An instrument of domination

On Israel's aid plan for Gaza

“A searing indictment of the brutality and atrocities inflicted on the Palestinians of Gaza and the collaboration of powerful nations in their murder.”

BLOWING UP EVERYTHING IS BEAUTIFUL:
ISRAEL’S EXTERMINATION OF GAZA
IS OUT NOW

FOR THE NEW REPUBLIC, I’ve written about the ‘Gaza Humanitarian Foundation’, Israel’s new cutout for controlling the distribution of aid supplies. While the eleven-week siege - the most extreme urban hunger since the blockade of Leningrad ended in 1944 - might be over, the GHF is an instrument of Israeli policy to further dominate and control the Palestinians:

The first “Secure Distribution Site” proved to be anything but “secure.” On May 27, the mass of Palestinians who came south—toward Rafah, a city that no longer exists—found a 20-acre plot of earth with sand walls, squat watchtowers, and a staff incapable of controlling a desperate population, even with the help of a labyrinth of wire fences and steel gates. The fences were busted down, the GHF’s staff retreated, and the IDF picked up the slack. One Palestinian was killed and several dozen others injured in a spree of gunfire. Of course, some of the meager supplies—beans, pasta, lentils—are produced in Israel, with Hebrew branding. War is a racket, Smedley Butler once said. Someone along the chain is making a killing from killing.

Read the full article: There Is Nothing “Humanitarian” About Israel’s New Gaza Aid Plan