David Hearst, Middle East Eye, 16 October 2024
The picture of an 11-year-old girl with napalm burns running naked down a road in Vietnam was deemed so shocking in 1972 that it won a Pulitzer Prize.
“The Terror of War” became the iconic image of the Vietnam War.
Today in Gaza and Lebanon, there are so many pictures of burning people, burning tents, bodies piled up on the streets of the Jabalia refugee camp, and dust-encrusted survivors staggering out of the rubble with the lifeless bodies of their tiny children in their hands, but no one even bothers to publish them.
Images of “The Terror of War” being committed by Israel in Gaza or Lebanon are not entered for Pulitzer Prizes. Nor do they elicit statements of condemnation or disgust from US presidents or British prime ministers.
Editors are too frightened.
FULL ARTICLE HERE – https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/israel-middle-east-for-ever-wars-pave-way-demise
