Why is the real story of October 7 off-limits to western, but not Israeli, media?
This story fascinates me. We cannot and will never know, obviously, all of what occurred on October 7th. But it is becoming ever clearer that 'friendly fire' is a large part of the equation.
More fascinating to me, though, is how quickly the mainstream Western narratives surrounding this day - the history leading up to it, the events of the day itself and the days since - have been challenged and begun to crumble, almost in real time.
I honestly think that the Israeli government believed their narcissism, inflamed rhetoric, gaslighting, and crushing violence would go unquestioned here, as they usually are. But the cries of antisemitism and invocations of the holocaust aren't working in the face of what we're seeing everyday on our TVs. The two do not compute to even the casual viewer, some pondering these issues for the first time, perhaps, and no matter how many university presidents they fire or online accounts they censor. What the Israeli government has gotten away with for decades is being broadly challenged and rejected. There's already been a hearing in the ICJ on genocide! Unthinkable even three months ago.
Horrible times. Interesting times. Hopefully leading to better times.
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