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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.

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[–] Letstakealook@lemm.ee 72 points 4 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] granolabar@kbin.melroy.org 30 points 4 days ago

This has always been Israeli MO tho

At least, normal people are starting to see it.

The real value about oct attack is that it woke up the western citizens to wtf we actually funding here...

Disgusting but nothing we can do about it now.

AIPAC is a foreign agent and must be forced to register as such.

Their decades old propaganda campaign in the US is how we got here.

They grossly misrepresented history and they were successful. This cant happen again, otherwise never gain is just a shiti PR slogan to enable another genocide

[–] Sundial@lemm.ee 55 points 4 days ago (1 children)

What allegations? They literally openly admit to it.

[–] EisFrei@lemmy.world 28 points 4 days ago (2 children)

I cannot find the tweet along the lines of "there will be a movie about how killing made Israeli soldiers sad"

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 25 points 4 days ago

Probably. There are already puff pieces. Here’s one from the very same CNN.

‘He got out of Gaza, but Gaza did not get out of him’: Israeli soldiers returning from war struggle with trauma and suicide

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.

[–] EisFrei@lemmy.world 18 points 4 days ago
[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 13 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Glad their pay was cut and only the CEO was rewarded.

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 4 days ago

And no one was surprised.