Conversation with award-winning author Stephen Kinzer: Gaza, Syria, Russia

I caught up with Stephen Kinzer recently, discussing US media misreporting on Gaza, Syria, Russia.

"The media reporting on Gaza is completely one-sided.

If 10s of 1000s of Israelis had been killed—if 10 Israelis had been killed in the last week—you'd be reading about it on the front pages.

Hundreds of people dying in a single weekend is not considered newsworthy, because the perpetrators are our allies.

There's only one point of view that's politically acceptable in mainstream America, and that is that Israel can do no wrong. This is one that hasn't changed with the change of administration.

Trump is very much in the thrall of the Israeli lobby—he's gotten so much money from them."

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"The story of what has happened in Syria since the regime-change is a great example of how the United States, and the American press, views the world.

You don't start by asking yourself: 'Where is something bad happening? Where is something good happening?'

You start out by saying: 'Is this a government that our government supports? Or a government that we don't like?' If it's a government that we don't like, every time somebody stubs a toe or gets hit on the head, it'll be a front page story. Whereas if it's a government that we're trying to support, you just ignore the stories...

The most interesting thing about the story as I see it from the United States is not the way that it's being misreported, just the way that it's completely absent from out press. You wouldn't even know that it's happening.

If this had been happening in Iran at even 1/10th the level, it would be on the front page of every newspaper and there would be videos, and everyone would be screaming about about what a horrible regime it is.

The complete lack of coverage of massacres going on now in Syria is a great, or horrible, example of how the American press feels that it has to play a role in promoting American foreign policy. Maybe it would even lead us to think: 'It was better under Assad' or "Maybe it wasn't such a great idea to overthrow Assad.'

If this had been happening one year ago, you can be sure it would've been in every American newspaper because it would have proven what we were supposed to believe about Assad. Whereas if it appears now, it would prove something that we're not supposed to believe about the 'government' that's in power these days."

Stephen Kinzer is an award-winning author and foreign correspondent. See his bio and work here:
http://stephenkinzer.com
Follow him on X: @stephenkinzer

Our previous conversation:
https://odysee.com/@EvaKareneBartlett:9/stephen-kinzer-on-the-demise-of-western:1

Related Links:

Mariupol clips
https://t.me/Reality_Theories/19319
https://t.me/Reality_Theories/19428

https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2019/10/10/return-to-russia-crimeans-tell-the-real-story-of-the-2014-referendum-and-their-lives-since/

https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2022/08/06/ukraine-bombed-a-donetsk-hotel-full-of-journalists-heres-what-it-felt-like-to-be-inside-at-the-time/

*Sectarian massacres committed by terrorists in Syria in the early years of the war on Syria
https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2015/10/13/deconstructing-the-nato-narrative-on-syria/

https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2018/06/03/syrian-civilians-from-ground-zero-expose-chemical-hoax/
https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2018/06/11/torture-starvation-executions-eastern-ghouta-civilians-talk-of-life-under-terrorist-rule/