https://tankie.tube/videos/watch/cbdb84a2-87c6-4422-a775-ea8696dbd280 “After 19 months of being presented with dissembling accounts of Gaza from their governments, western publics are now being served up a different - but equally deceitful - narrative. With the finishing line in sight for Israel’s programme of genocidal ethnic cleansing, the West’s Gaza script is being hastily rewritten. But make no mistake: it is the same web of self-serving lies. As if under the direction of a hidden conductor, Britain, France and Canada - key US allies - erupted this week into a chorus of condemnation of Israel. They called Israel’s plans to level the last fragments of Gaza still standing ‘disproportionate’, while Israel’s intensification of its months-long starvation of more than two million Palestinian civilians was ‘intolerable’. The change of tone was preceded by new, harsher language against Israel from the western press corps. The establishment media’s narrative had to shift first, so that the sudden outpouring of moral and political concern at Gaza’s suffering from British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, French President Emmanuel Macron and Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney did not appear too abrupt, or too strange. They are acting as if some corner has been turned in Israel’s genocide. But genocides don’t have corners. They just progress relentlessly until stopped. The media and politicians are carefully managing any cognitive dissonance for their publics. But the deeper reality is that western capitals are still coordinating with Israel and the US on their ‘criticisms’ of Israel’s genocide in Gaza - just as they earlier coordinated their support for it. Starmer, Macron and Carney’s new make-believe narrative has several advantages. It washes Gaza’s blood from their hands. They were deceived. They were too charitable. Vital domestic struggles against antisemitism distracted them. It lays the blame squarely at the feet of one man: Netanyahu. Without him, a violent, highly militarised, apartheid state of Israel can continue as before, as though the genocide was an unfortunate misstep in Israel’s otherwise unblemished record.” ✍️ Opinion by Jonathan Cook Thu, 09 Apr 2026 12:15:23 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://tankie.tube https://tankie.tube/lazy-static/avatars/3ba3ff73-a8b6-49c9-add8-9653ef090c7f.webp https://tankie.tube/videos/watch/cbdb84a2-87c6-4422-a775-ea8696dbd280 All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://tankie.tube/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.