{"id":304919,"date":"2025-10-13T12:01:20","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T11:01:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=304919"},"modified":"2025-10-13T06:40:22","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T05:40:22","slug":"western-media-is-an-integral-component-of-the-wests-collective-genocide-in-palestine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2025\/10\/western-media-is-an-integral-component-of-the-wests-collective-genocide-in-palestine\/","title":{"rendered":"Western Media Is an Integral Component of the West&#8217;s Collective Genocide in Palestine"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><strong><em>Is So Fxxking Criminal, Pathetic, Perverse &#8211; Stopping the US-Israel Joint Genocide Amidst Worldwide Condemnation Is Presented as &#8220;a Deal&#8221;<\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/jared-trump-gaza-israel-genocide-deal.webp\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-304921\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/jared-trump-gaza-israel-genocide-deal.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"346\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/jared-trump-gaza-israel-genocide-deal.webp 780w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/jared-trump-gaza-israel-genocide-deal-300x208.webp 300w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/jared-trump-gaza-israel-genocide-deal-768x532.webp 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>10 Oct 2025\u00a0<\/em>&#8211;\u00a0The truth is the West has long been dead. Israel is NOT doing anything \u201cthe West\u201d has not done to the rest of the world. Here is <em><strong>the lineage of these Trumpian New York\u2019s deal-makers.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>As a matter of fact, Israel is the spitting image of Kiplingesque White Man\u2019s Europe. Hard to swallow bitter truth, if you are a liberal or believer in the essentially goodness of \u201cThe West\u201d, and feels the West can still be salvaged from its worst excesses.<\/p>\n<p>No. It has been a corpse, the corpse puffed up with the cosmetic of Liberalism. \u201cThe European Enlightenment\u201d is an oxymoron, from Kant to today\u2019s cunts that rule the West.<\/p>\n<p>To those of us not with \u201cthe heart of darkness,\u201d <em>their<\/em> West comes as Death and Destruction. While acting as Master Savages towards us, the Old Europe framed us discursively as \u201csavages\u201d (i.e., without history, culture, reason, rationality, knowledge, or in short, civilization), The New Europe &#8211; and its flagship USA &#8211; stay away from this civilizational language: terrorists will do &#8211; it sounds legal, judicial and secular, doesn\u2019t it?<\/p>\n<p>Alas, the White Man\u2019s law.<\/p>\n<p>From the Church-blessed and Crown-funded savage wars for gold, land and slaves in the new world to Oppenheimer\u2019s atomic bombs over Hiroshima and Nagasaki or the post-WWII atrocity crimes perpetrated by the Security Council\u2019s Perm Five.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/maungzarni.substack.com\/p\/western-media-is-so-fxxking-criminal\" >TO CONTINUE READING Go to Original &#8211; maungzarni.substack.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>___________________________________________<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/maung-zarni-1.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-121061\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/maung-zarni-1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>A Buddhist humanist from Burma (Myanmar), Maung Zarni, nominated for the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize, is a member of the <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/\" >TRANSCEND Media Service<\/a><em> Editorial Committee, of the <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/\" >TRANSCEND Network for Peace Development Environment<\/a><em>, former Visiting Lecturer with Harvard Medical School, specializing in racism and violence in Burma and Sri Lanka, and Non-resident Scholar in Genocide Studies with Documentation Center \u2013 Cambodia.\u00a0Zarni is the co-founder of <\/em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/forsea.co\/\" >FORSEA<\/a><em>, a grass-roots organization of Southeast Asian human rights defenders, coordinator for Strategic Affairs for <\/em>Free Rohingya Coalition,<em> and an adviser to the <\/em>European Centre for the Study of Extremism<em>, Cambridge<strong>. <\/strong>Zarni holds a PhD (U Wisconsin at Madison) and a MA (U California), and has held various teaching, research and visiting fellowships at the universities in Asia, Europe and USA including Oxford, LSE, UCL Institute of Education, National-Louis, Malaya, and Brunei. He is the recipient of the &#8220;Cultivation of Harmony&#8221; award from the Parliament of the World&#8217;s Religions (2015). His analyses have appeared in leading newspapers including the <\/em>New York Times, The Guardian <em>and<\/em> the Times<em>. Among his academic publications on Rohingya genocide are <\/em>The Slow-Burning Genocide of Myanmar\u2019s Rohingyas<em> (Pacific Rim Law and Policy Journal), <\/em>An Evolution of Rohingya Persecution in Myanmar: From Strategic Embrace to Genocide<em>, (Middle East Institute, American University), and <\/em>Myanmar\u2019s State-directed Persecution of Rohingyas and Other Muslims<em> (Brown World Affairs Journal). He co-authored, with Natalie Brinham, <\/em>Essays on Myanmar Genocide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is So Fxxking Criminal, Pathetic, Perverse &#8211; Stopping the US-Israel Joint Genocide Amidst Worldwide Condemnation Is Presented as &#8220;a Deal&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":304921,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[2314,550,87,865,1029,88,1855,2462,475,427,249,70,1365],"class_list":["post-304919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-transcend-members","tag-corporate-media","tag-corruption","tag-gaza","tag-genocide","tag-hamas","tag-israel","tag-mainstream-media-msm","tag-military-industrial-media-complex","tag-netanyahu","tag-palestine","tag-trump","tag-usa","tag-war-journalism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=304919"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304919\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":304925,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304919\/revisions\/304925"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/304921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}