The images on social and mainstream media tell the whole story eloquently, even if the accompanying words of many Western journalists fall short of describing what is really happening, as Israel rains retribution on Palestinian civilians for the Hamas assault on Oct 7. The latter attack killed the largest number of Jewish people, mostly civilians, in a single day since the Holocaust.

The Holocaust perpetrated by the Nazis in Germany in the 1940s remains one of the biggest blots on humanity as some six million Jews, including women and children, were brutally mass murdered as Hitler and his acolytes pursued their sick and genocidal ‘final solution to the Jewish question’.

Ironically, it is because of the guilt of not being able to stop that genocide in the heart of Europe that many Western powers today, and the even the media, turn a blind eye to Israel’s excesses and brutality. They also downplay the plight of the Palestinians. Other important factors are beyond the scope of this piece.

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