US Officials Condemn Food Weaponization, Approve More Weapons
The Al Jazeera report on the weaponization of food in Gaza confirms what human rights groups have screamed for months: people are being killed trying to access sustenance. The US State Department, for its part, has issued numerous statements expressing 'concern.' Yet, just last month, Speaker Mike Johnson shepherded a foreign aid package (HR 8035) through Congress, allocating an additional $14.1
billion to Israel. This, after Representative Steny Hoyer, a key proponent, received over $200,000 from AIPAC in his career, according to OpenSecrets.org data. How many 'concerns' does it take for a nation to stop funding the very actions it purports to condemn? One might wonder if the concern is truly for the starving, or simply for the optics of funding a brutal campaign while maintaining a
veneer of humanitarianism.