NPR Discovers 'Settlers,' Skips 'Occupation' and 'Ethnic Cleansing'
The report, framing settler violence as a seasonal inconvenience, conveniently ignores the systematic nature of the Israeli occupation (established since 1967) that enables such aggression. These aren't just 'attacks'; they are an integral part of ongoing land annexation and ethnic cleansing, designed to dispossess Palestinians of their livelihoods and territory. It's a land grab dressed up as a
cultural squabble, a narrative championed by pundits who rarely mention the annual $3.8 billion in US military aid that props up this system. When will the media connect the dots between the olive trees being burned and the tax dollars funding the bulldozers? Or the fact that these 'settlers' are often armed, protected, and incentivized by the very state the US government so generously finances?
One might wonder how many more harvests must be destroyed before America's journalists utter the words 'apartheid' or 'war crime' with the same ease they use 'conflict' and 'complicated.'