An Irish journalist In Gaza, reporting for a British publication, reported what he saw.
The British publication apparently published his account, trusting to its veracity.
He survived the experience, became a Fianna Fail TD, Minister and Tanaiste and finished his career as Uachtarain na hEireann.
His name was ERSKINE CHILDERS.
Perhaps some journalist, academic or even Fianna Fail politician can unearth
Childers’ 1948 coverage and find similarities or differences between western
and Palestinian coverage of the current unpleasantness?
It might also be instructive to republish letters which challenged Childers’s reportage.
IGNORE THE ABOVE
ERSKINE BARTON CHILDERS (1929-1966 ) son of the future President (Ernest Hamilton Childers)
was a BBC Correspondent. HE WAS NOT IN PALESTINE IN 1948 but
later DEBUNKED the Zionist narrative of the violent displacement of
its indigenous population by Europeans.
VERY SORRY