The Aid Distribution and Hamas
False Allegations of Gaza Humanitarian Foundation and IDF
When you hear the Japanese news source, mainly NHK and TBS, but broadly in general, “Gaza,” “people of Gaza,” and “hunger” are tied together and used repeatedly. Every time they talk about Gaza, they start to talk about “man-made famine” initiated by the State of Israel and the IDF. To the audience, probably 90% of the public, blindfolded by the Japanese news, would believe that the broadcasters are present in Gaza and reporting it. I’ve been seriously concerned about the way the war is being broadcast since 2022. Before 2022, there wasn’t so much of a subjective narrative over how the war had been conducted. Look back at the Iraq War. What facts did people see about Afghanistan?
On many occasions, NHK discusses the Gaza Health Ministry as the source of casualty numbers of IDF airstrikes. The terms the broadcasters use are very narrow, simple, and repetitive, so psychologically it’s easy for people to remember what the broadcaster reads out on TV.
Not many people in Japan seem to be aware, but Hamas runs the Gaza Health Ministry. I wonder how many broadcasters are seriously considering what they’re reading out to the Japanese, but they are making people believe as if the Gaza Health Ministry were an official organization that is providing the accurate number of casualties in Gaza. There are a lot of ways that the Gaza Health Ministry is piling the number, but one way is to use Google to “estimate” the number. There is no investigation into how many have died officially.
Here, I seriously wonder about the role of the media in Japan. This is serious, as I sometimes wonder if the system of the media hasn’t changed even after the war from the pre-war era. To every person who owns a TV, NHK has the right to charge them a monthly subscription under the current Japanese laws, just like the BBC. However, like Al Jazeera, Russian Today, and BBC Arabic, the information is extremely biased.
There is a good example of the “alleged or unverifiable” violence initially chanted by the Western media. On June 18th, Col. Richard Kemp posted as follows on X. You could open a link, and listen to his comments on a video clip.
