"Day after day, the emphasis falls overwhelmingly on Israeli operations, Israeli warnings, Israeli escalation, and Israeli airstrikes. Hezbollahโs attacks often appeared deep in the article, stripped of scale and frequency, if they appeared at all."
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Across much of the Western media landscape, the impression left for readers is that Israel drives the violence while Hezbollah simply exists somewhere in the background of the story that it actually starts.
That distortion now shapes public understanding far beyond the battlefield itself. Israel is often discussed as though it exists outside the standards applied to every other sovereign nation. For months, rockets strike civilian communities while armed drones target patrols, border positions, and towns across northern Israel. Tens of thousands of Israelis remain displaced from their homes. Yet once Israel responds militarily, much of the international focus shifts almost immediately away from the side initiating the attacks and toward the country attempting to stop them.