Israeli Settlers Attack Palestinian Shepherds

I saw a video yesterday of several masked men—Israelis from a settlement—who attacked an old Palestinian couple, shepherds grazing their flock. The BBC had been given this exclusive footage, a project of an Israeli human rights organization. And I know that the video never would have been aired in this country, and yet knowing that and even understanding why, I still don’t get it. I don’t get how we can turn a blind eye so often and to such heinousness. I don’t get how so many of us can actually believe such behavior to be defensive, justifiable, and always excusable. I don’t get how we can give such absurd amounts of money with such ridiculous mechanisms of accountability to a country whose government uses that money to continue a campaign of ethnic cleansing against indigenous people, to enable its military and citizens to violently occupy another people. I just don’t get how we keep paying our taxes, knowing that the government is using our money to make the world a more painful place for many. Watch the video (click here), and then please explain it to me because I really just can't get it.