Last week, US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin acknowledged the current Israeli settler violence against the Palestinian people following a meeting with his Israeli counterpart Yoav Gallant. “The United States [remains] firmly opposed to any acts that could trigger more insecurity, including settlement expansion and inflammatory rhetoric,” Austin told reporters. “We’re especially disturbed about violence by settlers against Palestinians.” The US is no stranger to settler violence. Its own history is imbued with it. Despite the US, like the rest of the international community, preferring to eliminate the settler-colonial context from any discussion of Israel, it knows that settler (and, indeed, state) violence is an inherent part of Israel’s social and political fabric. What Israel cannot achieve through widespread ethnic cleansing … Continue reading The US feigns being ‘disturbed’ by Israeli settler violence