When an article begins with ” the devastating Oct 7 Hamas attacks”  and is followed by “the subsequent Israeli attacks” you begin to feel a it’s not worth reading. Little or no mention that the devastation was as much due to Israeli tanks and helicopter gunships killing Israelis as it was to Hamas or that Israel’s intelligence had known weeks and days before about what was going to happen and did nothing.

Was it, one wonders, that Israel saw it as an opportunity, an excuse to invade Gaza and also devastate the lives of Palestinians in the West Bank? More than just another opportunity to “mow the lawn” in Gaza but to “decrease that Palestinian lawn” in the West Bank and thereby gain greater political support for Netanyahu? After all his aim was never a two-state solution. For him “from the river to the sea” meant taking all the land, from the Palestinians.

There are no “settlers” in the West Bank only 500,000 illegal Israeli colonizers supported by the now Inglorious fascist State of Israel, aided by its conscripted IDF. A Goliath assisting in the illegal plundering of Palestinian lives, livelihoods, and homeland just as they have done in Syria’s Golan Heights.

There has never been anything less “subsequent” in Israel’s actions when Israel has historically been noted for breaking the peace agreements in devastatingly regular fashion, and not the Palestinians. ( 2008, 1440 340 children dead, 2014 2200 550 children dead) So much so even the Pope has called it out as terrorism.

While the world remains fixated on the devastating October 7 Hamas attacks and the subsequent Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip, there has been a pronounced – and mostly unnoticed – escalation in violence against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem.

Source: Since the Gaza war began, violence against Palestinians has also surged in the West Bank – and gone virtually unnoticed