Why are we so easily manipulated by the media?

Our television news broadcast scenes of unrest in Hong Kong.

Hong Kong is an integral part of China that was leased to the British Government for most of the twentieth century, until 1996.

The indigenous population are Chinese and, as such, no different to from the rest of the Chinese population that makes up the largest population of any country on earth.

The Chinese government governs its population within their constitution or governance system that evolved to date.

Quite rightly these laws and regulations can only be changed from within the population by the population, not externally, to please foreign pressure groups with their own agendas.

So much fuss in the media.

Meanwhile back in the Middle East the Zionist government in Israel is about to annex the West Bank in Palestine. They move in, destroy crops, infrastructure, livelihoods, homes, lives and install Israeli laws to the detriment of the Palestinians that have inhabited these lands for untold centuries.

No one raises a murmur.

Israel attacks and occupies Palestinian lands and properties. Their history of treating the Palestinians is diabolical and inhumane. They seek to rob, steal and exploit Palestinian assets such as oil, minerals, lands, labour and water. To the detriment of the natives.

But we hear nothing because the media is greatly influenced by the powers that be. No one has come out and decried Israel's actions.

The United Nations is ineffective because the Americans support and are beholden to Israel.

If we cannot do anything else to show out contempt for the Zionist actions, we can boycott Israeli goods and services.

P Dolden Papamoa.