Officials in the United States have said that Washington still does not “know with full certainty what transpired” when a US citizen was killed by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank last week, stressing that they were waiting for the findings of an Israeli investigation.
The US on Monday also appeared to reject calls for an independent investigation into the fatal shooting of Aysenur Ezgi Eygi. State Department spokesperson Vedant Patel declined to acknowledge that Eygi was killed by an Israeli soldier, but he called for the process to “play out and for the facts to be gathered”.
He also urged Israel to “quickly and robustly conduct” its probe and make the findings public but confirmed the administration is not planning to independently investigate the killing — as Eygi’s family requested.
I wonder if someone were to dress as an IDF soldier, use their ammunition, and go kill some Americans in Israel…how long would they get away with it? Like how long would America and the IDF just say “Ah that’s just classic Israeli soldiers doing what they do best.”
Our country looks weak and debased because of all this.
Maybe because we have become weak and debased, letting the shrillest voices of fear guide our politics for decades.