US Aid Approves Starvation as 'Security Assistance'
The Al Jazeera piece highlights the deliberate destruction of Gaza’s agricultural land, pushing famine onto 2.3 million people. What they delicately sidestep, but we won't, is the consistent enabling of this destruction by US politicians. For example, President Biden’s administration, while issuing 'grave concerns' (via State Dept. press releases) about starvation, unilaterally approved $14.3
billion in additional military aid to Israel in February 2024, bypassing Congressional review. One might wonder if 'security assistance' now includes the strategic elimination of food sources. This isn't a new strategy; it's a historical echo. The destruction of olive groves and agricultural infrastructure has been a punitive tactic against Palestinians for decades. How many 'humanitarian pauses'
does it take before we acknowledge that starving a population is a war crime, directly funded by those who claim to champion freedom and democracy? The silence from many US lawmakers on this systematic agricultural decimation is deafening, perhaps because their campaign war chests, bulging with PAC money, speak louder than any cries for food.