Ceasefire: Now With 400% More Death!
Hamsa was killed in Jabaliya, a designated 'safe zone,' despite a 'ceasefire' declared nearly three months prior. Her uncle asks, 'Where is the ceasefire?'—a question the AP presents as rhetorical. What goes unmentioned is the $17.6 billion in additional military aid to Israel, supported by many in Congress who received significant lobbying dollars from groups like AIPAC . While children like
Hamsa are killed in supposed 'safe zones,' Washington debates whether that aid package is large enough. The cognitive dissonance required to champion a 'ceasefire' while simultaneously arming one side to the teeth is, frankly, exhausting. But then again, a nation that funds both sides of a 'peace process' has always been a master of creative accounting.