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Aug. 4, 2025 - Lionel Nation
17:20
Why The Media’s Silence on Gaza Is Over—The Lie Just Collapsed
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Listen carefully, my friends, to a topic, a topic, or a topic.
What am I saying?
A topic, a topic that for the longest time, nobody discussed.
Like that uncle of yours, you know, the drunk, you know, uncle, uncle, you know, Dave.
Don't talk about him.
We don't talk about him.
Just that's what the subject of the Middle East is.
And by the way, the Middle East is always kind of a cover for Israel.
You don't even say that.
It becomes the I-word.
All of a sudden, you never talked it.
No, talked about it, I should say.
I started professional talk radio in 88.
So what is this?
37 years?
And you never.
It was the N-word, the I-word.
You just, and you just knew.
Pick the hill you want to die on.
And you were only given certain things to say, and you said it, and everything was fine.
But if you dared question, like, wait a minute, is it?
Oh my God.
Most people don't even realize this.
And the worst part is that, not that people said the wrong thing, they just didn't talk about it.
I don't know what's worse.
It's that pre-committed decision to censorship, to censor.
And for decades, it's true, the topic of Israel and Palestine.
Well, Palestine, you could say, oh, there is no such Palestine doesn't exist.
There's no such thing.
It's just fiction.
That's okay.
You had a list.
You could say this, this, this, and you'd be fine.
Say, don't push it.
What do you want to do?
What do you want to be involved in this for?
And you did it.
And everybody followed the rules.
Fox News, CNN, everybody.
And you wondered why.
Don't ask.
Okay.
It's like Uncle Dave.
Just don't talk about it.
And the subject of Israel and Palestine, and then Gaza, it hovered.
It hovered in that weird, that weird space, that stratum where truth goes to suffocate.
Diplomats deflected.
Politicians, you know, dodged the questions.
Media tiptoed.
And the American public, long lulled and mollified by Hollywood and headlines and Hasbara, has largely, largely ignored the agony and the reality of Gaza.
Convinced it was either too complicated or too distant or too dangerous to truly and really confront.
But the spell that appears, my friend, has finally been broken.
It's broken.
With the release of a haunting video showing an emaciated hostage held in Gaza during a high-profile visit by, well, billionaire developer, but President Trump envoy and operative Steve Witkoff, in the visit to Israel, something irreversible happened.
And it has been.
It's not just that event.
For the first time, maybe the world, maybe, maybe some people are looking, not just glancing, but staring at Gaza, at the children, the rubble, the blockaded hospitals, the starvation, the shattered schools, the airstrikes, the checkpoints, the apartheid.
It was there the whole time.
And for the first time, maybe many are asking for the first time.
That's what this should be called for the first time.
Are asking questions they were once either too afraid or maybe too uninformed to even ask.
And the issue that people are saying right now everywhere is, is Israel engaged in war crimes?
Is this ethnic cleansing?
Is the term apartheid accurate?
And most controversially is this.
Say it.
Is this genocide?
Can that even be?
How can Israel, whose existence was a result of the horrors, in essence, that, and you can argue about the, I'm not going to go back into the whole notion of the Balfour Declaration, but it will be understood.
It was that if ever there was a group of people who knew firsthand who were almost organically, genetically incapable of committing genocide, they who were the victims, no, it was incomprehensible.
It's mathematically impossible.
So let's pause for a moment.
The word genocide is an earthquake.
It brings with it legal gravity, historical trauma, and immediate recoil.
And I understand why.
Yes, yes, under the 1948 Genocide Convention, many of the conditions, many, the intent to destroy in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, or ethnical, as they say, racial or religious group appear to apply perfectly.
But the word itself has become a linguistic grenade, you know, and it's hijacked by progressive activists.
It's deluded by political overuse.
And just as racist and anti-Semitic have become, you know, patellar reflex accusations, genocide now risks being met with, you know, suspicion rather than focus or solemnity.
And that's the tragedy.
That's the tragedy.
Because when everything is genocide, nothing is genocide.
You follow?
So let us be precise.
Let us be sober and let us be devastatingly, brutally, nakedly honest.
What we are witnessing in Gaza is the slow, systematic elimination of a people's ability to live, move, eat, speak, build, or breathe freely.
And if that does not meet the legal threshold of genocide, well, it at least embodies the spirit and gets pretty damn close to it.
And what's changing now is not just the rhetoric, but the alliances.
For years, APAC, many never heard of it.
CPAC?
No, APAC.
You mean the thing with the, no, no, ASCPAP, no, APAC.
Nobody knew about it.
Now it's every other, every other day.
And thanks to social media and X in particular.
That's all we talk about.
But APAC is the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, not Political Action Committee, Public Affairs.
It operated like a specter in Washington.
It was a lobbying juggernaut with bipartisan reach, a war chest of cash, and a knack for crushing dissent before it took its breath.
Mention APAC in polite company, in polite political company, and you'd be met with the same look you get if you whispered Illuminati, you know, at a dinner party.
I mean, half laughter, half paranoia, half like, oh, we don't, well, not anymore.
Now APAC is under the microscope.
Members of Congress are getting grilled about their donations.
Journalists are digging through years and years of undisclosed meetings and trips.
Look at Tucker Carroza.
Look at that disastrous interview with Ted Cruz.
Oh my God.
Voters, especially younger, more multi-racial, less, you know, beholden, I guess, to Cold War dogma.
They're asking maybe what exactly these politicians received.
What exactly did they receive in exchange for turning a blind eye to Gaza's horror and torment?
And make no mistake.
Make no mistake.
There will be consequences.
We are already seeing the tremors of what will soon be a seismic political shift.
A collective disavowal is coming.
The same politicians who once eagerly sought APAC's endorsement will begin returning funds, issuing apologies, calling for balance, you know, in U.S. foreign policy.
They'll claim to have been misled or unaware of the full picture.
I mean, you can write it now, and it's being written now.
But don't be fooled.
They knew.
They all knew.
They just didn't think anybody else would care or know or figure, well, whatever.
I mean, after all, political interests, come on, you've got the climate lobby and the gun lobby and the big tech lobby and the big pharma lobby and the big agri-lobby.
What's one more lobby?
There's nothing against the law.
Nothing against the law.
Nothing.
So, and a lot of people were jealous.
Like, no, that's an effective lobby.
And they were effective.
But the floodgates are open now.
And it's changed.
And this shift didn't come from a single protest or a single press relief.
It came from visuals.
From smartphone footage of children screaming and rumble.
From phones, from alternative media, from something that Fox News or CNN, they thought they ran the show.
They thought they were the gatekeepers wrong.
There were live feeds of bombs hitting hospitals.
Satellite images of entire neighborhoods reduced to dust from videos like the one that surfaced this week showing a hostage wasting away under unspeakable conditions, shattering the humanitarian narrative that was spun by both sides.
This moment, this shape-shifting moment is colossal.
And the media, the media long complicit in tiptoeing around Israeli excesses, always saying the same thing.
They have the right to defend themselves.
October the 7th, Hamas is evil.
And that was it.
And that once Hamas stopped it or Hamas stopped with its subterranean, you know, practice of hiding everywhere, of necessitating this horror.
Once that escaped, everything would be fine.
But see, but no longer, no longer can people ignore the truth, the tide, so to speak.
And for years, legacy outlets like CNN and the New York Times and MSDNC, and Fox News to an extent.
They danced around uncomfortable truths.
They were afraid of losing donors and advertisers or access.
But even now they feel the ground shifting.
Even they now realize they must speak or be left behind.
And this is, look, look, let me tell you something.
This isn't just a media reckoning.
It's a moral one, a political one, a generational one.
It's happening in real time on campuses, in community centers, in city halls, in newsrooms.
The old guard is being challenged and the unspoken is being shouted.
And the heresy of questioning Israeli policy is becoming not only acceptable, it's becoming imperative.
And that changes everything.
Because here's the brutal irony.
Listen to me carefully.
The very people, the same people, the very people who most passionately say never again, are now forced to confront the sickening parallels between yesterday's silence during Holocaust, during the Holocaust, and today's silence over Gaza.
And they're waking up in horror.
You see, let me tell you something.
Years ago, I remember during the Vietnam War, listen, there's always been a bevy, a passle, a coterie of loud and very eloquent people from Noam Chomsky's to Finkelstein to, you name it, folks who spoke for years and years and years on this.
Many of them Jewish.
This isn't a Jewish thing.
It wasn't about religion.
It was about right or wrong.
And any of it, and they were considered heretical and quizzlings and that sort of thing.
But anyway, same thing happened in Vietnam.
Vietnam, it was like, okay, you got Buffalo Springfield.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
You got some barefoot dope smoking.
Okay, you got the protest.
You got the Chicago riot.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
A bunch of, you know, the usual suspects.
But until when the grandmother started to protest and moms and dads, then it changed completely, completely.
And that's what it was.
That's what happened.
That's when it changed.
And that's what's happening now.
You see, it's no longer enough to say Israel has a right to defend itself.
That line, repeated ad nauseum by Western leaders, now rings hollow when it precedes footage of leveled schools and dead infants.
The American taxpayer is no longer in the dark.
They know their dollars are funding destruction.
And they're demanding answers.
And they're also saying, what about America first?
We'll get to Ukraine later on.
And this is not about being Pro-Palestinian or anti-Israel.
It's about being pro-truth, pro-humanity, pro-accountability.
And yeah, I'm going to say it, pro-America.
Remember this?
Because what America funds is what we're talking about.
And what America funds, it owns.
Remember, Colin Powell, if you break it, you own it.
And history will judge us not by our press releases, but by our complicity and our reaction to it.
So let's not mince words.
I don't do that.
This moment is cataclysmic.
We are watching, you are watching, a global reawakening to the realities of Israeli occupation, apartheid policies, and Gaza's living nightmare.
But more importantly, we are witnessing the collapse of an old illusion that Israel, no matter what it does, can never be criticized.
That illusion is gone.
It's finished.
It's over.
It's done.
And in its place is a raw, agonizing truth that a people can suffer for decades, for decades, and the world can stay silent until it can't anymore.
So let the world look.
Let the cameras roll.
Let the questions come.
Let the lobbyists squirm.
And let the apologists backpedal all you want.
And let the people, American, Arab, Jewish, secular, religious, whatever, let the people finally rise and say together, this must stop.
Be not mistaken, my friend, what you are seeing is shape-shifting, historic like you can't believe.
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