WHY THE OBSESSION WITH ISRAEL AND NOT WITH WEST PAPUA (HALF A MILLION DEAD)? [Note by Tom Gross]
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https://madmimi.com/p/3bc55f?pact=527997-154157172-7235361215-a2bf1295d0adda667967478eaacccbfeb5cd35c2 In a short interview I gave yesterday evening, I discuss not only the continuing substantial coverage about Israel in media outlets such as France 24 and the international New York Times, where Israel continues to be the lead story. I also ask why there has been so little coverage in the western media after the US military admitted killing over 30 innocent Afghan farmers in a drone strike last Thursday: I’m not making a military judgment regarding the Afghan conflict. I’m wondering why the western media does not even want to report and discuss dozens of other conflicts (even those the west is involved in) in anything like the way it scrutinizes the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, a conflict where far fewer people have died compared to many of these other conflicts. This is particularly the case in the New York Times’ international print edition which, day after day, fills much of its news and opinion pages with generally very one-sided pieces seemingly designed to portray Israel in a negative and misleading light. At the same time, there is almost no coverage of, for example, West Papua where up to half a million people have been killed (and thousands raped) since it was illegally occupied by the Indonesian militarily in 1963. https://www.jpost.com/Opinion/West-Papua-the-forgotten-people-481450 https://thediplomat.com/2014/01/the-human-tragedy-of-west-papua/ |
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More Papuans have been killed during this past summer. The Guardian, unlike most other anti-Israel left-wing media, has covered some of these deaths: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/aug/29/west-papua-deaths-as-protest-turns-violent |
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This dispatch can also be read here Why the NY Times obsession with Israel and not with West Papua (half a million dead)? Other recent dispatches can be read here You can see additional items not in these dispatches if you “like” this page. |
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