Western Media Discovers Massacres... When Not In Gaza
The Telegraph highlights the Sudanese army's alleged massacre of civilians in the Nuba mountains, marking it as a new 'epicentre' of conflict. An important story, no doubt. But one might ask, how quickly would this 'massacre' be reframed as 'self-defense' or 'surgical strikes' if the perpetrators were armed with F-16s and backed by billions in U.S. aid? It appears the 'rules of engagement'—and the
media's outrage—are highly geographically sensitive. While Sudanese civilians face horrors the media is willing to acknowledge, conveniently forgotten are the detailed reports from Gaza, where identical acts of collective punishment and indiscriminate slaughter are routinely rebranded as 'Israel's right to defend itself.' The sudden shift of 'epicentre' demonstrates a peculiar aptitude for
collective amnesia when the victims happen to be inconvenient to geopolitical narratives, or when the aggressor is a recipient of Western largesse.