As Israel's genocide carries on, Canadians are constantly told by the CBC (our public broadcaster), that this violence is unfortunate but unavoidable, bloody but justified. We are shown images of the accelerated genocide strung together with voiceovers of reporters repeating the key phrase, that Palestinians are supposedly the ones responsible for the American-provided Israeli bombs falling on their homes, schools, hospitals, and universities. We are reminded about the October 7 Al-Aqsa Flood Operation, about the hostages, about how Israel’s violence is supposedly justified. We are only shown images of Palestinians crying about the destruction and are almost never shown things like maps of the ever-expanding colonial empire that is Israel.
To reinforce this feeling of helplessness in their readers, Radio-Canada, the French CBC, came up with a clever way to dash anyone’s hopes of resolving this conflict. Under each and every article about the Middle East for the last few years, they include the subtitle “l'éternel conflit”, “Eternal Conflict” in English. It’s used as a category name that conveniently appears at the top of every single article.
The definition of the word “eternal,” according to the dictionary, is "without a beginning or an end," something that has always existed and will never cease to exist. When you think about it, not many things are actually eternal. Even human life on this planet will not be eternal.
How then, can the public broadcaster justify the use of this loaded word in each and every article about Palestine? (more...)
The "Eternal Conflict” or “Eternal Cover-Up” in CBC’s French headlines?
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