Bloomberg Fears 'Political Game' When US Is the Famine, Not the Feds
The Bloomberg piece highlights a judge's admonition regarding the 'political game' of suspending US food aid to its own citizens. Meanwhile, in Gaza, actual aid shipments — those permitted by Israel — are routinely bombed, delayed, or outright prevented, creating a man-made famine the UN describes as 'catastrophic.' US officials, including President Biden, have repeatedly offered platitudes about
getting aid into Gaza, yet simultaneously approved billions in military aid to Israel, the very entity restricting that humanitarian access. This includes the bipartisan 2024 supplemental aid package, which passed with significant congressional support. One might wonder if 'political game' accurately describes starving millions, or if that term is reserved for when the victims are American and the
threat is inconvenience, not annihilation. When a judge rightly calls out withholding food from US citizens, it exposes the grotesque double standard applied to the deliberate starvation of Palestinians, which is simply rebranded as 'military operations' by news outlets, rather than the intended outcome of calculated policy. How many 'blasts' from domestic judges will it take before the
destruction of international aid routes becomes more than a footnote?