There has been global outrage and condemnation over the killing of five journalists. Ruthless Netanyahu gunned down the Al-Jazeera journalists in Gaza on Sunday (last week), claiming they were fighting for Hamas while posing as journalists.
But Hamas and Al-Jazeera have denied this. According to the UN an estimated 241Palestinian journalists have been killed by the Israelis since the Israeli invasion of Gaza in 2023.
Journalists are enemies of the Israelis. They tell the world about the atrocities Netanyahu's forces are committing in Gaza.
They are trouble makers, always nosing around and spreading false information. So they have to be wiped out.
If Netanyahu can kill helpless women, innocent children and even little babies still suckling their mother's breasts, what are journalists to him?
They are just paper to him, to be torn and squashed to death. If Netanyahu cannot kill the people of Gaza with his guns, he'll starve them to death.
He has, however, rubbished claims by the aid organisations and the media that there is starvation in Gaza.
He has called it a 'bold-faced lie.' For once US President Donald Trump has spoken out against his ally and agreed with the media and the aid organisations there is real starvation in Gaza.
But Trump will go no further than merely saying that the people of Gaza are being starved to death. He hasn't ordered Netanyahu to stop the bloodshed in Gaza or the US will stop supplying Israel with armaments.
Yet on Friday he met with Vladimir Putin in Alaska and asked him to stop the war in Ukraine. So Trump-like, double-faced. Ukraine is a European country and Palestine is not.
Israel is helping in the war against terrorism, fighting radical organisations like Hamas and Hezbollah.
The Middle East is of strategic importance to it and Israel is helping it to maintain the balance of power in the region. In the end it boils down to this: whether you are European or not.
European lives matter more; Palestinian (and Sudanese) don't. T Markandan | Kloof