by The Media in 4-4-2

The Media in 4-4-2 is committed to restoring the faces, names and poignant stories of Palestinian victims of the violent acts of the Zionist entity in Israel. This approach aims to free them from the impersonality of statistics often dehumanized by the mainstream media. In tribute to Lubna Alyaan and her entire family.

Gaza City is mourning the loss of a young violin virtuoso, Lubna Alyaan, whose promising life was brutally cut short in an Israeli attack. Lubna, a talented 14-year-old student, was killed along with her family in a tragedy that shook Gaza's music and arts community.

Lubna was a passionate musician who dreamed of becoming the best violinist in the world. She perfected her art at the Edward Said Conservatory in Gaza, where her exceptional playing left an indelible mark. Sadly, her musical potential was cruelly extinguished on November 21, 2023, when she lost her life following Israeli bombing. But the horror did not stop there, because his sisters and brothers: Zain (16 years old), Kenan (10 years old), Sari (4 months), his parents: Mahmoud Alian and his wife Sally Shaheen, as well as his grandparents Zainab Mahmoud Al Ghoul and Abdul Aziz Alian, and 50 other members of his family, aunts, uncles, cousins... all lost their lives in Nuseirat, in the center of the Gaza Strip. His entire family was wiped out, erased from the civil register.

https://en.reseauinternational.net/la-jeune-virtuose-du-violon-lubna-alyaan-est-decedee-avec-ses-freres-et-soeurs-ainsi-que-ses-parents-sous-les-bombardements-israeliens/

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Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations, Gilad Erdan, has said that the United Nations itself should stand trial in The Hague for acting “in service of terrorist organizations.” His remarks were in response to a genocide case brought before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) over its war with Hamas.

On Friday, Israel asked the UN’s ICJ to throw out a case brought by South Africa in late December that accused the state of committing genocide in its ongoing bombardment of Gaza.

Israel has sternly denied allegations of genocide, insisting that its ground and aerial offensive of the besieged Palestinian enclave is within the boundaries of international law and that it has a fundamental right to self-defense.

Israel formally responded to the genocide charge before the court in The Hague on Friday, accusing South Africa of “brazen gall” and saying that the genocide claim constitutes a “false and baseless” defense of Hamas.

Separately, Erdan, who has frequently sparred with UN officials in the months following Hamas’ October 7 cross-border attack into Israel, accused the UN on Friday of complicity with Hamas for considering South Africa’s allegation.

“The proceedings in The Hague demonstrate how the UN and its institutions have become weapons in service of terrorist organizations,” Erdan wrote on X (formerly Twitter).
https://www.rt.com/news/590581-israel-un-hague-criminal-court/

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South Africa has presented an overwhelming brief to the international Court of Justice, accusing Israel of genocidal motivation and demanding immediate cessation of such activity. The decision of the court will soon be known, but the opinion of millions, probably billons of the worlds citizens is known. Israel has crossed an uncrossable line.

A community of Ethiopian nomads are gathered for their evening meal. The mood is melancholy. Ironically the conversation is not about their shortage of food, the malnutrition that stalks their children, the outbreaks of cholera, or the impact of on-going tribal rivalry and civil war. The conversation is about Gaza.

A mixed group of middle class, mostly Caucasian Australians gather in a hall on the NSW South Coast. They have not gathered to talk about the housing crisis, or the escalating cost of living, or a creaking health system, they have gathered to talk about Gaza and their concern about unspeakable suffering of the Gazan people.

In Sydney and Melbourne groups of progressive young Jews gather, not to talk about escalating antisemitism from which many have suffered, but to talk about Gaza. Their overriding anxiety is that the government of Israel is doing immense harm to Judaism, to what it means to be a Jew, to the holding of humanitarian values and what it means to be a Jewish global citizen.

These conversations and thousands like them need be borne in mind by those tempted to dismiss criticism of Israel as uninformed predictability from Islamic or Arab sources alone. All Chrsitians, all Churches, should be deeply alarmed.

In Australia, as in many other places of the world, governments that supposedly represent the mind of people, do not. Empathy for the plight of Palestinians runs at least at two-thirds of the Australian population. That Australia has not supported South Africa’s case at the ICJ is utterly predictable, given a history of partisan Israeli support. It is not surprising that South Africa has stood tall. Both Nelson Mandela and Desmond Tutu held the view that apartheid in Palestine/Israel was every bit as serious as that which had prevailed in South Africa.

What happened on October 7 was shocking and the perpetrators should be brought to account. At that point virtually the whole world was, or should have been, with Israel. What has happened since has not been about a calling to account, but an irrational, unrequited and out of control rage. Perhaps some of it fuelled by Netanyahu’s failure to admit his utter incompetence, even face the almost impossible admission that the IDF’s contribution at the eleventh hour contributed to terrible suffering in the kibbutz.

Since then:

It is not ok to reference Amalek and include all Gazans as a terrorist collective.

It is not ok for IDF members to chant racist slogans against all Palestinians.

It is not ok for Israel’s president to sign a missile as a Christmas gift to the people of Gaza.

It is not ok for Hamas’ statement on Israel’s illegitimacy to be given more weight than the Israeli government’s statement that not one inch of land will ever be ceded to Palestinians. Hamas has zero capacity to seriously threaten Israel, Israel has total capacity to erase the name of Palestine.

It is not ok for hundreds probably thousands of non-precision missiles to have been launched against Gazans and Gazan infrastructure, falling indiscriminately, causing mayhem.

It is not ok for thousands and thousands of Gazans to be herded into so called safe zones and then still to have lost their lives.

It is not ok for West Bank illegal settlers to be armed and for many hundreds of West Bank Palestinian residents to have been killed since October 7.

It is not ok for the IDF to indiscriminately shoot anyone carrying a white flag, even if they speak Hebrew.

It is not ok for Israel’s defence Minister to call for the death and or forced migration of Palestinians.

It is not ok for members of the Knesset to claim there is no such place as Palestine and there are no Palestinians.

It is not ok for an Israeli developer to advertise land in Gaza as a future leisure development.

It is not ok for 25,000+ people to have lost their lives, a high percentage being women and children.

It is not ok for aid to have been restricted, and for countless thousands to be on the edge of starvation.

It is not ok for the children of Gaza, in unconfirmed numbers, to have faced amputations without anaesthetic to save their lives.

Israel has crossed an uncrossable line. The Israel of 1947/48 was born out of the need to give Jewish people a safe place not just in the aftermath of the holocaust but in the aftermath of decades/centuries of discrimination and antisemitism. The world rightly saw many, but not all Jews as victims of unspeakable suffering. (Many love, and are loved members of the societies to which they belong and will always remain.)

If there was any residual reason to perceive Israel as a victim, that has been completely erased. Through its Zionistic expansionist policies and through military support from the US, Israel has been making victims of Palestinians and causing terrible suffering. Now in Gaza, this victimisation has reached a terrible threshold.

Of course, the Court of Justice must decree that Israel desist and make reparation.

There can be no going back. Palestinians must receive the independence that most countries in the world recognise as their right.

Israelis must remove the immoral crusader-like leadership with which they are blighted, and they must demand full disclosure of what has been done to others in their name.

We do not need the whole human history to be reminded that victory is never won through military conflict. Conflicts in our life-time are enough for that truth to sink in. Triumph is won through higher, not lower standards of morality and decency. It is won with the establishment of freedoms, justice, restoration, accords, treaties, respect and good will. When Israel awakens to the reality that Palestinians are a necessary part of their salvation, not their enemy, or simply a stumbling block to their colonial ambition, a path to lasting peace will have been forged.

https://johnmenadue.com/international-court-of-justice-and-the-global-court-of-public-opinion/

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GUSNOTE: "The Israel of 1947/48 was born out of the need to give Jewish people a safe place not just in the aftermath of the holocaust but in the aftermath of decades/centuries of discrimination and antisemitism." THIS IS GLIB. THE ISRAEL OF 1947/48 WAS BORN OUT OF THE NEED OF THE EUROPEANS' DESIRE TO GET RID OF THE JEWS — AND OF THE JEWISH PROBLEM — IN EUROPE. NOTHING MORE, NOTHING LESS....................

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I think if I hear again, in some attempt at a supposed even-handedness an interviewer ask a representative of the Palestinian people in this terrible time, ‘do you also oppose the actions of Hamas on 7th October?’ I will puke. That is not a pleasant prospect. 

There it was again the other day on ‘our ABC’ with an earnest young interviewer asking Nassar Mashni, from the Australia Palestine Advocacy Network (APAN) that very question. Nassar, of course had just been detailing just some of the atrocities being committed against his people, including some of his own family members. Then he had to face that question! It was as though his heart felt grief was diminished as it lacked the importance of the interviewers need for balance, perhaps even to catch him out as being unable to admit his rejection of Hamas’ actions. There was even an implied link of him, indeed Palestinians as a whole to Hamas.

Is this balance gone mad? The interviewee, having detailed the many dreadful things that are happening to his people is faced with this inanity, in the name of journalistic balance.

Just to see how perverse this is, can anyone imagine during World War II an interview being carried out with a Jewish emigre lucky enough to have escaped the horrors of the Holocaust, who after recounting the atrocities being committed against their people, is then faced with the question, ‘But do you also condemn the killing of the German diplomat Ernst vom Rath in Paris by a Jew?’ Such is of course inconceivable as indeed it should be, but not so the entirely inappropriate question directed to Nassar Moshri. That reporter ought hang their head in shame, and even more so those who either teach or direct reporters to so question.

The ABC, late 1939. ‘Listeners will be aware of course that Germany has moved to settle France (we can’t say the forbidden word ‘invade as that would deviate from ‘even-handedness). Yesterday we had Monsieur Jean Clerot from the French embassy, and today in the interests of a balanced presentation of both sides of the story we welcome Herr Ernst Mann from the German embassy. Welcome Ernst.’ ‘Thank you. It is lovely to be with you. Of course you will be aware of French aggression against the Reich. They unnecessarily, and aggressively, along with Britain, declared war against us last September and since that time have been making incursions into Germany territory, particularly under that terrorist, De Gaulle. We have done nothing but to defend ourselves against a terrorist state. We have had no choice but to now move our forces into France.”

Of course I am being deliberately provocative, extreme, perhaps inane myself. But that’s the point. As stupid as are my two examples, are the words of these interviewers who, clearly under dictates ask these stupid,’for even-handedness’ questions.

And must the ABC include in nearly every story words to the effect, ‘the current war began when Hamas invaded Israel killing 1,200 people and taking 253 hostages.’ It really only serves to justify the current slaughter in Gaza, adds nothing to the particular story to which it is appended, while also implying that the Hamas attack had no context, but rather just came out of nowhere.

Of course, readers of Pearls and Irritations will be aware of a whole range of words journalists and reporters are forbidden to use at the ABC. To cross the line, even only slightly is to invite a heavy-handed response. Just ask Antoinette Lattouf.

The pursuit of even handedness at one stage led our other public broadcaster, SBS to intersperse every report on Gaza with the bracketed line, said in parrot-like fashion, ‘Hamas, (designated a terrorist organisation by many nations, including Australia), announced….’ Every night it was the same to the point of being comical, if it wasn’t so absurd. I did lodge a complaint. I would like to think it played some part in the silencing of the parrot.

This cult of balance or even-handedness has now come to the point where it serves only to hinder the pursuit of investigative truth. It obscures wider context, abdicates ethical responsibility to call wrong out for being wrong, provides justification for all manner of evil, and gives air to voices often best left unheard. It has become farcical.

https://johnmenadue.com/even-handed-no-just-inane/

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