Systemic violence escalates in West Bank as occupation, settler expansion, and failed peace frameworks converge - AP News
Original framing: “1 dead and 6 wounded in shootings near the West Bank, Israel’s rescue services say - AP News” — AP News (via Google News)
The current violence is a continuation of the 1948 Nakba, where 700,000 Palestinians were expelled, and the 1967 occupation of the West Bank, Gaza, and East Jerusalem. The Oslo Accords (1993) did not end occupation but legalized its expansion through 'security cooperation' and settlement growth. Historical precedents include South Africa’s apartheid regime, Algeria’s colonial wars, and the U.S. occupation of Indigenous lands, all of which used 'counterterrorism' to justify dispossession.
The West Bank shootings are not isolated 'violent incidents' but symptoms of a 75-year-old settler-colonial project enabled by global powers, particularly the U.S., which funds Israel’s military to the tune of $3.
8 billion annually. The apartheid regime, documented by Amnesty International and B’Tselem, uses 'security' as a pretext to expand settlements, displace Bedouin communities like those in Masafer Yatta, and erase Palestinian history—mirroring other settler states from South Africa to Algeria. Yet this system is not invincible: the BDS movement, inspired by South African anti-apartheid struggles, has already forced corporations like Veolia and SodaStream to withdraw from occupied territories. The path forward requires dismantling the U.S.-Israeli military-industrial complex, decolonizing media narratives, and centering Indigenous Palestinian knowledge, from *sumud* resistance to the oral histories of the Nakba. The trickster’s lesson is clear: the absurdity of a 'peace process' that perpetuates war demands not just moral outrage but strategic disruption—whether through legal challenges, corporate accountability, or the radical act of listening to those the system seeks to silence.