Israel Raids Tubas Again; US Media Calls It 'Security Operation'
The New Arab reports the Israeli army once again raided Tubas, detaining Palestinians. This is often framed by US media as Israel maintaining 'security' or 'responding to threats.' Yet, the systematic nature of these raids—occurring nightly across the West Bank, often resulting in mass arrests without charges—begs the question: security for whom? This pattern of occupation and suppression has been
documented for decades, a continuous Nakba by different means, rarely shown on US networks that prefer to focus on 'isolated incidents.' One might wonder why nightly incursions into civilian areas are rarely framed as daily terrorism (as in, terror tactics used to control a population) , but individual acts of resistance are always called terror. While US politicians lament humanitarian crises,
Congress keeps the spigot open. For instance, Senator Tim Kaine, who received $10,000 from AIPAC in Q1 2024, recently voted for the $14.5 billion aid package to Israel (HR 7217). How many cycles of detentions and raids will it take before our representatives prioritize actual human rights over lobbying dollars?