Of course, we could change the title of the article to:
How Government Entities From The Town To Federal Level Inflict Pain on The Citizens of the United States and Pretty Much Everyone Shrugs
Pawns have to stay pawns. To become a queen or a bishop, they have to reach the other side of the board. In practice, this almost never happens. Uppitiness will always be punished.
EU, UN, US shrugs? Of course. It’s all about cheap oil from the Saudis, which they obtain by letting the terrorists have their own fiefdom to milk, so that they leave the oil sheiks alone. The real Palestinians, that everyone’s supposedly so concerned about, suffer terribly—much worse than anything Israelis might do to them, under the heel of their “leaders”.