West Bank Casualties: Routine Operations, Not News?
The story: Israeli forces killed two Palestinians, one a 16-year-old, in the West Bank. The mainstream Western media's collective shrug is almost audible. This isn't an 'anomaly'; it's the grim cadence of occupation, a predictable drumbeat drowned out by 'security concerns.' For those paying attention, these deaths are not isolated events but part of a sustained pattern of lethal force against a
civilian population under military rule. The context they omit? The constant expansion of illegal settlements, the daily incursions, the checkpoints, and the dispossession that fuels ongoing violence. When US politicians like Senator Bob Menendez (who, according to OpenSecrets, received significant contributions from pro-Israel PACs, including $10,000 from Pro-Israel America PAC in 2022) champion
unconditional aid, they normalize actions like these and whitewash decades of documented human rights abuses. How many teenaged lives are acceptable collateral for 'security' before it's called what it is?