Opinion: Israeli atrocities are nothing new. The only novelty is the scale

The ongoing and simultaneous Israeli aggression in Gaza, the West Bank, Lebanon, Syria, Yemen, and Iran strikes many as exceptional and unprecedented.

Israeli attacks targeting civilian airports, hospitals, schools, and shelters are thought to be the work of an extremist right-wing leadership spearheaded by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that the country had never perpetrated before.

Likewise, settler violence across the West Bank and settler invasions of al-Aqsa Mosque are seen as novel provocations and violations that previous rational Israeli governments would have never allowed or at least sought to seriously limit.

But none of this is true.

While the scale of the genocide in Gaza - which has killed, according to recent estimates, around 200,000 people - is indeed unprecedented, such atrocities are routine in all Israeli governments.

Read more: Israeli atrocities are nothing new. The only novelty is the scale by Joseph Massad