by Caitlin Johnstone, Caitlin Johnstone:
Israel has launched a round of airstrikes on Iran which the western news media are falling all over themselves to falsely frame as “retaliatory” strikes against an unprovoked missile attack by Iran.
As always, history begins the moment Israel is attacked, and all events leading up to that attack vanish from the official record as the imperial propaganda services churn out their headlines.
“Israel Launches Airstrikes Against Iran in Retaliatory Attack,” reads a headline from The New York Times, subtitled “Israel had promised strikes after Iran fired several waves of ballistic missiles at Israel earlier this month.”
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“Israel has begun its retaliatory strikes on Iran, source says,” reads a headline from CNN.
“Israel begins retaliatory strikes against Iran following missile barrage targeting Israelis,” reads a headline from Fox News.
“Israel launches retaliatory attack against Iran,” reads a headline from Axios.
“Live updates: Israel says it has launched retaliatory attacks in Iran,” reads a headline from NBC News.
“Israel fires retaliatory strikes against Tehran over ballistic missile barrage,” reads a headline in The New York Post.
“Israel Launches Strikes Against Iran In Response To Ballistic Missile Attacks,” reads a headline from Forbes.
Western media framing is misleading.
Iran waited 2 months to respond to Israel’s assassination in its capital because the US said they were “working” on a ceasefire in Gaza, which never happened, then Israel expanded its war to Lebanon. Israel is “retaliating” to a retaliation. pic.twitter.com/n9HpZH8lf6
— Assal Rad (@AssalRad) October 25, 2024
What the imperial propaganda services are omitting from their headlines is the fact that Iran’s ballistic missile strikes on Israel earlier this month were themselves a retaliatory attack against multiple Israeli assassination strikes. Israel had launched an attack on Iranian soil when it assassinated the leader of Hamas’ political wing Ismail Haniyeh in July, and then killed an Iranian military official in an assassination strike in Beirut.
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps released a statement at the time making it clear that the missile strikes were in response to the assassinations of Haniyeh and IRGC commander Abbas Nilforoushan, as well as Hezbollah leader Hasan Nasrallah.
This is all publicly available information. There is no nation on earth that would accept a foreign nation openly assassinating its military officials and conducting assassination strikes on its soil. Any nation would consider such aggressions an act of war, including — and especially — the United States.
The western media are portraying Israel as the innocent victim who was attacked out of nowhere by Muslim barbarians because the western media are propaganda services for the western empire. Their job is to frame the US and its allies as virtuous freedom fighters defending their people against unprovoked attacks by evil villains, in order to manufacture consent for the murderous and tyrannical agendas of the US power alliance.
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