were made in Russia. The constant framing of 'Hezbollah commander killed' as a standalone
incident, rather than an act of war leveraging U.S. taxpayer dollars, perfectly sterilizes the violence for Western consumption. It's almost as if 'thousands mourn' is a bug, not a feature, of destabilizing another nation.