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TODAY'S PAPER | DECEMBER 04, 2023

War of narratives
Editorial | Published December 4, 2023 | Updated about 4 hours ago

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MILITARILY, there is no match between the

Israeli war machine, and the defenceless people of
Gaza. On one side is a racist colonial settler state,
propped up by billions of dollars in aid provided by
the world’s most powerful country, and applauded
for its butchery by many in the Western bloc as
part of its right to ‘self-defence’. Israel has one of
the most savage war machines on the planet and is
known to be a clandestine nuclear power which
uses top-tier technology in the military sphere to
give itself a qualitative edge. On the other side are
two million Gazans, bloodied, bruised and barely
alive after nearly two months of a vicious assault.
Most are living in poverty, unable to properly feed
their families thanks to the siege enforced by
Israel since 2007. This cruel blockade has only
been tightened after the Oct 7 events. In the name
of crushing Hamas, Israel has butchered over
15,000 men, women and children in Gaza, while
also unleashing a reign of terror in the occupied
 West Bank. However, while Tel Aviv may be
advancing on the battlefield, the war of narratives
is being won by the Palestinians.

When Israel mutilates children, assaults hospitals and

refugee camps, and cuts off food, water and power to
civilians, every person of conscience can identify who the
aggressor is, and who the oppressed are. When Israeli
officials term Palestinians ‘animals’, and champion the
ethnic cleansing of Gaza, a large swathe of the world is able
to cut through the spin in the mainstream Western media
that terms Israel a ‘bastion’ of civilisation, and see modern
barbarism in its most ferocious form. Thanks to non-
Western media sources, particularly the courageous
Palestinian journalists who have paid with their lives to tell
their story, as well as numerous credible social media
accounts, Israel’s spin doctors have suffered badly in the
war of narratives.

Published in Dawn, December 4th, 2023

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