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Mentioning the Oct 7 as background:
Any attacks from the other side rarely has direct finger pointing to their background as Israel's run of Gaza as open-air concentration camp, which it has been for quite some time. I'm not going to go in to egg-or-the-chickem of the whole decades long conflict, even tho I can discuss it, but the background is almost never direct as "IDF using unproportionate artillery, airstrike, drone, tank munitions on civilian concentrations" when it comes to Israel's actions. Whether in title or as context, most if not all western articles basing the situation with the start as unprovoked Hamas attack is absolute double standards in showing recency, relevance and intensity.
On the finger pointing:
How is "large-scale offensive" not any distanced and cold, simply unbiased as all new should be? And what is "siege" anything but downplaying the aid blockade, blockade against leaving, bombing anyone trying to leave, bombing both aid-seekers and aid givers, shelling and bombing any and all buildings whether there are any confirmed or unconfirmed civilian/Hamas population inside?
I agree that western media isn't monolithic. But even so, they are mostly aligned together when it comes to applying double standards in distanced reporting and hot-headed reporting, frequency, background, further context and speculation depending on the groups involved. Hence the hypocrisy. It may not be as blatant and amateur as some other media does or did, but it is nevertheless sinister. Whether completely but intent, or being pushed to do so by pressure.