It bears mention on this vein that when the US drone-strike'd a civilian aid worker and his family on the way out of Afghanistan, we didn't do jack or shit to punish anyone involved.
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No U.S. Troops Will Be Punished for Deadly Kabul Strike, Pentagon Chief Decides (Published 2021)
More broadly...
Was listening to a politics podcast (We're Not Wrong--would recommend to folks) and one of the hosts is...very all-in on Palestine and the Palestinian 'narrative', and was incapable of comprehending how it could happen and suspected the Israeli motive was denying Palestinians access to aid by essentially bullying-out an aid organization.
Which...Is a level of conspiracy that's impressive but by no means uncommon on the topic? But also...countered by the existing 'conspiracy theory' of aid workers actively assisting Hamas (not World Kitchen, but if you're Israel...well, it would be unsurprising if they had a US-attitude-towards-Muslims general suspicion towards any aid group after the shitassery the UN aid org got up to), and that one is to the point that it would frankly not be surprising if the Israelis were fed-up with, at very least, Gaza existing in the international limbo bullshit world where Hamas gets to run it as the strongest prison-gang and periodically kill Israelis and they're not allowed to do anything about it without getting shit on for violating the Laws of War against an opponent with no respect for those same laws and who never recieves the same standard of judgement.
Like, I doubt the strike on World Kitchen was deliberate (the last thing Israel probably wants is this PR shitfest), but I could understand there being some in the Israeli military, government, or populace who look at it and go 'well, at least there being less aid pushed things towards requiring a permanent solution'.
And yeah, that is 'Final Solution'-y, but, well...Gazans have had decades of their own special enclave to figure shit out within and have failed repeatedly despite gobs of support from the UN and international places, and has steadfastly rejected any group with normalization and statehood goals when given the chance to vote on leadership, and has steadfastly ascribed to the philosophy of force so...At a certain point on the nation-state level, just like on individual, you reach the 'Find out' stage of 'fuck around and find out'. If you continually assert force as the method by which you will resolve your conflict with an opponent, your opponent eventually discarding their kid gloves and responding with the same attitude is THOROUGHLY UNSURPRISING AND TO BE EXPECTED.
People forget that Gaza is not just some random nationalist movement aiming for own people's independence, comfort and well being.
No.
It is a specifically created proxy of the Muslim world existing solely to fight for Muslim world's ownership of the Holy Land since the Arabs got messed up in the more open attempts at warfare that came before. This is what's behind all the seemingly bullshit and nonsense stuff that's happening with it over the decades and why there can't be a lasting peace. They didn't set up that proxy to have lasting peace, if they wanted a lasting peace then Egypt could still own Gaza and Jordan could own West Bank without fucking terror orgs in the mix acting as annoying and reckless middlemen.
But when Jordan and Egypt want to openly invade Israel that's terrible for business, they get bombed by Israel and Israel's allies get mad about the invasion, and that's their problem, not Qataris, Saudis, Iranians or any private entities who still want the fight to continue, so Egypt and Jordan, at least their leadership, are kinda done - and those who are not done, state and private, have another proxy.
So a proxy solution was made as a compromise in form of "Palestine" that can be a black hole for trapping all the downsides of continuing the fight that doesn't let the consequences of continuing to support "the cause" hit the main supporters of it too much (no one likes getting a JDAM through the window) when yet another campaign against Israel fails. Instead the Arabs get to play victim as the proxy gets clobbered while moronic bleeding hearts of the West also chip in (the official explanation in jihadist circles is that Allah clouds the minds of despicable infidels so they give money to the righteous cause of Muslims fighting for the Holy Land).
As such, as long as there is a meaningful amount of rich believers in political Islam in the world, this initiative will be funded, and as long as it is funded and the proxy charade is respected by the world, it cannot end. It is such a massive cause in those circles that it has even transcended sectarian divides, with the Iranian Shia theocracy providing a big part of the support these days.
Where do aid orgs fit into this? Some are an opportunistic way provided for the idiot westerners to feed money to the cause without getting scared off by shit something like Fatah, nevermind Hamas, normally does with money, who unlike the Arab side more often than not don't understand what they are really supporting, but it changes nothing whether they understand - after all, money is money, and local proxy managers who don't care about PR can piggyback on the aid orgs and skim some goods off that, while them taking care of the survival needs of designated cannon fodder/human shield population means the precious budget and attention of more "cause oriented" parties can be focused on fighting and politicking.
Some, especially educational and media ones, are a way for more idiotic westerners and less dedicated Islamists to support the cause by funding propaganda, internal and external alike.
And some, generally not supported by any westerners, only more dedicated Islamists, are outright shady shell companies to move resources to the local jihadists who do the actual fighting and get them war materiel and salaries.
WCK seems to be the kind of org that fits group 1, Israel has no reason to target those due to low benefit relative to particularly bad optics to the western populations this has.
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