Predictably,
the pressure cooker situation in Israel has finally exploded with spasms of
violence by Palestinians and Israelis. Prime Minister Netanyahu and his
rightwing government have incited much of the violence by expanding Jewish settlements and ignoring
settler terrorist attacks. About 500,000 Jews live in more than 100 settlements
built since Israel’s 1967 occupation of the West Bank and East Jerusalem.
Settler terrorism has been ongoing for decades with impunity. The cycle of
violence will continue as long as the US government continues to show its
blatant partiality by sending huge shipments of weapons to Israel and deflecting censure and criticism
by using its veto power at the UN.
Israel has reached a South Africa moment, when
more and more European countries and American Jews are voicing frustration and
anger at the deteriorating situation, and lending support to the growing BDS (boycott, divestment and sanctions) movement. By assuring Israel of its unshakeable support
and alliance, regardless of its appalling history of human rights violations
and suffocating occupation, the US is complicit in the ongoing mayhem. 
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