From The Intercept mailing list of 07 July 2024: “Nearly 40,000 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza since October 7 , a figure that is likely a stark undercount of the true devastation. In addition, a recent report from the aid organization Save the Children estimates that more than 20,000 Palestinian children are missing. And with famine breaking out across Gaza, international aid organizations warn that half a million people or more are at risk of starvation. But seven months into Israel’s war on Gaza, major news outlets in the West have begun prioritizing coverage of other issues, including the U.S. presidential election. Meanwhile, Israel continues to ban foreign journalists from entering Gaza – and 1 in 10 Palestinian reporters on the ground have been killed since the war started. In this moment of catastrophic loss of life and media censorship, The Intercept is doubling down, partnering with courageous reporters on the ground to expose the grisly truth about Israel’s...
“The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.” —Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilisation and the Remaking of the World Order, 1996, p. 51