As the US considers air dropping aid to Gazans, it’s worth noting that
a) reducing the suffering of Gazans being starved to death by the Israeli state would be good
but also
b) this would constitute a subsidy of the Israeli occupation, as surely as the US subsidizes and enables firms that pay their employees starvation wages by issuing those impoverished workers food stamps.
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