This is the same thing over and over again. Palestinians die every day, but it gets a lukewarm headline from mainstream media because death and destruction is inherent to Arabness. Then an aid convoy with white workers is obliterated, and now both the president of the United States and the president of Israel are making statements apologizing for “the poor protection of aid workers.” At one point we were seeing multiple reports a day of paramedics from the Palestine Red Crescent Society dying, but nothing. Crickets. Because they don’t care. And even in these “remorseful statements” there is a strategic reminder that white lives hold more weight than brown lives.
This is the same dialogue that surrounded Aaron Bushnell’s self-immolation. These people’s efforts shouldn’t be disregarded simply because they were white—but at the same time there always has to be a saintly white figure involved to get the general public to care. Why isn’t there this much outrage surrounding the 32k+ deaths, the shooting of aid seekers, the ongoing famine. What about all the Gazans dying. What about them. What about them