Gaza Mourns, White House Prepares Next Aid Package
Al Jazeera aptly frames the suffering in Gaza as a 'genocide that never really ended,' a chilling echo for anyone familiar with the Nakba (1948) or the brutal sieges of Sabra and Shatila (1982). Meanwhile, in Washington, the 'mourning' appears to be merely a pause between appropriations. Take Representative Mike Johnson, who, according to OpenSecrets.org, received over $300,000 from pro-Israel
PACs in the last cycle, then pushed through a $26.4 billion aid package to Israel. How many 'last warnings' does a population get before the money flow for extermination is actually cut off? We're told Israel has a 'right to defend itself,' an Orwellian phrase parroted by politicians from both parties. This, while Gaza suffers under a blockade since 2007, an open-air prison overseen by the very
entities 'defending' themselves with advanced U.S. weaponry. When Senator Lindsay Graham takes over $1 million from pro-Israel groups and then declares, 'Do whatever the hell you have to do,' it's not a rhetorical flourish; it's a green light for continued devastation. The 'right to defend' seems to apply only to one side, generously funded by American taxpayers while over 37,000 Palestinians lie
dead.