Why is it nobody ever points out that Israel’s West Bank separation barrier, security checkpoints, blockade of Gaza, etc., also haven’t happened in a vacuum? Instead they are portrayed as unprovoked brutality, rapacious land-grabbing, apartheid, racism, and genocide, while Palestinian bombs, rocket fire, and the savagery of October 7 are merely “natural” responses to Israeli provocation. Apparently considerations of “context” only apply to one side and not the other.