But in the U.S., the MSM (from now on to be referred as the corporate media) portrays the Palestinian's and Hamas, with no army, no air force or navy and no sophisticated weapons beyond conventional short range rockets, RPG's and hand held small arms as the aggressor against all powerful Israel.
The severely oppressed, besieged and occupied Palestinian's, like all other such peoples in history, under similar conditions and circumstances, just do not rise to a level that constitutes a threat to Israel.
Yet this is the propaganda we in the U.S. are constantly fed by our government and the corporate media as if it was the gospel.
When South Africa was ruled by the white apartheid government, our government and the corporate media sided with the oppressed black majority. That oppressed majority often committed acts of violence and rebellion against their oppressive government and its supporters but such acts weren't condemned in the U.S. They were considered the rightful response against a wrongful government and its apartheid policies.
It is no different for the Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank. They are illegally occupied people ruled over by the apartheid policies of the Israeli government.
All the world, except the U.S., recognizes Israel's illegal occupation of the Palestinians and the lands it seized as the victor in the 1967 war. The legal borders of Israel determined by the U.N. when it established the Israeli state in 1948 are the only legal boundaries of the country. All the other territory it now occupies was seized as the spoils of the 67' war and is held illegally.
Israel continues its acts of aggression with impunity only because of U.S. support.
That's where the true "onus" lies.
(Note: You can view every article as one long page if you sign up as an Advocate Member, or higher).