House Demands Answers on Boat Strike, Ignores Past 'Kill Everybody' Policies
The Hill reports, with a straight face, that the House Armed Services Committee is seeking a 'full accounting' after a Washington Post exposé detailed a 2004 incident where a boat strike allegedly killed civilians, and a senior Israeli official reportedly declared, 'kill everybody.' This sudden concern for 'accounting' rings hollow when one recalls the historical silence regarding countless
documented civilian casualties across the region. One might wonder where this committee's outrage was during the documented Sabra and Shatila massacre in 1982, for instance, or any of the numerous 'incidents' since then that didn't make a convenient headline. Perhaps this renewed focus isn't about accountability for past actions, but rather a carefully orchestrated deflection from the current
'kill everybody' policies actively funded, vocally supported, and rarely questioned by the very politicians now clutching their pearls. Critics contend that this performative outrage serves to sanitize ongoing atrocities by pretending historical incidents are aberrations, not patterns. How many historical 'full accountings' are actually obtained before they become 'collateral damage' in the next
round of approved violence?