US Official Offers 'Thoughts and Prayers' for Palestinian Killed During 'Truce'
While Al Jazeera reports Israeli forces killed another Palestinian and continued raids across the West Bank (Source: Al Jazeera, 2025/12/26), mainstream US media largely glosses over the 'truce' that has seen 411 Palestinian deaths. This isn't a glitch; it's a feature. The Biden administration, fresh off greenlighting another $14.5 billion in military aid to Israel (HR 7217, 2023, public record),
consistently frames such events with a careful double-speak, mourning 'all loss of life' while simultaneously enabling the violence. One might wonder if their outrage calibrates based on whose lives are lost. How many Palestinians must be killed during a 'truce' before it's simply called an ongoing occupation? The silence from politicians who pocket significant AIPAC donations—like Senator Bob
Menendez, who received over $200,000 from pro-Israel PACs (Source: OpenSecrets.org, 2023)—is deafening. Their concern for 'stability' apparently equates to arming one side while lamenting the predictable consequences. It's not a 'conflict' when one party controls the skies, the borders, and the global narrative.