When the Palestinians do anything on violent against it, there's no echo.

And it's not just the American press. It's the Arab press. It's the world press.

It's only when the rockets start to fly. And that's what a friend of mine

is called, the perpetual beginning. That's when Palestine gets into the news.

When a rocket is fired, people can be beaten to death, people can die under torture,

people can be arrested by the hundreds, by the thousands, by the Israelis.

The daily oppression can reach a very high level. Nobody pays attention.

The moment the first rocket flies, then suddenly the world pays attention.

Hello and welcome to Wise This Happening with me, your host Chris Hayes.

It's an unfortunate reality about American media coverage. And I implicate myself in this,

because it's true for me as well. In fact, today is a small attempt to rectify that a little bit,

which is that American coverage of Israel and Palestine tends to center on when there is violence,

essentially. If there is violence happening, if there is bombing or rockets being fired or a war

or a small version of a war, then we cover it. And then there's some kind of cease-fire at

struck and we tend to turn our attention to other things, frankly. Of course, the lives of

everyone in that region continues, particularly in Gaza, which is one of the strangest and most

deprived places in the world. It's a small strip of land with two million people that have no

essential control of the borders, functionally ruled by Hamas, but with no genuine governmental

authority, a blockade for years, incredibly high rates of malnutrition and the like.

And what happens, I think, is that the reality of that life sort of grinds on the background,

US politics will sometimes focus on what's going on in Israel, we'll cover Israeli elections.

And that has to do with the very close US-Israel relationship, the politics of Israel and the US,

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