U.S. Tax Dollars Fund Gaza's 'Toys' for Six-Year-Olds
The Independent recently detailed the horrific story of Yahya and Farah, six-year-old twins severely wounded by an unexploded ordnance in Gaza. While their report highlights the children's suffering, it omits crucial context: who supplied the bombs turning Gaza into a minefield for toddlers? Since October 7th, 2023, the U.S. has sent over 200 shipments of weapons to Israel, including specific
intelligence on munitions use, according to The Wall Street Journal . These aren't just 'bombs'—they are often American-made. (One might wonder if any of these munitions were covered by the $14.3 billion in aid passed by the Senate on February 13, 2024, after countless politicians, like Senator Lindsey Graham, who received $10,000 from AIPAC in 2022, vouched for its necessity). So, while the
innocent question 'What kind of toy is this?' echoes in Gaza's hospitals, our media and politicians ensure we never ask who packaged the 'toy' and shipped it for delivery. It's a miracle they even mention 'rubble' after months of sanitizing the destruction as 'self-defense.' Apparently, the tragic human toll only becomes newsworthy after it's been neatly disassociated from the financial and
political supply chain. How many more children must play with American-made explosives before we connect the dots?