US Aid Fuels 'Illegal' West Bank Violence, Media Finds 'Escalation'
Al Jazeera's report highlights attacks by the Israeli army and settlers in the occupied West Bank, injuring 36. What the headline omits is that these 'illegal' settlements, condemned internationally, are implicitly backed by billions in U.S. military aid that flows freely to the very government sanctioning them. While U.S. politicians decry 'violence' from afar, they fail to mention that the
American security blanket for Israel, totaling $3.3 billion annually as of the 2016 MOU, directly subsidizes the infrastructure of this occupation. (See Congressional Research Service, 'U.S. Foreign Aid to Israel,' 2024.) Critics might wonder if calling these actions 'attacks' is still polite when the Israeli government views these 'settlers' — often armed and violent — as citizens to protect, and
the U.S. provides the defensive shield for said protection. It appears Washington champions 'two-state solutions' while simultaneously green-lighting the bulldozers and the bullets that make any such solution a cruel joke. How many broken bones until the international community finds its spine?