Masked settlers beat a Palestinian woman and four NBC journalists in the West Bank town of Jalud. Netanyahu condemned it. The system that made it possible remains intact — and fully funded.
Retired IDF generals touring the West Bank are publicly calling settler violence 'ethnic cleansing' — a word Netanyahu refuses. Their testimony removes another layer of deniability from a government that calls attackers troubled youth while its ministers call for annexation.
Settlers in the occupied West Bank forced a Palestinian family to exhume their recently buried father. The UN called it 'appalling and emblematic.' The structure that made it possible — and the impunity that will follow — is not incidental to U.S. policy. It is inseparable from it.