Blinken told Congress, “We do not currently assess that the Israeli government is prohibiting or otherwise restricting” aid, even though the U.S. Agency for International Development and others had determined that Israel had broken the law.
Jesus christ. Not only are politicians refusing to hold Netanyahu’s regime accountable, but they’re also blocking bureaucrats from following any safeguards we have that would have held Netanyahu’s regime accountable.
It would have been so easy to have our backchannels tell Netanyahu that bombing humanitarian trucks is a red line, without any political backlash, but we went out of our way to allow Netanyahu and the IDF to keep doing it.
Jesus christ. Not only are politicians refusing to hold Netanyahu’s regime accountable, but they’re also blocking bureaucrats from following any safeguards we have that would have held Netanyahu’s regime accountable.
It would have been so easy to have our backchannels tell Netanyahu that bombing humanitarian trucks is a red line, without any political backlash, but we went out of our way to allow Netanyahu and the IDF to keep doing it.