{"id":1551440,"date":"2024-03-13T11:01:30","date_gmt":"2024-03-13T11:01:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/asiapacificreport.nz\/?p=98192"},"modified":"2024-03-13T11:01:30","modified_gmt":"2024-03-13T11:01:30","slug":"who-is-the-superpower-the-us-or-israel-al-jazeera-on-the-absurdity-of-airdrops-in-gaza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2024\/03\/13\/who-is-the-superpower-the-us-or-israel-al-jazeera-on-the-absurdity-of-airdrops-in-gaza\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Who is the superpower? The US or Israel?\u2019 Al Jazeera on the absurdity of airdrops in Gaza"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/asiapacificreport.nz\/category\/pacific-media-watch\/\"><em>Pacific Media Watch<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The United States&#8217; airdrops of aid into Gaza are a textbook case of cognitive dissonance on the part of the US administration &#8212; dropping food while continuing to send Israel bombs with which to pulverise Gaza, reports Al Jazeera&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/program\/the-listening-post\/\"><em>The Listening Post<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And, says the media watch programme <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/author\/richard_gizbert_2012620183739887491\">presenter Richard Gizbert<\/a>, the gulf between what is happening on the ground and the mainstream media\u2019s reportage continues to widen.<\/p>\n<p>Gizbert criticises the airdrops, what he calls the &#8220;optics of urgency, the illusions of aid&#8221;.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/liveblog\/2024\/3\/13\/israels-war-on-gaza-live-netanyahu-vows-to-finish-the-job-in-rafah\"><strong>READ MORE:<\/strong> Israel\u2019s war on Gaza live: Nearly 100 people killed in last 24 hours<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/asiapacificreport.nz\/?s=The+Listening+Post\">Other <em>Listening Post<\/em> items<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;An absurd spectacle as the US drops aid into Gaza while also arming Israel,&#8221; he says.<\/p>\n<p>Gizbert critically examines the Israeli disinformation strategy over atrocities such as the gunning down of at least <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ohchr.org\/en\/press-releases\/2024\/03\/un-experts-condemn-flour-massacre-urge-israel-end-campaign-starvation-gaza\">116 starving Gazans in the so-called &#8220;flour massacre&#8221;<\/a> of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Flour_massacre\">29 February 2024<\/a> &#8212; first denial, then blame the Palestinians, and finally accept only limited responsibility.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The US air drops into the Gaza Strip are pure theatre. The US has been supplying thousands of tonnes into the Gaza Strip &#8212; but those have been high explosives,&#8221; says Mouin Rabbani, co-editor of <em>Jadaliyya<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And then to claim that somehow it is ameliorated by 38,000 meals ready to eat is quite obscene to put it politely.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;People have compared these scenes to <em>The Hunger Games<\/em> and for good reason.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8216;Who is the superpower?&#8217;<\/strong><br \/>\nAustralian author Antony Loewenstein, author of <em>The Palestine Laboratory, <\/em>says: &#8220;When I saw the US drop food, my first response was really anger; it was horror that this is apparently the best the US can do.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/v3J-oSYrES0?si=xgq8XrvtWMg0j59K\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<em>Absurd Aid Air Drops in Gaza.\u00a0\u00a0 Al Jazeera&#8217;s The Listening Post, 9 March 2024<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Who is the superpower here? Is it the US or Israel? There is no place that is safe. There is no place where you can find reliable food, where people can get shelter.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Gazans are exhausted, angry and scared, and do not buy this argument that the US is suddenly caring about them by airdropping a handful of food.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;People have compared these scenes to <em>The Hunger Games<\/em> and for good reason.<\/p>\n<p><em>Contributors:<\/em><br \/>\n<strong>Laura Albast<\/strong> &#8212; Fellow, Institute for Palestine Studies<br \/>\n<strong>Mohamad Bazzi<\/strong> &#8212; Director of NYU\u2019s Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies<br \/>\n<strong>Antony Loewenstein<\/strong> &#8212; Author, <em>The Palestine Laboratory<br \/>\n<\/em><strong>Mouin Rabbani<\/strong> &#8212; Co-editor, <em>Jadaliyya<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>On Our Radar:<\/strong><br \/>\nSince Israel launched its assault on Gaza, the war has been a delicate subject for Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi. The war has led to censorship of news coverage and suppression of public protest. Meenakshi Ravi reports.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Israel&#8217;s cultural annihilation in Gaza<br \/>\n<\/strong><em>The Listening Post<\/em> has covered Israel\u2019s war on Gaza through the prism of the media, including the unprecedented killing of Palestinian journalists. But there is another level to what is unfolding in Gaza: the genocidal assault on Palestinian history, existence and culture.<\/p>\n<p>Featuring:<br \/>\n<strong>Jehad Abusalim<\/strong> &#8211; Executive director, The Jerusalem Fund<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/program\/the-listening-post\/\"><em>The Listening Post<\/em> is a weekly media watchdog programme at Al Jazeera<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/asiapacificreport.nz\/2024\/03\/14\/who-is-the-superpower-the-us-or-israel-al-jazeera-on-the-absurdity-of-airdrops-in-gaza\/\">Asia Pacific Report<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pacific Media Watch The United States\u2019 airdrops of aid into Gaza are a textbook case of cognitive dissonance on the part of the US administration \u2014 dropping food while continuing to send Israel bombs with which to pulverise Gaza, reports Al Jazeera\u2019s The Listening Post. And, says the media watch programme presenter Richard Gizbert, the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[813,441,789,24746,175,20115,827,433,5,72321,288,6,7,82,94,10,345,62847,358,12,473,14,76071,417,15,13045,75457,1743,76076,76079,631,69776],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1551440"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1551440"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1551440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1552514,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1551440\/revisions\/1552514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1551440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1551440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1551440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}