Children of Gaza (CBS Sunday Morning—Jul 21-2024)

Editor's Note: The depraved behaviour of Israel has been—and continues to be—so revolting, so beyond the pale, that its usual protectors, the corrupt Western political class and their media, have been forced to recognise this fact from time to time, if only to maintain a measure of legitimacy. Biden for example, pretended to intervene to force Israel to act with less brutality; the media, charged after all with reporting on basic reality, faced with such a colossal crime already discussed on the Internet, a crime already recognised by even the international tribunals, have also begun to present portions of the truth, obviously much too late and with great reluctance, while cushioning their narrative with all possible qualifiers ("Hamas brutal attack...yada yada, etc.).  However, the ugliness that Israel has wrought upon Gaza is such that even glimpses of the truth can have a huge and shocking effect. So, despite their evident shortcomings, even these instances of "reluctant journalism" are to be celebrated, for nine months after this genocide began, far too many people remain comfortably cocooned in the massive lies that enveloped this tragic event from the start, indeed lies that have obscured the truth about the Zionist crimes against Palestinians for almost a whole century.