![]() Not the 248 Palestinians killed by Israeli forces or settlers between 1 January and 4 October of this year. ![]() ![]() What exactly counts as a provocation? Not, apparently, the large number of settlers, more than 800 by one media account, who stormed the al-Aqsa mosque compound on 5 October. But Watson’s use of the word “unprovoked” is doing a lot of work here. Every one of us must stand up and denounce the killing of every civilian, Israeli or Palestinian or otherwise. On 7 October, the national security council spokesperson Adrienne Watson stated that the US “unequivocally condemns the unprovoked attacks by Hamas terrorists against Israeli civilians”. The reflexive identification with Israel, by both US media professionals and politicians, always obscures the fuller picture of what’s happening between Israel and the Palestinians.
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