Soundos El Ahmadi is annoyed by the way journalists in the media report on the war between Israel and Hamas. “Isn’t it just a big, fat slaughter?”
The war between Israel and Hamas is causing tensions around the world. Opinions about the conflict also vary considerably in our country. Comedian Soundos El Ahmadi thinks Israel is going too far. “I saw a baby’s fist out of the rubble and I thought: yes, but this isn’t a Hamas fighter, is it?” she says in the talk show. Khalid & Sophie.
War or slaughter?
In the program, Soundos sits at the table opposite Rudi Vranckx, war reporter for the Flemish broadcaster VRT. She thinks it’s strange that he talks about a ‘war’. “But it’s not a war anymore, is it? Isn’t it just a big, fat slaughter? This is a big fat…”
Rudi: “It’s very difficult…”
Soundos: “Yes, no, but don’t you find it difficult that journalists and your colleagues do not want to use certain words, while it is very clear to the whole world what is happening.”
‘Fat extermination’
Actually, Soundos does not understand the current reporting. “We’re dancing around certain words all the time and ‘war’ and ‘with Hamas’ and this and that, but we can all see that it’s a big, fat extermination.”
Rudi: “Do you know what battle goes on behind the scenes? A propaganda battle, a battle through troll armies on the internet. Just because of what you say now, you’re going to get a stream of rubbish thrown over you.”
Soundos: “Yes, I get that very often.”
Proportional
Host Khalid Kasem pays a lot of attention to the conflict in his program. “The difficult thing is that some say that what is happening is of course terrible, but a large part also says: ‘That is right. What was done by Hamas on October 7 needs some kind of repercussion.’”
“The question is: is this still proportionate at this time?” he concludes.