I am a sucker for all kinds of humour, including tasteless jokes. But I draw the line at sick jokes being reported as serious news. As far as those jokes go, the Monday appearance of US first lady Melania Trump as chair of a United Nations Security Council meeting takes the cake.
The topic of her speech? Children, technology and education in conflict. She declared that the US “stands with all of the children throughout the world”. Seriously, you can’t make this stuff up.
The cynicism and offensiveness simply beggar belief. Just days before her speech, a needless and highly destabilising war started by her husband and his partner-in-crime, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, saw a bomb dropped on an Iranian elementary girls’ school, killing at least 175 people, mostly children, according to Iranian health officials and state media.
During her speech at the UN forum, Melania Trump paid tribute to several US service members killed when an Iranian drone hit a military base in Kuwait, but there was no mention of the dead Iranian girls. Apparently, there are children and then there are Iranian children.
But that wasn’t her fault, you say, since the speech was scheduled before the sudden outbreak of war. Well, suppose the Iranians dropped a bomb on an Israeli school full of children or a school with American kids in Dubai. Do you think the Iranian representative at the UN would get a free pass in the Western news media? I don’t think so. And most likely, Israel and the US would have levelled Tehran in response.
She also didn’t mention the more than 50,000 children estimated to have been killed or wounded during Israel’s genocidal war in Gaza, with weapons supplied mostly by the US.
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