In the last few days, a hospital run by the group Doctors Without Borders was bombed in Aleppo, Syria and a great many doctors and patients were killed. This was not a terrorist bomb; it was an attack by aircraft that specifically targeted the hospital. There's been little coverage of the attack; for the media it is just another atrocity in Syria. Indeed, it took me a while to find an article about the air attack that named the perpetrator. Not surprisingly, I found the attack was by jets of the Syrian air force.
Why is it that when the Assad forces in Syria bomb a hospital no one mentions it? This is not an empty hospital being used as a launch site for missiles like the one in Gaza that was hit in 2014. When that strike by Israeli planes took place, the "outrage" was spread across all the media. How dare the Israelis hit an empty hospital! Nor was this an accidental targeting of a hospital like the one hit in Afghanistan by US forces last year. When that attack occurred, there was again an outpouring of outrage. No, this latest attack was undertaken by a force that deliberately selected a hospital with no military value as a target for an air attack. And what does the media or the "world community" have to say about it? NOTHING!
The hypocrisy on display is incredible. The reality is that the folks in the media don't seem to care at all about the dead patients and doctors. They only seem to care if the deaths can be used to attack a different target.
Why is it that when the Assad forces in Syria bomb a hospital no one mentions it? This is not an empty hospital being used as a launch site for missiles like the one in Gaza that was hit in 2014. When that strike by Israeli planes took place, the "outrage" was spread across all the media. How dare the Israelis hit an empty hospital! Nor was this an accidental targeting of a hospital like the one hit in Afghanistan by US forces last year. When that attack occurred, there was again an outpouring of outrage. No, this latest attack was undertaken by a force that deliberately selected a hospital with no military value as a target for an air attack. And what does the media or the "world community" have to say about it? NOTHING!
The hypocrisy on display is incredible. The reality is that the folks in the media don't seem to care at all about the dead patients and doctors. They only seem to care if the deaths can be used to attack a different target.
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