Media Covering Decades Of Arab-Israeli Conflict Already Tired Of Iran Protests

“I can just feel the relevance and newness of yet another violent encounter between Arab rioters and Jews. No wonder they get all the attention.”

Isfahan, April 19 – Several months into civil unrest in Iran, the protests and their violent suppression now attract little or no coverage in Western media, participants noted today, the same media that engages in breathless commentary on minor developments in the century-old struggle between Jews and Arabs in the Holy Land.

Protesters and security personnel alike noted today that as economic woes, religious coercion, and political dissent explode in episodic demonstrations that the mullahs in Tehran greets with deadly force and which may threaten the stability of the regime and region, outlets such as the New York Times, CNN, British Broadcasting Corporation, Agence France-Presse, Reuters, and the Associated Press no longer find these protests a fresh or compelling development to report, preferring to focus on abortive unrest in the Gaza Strip that has little potential to effect noticeable change in a conflict that has simmered since the late nineteenth century.

“We get a nod here and there in someone’s Twitter,” acknowledged Waddamai Chopdlivar, whose daughter has been jailed for removing her hijab in public. “But mostly, the big Western media folks have gotten bored of our campaign for freedom, since it’s already a few months old – maybe a few years, if you draw a direct line to the Green Movement of the previous decade. That must be old hat compared to the vital freshness of Jews and Arabs slugging it out over the course of a hundred-forty years or so. I can just feel the relevance and newness of yet another violent encounter between Arab rioters and Jews. No wonder they get all the attention.”

“I don’t get it, but it’s fine with me,” admitted Colonel Bashsam Hedz of the Basij militia. “The less attention our violent suppression of dissent gets, the freer we remain to engage in it and crush any threat to the Ayatollahs’ hold on power. The dynamic with the media right now means our leadership can fund and foment Palestinian violence, which will garner the attention we want to avoid at home, and the pliant Western journalists will turn a blind eye to us while they focus on all the new developments on the Palestinian front. Obviously we gain from that, and I think the main reason the media continue to play along is they’re embarrassed to admit the nuclear deal for which they shilled would fall apart if Tehran’s excesses and repression got too much attention.”

“Also, no Jews, no news,” he added.

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