Biden won’t sanction Israeli units accused of human rights violations in West Bank – ABC
Read the story and watch the video report. Typical of much US news coverage, the headline does not agree with the report’s content and sanitizes it. The headline talks about “accusations” of human rights violations. The story leads with this statement: “The Biden administration has determined that three military battalions with the Israel Defense Forces committed ‘gross human rights violations’ against Palestinian civilians in the West Bank…”
US penalties aren’t stopping Israeli settler attacks on Palestinians – Al Jazeera
“Israel has expanded illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank despite signing the 1993 Oslo Accords, which initiated a peace process obliging Israel to freeze settlements to create a Palestinian state. However, the US effectively approved of Israel’s settlement expansion when President Donald Trump’s administration declared them legitimate, contravening international law. Trump’s decision emboldened the Israeli government – and settlers – to step up the confiscation of Palestinian villages, according to Juma.
“’The settler-colonial project was always there but it needed legitimisation and Trump legitimised Israel’s entire colonisation of historic Palestine,’ he told Al Jazeera.
“Under President Joe Biden, the US restored its former position by labelling Israeli settlements illegitimate in February, but only after Israel approved in the same month plans to build 3,300 new homes in illegal settlements.”