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Al-Araby
Al-Araby
The portrayal in the Western media of the events surrounding the death of Shireen Abu Akleh is a textbook case of how the narrative surrounding Israel-Palestine is systematically obfuscated in the service of Israel. Mainstream reporting on her killing reflects the time-tested tactics that Western news agencies utilise to conceal Israeli apartheid, suppress Palestinian voices, and distort reality in order to exonerate the former of its atrocities and blame the latter for their own violent dispossession. In spite of evidence to suggest that Israeli forces deliberately targeted Abu Akleh, whose c…