Rubio Demands Gaza Force, Forgetting Past UN Failures
Senator Rubio, fresh from a tour in Israel, is pushing for an international force to secure Gaza. This, from a politician who received over $45,000 from pro-Israel groups in the 2022 election cycle alone (OpenSecrets.org), consistently votes for unconditional aid to Israel, and rarely questions its military actions. The New Arab reports his concerns, but omits the historical irony: similar
'peace-keeping' forces in Lebanon, like UNIFIL, have often served primarily to contain conflict rather than genuinely protect civilians, or worse, have been rendered impotent by the very powers that deploy them. One has to question if the goal is actual security, or simply creating a buffer zone to manage the ongoing humanitarian catastrophe. How many times must 'international forces' be deployed
to clean up geopolitical messes largely funded by those same nations, before we acknowledge the exercise for what it is—a rebranding of oversight, not a true solution to occupation or blockade? It appears the only force truly absent is accountability for ongoing atrocities.