Despite the reality carefully researched and documented by not only Amnesty International but by a preponderance of the world’s human rights organizations, CNN employed language that carefully constructed a sympathetic narrative around the mental health of a soldier engaged in actions that the World Court has acknowledged as a plausible case of genocide.
Critics argue that CNN’s story is emblematic of a broader trend of double standards within corporate media. For instance, the New York Times has reported on Israeli soldiers’ "panic attacks" as newsworthy yet has not offered similar mental health coverage for Lebanese or Palestinian civilians who are being killed and injured in large numbers.
It’s fucking sickening they are trying to portray themselves as victims for participating in a genocide. I only wish all of life’s misery on this human trash.
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I cannot find the tweet along the lines of “there will be a movie about how killing made Israeli soldiers sad”
Found it
Probably. There are already puff pieces. Here’s one from the very same CNN.
The former soldier has spoken publicly about the psychological trauma endured by Israeli troops in Gaza. In a testimony to the Knesset, Israel’s parliament, in June, Zaken said that on many occasions, soldiers had to “run over terrorists, dead and alive, in the hundreds.”
“Everything squirts out,” he added.
Zaken says he can no longer eat meat, as it reminds him of the gruesome scenes he witnessed from his bulldozer in Gaza, and struggles to sleep at night, the sound of explosions ringing in his head.
“When you see a lot of meat outside, and blood… both ours and theirs (Hamas), then it really affects you when you eat,” he told CNN, referring to bodies as “meat.”
He maintains that the vast majority of those he encountered were “terrorists.”
Did you see that editorial flourish CNN added, “(Hamas)”? Because every man, woman, and child in Gaza is Hamas.
Glad their pay was cut and only the CEO was rewarded.
What allegations? They literally openly admit to it.
Yup. They are “allegations” because imperial core corporate media work for empire.
It’s the same reason why Hamas unequivocally went on a raping spree last October, why Gaddafi unequivocally gave his soldiers Viagra to commit mass rape, why Saddam Hussein unequivocally had weapons of mass destruction, and why Iraqi soldiers unequivocally threw babies out of incubators.
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And no one was surprised.
