Western media and the Israelisation of Palestine

However, in western media’s coverage of the Palestine-Israel quagmire they have consistently favoured the partisan views of the United States and Israeli governments at the expense of the Palestinian experience. And they have failed the public in understanding this longest of Middle East conflicts, which is at the heart of so many of the problems in the region. Not only is Israel waging a military campaign in the occupied territories, but a second battle is being waged through the western media to ensure continued western especially US support for its expansionist policies.

After the 1967 Six Day War, Jewish organisations undertook a propaganda campaign to ensure Israel’s legitimacy and cement its relationship with the United States. It included the conflation of Israel with the Holocaust and victimhood and the writing of a mythical history of Palestine as an unpopulated desert that “good” Israelis made bloom.