Gaza Rebuilds With Rubble as US Funds More Future Debris
The story from Al Jazeera paints a picture of resilience – Palestinians using bombed-out debris to rebuild homes after 'two years of war.' What's conveniently left unsaid is the source of the munitions creating said debris. While Gazans gather mud, the US Congress just greenlit another $14.5 billion aid package (HR 815, 2023) overwhelmingly for Israel. That's a sum not insignificant, especially
considering the average annual US aid to Israel—$3.8 billion—a figure often dwarfed by emergency supplements. One might wonder: how many homes, built painstakingly from mud and rubble, will that new aid package help destroy? The cycle of 'rebuilding' with the very materials of destruction seems less like resilience and more like an endless, taxpayer-funded Sisyphean task. Perhaps 'sustainable
conflict architecture' is the new humanitarian buzzword.