World Courant
For the previous eight months, like many individuals around the globe, I began my day by following the information from Gaza and the remainder of Palestine. I depend on reviews from individuals on the bottom in Gaza, particularly on social media, to get dependable details about what is going on.
On the identical time, I observe mainstream media, leaders, representatives of main worldwide organizations and scientists to get totally different views. Sadly, all too typically I hear them use the time period “ethnic cleaning” when referring to the continuing genocidal marketing campaign in opposition to the Palestinians. Each time I hear this phrase, it jogs my memory of the warfare I survived in Bosnia and Herzegovina within the Nineties.
‘Ethnic cleaning’ is a time period coined by the genocide perpetrators through the wars that led to the dissolution of Yugoslavia. The time period is derived from navy terminology that refers back to the “cleansing” (čišćenje) of an space after a navy operation. Propagandists added ‘ethnic’ and created the time period ‘etničko čišćenje’, and the media, politicians, even academia and worldwide organizations helped unfold the time period and hold it alive.
This objective might solely be achieved by what they referred to as “ethnic cleaning” and “human resettlement,” adopted by the creation of mono-ethnic states, essentially the most highly effective of which was Velika Srbija (Better Serbia).
The time period “ethnic cleaning” was imprecise sufficient and straightforward to make use of by propaganda media. Sarcastically, Western politicians and worldwide organizations, together with the UN, accepted the time period as a result of nobody was keen to acknowledge {that a} genocide was happening in the midst of Europe. Nobody needed to take duty and act on the duty imposed by worldwide legislation to cease genocide.
The mainstream media adopted the lead of governments and worldwide organizations and embraced the terminology created by Milošević’s propaganda machine. They reported on the warfare as if it have been too difficult to elucidate to Western audiences, suggesting as a substitute that it was fueled by “age-old hatred” amongst individuals who don’t need to reside collectively, and that “ethnic cleaning” was the one resolution. .