The Drone Strikes on World Central Kitchen

It's quite surprising but there have been "consequences" for the WCK drone strike already.  Two officers have been fired and three more were reprimanded. Looks like investigations can happen quickly and ludicrously insufficient actions can be taken. It will be interesting to see if this farce of "accountability" is enough to placate the assholes who have to pretend to be upset about aid workers getting murdered.

The most offensive part of this is of course that when foreign nationals are killed - it's an actual concern. There have been something like 200 aid workers killed in Gaza prior to the WCK strike - and nothing. Because they were just Palestinians, so it doesn't matter if they get murdered. But killing people from Israel's allied countries? That's unacceptable and "accountability" must follow. It's been over two months since Hind Rajab was killed - that's the little girl who phoned for help from the car with her dead family in it. Aid workers co-ordinated with the IDF to send some medics in to save her, and shortly after they were dispatched - they were killed. As was Hind. Where is that investigation at?

The next most offensive part is the measures taken. Two officers have been fired and three others were reprimanded. That's all. Nothing else.  Wheeeeee! Also note - there's already a backlash to this in Israel with the far right nutjobs (who have important positions in the War Cabinet) are already accusing Netanyahu of abandoning their soldiers in the middle of a war zone. So that'll be interesting to watch develop.

Apparently, murdering the staffers of a personal friend of Biden's was enough for the US to threaten to change their policies. Not to actually change anything - but to at least consider putting conditions on military aid. This had been an unimaginable step before the WCK drone strikes - merely suggesting it was enough to be labelled antisemitic. But I guess Biden is Hamas now.  An additional step is that the US considering requiring labels on goods from the Occupied West Bank. We'll see if this happens or if it goes the same way as the sanctions they imposed on the handful of Israeli settler terrorists that got scrapped shortly after being "implemented".