The “abduction” thesis backed by Italian Prime Minister in Cairo has been preceded and followed by Italian press, in contrast to the international media caution. Italian journalism (with few exceptions) shows its independence in this way
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Now we know that the Israeli soldier Hadar Goldin is dead after an attack in the south of Gaza Strip. But for two days, August 1st and 2nd, most of the Italian press (with some exceptions such as “Il Sole 24 Ore”, “Huffington Post.it” and “Euronews.it”) has been endorsing the strange claim that the involved soldier had been “abducted”, “kidnapped” or “held hostage”, probably by Ḥamās. As if in wartime any capture of a fighter of an occupying force into enemy territory could ever fall within the categories of kidnapping or abduction rather in that of prisoners of war. By doing so, inter alia, the soldier at issue would have been subtracted from the remedies under the 1949 Third Geneva Convention relative to the treatment of prisoners of war. This is because in Gaza (but perhaps is not clear, yet) a war is waging, a war of aggression for some, of defense for others, but always a war with thousands of victims.
Really irresponsible! More so, when this view is endorsed by a State via its Prime Minister.
But the most serious issue is the media homologation (from the TV stations, to the online ones, to the newspapers) and of the press agencies to what seemed like an instruction issued by the political bodies. A fine example of independence and professional ethics! A symptom of an Italy by now steered to the irrelevance at the international level and to the uncritical replication of slogans imposed by disguised powers and absorbed by an already semi-asleep social conscience.
Islamicworld.it proposes below an overview of how those media have reported the soldier Goldin’s affair, by calling him “abducted”, “kidnapped” or “held hostage”, sometime in their title, a few more in the body of article . Following this, there is a framework about some international media, which referred of “captured”, “seized”, or “missing soldier”. Please note that, among these, even certain Israeli newspapers and websites or Jews-owned newspapers are listed.
As usual, the Italian press appears more royalist than the King! But, on the other hand, the wage is good and, anyway, they … have a wife and children!
Abducted, kidnapping or held hostage soldier
Captured, seized or missing soldier
