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Is back in the global news. They were forgotten for the last several years, to suffer in silence...
Well, whilst I abhor the violent terrorism that Hamas have committed and abhor the overwhelming overreaction and horrific vengence that the state of Israel have, as usual, immediately begun, it's just not accurate to call what preceded recent events "peace".
The people I know who have separately and recently visited Israel and Palestine variously called it "viscious apartheid", "appalling", "military occupation" and phrases like that. No one called it peace.
I think you erroneously assumed that because it wasn't in the news, violence was not occurring, whereas I think it's more accurate to say that it wasn't in the news because the violence was so everyday and constant that there was nothing new to say about it. A child getting run over by a car won't make the national news either, for almost exactly the same reason.
What news do you read? It has been on the news constantly over the past decades. Now we have a dramatic escalation of an ongoing conflict
I read the news where KSA and Israel were going to normalize relations in exchange for US military aid in Yemen which would threaten Iran's power broker status and it became urgent to derail such a detant.
The fact KSA was even willing to entertain such an agreement is because the Palestine apartheid hadn't been getting global coverage for a few news cycles.
It's not that the situation disappeared, but the conversation was not talking about the situation, making it politically palatable to put it on the back burner to ignore it. At the global level
I mean, sure, I've been hearing about war in the middle East my whole life, but you can't tell me you haven't noticed an influx of Israeli/Palestinian posts in the past week. It's been all Ukraine for two years now.
Yeah, the point I'm making is that for some of us it hasn't gone away. That saying "it's back" is such a weirdly privillidged and ignorant position to take.
Like it's this year's hot conflict.
Also, they haven't been forgotten. Certainly not in Europe. I can't speak for the US though.
The US forgets about everything on pretty much a weekly basis. Blame the 24 hour news cycle, I guess.