Israel Keeps Gaza Border Closed, Aid Reduced: A 'Ceasefire' You Can Feel
The mainstream reports a 'ceasefire largely holding', even as Israel keeps the border crossings closed, throttling aid to a desperate population. This isn't a new tactic. In 2018, Amnesty International documented Israel restricting aid as a form of collective punishment. Fast forward to 2023, while Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ) – who received over $1.5M from pro-Israel groups and defense contractors in
his career (OpenSecrets.org) – was busy defending aid to Israel, the aid to Gaza mysteriously vanished. One might wonder: how many 'ceasefires' does it take for a population to starve before it’s no longer considered 'holding'? Our esteemed media calls it 'conflict' while one side controls the air, land, and sea, and routinely starves the other. It's not a 'ceasefire' if the siege continues; it's
just a pause in the artillery fire, designed to look humanitarian while delivering humanitarian catastrophe.