The Trump administration has been ignoring one of the greatest humanitarian crises of our generation, according to a CNN panel.
Israel's war in Gaza has been raging since October 7, 2023, with almost no end in sight. CNN anchor Abby Phillip asked the panel whether the images and videos of children starving in Gaza should be an inflection point in the war, one that gets the U.S. to assert more leverage over Israel to let more humanitarian aid into the country.
Substack author Peter Beinart, who wrote a book called "Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza," asked a simple question in response: "Why did it take so long?"
"To say the United States is silent, it's much worse than that," said Beinart. "We are profoundly complicit and deeply responsible. It is our weapons that enforce this starvation. It is our diplomatic efforts that prevent international justice from being done."
"The blood is on our hands!" Beinart continued.
Even though the war in Gaza extends across two presidential administrations, Phillip said Trump has not yet appointed a person to lead his administration's diplomatic efforts in the conflict. Instead, Trump has said Gaza could be turned into a prime real estate development.
That lack of pressure from the U.S. appears to be emboldening Israel and its Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, Phiilip argued.
At the same time, reliable information about the conflict is difficult to come by because Israel has not allowed Western journalists into the war zone to cover the conflict, Beinart said.
