USAID, refugee resettlement, and humanitarian assistance veteran.
Missile and tank weirdo, posts stuff about missiles, the Middle East, and why it matters at https://substack.com/@someforeignfield
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Given that Israel has primarily flown airstrikes to Iran via Syria and Iraq (neither of which can block Israel from their airspace) this is likely a symbolic move by, I would guess, Saudi Arabia. Nonetheless it is meaningful. Would be more interesting if it was Jordan.
She never visited the Gaza RMT in DC or the DART in Jerusalem. Her friend and BHA Chief Sonali Korde did take IDF military helicopter tours of Gaza 🤢 but Power didn't.
As USAID Administrator and with a seat on the NSC, if she had put pressure on Israel to be allowed in, she would have.
The idea that the USAID Administrator has to personally see the "living conditions were like" in Gaza in order to make effective policy is an absurd and sick joke.
We had implementing partner staff in Gaza. I worked with USAID colleagues who did temp deployments with IPs in Gaza. We knew.
This is insane for her to say. Makes me fucking livid as somebody who worked on Gaza in the agency she ostensibly ran.
She never visited the checkpoints. She denied that Israel was blocking aid when she was in a position to do something about it.
Was it altruistic when we said that being a teenage girl kidnapped by Boko Haram for 6 months or more meant you were a terrorist and thus ineligible for assistance
I'm extraordinary unsympathetic to the whining about how "the left" won't let you raise the military budget but liberally
On that note, in many places we requested a branding waiver for our implementing partners - ie., please don't put the American flag on stuff because the American military had killed so many civilians in that country that prominently placing the American flag on stuff would make them unsafe
I know if Rachid Taha were still alive there would be statues dedicated to him and Raï music in Lawrenceville Kansas by the time this world cup was over
