[Salon] Another Aid Site Massacre While Media Beats Iran War Drums




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Another Aid Site Massacre While Media Beats Iran War Drums

Drop Site's mission is more vital than ever - we refuse to let the suffering in Gaza disappear from view as the media pivots to selling the next bloody conflict

Jun 17

This morning, Israeli forces massacred 70 Palestinians and wounded over 300 more as they gathered for food and aid in Khan Younis, with the death toll continuing to climb. Nearly 400 have now been killed in aid massacres since the U.S. and Israeli-backed "distribution" system began in late May. American physician Dr. Saeed Rehman, speaking from Nasser Medical Complex in Gaza, described treating victims of today’s aid massacre. He pleaded with the Western world to wake up: “What we’re seeing here is an absolute annihilation of humanity — of children, of pregnant women. What we’re seeing here is an execution.”

As Israel's genocidal attacks on Palestinians escalate, corporate media outlets are rolling out the red carpet for war hawks urging America to join Israel's unprovoked war on Iran—deploying the identical propaganda playbook that sold the catastrophic Iraq invasion. This makes Drop Site's mission more vital than ever—providing the nuanced reporting and truth-telling that corporate media abandons in their rush to war.

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Media's Shameful War Push

While Israel massacres starving Palestinians seeking food and aid daily, CNN and other outlets are giving unchallenged airtime to those demanding America enter into Israel's war of aggression. Israel's former Defense Minister, Yoav Gallant—wanted by the ICC for war crimes—recently went on CNN and said that America has an "obligation" to enter this war. Brett McGurk, Biden's Middle East Coordinator, refuses to call on Israel to de-escalate, instead demanding Iran "get back to the table."

McGurk even claims that continued attacks on Iran and credible threats of American strikes will somehow lead to a "diplomatic outcome"—the kind of twisted logic that has kept America in permanent war for decades.

This is the Iraq War propaganda script all over again. CNN and Fox News, along with cable news networks across the board, are amplifying voices from both parties in Congress justifying U.S. support for Israel's "preemptive" war against Iran. These same neocons are using the manufactured consent playbook that justified the disastrous Iraq invasion and Israel's ongoing genocide in Gaza—dismissing every atrocity as mere "collateral damage."

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The Reality They're Ignoring

While traditional media beats war drums, Israel's war crimes are increasing:

  • Gaza suffered a total communications blackout this past week. No phones. No internet. Across north, south, and central Gaza. Palestinians couldn't warn each other about strikes or reach civil defense teams for rescue.

  • 227 Palestinian journalists have been killed in Gaza since Israel began its war of annihilation. Israel is now a threat to press freedom worldwide, announcing its intention to murder Iranian journalists. The Israeli military bombed Iran's state TV studio while it was live on air—a crime that strikes at the heart of civilization itself.

  • Israel has killed more than 300 Iranian civilians through apartment bombings and car bombs in Tehran—tthe very definition of terrorism. Drop Site is gathering exclusive reports from those who survived these attacks and lost family members.

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Just as they did in 2002-2003, mainstream media is manufacturing consent for another disastrous intervention. The same voices who promised a quick, clean war that became a twenty-year nightmare are back—now demanding America fight Israel's war against Iran. They're using the same playbook: manufactured urgency, fabricated deadlines, and promises that military action will somehow bring stability to a region America has spent decades destabilizing.

While outlets are platforming—without pushback—these war hawks in prime time, recycling the same fear-mongering that killed over a million Iraqis and thousands of American soldiers, they’ll continue to completely ignore the daily massacres happening in Gaza right now. We won't let that happen. We’ve established ourselves as a legitimate threat to the corrupt and powerful who seek to obscure the truth and control the narrative, but we need your support to continue.

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