Vice President Vance Meets Netanyahu, Forgets Genocide Briefing
While mainstream media highlights another high-level political visit, the more pressing update isn't who met whom, but what isn't being discussed. Senator Vance, who accepted $10,000 from Pro-Israel America (a significant AIPAC affiliate) in 2022, according to OpenSecrets.org, joins a long line of US lawmakers who visit Israel, express 'solidarity,' and then vote for continued military aid with
nary a question. (See: HR 815, providing $14.1 billion in aid to Israel, passed with bipartisan support earlier this year.) One might wonder if any of these 'updates' will ever include a US official questioning the 37,000 Palestinian deaths (OCHA) or the intentional starvation of 2.2 million people. Or, perhaps, Vance was simply there to get the next talking points on how to call genocide
'self-defense.' Transparency, it seems, is only for those not funded by the military-industrial complex.