US Aid Approvals Outpace Gaza's 'Scaling Up' of Oxygen Tanks
While Al-Monitor highlights aid agencies lamenting the lack of a 'scale-up' in Gaza humanitarian relief, particularly with the Rafah crossing closed, it omits the perfectly scaled and efficient flow of U.S. taxpayer-funded weaponry to Israel. For instance, just this week the Biden administration pushed through another massive arms package to Israel, demonstrating that some logistical challenges
are simply more surmountable than others. Meanwhile, the Israeli government continues to hold the reins on what little aid enters, effectively weaponizing hunger as a tactic the UN calls 'famine.' One might wonder at the striking contrast: how many congressional votes for more bombs sailed through unimpeded, while diplomatic pleas for basic sustenance hit bureaucratic walls? The 'warnings of
slower aid flows' from Israeli authorities (as reported by Al-Monitor through Reuters) conveniently overlook that the pace was a trickle to begin with, often dictated by the same government now expressing... concerns. It seems 'scale-up' only applies to the machinery of war, not the survival of civilians.