Reuters today:
Reuters can only find people willing to parrot what Hamas says. Hmmm.
And it isn't only Reuters. The BBC has a similar article, as does The Guardian (‘We would rather die here than leave’), The Nation, and CNN (I'd “rather eat the rubble”.)
Yet I have found thousands of Gazans who put up appeals on GoFundMe begging for money to escape Gaza.
Here are some GoFundMe appeals from Gazans to leave from only the past week:
Don't believe me? Do the query yourself! Escape Gaza - Evacuate Gaza - Leave Gaza - Flee Gaza - Escape to Egypt . Hundreds of results are visible for each one. GoFundMe limits queries to 1,000 results, and many of these search terms have well over a thousand hits.
How come I can find these people and the major news media can only find people who improbably say they would rather keep their own families in the rain rather than find a safe refuge?
Beyond that, we know that before Egypt closed the Rafah border, according to Palestinian Authority officials, some 100,000 Gazans did scrape together the thousands of dollars needed to essentially bribe Egyptian officials to call them "VIPs" and let them in.
The narrative control is nearly absolute.
Media outlets won’t touch it because it contradicts their simplified victim/oppressor framing. Arab governments won’t discuss it because it exposes their own refusal to help. And Western activists ignore it because it makes their slogans meaningless.
At this point, it’s clear that the "Palestinian cause" is not about helping actual Palestinians—it’s about using them as a permanent, unresolvable grievance:
Arab governments use them to distract from their own failures.
The UN uses them to justify a bloated bureaucracy that will never solve the problem.
Western activists use them to signal virtue without having to support real solutions.
And who suffers?
Ordinary Palestinians who just want a future—whether inside or outside Gaza.
This is why trust in the news media is at an all time low. Normal adult human beings want their families to be safe, but Reuters and CNN want to tell people that they'd rather suffer and force their families to live in misery as well.
While some of the GoFundMe appeals are probably scams, read them yourself and see which version of events pass the smell test - the bravado of the people telling their loved ones to suffer in the rain, or the anguish of the people saying they want to leave?
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