Why public opinion compares the Los Angeles fires to the devastation of Gaza.
Since the start of the Los Angeles fires, one of the main topics of cyberspace and social media users, especially Muslim users, has been the comparison of the war-torn Gaza Strip with the crisis-ridden Los Angeles.
Sentences like “This is not Gaza, this is Los Angeles” became the text of many social media captions, showing that the burned-out neighborhoods of Los Angeles have, in a matter of days, become similar to the war-torn areas of Gaza. Many compare the images of the displacement of hundreds of thousands of Americans, fearing the fires, with the forced displacement of people from Gaza.
There are several main views on why this space has formed in public opinion and comparing the current conditions in Los Angeles with Gaza among cyberspace users:
1. The penalty for supporting the Zionists
Some cyberspace users interpret the fire in Los Angeles as the penalty for the United States’ support for the crimes of the Zionist regime in the Gaza Strip. These views, with various religious and non-religious approaches, stem from a belief that is interpreted in Iranian culture as “retribution for action.”
2. Deliberate arson
Another part of the users, relying on some unusual incidents that have recently occurred, describe this fire as deliberate. These users mainly cite an action that insurance companies in Los Angeles took some time ago and unilaterally canceled the insurance policies of several buildings in California.
This group describes the Biden administration as the initiator of this deliberate arson, which has set fire to the richest states of America in the last days of his administration with the aim of causing trouble for Trump.
Others describe Trump himself as the initiator of this deliberate arson, which has been done with the aim of destroying Biden and the Democratic Party, and will now make extensive use of it.
Looking at the above points, this big question mark still remains in place; why is global public opinion comparing the conditions in Los Angeles to the Gaza Strip?