Last week, a FlyDubai flight hijacked the news cycle, though no Israeli was hurt and no Israeli was injured. The aircraft landed safely, and Saudi medics checked on the Israeli passengers to confirm they were unharmed. None of that mattered. The internationally indicted criminal, Benjamin Netanyahu, was paraded on most American TV stations. It remains a top story across Western media, replayed on every network, dissected in endless segments about alleged threat to Israeli passengers. Serious questions about what happened in that flight remain unanswered. But the facts were never the point. Israelis felt unsafe, and feeling unsafe was enough to spin the news cycle for the better part of a week.

In that same week, 1st October, an Israeli Jewish mob with government issued guns, shot and murdered Mashour Yassin, a 51-year-old man, on the steps of his own home on the outskirts of Yasuf village near Ramallah. On the following day, another Jewish mob killed 19-year-old Bahaa Sami Amin al-Natsheh in Kobar village. Israeli bulldozers demolished Palestinian homes and uprooted olive trees, Israeli Jewish mobs and soldiers attacking farmers during the annual harvest season, an act of economic strangulation repeated every season it barely registers as news anymore.