Nevertheless, RT reports that US Congress "overwhelmingly approved an emergency measure on Friday [August 1st] to grant $225 million in additional revenue to Israel for the country's Iron Dome missile defense system." (The inimitable Sen. John McCain explained, "We are with the Israelis, because if they don't have the Iron Dome, they can't defend themselves.")
And, the Pentagon reportedly approved Israel's request for additional rounds of ammunition from the US.
It is difficult not to feel deep cynicism and not to express biting sarcasm at these predictable goings on. How dare those inconvenient and pesky Palestinians resist their slaughter? Why do they insist upon clinging to land subjected to Israel's relentless 19th century-style colonizing project?
And, after several such attacks on UN facilities since the 1996 attack on the UN in Qana, how can UN representatives bear to manufacture yet more outrage and indignation for public consumption at yet another instance of the slow-moving genocide of the Palestinians?
How can "the public" watch "then turn away to busy itself with the banal?
Do the Israelis attack so shamelessly because they are certain that the UN's expressions of bitter outrage (and the US's carefully phrased-to-be-meaningless condemnations) to the public will be as impotent and as futile as ever? No matter what Israelis do, US support, weapons, and ammunition will keep flowing -- after all, how else will Israel defend itself?
If the world remembers Qana - or Cana - as the site where Jesus turned water into wine at a wedding two thousand years ago, why can it not remember Qana's - and Gaza's - more recent yet just as dramatic events?
Perhaps it is simply pesky and inconvenient to remember distressing events unless they are drummed into heads via assiduously courted and supported pro-Israel historians, academics, history books, movies, news reports, and propaganda, or unless they are as well funded as the marketing campaigns and museums around the world dedicated to the mantra "Never Again".
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