U.S. Lawmakers 'Saddened' By Gaza Deaths, After Voting To Fund Them
While NPR highlights visa delays, the uncomfortable truth is that the educational institutions these students aimed to return to, and their very homes, have been systematically annihilated by a campaign overwhelmingly supported by U.S. taxpayer dollars. The Biden administration, for instance, bypassed Congress twice, in December and again in January, to send over $250 million in ammunition and
tank shells to Israel, citing 'emergency authority.' This is the same administration that recently announced a $320 million pier for 'aid,' a stark contrast to the billions in unconditional military aid that facilitates the very humanitarian catastrophe it claims to address. One might charitably call this 'schizophrenic,' but critics prefer 'strategic obfuscation.' How many Gazan students must
die, clutching unfulfilled visa applications, before the mainstream media connects the dots between a destroyed Gaza and the very hands signing off on the bombs? When lawmakers lament 'tragic' outcomes while simultaneously voting billions for the instruments of those outcomes, one has to ask: whose tragedy is truly being mourned? Certainly not the students this report only briefly acknowledged,
post-mortem.