Sure, they're covering it now

I refer to the problems in the West Bank, which are now finally receiving some attention in the British media. But it's all: "another Palestinian has been shot by Israeli troops after a stabbing incident in East Jerusalem", or something like that.

My wife travels to Palestine regularly, and has made many friends in that embattled region; in Jerusalem itself, in Bethlehem and in the refugee camps which surround it. And from these correspondents a very different tale emerges. A virtually continuous curfew has been imposed on the Arab population in many "trouble spots", and a generous soul might even say this is for their protection. For the last several days Jewish settlers have been emerging from their mountain-top redoubts, armed to the teeth with automatic weapons, and roiling through the streets of places like Bethlehem and Ramallah, bullying, beating and occasionally shooting any Arab they don't like the look of. The IDF, charged at least in principle with protecting all the citizens of Israel/Palestine, do nothing about this beyond basically telling the Arabs to stay indoors. It is probably good advice, but scarcely does much to address the situation which, with bitter irony, resembles in some ways the Germany of 1938, when blackshirts roamed the streets of German towns, beating and killing any Jews they could find and destroying any Jewish shops they came across. This sort of behaviour, best exemplified in the famous Cristalnacht, is not a million miles away from what is happening right now in the West Bank.

We hear daily reports in our media of soldiers killing Arab stabbers and would-be stabbers, and then the subject moves on. We don't hear how some of these knife wielders were not actually found in possession of blades at all when their bodies were examined, and even that blades have been planted on these corpses to add legitimacy to the soldiers' acts. It's hard to know the truth, but the reports from intelligent, reliable and not particularly  radical contacts my wife has out there tell us that the situation is deteriorating into a kind of living hell for the occupants of the West Bank, and that it can't be surprising when some of them turn to acts of extreme violence in response to the oppression many of them have known all the days of their lives.
To put it another way, they're mad as hell and they aren't gonna take it any more...