Belén Fernández

The truth about Pales­tine is def­i­nite­ly not com­ing to a the­atre near you.

For those try­ing to reach the US on foot, the dead­ly winds of Tehuan­te­pec are just one among myr­i­ad ex­is­ten­tial threats.

Death fol­lows the jour­neys of peo­ple des­per­ate to reach safe­ty across mil­i­tarised bor­ders.

Amer­i­can jour­nal­ists like Jake Tap­per mince no words in jus­ti­fy­ing the Is­raeli an­ni­hi­la­tion of the Pales­tin­ian peo­ple.

The bru­tal Is­raeli war on Gaza is aimed at dev­as­tat­ing Pales­tin­ian bod­ies and minds alike.

Cut­ting off the Pales­tini­ans of Gaza from the rest of the world is a mod­ern twist on the crime of forced dis­ap­pear­ances.

As we’ve just seen with the UN chief, not even the slight­est di­ver­sion from Is­rael’s counter-re­al­i­ty is per­mis­si­ble.

The 20 trucks of aid that en­tered Gaza are just a dis­trac­tion from Is­rael’s mur­der­ous war on the Pales­tini­ans.

Se­lec­tive em­pa­thy is not em­pa­thet­ic at all.

Wash­ing­ton, DC is a fit­ting mi­cro­cosm of the gen­er­al state of emer­gency in the US.