"A view of a damaged vehicle that was carrying aid workers with the World Central Kitchen charity and their Palestinian driver who were killed in Deir al-Balah, Gaza Strip, April 1, 2024, in an airstrike conducted by Israel.YASSER QUDAIH/ANADOLU/GETTY"Source: CBS NEWS
Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives have released a performative letter condemning Israel's air strikes on international aid workers delivering food to the deliberately starved population of Gaza. While voting for more money to Israel so they can continue bombing and starving Palestinians, these reps paused to issue some weasel words appearing to object to the very thing they are funding.
Are voters fooled? Not this voter.
Their letter to President Biden also smacks of racism in that 13,000+ brown children, or 32,000+ Gazans of all ages, dying at Israel's hands has generated more funding. But killing a handful of white adults including one from the U.S. who was being paid by World Central Kitchen to deliver food in Gaza is beyond what congressional Democrats can tolerate, apparently.
Note: the word "apparently" is doing a lot of work in my last sentence.
So it isn't the horrors of the torture camp that Israel turned Al-Shifah Hospital into, or the evidence of Palestinian prisoners zip tied so tightly that their legs have to be amputated, that moves Democrats in Congress. It's this one airstrike
Luckily, most young people today understand that Congress isn't going to monitor the war machine. They know that Congress IS the war machine, and are acting accordingly.
In the hit parade of vigorous resistance actions this week, California is in the lead. Big props to Pomona College students who endured police brutality over their entirely nonviolent occupation of their administration building.
Also to protesters who blocked every entrance to Lockheed's plant in Sunnyvale and faced off against an angry worker who was unable to get to work.
Threatened with a knife and with his vehicle as a weapon, notice how calm they remain as they work to de-escalate his response.
https://twitter.com/ariel_koko/status/1775961951191154860
Did you read about any of this actual resistance in mainstream media? I didn't think so. Now you know why the U.S. government works overtime to censor Twitter, TikTok, Instagram, and other social media sites. Because that's where we're able to get real news while WaPo and the NYT cover congressional posturing.
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