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After a year and a half of genocidal atrocities, the editorial boards of numerous British press outlets have suddenly come out hard against Israel’s genocidal onslaught in Gaza.

The first drop of rain came last week from The Financial Times in a piece by the editorial board titled “The west’s shameful silence on Gaza,” which denounces the US and Europe for having “issued barely a word of condemnation” of their ally’s criminality, Then came The Economist with a piece titled “The war in Gaza must end,” which argues that Trump should pressure the Netanyahu regime for a ceasefire.

It is odd that it has taken all these people a year and a half to get to this point. I myself have a much lower tolerance for genocide and the mass murder of children. If you’ve been riding the genocide train for nineteen months, it looks a bit weird to suddenly start screaming about how terrible it is and demanding to hit the brakes all of a sudden.

These people have not suddenly evolved a conscience, they’re just smelling what’s in the wind. Once the consensus shifts past a certain point there’s naturally going to be a mad rush to avoid being among the last to stand against it.

This is after all coming at a time when the Trump administration is beginning to rub Netanyahu’s fur the wrong way, recently prompting the Israeli prime minister to say “I think we’ll have to detox from US security assistance” when Washington went over Tel Aviv’s head and negotiated directly with Hamas to secure the release of an American hostage. The US is reportedly leaving Israel out of more and more of its negotiations on international affairs in places like Yemen, Saudi Arabia, and Iran. Something is changing.

So if you’re still supporting Israel after all this time, my advice to you is to make a change while you still can. There’s still time to be the first among scoundrels in the mad rat race to avoid being the last to start acting like you always opposed the Gaza holocaust.

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[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 3 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (1 children)

I gotta say the people are getting it wrong as well. They refuse to listen to anything except what their preferred mainstream media source tells them. Especially old people. Even when presented with clear cut video evidence of Israeli war crimes they refuse to believe their eyes and everything was a Hamaspital.

Most people seem to be unable to grapple with factual evidence no matter how solid. The only thing which convinces them is seeing statements repeated over and over again. Which is why public opinion shifts extremely slowly when it goes against mainstream media narratives.

[–] blinx615@lemmy.ml 3 points 8 hours ago

People cannot critically think and develop an opinion on every issue; they choose trusted sources to outsource their thinking to. Those trusted sources are being used to push lies now and it will take time for people to adjust.

Stack on top of that all of the AI being used to astro-turf the internet and we're in for a shitty ride.