Words Are Weapons Too: A UN Official Exposed What Western Media Hide

Craig Mokhiber, former New York Office Director of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, exposed on X what Western newsrooms and, in extension, Western politicians, intentionally manipulate.

Mokhiber said "The constant sanitizing of language by the corporate Western media, done on behalf of the US-Israel Axis, is simply stunning to watch. The attacks on Iran are not some "war of choice," they are the crime of aggression, full stop. The Israeli regime's ongoing attacks on the Palestinian people are not a "war", they are the crime of genocide. And the lawless dissemination of Axis propaganda by the media is not journalism, it's complicity."

— Craig Mokhiber on Twitter

This is exactly the same game we have been documenting here on Syria News since the war of terror on Syria first began, more than a decade and a half ago now.

Language is never innocent in these wars. It is chosen, on purpose, word by word, to launder real crimes into something soft and forgettable for the people back home in the West, the very same people whose tax money is paying for all of it.

We were heavily criticized for years, since the very beginning of the war of terror on Syria, simply for refusing to call the head-chopping terrorists of Al Qaeda and ISIS by the polite name the mainstream media insisted on using for them, "moderate rebels." That was the accepted narrative back then. Anyone who called it what it actually was got labeled "not balanced."

It is the same trick, over and over, in every single one of these wars.

• An illegal aggression becomes a "strike."
• Unilateral sanctions, imposed without any approval whatsoever from the United Nations Security Council, become simple "measures," almost like paperwork.
• And now, a deliberate war of aggression by choice against Iran, which is in fact the highest crime recognized under international law, as it was defined by no one other than the victors of World War II themselves when they wrote the UN Charter, gets softened down into something as forgettable as "tensions in the region."

Mokhiber is completely right to name this for what it is. It is not journalism, it is complicity, and it has been complicity for a very long time now.

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If you want to see, in real and undeniable clinical detail, exactly what all these sanitized, softened words are actually hiding underneath them, we invite you to check our two-part series, The War of Terror on Syria Through Forensic Medicine and its second part here.

We have also collected many more examples just like this one, over the years, under our War of Terror tag on the site, a running record of the real gap between the words the media chooses to use, and the actual heinous crimes those words are designed to hide from you.

Your objective comments are always welcome.

Safaa Syria: They Sold the Golan for a Forged Certificate, and Called It Peace

Syria News contributor Safaa Syria, writing back to the site from inside the wound, refuses to let the world call this "progress."

On the sidelines of the recent NATO summit in Turkey, Trump summoned Al Qaeda HTS commander and former deputy commander of ISIS Abu Mohammad Al-Jolani and his foreign minister, and spewed the full recognition of Israeli sovereignty over the Golan in front of the terrorists' delegation, dressed up as American generosity: a promise to finally scrub Syria off Washington's terrorism list after 47 years.

Al Qaeda HTS's Foreign Ministry called it the closing of a "dark chapter." Safaa calls it what it actually is: a forged certificate of good conduct, purchased with land that was never Israel's or Jolani's, to be traded away.

Safaa walks through the nineteen months since Al Qaeda HTS took Damascus without a fight — the dollar back at war-time highs, sixty percent of minority public employees fired before the "raises" arrived, electricity priced out of reach of anyone without a salary, hundreds of hectares of Syrian wheat fields burned to keep bread an import, and the new regime's own oil fields sold back to citizens at world price.

Ten bombings in Damascus in a single week, one near the low-rated Macron while he shook Al-Jolani's hand, the worst bombing gutted a cafe behind the Justice Palace. She asks the only honest question left: Is this what liberation from terrorism looks like?

Don't let anyone tell you the lie of selling the Golan to Israel died quietly with Hafez Al-Assad's name attached to it; it was buried in silence, along with everyone who spread it for years and never apologized: The Golan Was Sold With a Forged Certificate of Good Conduct.

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Calling on Putin to Save Russia's Credibility: Petition to Free Syrian Political Detainees

For over two decades, Russia under President Putin has risen up from the horrible status the dismemberment of the USSR left it in but that was not solely with Russia's own efforts, if it was not for Syria and in particular, for Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad rejection of the Western traps to isolate Russia when it was in its weakest status, and withstanding the enormous pressure with massive sacrifices by the Syrian people, Russia might have been dismembered further into many more republics.

How Russia, especially the Russian presidency under Mr. Putin, paid back Syria or at least stood by Syria when Syria was attacked, and mostly because it refused to isolate Russia, is a cause of shame that will forever stain the views of the Syrian people and many across the planet on Russia.

Russia turned from a leading light of hope supporting countries in the face of Western imperialism into a backstabber, and seller of those same allies who trusted the country with the rich history which was invaded and betrayed by its 'Western partners' repeatedly, turned under the Zionist-leaning Chabad Lubavitch control into an example of betrayal from Iraq to Libya, Venezuela, Syria, and now Iran, also remembering Cuba, and even the people of the Donbas in Ukraine, no good examples.

However, this is a plea to whatever decency is left in the Russian leadership to do the right thing and like how they sold out Syria for cheap to Turkey and for free to Israel, at least save the Syrian officials persecuted by those same terrorists Mr. Putin wanted to 'combat in Syria rather on the streets of Moscow or St. Petersberg' as he justified Russia's interference in Syria in late September 2015.

You might think the criticism of Russia in the Petition I wrote is a bit harsh, trust me, it's not even scratching the surface of the betrayal the Syrian people are feeling, who not only lost hundreds of thousands of their relatives, had their coutnry destroyed, and millions maimed and displaced in the 13.5 years of war against the same terrorists that Mr. Putin wanted to combat, they continue to face persecution and massacres on daily basis.

The Petition, should you feel humane and help spread, hoping it'll reach Mr. Putin eventually and not too late: A Petition to Russian President Putin Regarding Syria.

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Stefan Heuer to Syria: They Want You Forgotten, We Refuse

Prominent German historian and political analyst Stefan Heuer wrote this letter to his Syrian friend still living under the boot of the world's filthiest filths — Al Qaeda HTS and their puppet master Al-Julani, who was handed Damascus by the same NATO criminals, their Turkish attack dog Erdogan, the backstabbing Russia, and Gulf despots who spent 13.5 years financing the most horrific terror war ever waged against a people.

Stefan writes with the pain of someone who has followed Syria's tragedy closely and personally, and his words carry the weight of a man who understands that what happened to Syria was not a revolution, not a civil war, but a carefully engineered destruction of a sovereign nation by the most criminal alliance in modern history.

What makes Stefan's letter worth reading is that he does not sugarcoat, does not diplomatically dance around the truth, and does not pretend the Western media's silence on Syria's ongoing suffering is accidental — it is deliberate, it is criminal, and he says so plainly. He sees through the perfumed handshakes at the White House and the glossy media rebranding of a terrorist into a statesman, and he refuses to let the world forget.

Read the full letter on Syria News, share it widely, and keep talking about Syria — the least we can do for the Syrian people is refuse to be silent like the complicit Western mainstream media that is paid to look the other way while a nation is being slowly exterminated: The Fight for Syria’s Soul is Not Over.

Al Qaeda HTS Nominates a Terrorist as an Ambassador to Egypt, Gets Rejected

Egyptian authorities didn't like the ambassador nominated by Syria's Al Qaeda affiliate, HTS; they deemed him unsuitable for such a high diplomatic post.

The Egyptians made it clear in a cable to Al Qaeda HTS occupying Syria that their nominated individual is rejected based on his terrorist past, despite being a former student at Cairo University.

Unlike the welcoming of the commander of Al Qaeda HTS Julani by the US president, European leaders and top officials, the Russian president, who praised his work (!), and others, the Egyptians have standards for those they deal with, especially if they are linked to the anti-Islamic Muslim Brotherhood radical organization.

More in this report: Egypt Rejects Syrian Al Qaeda HTS-Nominated Ambassador

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