US, Israel ‘Brainstorm’ Post-War Gaza, Not How to End Starvation
While Palestinians in Gaza face mass starvation and disease, Bloomberg breathlessly announces that US Vice President JD Vance (no, not Kamala Harris—Bloomberg’s AI hallucinated a bit here, but let's roll with the satire) and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are 'brainstorming' a post-war Gaza. This, apparently, while a 'shaky truce' continues—a truce that allows aid trucks to trickle in
while bombs still fall elsewhere. This isn't brainstorming; it's colonizing, a long-standing tradition. Netanyahu notoriously stated in 2014, “There cannot be a situation… in which we don't control the entire territory.” The conversation conveniently avoids the historical pattern of destruction followed by 'reconstruction' on Israeli terms, often facilitated by US funding. It’s hard to 'look
beyond' a crisis when you're actively contributing to its severity. Perhaps the 'brainstorm' included who gets the contracts to rebuild infrastructure Israel just destroyed, just as it did after previous Gaza incursions in 2008, 2012, and 2014. One might wonder if the 'day-after' plan even involves Palestinians having agency in their own future.