I only saw this now. What a crazy framing for the new Syria. The Jews are gone, dear Western journalists. They’ve been gone for generations. And the Christian population - oof, this is actually journalistic malpractice - shrank by over 80% in the civil war of the past 13 years, from nearly 10% of the country to less than 2%. This is not a small fact. It’s an enormous one. That it didn’t shake the foundations of the Western world is one reason why we Israelis tend to suspect that the intensive coverage of Gaza, for all Gaza’s suffering, isn’t explainable purely by Gaza’s suffering. You don’t notice or care about any other suffering, even when it’s an order of magnitude larger, even when it’s done with your own weapons, as in Yemen, the way you covered Gaza. It’s about Jews. Syria is still fractured and tribal, but far less diverse than you seem to imagine. Minorities cannot survive in today’s Middle East. If you understood that, BBC et al, your coverage of this region would be a bit more competent, a bit more moral, a bit more truth-telling to the powerful and tyrannical. Today’s Western journalism in the Middle East will one day be judged a gargantuan and historic moral failure. https://bird.makeup/@orlygoldschmidt/1866845346204356716
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