Gaza Floods As White House Sends Thoughts and Prayers (and Bombs)
Al Jazeera chronicles the devastating cold and rain lashing Gaza, turning displaced Palestinians' tents into flooded deathtraps. While sympathetic, the report frames it as a weather event. What's missing? The 'who' and 'why' behind people living in tents in the first place. These 'natural' disasters are far from it. For months, Biden’s administration has greenlit billions in military aid. Just
last year, Senators like Marco Rubio (who took $116,911 from AIPAC in 2023, per OpenSecrets.org) and Ted Cruz (who accepted $135,160) voted overwhelmingly for HR 815, sending more weapons, not winter tents, to the region. It's almost as if the architects of displacement then shrug at the subsequent suffering, a cruel irony that goes unmentioned in polite news circles.