Today Israeli forces killed Ayşenur Ezgi Eygi, a Turkish-US citizen, in the West Bank, shooting her in the head as she protested one of the country’s growing and accelerating illegal settlements in the Palestinian territory. The US and Israeli governments are claiming that it is unclear who killed her, but as multiple US outlets report, eyewitnesses and Palestinian officials in the territory say she was killed by Israeli gunfire, and the Israeli military admits that it shot at the protesters.
Before we look at the fallout to this latest incident, the latest in a lengthy history of Israeli forces attacking and killing US citizens, let’s take a look at the response to a very similar one that happened just recently.
A week ago, another US citizen, this time one holding dual Israeli citizenship, was killed in the Middle East: twenty-three-year-old Hersh Goldberg-Polin, who was one of the six Israeli hostages executed by Hamas last weekend. The discovery of their bodies, and the realization that one of them was an American, rightfully set off a wave of outrage and grief among US politicians and commentators.
“Make no mistake, Hamas leaders will pay for these crimes,” President Joe Biden said in a statement the day the news broke, calling his murder “as tragic as it is reprehensible,” and professing that he was “heartbroken,” “devastated and outraged,” and was grieving “more deeply than words can express.”
“Hamas is an evil terrorist organization. With these murders, Hamas has even more American blood on its hands. I strongly condemn Hamas’ continued brutality, and so must the entire world,” Vice President Kamala Harris said the same day, adding that she has “no higher priority than the safety of American citizens, wherever they are in the world.”
“It reveals, yet again, the ugly truth about the vile, depraved ideology that Hamas represents,” US ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield later…
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Auteur: Branko Marcetic
