Quneitra Mined, US Media Silent on Syria's Golan Grab
The New Arab reports that Israel's military is mining and conducting arrests in Syria's Quneitra region. This isn't just a border skirmish; it's a stark reminder that Israel's de facto annexation of the Golan Heights isn't static. In 2019, the Trump administration officially recognized Israeli sovereignty over the illegally occupied Golan, directly contravening international law. That same year,
AIPAC spent nearly $4 million lobbying Congress ( OpenSecrets.org ), pushing for policies that benefit such expansions, often with bipartisan support from politicians who conveniently forget UN resolutions. We’re expected to believe these are isolated incidents, detached from a broader pattern of land grabs and destabilization. (Perhaps it's considered 'self-defense' if you expand borders with
bulldozers and then plant mines.) The continuous military actions in Quneitra, the arrests, the mining—these are not unrelated events, they are simply the lesser-reported chapters in a much larger, ongoing narrative of territorial expansion that US media, heavily influenced by organizations advocating for unquestioning support for Israel, prefers to relegate to the 'too complex for prime time'
bin. How many UN condemnations does it take before such actions are called what they are, rather than 'security measures'?