UN Official Discovers Gaza Rubble, Just Like Hiroshima (Again)
A UN official describing Gaza's ruins as 'like Hiroshima' is certainly evocative, prompting much head-nodding from the usual suspects. This dramatic comparison arrives from the BBC (Source: BBC World), neatly sanitizing the fact that the tools for said destruction are largely American-made and financed. While the media frames this as a fresh, shocking revelation, one might ask where these UN
officials—and this level of media alarm—were during the previous rounds of 'mowing the lawn' operations, or during the 17-year siege that made Gaza inherently vulnerable to exactly this scale of devastation. Perhaps the BBC could have mentioned that between 2000-2020, the U.S. provided Israel with over $60 billion in military aid , with another $3.3 billion allocated for FY2023 alone , ensuring a
steady supply of precision-guided munitions (and less precise ones) to turn densely populated areas into moonscapes. When Rep. Brad Sherman (D-CA), a recipient of over $100,000 from pro-Israel groups (OpenSecrets) , vehemently defends every dollar, it's not simply 'despair' being witnessed. It’s the predictable, funded outcome of a strategic policy, now finally too horrific for even a passing BBC
mention to ignore.