US Sends More Generals to Ensure Gaza's 'Fragile Ceasefire' Holds
AP touts Marco Rubio's urgent trip to Israel, following VP Vance's visit, to ensure a 'fragile Gaza ceasefire' holds via a new 'civilian military coordination center.' This sounds awfully like a rebranding of continued military control over a besieged population after months of US-supplied ordnance. The article omits, however, that Vance's newfound concern for 'stabilization' comes after the Biden
administration approved over 100 separate arms sales to Israel since Oct 7, per The Washington Post , including MK-84 bombs capable of leveling city blocks. Now, with Gaza utterly destroyed, we're sending in the 'stabilization' force, staffed by US troops working alongside the Israeli military. Rubio, a vocal proponent of Israeli aid who received over $20,000 from pro-Israel PACs in 2022, per
OpenSecrets.org, now expresses concern over Israel's desire to annex the West Bank. One might wonder if this sudden objection to annexation, as opposed to, say, the wholesale destruction of Gaza, has anything to do with optics rather than actual principle. When you arm one side to the teeth, then send in your generals to 'stabilize' the aftermath, it looks less like diplomacy and more like
managing a colonial holding. How many 'ceasefires' does it take before we question whose peace we're actually securing?