Netanyahu Jet-Sets, Gaza Drowns While Congress Cheers
While The New Arab reports on winter storms turning Gaza's makeshift tents into sodden graves, forcing hundreds of thousands to endure unimaginable conditions, Benjamin Netanyahu arrived in the US. (Remember those 200,000 prefabricated homes Gaza needs? They're not on the 'aid' agenda.) This isn't groundbreaking: Netanyahu has made a career of leveraging US political support while advancing
policies that decimate Palestinian lives, a pattern tragically consistent from his rhetoric in 2002, to 2014, and now, today. You might wonder if the US politicians lining up to greet him—many of whom received substantial contributions from pro-Israel PACs like AIPAC (OpenSecrets.org confirms millions poured into recent election cycles)—will mention the children freezing in the mud. Probably not.
After all, it's easier to approve another aid package than acknowledge the human cost of the policies they enable. How many 'last warnings' does a population get before it's just plain complicity?