The West Bank is Burning — and So Is the Mask of Moral Superiority

The West Bank is Burning — and So Is the Mask of Moral Superiority

Listen up, truth-seekers and hypocrisy-sniffers, because what just went down in the occupied West Bank isn’t a tragedy—it’s a five-alarm fire in the middle of a political minefield, and the world’s pretending to smell roses. Israeli settlers, those self-proclaimed pioneers of “security,” torched down Palestinian homes. And no, this wasn’t after the dinner bell rang. Families were still inside. Children. Elders. Civilians with nowhere to run and nowhere safer to be. If that doesn’t send a shiver down your spine, congratulations—you’re either desensitized by global silence or comfortably complicit.

Who lit the match? I’ll tell you who: ideological arsonists backed by decades of political Teflon that makes them untouchable. This wasn’t random violence—it was a strategic violation straight from the “How to Escalate a Conflict 101” playbook. And yet, the global community’s response sounds more like a cricket symphony than a chorus of outrage. Paris lights up when Notre Dame burns, but when Palestinian homes go up in flames, it’s met with bureaucratic shrugs and recycled calls for “restraint.” Translation? “Please stop the bloodshed — but only after dinner.”

Let’s call it what it is: settler violence dressed as frontier justice, fueled by a cocktail of messianic entitlement and state-enabled impunity. These aren’t lone wolves off the leash. They’re part of a broader ecosystem, one where the settlers carry the torches, but the green light comes from higher—or should I say “higher up”? If the state doesn’t stop it, condones it with silence, and frequently turns a blind eye when the perpetrators pose with rifles for their Instagram followers—well, folks, that isn’t law and order, that’s licensed chaos with an elected stamp of approval.

Now before the troll patrol comes screaming with statements like, “But what about Hamas?” or “Who started it?” — save the whataboutism for a fifth-grade playground spat. This isn’t debate club; it’s international human decency—or what’s left of it. Burning homes with families inside isn’t self-defense. It’s terrorism with a settler badge. And let’s not mince words: if this were happening anywhere else—with a different religion, under a different flag—we’d be tossing around the term “genocide” like it was confetti at a UN summit.

And here’s the kicker: You’d think the likes of Washington and Brussels—the supposed bastions of democratic values—would be tripping over themselves to condemn this. Spoiler alert: They’re not. Instead, they’re crafting artfully hollow statements that come gift-wrapped in ambiguity and insured by geopolitical interests. Let’s face it—Palestinian suffering doesn’t trend unless a celebrity decides to tweet it. And even then, good luck keeping it online for more than five minutes without someone yelling “antisemitism” at basic human rights advocacy.

The tragedy isn’t just the flames that gutted those homes—it’s the fireproof lies we tell to protect political allies while burying the moral compass in a bureaucratic landfill. This isn’t a case of “violence on both sides.” This is the systematic allowance of settler terrorism while the state plays the fiddle and the media sanitizes the bloodstains.

So here’s my unfiltered conclusion: If settlers can burn homes with families inside and still walk away under the protection of the law—or worse, under the blessing of silence from global powers—then the rules-based international order is a bedtime story for the naïve, and the rest of us are just waiting to see who gets burned next.

The game’s on, and I play to win—by exposing the politically protected and spotlighting the morally bankrupt. If you can’t handle the heat, step out of the arena.

— Mr. 47