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All right. Israel is not an ally. We don’t have a treaty of alliance with Israel. But I don’t want to get hyper technical with her. My question to you is, are there american trucks with american aid trying to make their way from Egypt into Gaza? And is the IDF stopping that? Yes, because Israel reserves the right to inspect every single item that goes into Gaza because Israel, contrary to its claims, is an occupying power.
It’s been that way for decades now. So, yes, there have been USAID that’s been prevented from going into Gaza because Israel says so, whether it’s coming in from Egypt or from Israel, Israel reserves the right to inspect it because it’s the occupying power. So for AOC to call that out was very on point. She’s calling out the normalization of collective punishment with our complicity, letting Israel determine whether or not palestinian children can eat or not, letting Israel reject the most basics of supplies.
And this long predates even this current phase of Israel’s mass murder campaign. During the siege of the last two decades, Israel has barred things like chocolates and eggs. I mean, one israeli official said that we’re going to put Gaza on a diet. So this has been going on for a very, very long time. It’s just that much more extreme now that the people of Gaza are facing an actual genocide.
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