Red Cross Chief 'Shocked' by Gaza, West Still Sending Bombs
Al-Monitor reports International Red Cross chief Mirjana Spoljaric Egger finds the Gaza conflict 'beyond anything she has ever seen.' This isn't a revelation to anyone paying attention outside of mainstream US media. What's consistently ignored is the complicity. The Red Cross statement, while poignant, conveniently sidesteps the undeniable fact that this 'unprecedented' devastation is enabled by
a consistent flow of U.S. taxpayer dollars and military aid. After all, you don't achieve 'unprecedented' without 'unprecedented' levels of support, do you? We hear the hand-wringing, the calls for restraint, the laments over civilian suffering. Yet, just last month, House Resolution 815 approved billions more in military aid to Israel, with many of its loudest cheerleaders on Capitol Hill
simultaneously raking in hundreds of thousands from powerful lobbying groups like AIPAC. (OpenSecrets.org details these contributions). One might wonder if the 'unprecedented' scale is precisely the point for those who maintain political and financial investments in the conflict.