Does anyone else feel like this about Gaza/Israel?

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I know it sounds awful, but I’m desperate for a break from Gaza. I feel like we’ve had 2 straight years of hearing about absolutely nothing else. It feels like you can’t switch the radio on, or open Facebook, or even pop to the shop without hearing chants of PALESTINE and having flags waved in your face. It’s been absolutely relentless, and wildly disproportionate compared to other conflicts and atrocities around the world.

Of course it’s hideous that so many civilians have been killed, in particular children. But it feels like Palestine truly believes it is the only population who suffered during the 1940s and is the only country to ever lose territory or be reshaped by global events. I feel like everyone else adjusted to their new normal, for the sake of peace, while Palestinians just continue what seems like an infinite grudge which is then met with harsher repressions by Israel as they have to defend themselves.

It’s utterly exhausting the globe and I have zero hope they will now smell the coffee and take the opportunity to kick Hamas out because ultimately they don’t want peace. Hamas did not drop out of the sky, they and Oct 7 had high support until they started losing, and I think it’s very unlikely they will ever be willing to move on from past events.

AIBU to think we now just need to leave them to it for the sake of all involved?

So stop reading / watching the news?

I feel I should be able to keep some kind of awareness about the world around me without being utterly bombarded by 1 issue. And in any event, even trying to catch a train here means you can’t avoid it as there is a permanent protest outside the station.

Hopefully you'll get the break you need soon. There has been loads of news coverage but weirdly none of it has focused on the real victim which turned out to be you.

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Leave them to it? By that do you mean no aid? People will die. Children will die

But that's OK cos you won't hear about it?

Does the supply of aid rely on radio coverage and my next door neighbours waving a Palestine flag at our local train station?

I find it very odd that there are several areas of the world, such as Nigeria, Sudan and China, where there are mass killings going on. Far more people have been killed in those countries than in Gaza. Apparently in two of those places they unequivocally meet the criteria for genocide.

And yet there is absolutely nothing on the BBC about this. Almost noone knows that these genocides are happening.

Just drop watching/listening to/reading the news. It's normal to need a decompression now and again

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I can’t top that.

OP give your privileged head a shake and be thankful it’s not you.

I'd say that the absolute worst way to hear less about Gaza would be to start a thread on Mumsnet about Gaza.

So the options are either be Gazan or want to hear about nothing but Gaza?

In the odd moments I feel like this, I accept AIBU as the slaughter of Palestinians the last couple years is a greater discomfort than the news cycles.

Being bombarded with headlines about the genocide is a minor inconvenience compared to being bombarded by Israeli/US bombs.

Funnily enough, OP, it isn't about you or what you want to watch.

If you were arguing that there are other stories about other things going on in the world which aren't getting enough coverage, I might have some sympathy, but your main point seems to be that you want them to stop reporting on Gaza because you're tired of hearing about it.

YABU.

What do you think I’m suggesting if the Gaza news is toned down? Just silence? Of course that means more reporting on other issues. That’s the logical consequence of what I’m saying - I want to hear the NEWS (from around the world) - not JUST endless Gaza

Well 67,000 have been killed and not by some nutjob dictator with boy soldiers but by a westernised country fully supported (and wouldn’t manage without them) by the US and their peace prize demanding president.
I didn’t think we’d heard enough about the horror and cruelty and all we get in the news is the nutter killing at the synagogue -that is terrible but pales into significance to starving babies and 67,000 dead imv

I’ll be lighting a candle for you this evening, OP. Perhaps others will join me in a vigil?
The suffering of any Palestinian or Israeli caught up in this pales to the suffering you’ve endured.

Well certainly not on the train station, but you'd have done better to make clear in your OP that you weren't talking about aid. Because that question is now going to be asked a dozen more times by people who've only read one post.

That said, it'll be interesting to see where the pro-Palestinian protest movements go from here, whether they give much thought to the possibility that some of their activism could piss people off or even just desensitise them enough to become counterproductive. I think it's unlikely that they'll turn their hand towards protesting about Palestinians being killed by Hamas.

Go on the world service on radio 4 or other foreign news providers for different news

So bored of hearing about genocide! Snore...What a privileged life!

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It’s natural to want to hear about global events but to feel bombarded when 1 topic dominates the news. I remember similar threads about Covid and Ukraine, and they were much more relevant to the UK.

Just to check, you know the news you're watching current right? Not 1940s footage? I get the impression it's the current levelling of towns and cities and mass murder of civilians that 'gaza' is bothered by more than anything. Also when people talk about Gaza as if it's an entity. The news you're watching isn't some machine named Gaza, it's families like yours, settled in their home region with no hope for escape constantly treated like vermin to be exterminated rather than human beings with feelings and previously full lives

I've noticed that the people who want to stop hearing about it tend to fall on the pro-Israel side.

Thoughts and prayers OP
Unlike the people of Gaza you can avoid all of it by switching off the news and/or not starting a thread on MN about it