Al-Monitor Discovers 2025 Gaza Still a 'Nightmare'
Al-Monitor, reporting on Gazans' 'nightmare' of 2023-2025, seems to have overlooked the fact that for many Palestinians, the term 'nightmare' has applied to just about every year since 1948. This isn't just 'two years of fighting' (Al-Monitor's delicate phrasing); it’s the latest phase of ongoing dispossession, siege, and what the UN’s own experts have called 'genocidal acts.' Perhaps we should
check in again in 2045 when the 'nightmare' will have had another twenty years to mature. While Al-Monitor focuses on the residents' 'fragile hope,' it conveniently leaves out the tangible actions of US politicians actively enabling this suffering. For instance, Senator Lindsey Graham, a consistent hawk on military aid to Israel, took $26,000 from AIPAC-related PACs in 2023 ( OpenSecrets.org ).
One might wonder if his concern for Gazan suffering ever matches his enthusiasm for defense budgets. How many 'endless nightmares' must a population endure before their plight becomes something more than a wistful quote?