Gaza Soup Kitchen: Feeding the Starved While West Feeds the War
The New Arab's spotlight on a 'Gaza Soup Kitchen' co-founder calling for an 'anti-GHF' approach correctly identifies the desperate, ground-up scramble to feed a starving population. What this narrative too often omits is the deliberate starvation tactic at play, greenlit by governments that then offer 'aid' with one hand while supplying bombs with the other. In 2023 alone, the U.S. provided over
$3.8 billion in military aid to Israel, funding the very blockade and bombardment creating the need for these soup kitchens. It's a bizarre theater: The same U.S. Congress, with members like Senator Bob Menendez (D-NJ) who received $32,000 from pro-Israel PACs in 2022-2023 according to OpenSecrets.org, consistently votes for unconditional military aid while simultaneously worrying about
'humanitarian crises.' One might wonder how many bowls of soup could be provided with a fraction of the budget allocated for weaponry. Apparently, it's easier to fund the problem than to stop it.