CBC Headlines During Israel's Genocide of the Palestinians

 

So, this morning, the big stories were about the Bank of Montreal being sued by customers about fraudulent e-transfers and another story about Trudeau's testimony about whether China paid to bus some Chinese-Canadian seniors to a polling station to elect a candidate they allegedly liked.

As well there was this one: "Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh says 3 sons in Gaza killed by Israeli airstrike."

First of all, while hundreds of thousands of Palestinians are being deliberately starved to death and while there is ongoing video footage available of this, the CBC has refrained from showing images and interviews with starving parents and their concerns for their starving children.  Likewise, footage of psychotic Israeli civilians colluding with the Israeli Wehrmacht to block food and medicine from entering the Gaza strip and turning their blockades into a holiday, is likewise readily available.  I daresay either one of these stories would make for compelling news and guarantee high ratings.  But to juxtapose these stories would have Canadians up in arms and would put enormous pressure on the Trudeau government to punish Israel.

And that's why the CBC doesn't report on such things.  Because it would make things difficult for the government and therefore, subsequently, for themselves.  Plus the Canadian zionist lobby is politically powerful and they are the sort of people who would see criticism of Israel's mass murder of tens of thousands of Palestinian children as being "antisemitism."

So, why do we think they're reporting about the deaths of the sons of the leader of Hamas?  

Most people don't read past the headline and the first paragraph under the headline.  Oh yeah, and the sub-headline, if there is one.  In this case there is.  and it reads: "Israeli military confirms strike, says sons were military operatives."

The first paragraph states:

Israeli aircraft killed three sons of Hamas's top political leader in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, striking high-stakes targets during a time when Israel is holding delicate ceasefire negotiations with the militant group. Hamas said four of the leader's grandchildren were also killed.

And, so far as it goes, the article does a decent job explaining how killing the family of Hama's leader complicates the ongoing ceasefire/hostage negotiations.  It also provides an opportunity to give someone from the Israeli Wehrmacht time to gloat about the military defeat of Hamas without giving anyone from Hamas a chance to respond.  Hamas has always been a lightly armed military force.  So it has always been incapable of large scale military offensives.  But are they still killing Israeli soldiers?  We don't know.  We've seen plenty of footage of IOF members acting like idiots inside homes devastated by Israeli bombs.  But for all we know, in northern Gaza, Hamas operatives could still be emerging from tunnels and picking off Israeli soldiers on a daily basis.

There's been almost zero reporting on IOF casualty figures.

But, regardless, notice how the headline is this guy "saying" Israel killed his sons, only to have the sub-headline confirm it.  That Bizarro-World stuff is how the CBC does everything in its power to weaken impact of the story.  What would the impact of a headline like "Israel kills sons of Hamas leader during ceasefire/hostage negotiations"?

Since we also learn from the story that his grandchildren were also killed in the single vehicle that was hit, the headline could read: "Israel kills sons, grandchildren of Hamas leader during ..." or "Israel kills family of Hamas leader during ..".

The article quotes someone from the Israeli Occupation Force/Wehrmacht saying his sons were military operatives.  What does Hamas say?  I mean, you were right there talking with their leadership.  Aren't you professional journalists supposed to talk to both sides the way you do with the Global Warming issue?

But I think the main reason for the story and the headline is because your average brainwashed North American is going to read about Hamas's leader "saying" his sons were killed by Israel and they're going to think: "Well, that's what you get when you're an antisemitic terrorist! Don't start whining for sympathy!  What about the 10,000 innocent Israeli civilians raped and killed by your terrorists on October 7th?!?"

This rare example of coverage of an ongoing GENOCIDE being committed by a cossetted ally of Canada's ruling class is informative of so many biases.  A few days ago I noticed another isolated specimen of genocide-related news.  Some Liberal backbencher had decided not to resign after most of the Liberal caucus voted for the non-binding NDP motion for Palestinian statehood.  Anthony Housefather decided that he shares enough other "Liberal values" that he'll swallow his racist anger at this weak sauce support for Palestinains and stay in the party.  (As if he really has a choice.  What's he going to do?  Join the Conservatives?  Try to be an independent?)

Reporting on this shit-head's soul searching helps to convey the political difficulties of not being evil in Canada.  Racists and other stupid assholes have strong stupid opinions about apartheid and genocide and these have to be taken into account before anyone rushes off and tries to do the right thing.

The CBC wants people to shrug their shoulders and think that maybe it's best to allow inertia to compel us to continue to support genocide and all the other evils of this oligarchic nightmare we find ourselves in.