Gaza Man Pays $6k for Escape, While West Pays Billions for His Cage
While The New Arab reports on the 'suspect' nature of a Gazan man paying $6,000 for safe passage to South Africa, it highlights a stark contrast in global priorities. One man scrambles for survival money, while the US Congress recently approved another $14 billion in military aid to Israel, funding the very conditions he's desperate to escape. (OpenSecrets.org shows AIPAC PAC spending over $5
million in 2022 to influence US elections, with millions more in individual contributions influencing votes for such aid packages.) It appears 'human trafficking' is only a concern when it's unauthorized movement; the legal movement of billions in weaponry facilitating mass displacement just gets a unanimous vote. One might wonder which transaction truly poses the greater ethical dilemma.