Yesterday, February 13, the U.S. Senate "...passed a $95 billion foreign aid bill" that includes "$14 billion in military assistance to Israel, $9 billion in humanitarian assistance to Gaza and elsewhere...."
Unfortunately, U.S. mainstream media reports this only in the context of the disarray within the Republican party and Donald Trump's hold over it rather than pointing out that this money will be used to massacre innocent men, women and children. They're all guilty, Republicans and Democrats both.
This must stop. Now.
First, President Joe Biden and the U.S. Congress need to quit sending money to the Zionists in Israel. They're using it to commit genocide, killing and maiming innocent Palestinians in the tens of thousands. It's unconscionable and it makes the USA genocidal, as well.
Second, just what the hell does "and elsewhere" really mean? How much of that $9 billion will actually go to Palestinians in Gaza? Assuming the bill passes the House in its present form, that is, which it won't. But make no mistake - Democrats and Republicans are committed to sending more blood money to Israel, one way or another.
Third, as IV Words has wondered/pointed out before, why is the USA giving bombs to Israel with one hand and with the other providing aid to help Palestinians recover from those very same bombs? It's not just absurd; it's obscene.
Fourth, Biden and Congress need to reinstate funding to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA). The USA cut funding "temporarily" after Israel claimed a handful of UNRWA employees participated in the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas.
UNRWA, a nonprofit humanitarian agency for Palestinian refugees, is one of the few lifelines for Palestinians being bombarded daily by Israel.
Instead, Biden and Congress want to make the cut permanent. As Sharon Zhang has stated so well in Truthout -
"The Senate passed a bill on Tuesday that would send an additional $14 billion in assistance to Israel’s genocidal assault of Gaza and permanently defund the foremost humanitarian aid group for Palestinians in Gaza and beyond."
Sharon Zhang, Truthout
Slashing UNRWA funding based on the possibility that some of its people participated in the Oct. 7, 2023 attack on Israel by Hamas, with the only testimony or "evidence" of that coming from Israel itself, is unjust.
It's incomprehensible that this needs to be said out loud, but...
Palestinians are human beings. Israel is murdering them methodically and indiscriminately. U.S. taxpayers, through our elected representatives, are helping them do it.
It's despicable.
If all of this makes you feel desolate, you are not alone.
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