Earlier this month, Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid called for “international support for returning calm to Jerusalem” when tweeting about updating US Secretary of State Antony Blinken about the occupied city. Of course, Israel was portrayed as exerting “responsible and measured efforts” in order to maintain the colonial security narrative which is unquestioned in the international arena. No mention was made of Israeli violence against Palestinian civilians, not to mention recent statistics showing that Israel escalated its killing of Palestinians this year, when compared with 2021. Bleating about international protection, which Israel clearly doesn’t need given the way that it decides unilaterally to “defend itself” with state of the art weaponry, is a tactic which Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas … Continue reading The PA’s compromised calls for international protection