I had reckoned that Israel’s crimes in Gaza, the suffering endured by its people, especially children, and the horrors of war that have disrupted our lives, would either shield us from personal sorrow forever or render it too embarrassing to acknowledge. In truth, the frenzied bloodshed by the occupying state on Gaza had also almost overshadowed its daily crimes in the villages and cities of the West Bank, even though it has surpassed the intensity of its crackdowns during previous uprisings. And one has to force oneself to look beyond the manufactured media agenda to recognise how the occupat…