Israel & Zimbabwe Is Race The Real Reason For The Disparity In News Coverage?

If you bother to pay attention to the the North American news media over the holidays the only foreign news being broadcast on television is about Israel. CNN, ABC, NBC, CBC, are broadcasting more stories about the never ending conflict between the Jews and the Palestinians. Doesn’t anyone question “why” the North American press are focusing on Israel and not other countries around the planet? What about the health crisis in India and Asia isn’t this news? Why is the Occident only paying attention to Israel?

What is so special about Israel anyway? Is it about the issue of “race” or just geographical politics?  Does Israel receive more press due to politics or the fact it is in the sphere of influence of the Occident?

The BBC is the only broadcast news organization that is paying special attention to the on going conflict in Zimbabwe. The Occident only cared about Zimbabwe when the dictator Robert Mugabe was ordering the removal of white farmers a few years ago. Only when “white people” were involved in the crisis of the southern African nation did the western media pay attention to the economic and social crisis in Zimbabwe.

However, when poor Africans are dying and fleeing to South Africa to save their lives this isn’t “important”  news for the Occident. After all, Zimbabwe doesn’t have the natural resources or the wealth to interest the Occident. Who cares about a bunch of poor black people dying right?

I am cognizant of the fact Robert Mugabe has not allowed foreign media to enter into Zimbabwe. Mugabe and his ZANU PF party have restricted the foreign media because they view information as a form of propaganda.  Why hasn’t the world decided to rise up against Mr. Mugabe? My theory is the delicate issue of race relations, African politics, and also apathy is to blame. If the Occident did enter Zimbabwe and remove Mugabe he will state this is just another example of the colonizers trying to control Africans. However, the silence of the Western world during this crisis is that innocent people are getting more sick and are dying.

 Why doesn’t the world care? Why doesn’t other African nations speak out against Mr. Mugabe? I believe if the African leaders shunned Mr. Mugabe he can be removed rather quickly and order can be restored in Zimbabawe.  The quandary is the silence of the African leaders presents the image to the rest of the world that they “agree” with Mr. Mugabe. Mugabe has always presented the illusion that he is about African liberation against the Europeans and yet here is Mr. Mugabe treating his own people as though their lives mean nothing.

Where are the humanitarian organizations? Why doesn’t the United Nations do something? Doesn’t anyone give a damn?  At least this is the attitude of the Western media that I sense is taking place.

The dictator Robert Mugabe refuses to help his own people they are dying of diseases such as cholera. The inflation rate has sky rocketed in Zimbabwe. The people of Zimbabwe are hungry, desperate, depressed yet the world community only is apathetic. African leaders don’t care they continue to support Zimbabwe. The solution to the problems in Zimbabwe will be internal within the African continent not from Europe or North America. Why isn’t Robert Mugbae on trial for crimes against humanity? Shouldn’t Mugabe be behind bars?