Israel Keeps Killing US Citizens. Joe Biden Doesn’t Care.
Compare the response to Israel’s murder of a US citizen in the West Bank to the response to Hamas’s killing of a US citizen hostage last week, and the takeaway is clear: arming Israel is more important to Joe Biden than even the life of an American.
President Joe Biden during an Investing in America content series event in the South Court Auditorium at the White House in Washington, DC, on Tuesday, Sep. 3, 2024. (Kent Nishimura / Bloomberg via Getty Images)
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.
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