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By Ralph Nader
September 19, 2025
Some serious readers would like to see mainstream media and independent media cover several events and matters involving the Israeli war in tiny Gaza and the mass slaughter of its defenseless citizens.
- Israel keeps exaggerating the status and threat by the Hamas government, which is ridiculous. What about an article on what is left of Hamas, never a threat with a few thousand fighters with small arms and limited ammunition, hiding in tunnels, until the mysterious collapse on October 7, 2023 of the super-modern, multi-tiered border security system, all at the same time? What are the Israeli casualty figures in the past year in Gaza besides accidents and friendly fire?
WHAT ABOUT THE VAST DEATH AND SERIOUS INJURY UNDERCOUNT? (See, “65 Doctors, Nurses and Paramedics: What We Saw in Gaza” by Feroze Sidhwa, New York TimesSunday, October 13, 2024; The Lancet, “Counting the dead in Gaza: Difficult but essential”, my column of March 28, 2025, “The Vast Gaza Death Undercount– Undermines Civic, Diplomatic and Political Pressures”and my article in the August/September 2024 Capitol Hill Citizen).
- What is the situation in the Israeli prisons housing many thousands of Palestinians without charges (they are hostages too), and their mistreatment, including torture, documented by some Israeli prison doctors and domestic Israeli reports? Most of the media attention has been on the Israeli hostages in Gaza.
- What is the nature and scope of the Israeli resistance groups, dissenting reservists, and retired officials, the human rights groups, and others? It takes a lot of courage on their part to stand up to Netanyahu. In May of this year, Yair Golan, former Israeli Deputy Minister of Economy, said, “A sane country does not wage war against civilians, does not kill babies as a pastime, and does not engage in mass population displacement.”
- When Netanyahu rarely admits a “mistake” in hitting, for example, the medic team, the World Food Program vehicles, the ancient Catholic Church, and just recently Nasser hospital with a “double tap,” is there any demand for payment of damages to next of kin and property? The U.S. Army in Afghanistan paid families $20,000 when they admitted to a civilian homicide.
- Why isn’t there a follow-up every time the Israeli government promises an investigation? What are the findings and sanctions of these many official inquiries that are announced to get the media off the Israeli government’s back on the day of the atrocity?
- What about a story on the sadistic snipers, who operate without rules of engagement, in this Palestinian Holocaust, and savagely kill infants, children, people desperately digging into the rubble to rescue loved ones, etc.? How are they chosen? They compete with one another with the most brutal, touted examples of their executions, their favorite prey being pregnant women, according to Israeli reporters.
- Why isn’t more made of what is being denied the American public (aka taxpayers) when no U.S. journalists are allowed into Gaza, along with other foreign and Israeli journalists similarly barred? Genocides thrive in darkness.
- What about some reporting on claims that some Israeli opponents of the Netanyahu regime believe it has a devastating dossier on Trump, which accounts for the 100% backing by toady Trump, even more than by toady Biden?
- Why is so little written about Israel enforcing an illegal embargo on Gaza that became far more savage after October 7th – “no food, water, medicine, healthcare, fuel, electricity,” etc.? How come there seems to be an ample supply of shrouds? Some observers in Israel believe there is an underground trade in this product. There is no capacity to produce them in the tens of thousands or more inside Gaza, which is almost totally destroyed.
- What about long-overdue features on AIPAC’s power or a feature on Veterans for Peace blacked out by the major newspapers? Go to veteransforpeace.org and see for yourself if they are newsworthy. More coverage of the 50 Flotilla ships, which have passengers from 43 countries, and their safety is in order.
- Why is the “other anti-Semitism” totally ignored by the media? This “other anti-Semitism” is far more violent, with F-16s and other American-built weaponry daily and genocidally mass slaughtering starving civilian Palestinian semites.
Scholar Dr. Jim Zogby delivered an address years ago at an Israeli University titled “The Other Anti-Semitism,” and also engaged two Jewish-Americans on this topic in a civil exchange seen on the website DebatingTaboos.org.
Thank you for your professional curiosity.
Ralph Nader
On behalf of other serious readers of the news.
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