What's missing from I/P reporting

What always seems to be missing from reporting on Israel-Palestine is the word "illegal," as in "illegal settlements, checkpoints, Israeli-only roads, and 'security barriers'." None of these aspects of the *illegal* occupation of Palestine are ever identified as such. In this way, the media establish ideological facts on the ground. The settlements aren't legal or illegal; they just *are*. So of course the "naturalness" of their "growth" is always just assumed. If the reporters were required to add the word "illegal" to all the aspects of the occupation that *are* illegal, much of the naturalness of this poisonous growth would come into question.