More and more voices are losing their fear of saying that genocide is genocide, but there are still inveterate media outlets that justify Netanyahu's terrifying policies. It was enough to look at the front pages this Saturday, which covered the Israeli prime minister's quixotic speech before a virtually empty United Nations assembly. What newspapers like The Country It was expected that this solitude would be picked up ("Most countries plant a defiant Netanyahu in the UN"), but it was not so much expected that he would do it as well The World, with the headline "Netanyahu's macabre show worsens his diplomatic solitude." It seems to me a healthy sign that, just as one can be a defender of the Palestinian cause without automatically being suspected of hating Jews, we must recognize the courage of those who are usually opposed but are capable of admitting that the current Israeli government has lost its temper, decency, and humanity.
However, some still claimed that there were hundreds of cars on the highway going against traffic, without suspecting that there was actually only one. It was the newspaper Abc, with "Netanyahu defies boycott of 'weak leaders who reward intolerant fanatics'". Here, the premier He was no longer the general lost in the same labyrinth where he had entrenched himself, corseted by loneliness, but someone brave. The way the newspaper integrated the statement into its front-page headline seemed to serve him the story's cue to dunk, in keeping with the narrative that the world is surrendered to Hamas propaganda. But if we were to compare the budgets of both sides in this chapter, the difference would be similar to that of military investment. Or in the dramatic toll of civilian deaths, intolerable for both sides, but enormously asymmetrical.
