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Andy Worthington's avatar

Thanks for this detailed explanation of the compliant subservience of the "liberal" Arab media, Abu Alya. Very informative. And the illustrations are excellent too.

Sandra Watfa  ساندرا  وطفه's avatar

“Press” is too generous a noun for those field slaves; at best, they are stenographers shackled by the Shekel, at worst, cowards, living on their knees, who gleefully condemn their offsprings to eternal enslavement.

Glorified gas attendants will never ever even smell what freedom means, let alone taste it; it falls upon their people to topple over those whom empire meticulously headhunted for being extra servile/pliable and installed as broken puppets with strings in the first place.

That circus will, sooner rather than later, fall like the cheap deck of cards it’s made of.

DEREK HANDS's avatar

Imagine if African regimes did the same with white South Africa. Unbelievably evil.

Zanzibar9CH's avatar

Thank you for this excellent piece, translated in French with pleasure here : https://zanzibar.substack.com/p/la-normalisation-de-labandon-de-la

líng's avatar

It's like reading a NYT column piece from the ilks like Ezra Klein...

Nael diyab's avatar

في كل الأحوال التطبيع خيانة سواء كانت لفلسطين أو لشعوب العربية انت بشو محتاج التطبيع وانت مش قادر تحكي نفسك مستأجر الولايات المتحدة تحميك من إيران أصبح انك لا تبحث عن تطبيع فقط تبحث عن الخيانة وتدمير شعبك والخنوع والخضوع الي اللوبي الصهيوني والحمد لله اننا لا زلنا فئة قليلة تقاتل هذا الاحتلال الأمريكي الصهيوني ونحن لا نملك الي الرجال 🇵🇸✌️ فلسطين مش محتاجة منكم غير تكونو أقوياء وأصحاب كلمة وأصحاب سلطة علي العالم

Nael diyab's avatar

هل يوجد صوت مترجم للعربيه

Samira_artko's avatar

A powerful analysis of how media narratives can normalize injustice by acknowledging suffering while stripping it of political consequences.🕊️🤍

Helia's avatar

The media says that being scared is just being realistic about politics and they think that people who are occupied should just accept being controlled without saying anything. Long as the people of Gaza keep standing up for themselves these stories, about controlling people are going to fail. The people of Gaza are strong. The colonial stories are not going to work on them. The media outlets are just trying to make excuses for being afraid to stand up for what's right. The people of Gaza will not accept the chains of colonialism. They will keep fighting for their freedom. The colonial narratives are wrong. The people of Gaza are going to make sure they do not succeed.

Thank you for sharing it

Michelle's avatar

No amount of propaganda can erase the truth. Free Palestine.🇵🇸🕊️💯

Lulaart's avatar

Justice cannot be replaced with normalization. Palestine is not a bargaining chip.💙🇵🇸

Bahar_psh's avatar

I have never been able to have a good feeling about the Persian Gulf rulers, because they are always only thinking about their own stomachs and their own interests; neither shared religion nor even the Arab race mattered to them, while the ideology of the Iranian revolution was based on freedom and anti-imperialism, which was established on the intellectual principles of Imam Hossein based on the thoughts of Imam Khomeini, and Ayatollah Khamenei moved very firmly along this path.

ADI's avatar

How many lives have to be lost before 'normalization' stops sounding normal?💔

Dirga's avatar

History will remember who chose comfort over justice.🇵🇸

Fereshte_artisti's avatar

God is the voice of truth and the innocent people of Gaza🕊🕊🕊🕊

Shahnaart's avatar

May God shelter the people of Palestine under His protection and deliver them from injustice and all who wish them harm.🙏🏼🤍🕊️🕊️🕊️