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"In the first nine months after October 7, the New York Times published 6,656 articles about the Gaza War. That compared to 80 articles about the American-led battle to free Mosul ... Israel is covered by more full-time staff than all of sub-Saharan Africa combined ...
"This saturation coverage creates the illusion of centrality. It trains audiences to believe that whatever they see most frequently must be the most important event in the world. Israel becomes not just another country among many but a kind of moral index of the age – a stage upon which the world’s conscience is imagined to be tested and revealed.
"The Israeli-Palestinian conflict occupies a peculiar and disproportionate place in the West's political imagination, unmatched by conflicts that are deadlier. And so it becomes over-seen, over-examined, intensely dissected, and uniquely moralised until the examination itself becomes both activism and a substitute for understanding."~ Samuel Hyde from his op-ed 'Why global media obsess over Israel and ignore deadlier wars '
It was in 2015 that the famed creator of the Dilbert cartoon first started speculating that Donald Trump had what it takes to become president. For holding this view, and then becoming ever more open about his support of Trump, Adams lost everything.
President Trump’s public reaction to violent lawlessness is without precedent in recent Oval Office history.
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