NOBODY IS CALLING IT TERRORISM IN THE U.S. MEDIA
- Gonzalo Santos
- Sep 19, 2024
- 2 min read
Just think for a second what the entire U.S. mainstream media and the entire political class in the U.S. duopoly would have called the cyber-attack on ordinary individual U.S. personnel - soldiers stationed in bases, folks working in the Pentagon, the DHS, the various intelligence agencies, or at many of the defense industries - that could be deemed by U.S. adversaries as "legitimate targets" for psychological, indiscriminate, physically harmful operations like the one Israel just carried out against Hezbollah militants and their families.
Well, hard as I have looked for it, I have not found a single instance where the words "terrorism", "terrorist attack" or "Israeli terrorists" were used to describe the explosive cyber-attacks in Lebanon in any of the reports and commentary in the U.S. media, or in any of the pronouncements by U.S. politicians of either party and government officials.
But rest assured that had it been done onto Israeli soldiers or civilians, or to Americans of any kind anywhere, these same U.S. media and pols would be screaming out of their lungs about this "heinous TERRORIST ATTACK" & vociferously calling for immediate and devastating retribution!
So, it matters, so to speak, "who whom" in the generally-used lexicon on violence in this country, and many others, too. One man's - and country's - "brutal terror attack" is another's "legitimate self-defense" pre-emptive action.
And when asked why we were so viciously attacked, we say "They hate us because we love our freedom". And when asked why they were attacked we say, "We (or Israel) did it because they are terrorists who hate us".
Pretty tight, circular logic. And off we go, self-righteous and self-assured, inflicting a new round of violence & terror & genocide onto others we deem our enemies.
And nobody in the U.S. as far as I can tell, seems to notice the grotesque, ubiquitous, ceaseless double-standard! Nobody, that is, except the diaspora ethnic and immigrant communities within the U.S. whose families and communities suffer the terror and violence and genocide of the U.S. state.
Stop exporting violence. Stop the wars. Stop the terror. Stop the genocide. Evolve.
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