Chris Hedges: Why Israel Lies - Chris Hedges - Truthdig
All governments lie, as I.F. Stone
pointed out, including Israel and Hamas. But Israel engages in the
kinds of jaw-dropping lies that characterize despotic and totalitarian
regimes. It does not deform the truth; it inverts it. It routinely
paints a picture for the outside world that is diametrically opposed to
reality. And all of us reporters who have covered the occupied
territories have run into Israel’s Alice-in-Wonderland narratives, which
we dutifully insert into our stories—required under the rules of
American journalism—although we know they are untrue.
Palestinians evacuate a survivor of an Israeli airstrike that hit a family building Sunday in Rafah, in southern Gaza. AP/Eyad Baba
