Thursday, November 13, 2008

No Resources Left Behind: With-held Instead

UN suspends food distribution in Gaza

"The United Nations announced it was suspending food distribution to half of Gaza's 1.5 million people on Thursday after Israel failed to allow emergency supplies into the Palestinian territory."

Reasons why that's fucked up:
1. The United Nations is blindly following what Israel wants.
2. "Failed to allow" instead of "Refused to allow"-- deliberately neutral wording.
3. Behind Israel's actions is a logic similar to the No Child Left Behind Act-- getting punished for not being up to standards, instead of receiving aid to improve standards.

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