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Viviannia Fleming's avatar

No money should be sent to Israel - Trump just did it without Congress - Everyone in Congress should raise the roof about that

Bonny Prince.'s avatar

Everyone in congress is complicit

Siobhan's avatar

It’s horrifying that the world allowed this to happen. For those who cared, it was easy to figure out that Israel was using disproportionate brutality and that the goal was to destroy both the land and it’s people. Those US government employees who withheld information should be held accountable. Joe Biden are you proud of what your administration allowed to happen ? It’s called genocide.

Susan Becraft's avatar

Joe Biden’s exact words were, “I’m a Zionist first…”. And Harris agreed with him. I have no words to express how much I loathe these two people.

Siobhan's avatar

He did say that. These two need to be exposed, they are just as bad as Trump. If Biden had actually tried to stop the genocide instead of supporting it yet not acknowledging that it was happening, maybe the hellscape it now is could have been stopped.

Susan Becraft's avatar

Trump wouldn’t be POTUS if Biden had fulfilled his oath of office. Btw, I just read this in Drop Site’s daily report. “Chuck Schumer, not up for re-election till Jan 2029, said at a gathering this weekend ‘We delivered more security assistance to Israel, our ally, under my leadership than ever, ever before. We will keep doing that… I have many jobs as leader and one is to fight for aid to Israel.’”

Siobhan's avatar

Agree about Biden. He should burn in hell.

Mehrdad's avatar

Lets hope his fight with cancer is a lengthy one.

Clif Brown's avatar

One cannot be true to liberty and justice for all and support ethnic cleansing. Biden declared himself a traitor to liberty and justice for all when he declared himself a Zionist and the shocking things are 1) he didn't pause in making the declaration which indicates he had no thought of the pure hypocrisy of it and 2) mainstream media had not one word to say, not one question to ask Biden about his declaration of allegiance not only to a foreign country but one that specifically rejects the liberty and justice for all that the US claims to stand for but has rejected for the benefit of Israel.

All Americans are obligated by our Pledge of Allegiance and by our respect for the humanity of the natives of Palestine to be sure in the upcoming elections that we do not vote for anyone with a record of supporting Israel or, if a candidate is running for the first time, that will not pledge that if elected they will not vote any support (money or weapons) for Israel. Make America great again? Hell, we have to get America back from the grip of Zionism first.

ThisOldMan's avatar

Not the "world." US

Siobhan's avatar

Don’t disagree but Europe is going along and helping by passing freedom of speech laws so citizens can’t speak up freely about the genocide. Even Australia has done so

George Leone's avatar

When ‘balance’ means burying evidence of mass starvation and destruction, the problem isn’t the report—it’s the policy it exposes.”

Linda Hagge's avatar

96% of Israelis, according to polls, are perfectly fine with what has been done to Gaza. And the US is completely complicit, beginning with Obama, who lost his nerve with Netanyahu and completely capitulated to him, including in the farce known as Operation Cast Lead, which was a trial run for the destruction of Gaza; following with Biden, who years ago told Netanyahu he would be fine with Palestinian women and children being killed by Israel, and who repeatedly has lied about both supposed Hamas crimes and actual Israeli crimes, and now Trump, who is personally and financially owned by Israel via Jeffrey Epstein. The most recent tranche of Epstein documents shows that Trump was intertwined with Epstein and his sick empire to an appalling degree. In a sane world, there would have been UN peacekeepers sent into Israel right after the Nakba to prevent what deceitful Britain had unleashed on the world, but Harry Truman was a pitiful coward who was harrassed on all sides by American Zionists and his own party, afraid to lose an election. The only two presidents who have had any backbone at all with Israel have been Eisenhower and Kennedy. One was assassinated. All the rest have been morally vacuous weaklings or, like Lyndon Johnson, actual traitors.

Nancy's avatar
Feb 2Edited

Most ordinary U.S.A’ ans are also uninterested in doing anything about it. I say this with regret after months (make that years now) of trying to generate some interest in the subject on the part of fellow community activists, whose focus has been almost exclusively on Trump and ICE. Yes, a minority of us cares, but we’re small and relatively powerless. And not because of the politicians, but because of the general apathy among the public. I’ve fought this feeling for quite awhile. Where do we go from here?

Richard Biggar's avatar

We have a political system that operates with two-year/four-year cycles and an electorate most of whom have an attention span about as long as one football down and the intellectual heft of a Bud Lite commercial.  The adversary operates with cycles of decades, generations or longer and has been for ages subjecting the American people to a “good cop / bad cop” routine. Pick who you think the good cops or the bad cops presently are: Trumptards or Libtards. The purpose is to keep the electorate distracted from noticing the long game. And the long game has been the same for centuries: make money while manipulating the Goyim into killing each other.

Linda Hagge's avatar

I harangued people about it in our Christmas letter. No lie.

Ron's avatar

The US and the Europeans could have prevented this horror from happening. The moral failure of these countries is unforgivable. These same countries are also responsible for the Nakba that took place in 1948. In any sane world, efforts to protect the Jewish people cannot be used to justify genocide against the Palestinian people!

WILLIAM veale's avatar

This effort is prompted by two things. The first is the genocide in Gaza; the second is the proposal put forth by the Trump Administration to rebuild Gaza as a real estate development with literally no reference to the Palestinians. These events underscore the fact that the world is now run by a lawless oligarchy that has officially abandonned international law and, in the voice of Steven Miller, proudly proclaims the fact.

There is only one path out of the catastrophe that the planet has sleepwalked into as the United Nations has effectively looked the other way. There are more of us than there are of them. The question is how to mobilize those numbers.

The goal of this proposal is the establishment of an entity of undetermined form in the territory that can be referred to as Israel/Palestine. That entity, in whatever form it takes, will be democratic and its laws and government will treat all of the people living there as equals.

A Blueprint for Peace in Israel-Palestine by Omer-Man and Whitson sets out a mechanism by which the above-stated goals can be met. It is assumed that the current government of Israel and its allies, most notably the United States, will not voluntarily take the steps outlined in the The Blueprint. Further, no government or individual that has aided or abetted in any way the genocide to which the Palestinian people have been subjected, should be allowed to be a part of the rebuilding of Israel/Palestine. To ensure that these goals are met, the world’s great numbers must demonstrate their power.

The consequences of failing to follow the path outlined here are unbearable to conceive of. What will those consequences be if the forces of oligarchy are allowed to achieve their vision?

Israel will be permitted to continue to exist as a lawless, murderous apartheid state. Palestinians, five million of whom live in Israel outside of Gaza, will continue their lives of oppression and degradation at the hands of a police state.

Palestinians living in Gaza, having already had 90 % of their homes destroyed will be forced to live elsewhere while the Trump Peace Board seeks to make Gaza into a dreamlike seaside resort for the benefit of those who can afford it. Remembered in this regard must be the fact that the plans articulated for Gaza do not include the word “Palestinians.”

No mention has yet to be made of any efforts to create a prosperous home for the two million Palestinians trying to survive in Gaza right now.

The situation as envisioned by the oligarch planners guarantees one thing for certain: there will never be a peaceful existence in Israel. Eighty years of Palestinian resistance have proven that there is no end to the Palestinian desire for freedom or the Palestinian willingness and commitment to fight, in any way they are able. In addition, the lack of humanity demonstrated by the genocide and to be demonstrated if the present plans are instituted will make the export of violence to Israel from around the world a certainty.

Further, each measure taken to execute the plan will be additional affronts to the dignity of all peoples and more inspiration to violence against Israel and Israelis.

Therefore, the only power known to the world capable of stopping what is planned for Israel/Palestine is the power of the masses.

The proposed mechanism of coercion to put an end to the disaster is the boycott.

This proposal envisions a Peace Conference to be attended by an extremely limited number of religious and political leaders from around the world. The qualifications for attendance should be the absence of any activity abetting the genocide, a demonstrated committment to peace and justice, and an umblemished notoriety for decency and the quality of leadership. As examples, the Pope, the Dalai Lama, and Bernie Sanders are suggested with no more than 10 others with the same characteristics. The Pope should be the convening authority.

At the conference, the participants shall agree upon a straight forward statement outlining the notions contained in this document. A timeline for the implementation of the Blueprint shall be set out and initiation of a worldwide boycott of Israel in the case of the failure to act established.

The goal of this proposal is a just Israel/Palestine. Recognition of the profoundly racist nature of a great majority of Israelis is essential. The Peace Conference should petition the United Nations to act as it should have been acting for as long as the Palestinians have lived under Israeli oppression. That petition should include the possibility of the use of force to prevent the activities that the Oligarch planners have outlined, and to oversee the dictates of the Blueprint.

Thomas Reyer's avatar

Very good article- besides one point: this ought to be Palestine! It always was Palestine!

Israel has no right to exist as a state after what has been done to Palestinians who are their landlords! This is all Palestinian land!

Why would anyone give a state, where 42% of its people said that they were just fine if all the Palestinians were killed and 84% were fine with all Palestinians being chased off their land, any right to exist? Not in its present form, I say.

And, yes, there are a lot of people who need to "gather" in The Hague- it will be a gathering of the worlds worst and it will be led by Americans! That is the only place where we will be #1.

WILLIAM veale's avatar

Thomas,

Yours is an entirely reasonable position to take and you will find me taking no time to oppose it.

Donna Leavitt's avatar

Shame.....beyond Shame!

Stephanie Benn's avatar

What does this say about our so-called leaders and our lack of determination that this should end and Israel punished and sanctioned. It’s sickening!

Peter E Barwick's avatar

When I was a 20 yr old, in 1950, my father , who was working with Palestinian refugees, would bring home bullet casings from Palestinian villages, recently destroyed by the Irgund who were making room for Israeli settlers. To me, Zionism is one of the great evils of the world and helps to perpetuate anti-Semitism. And, until Israel and the U.S. allow real Palestinian leadership to emerge, I see little hope for any real and lasting progress toward peace.

Cynthia Marchant's avatar

Agreed. And btw I've heard ordinary British Tommies who found themselves in Palestine after the wa usuallyr grew to dislike the incoming Jewish migrants not.only bcoz of.Irgun & Stern Gang attacks on them but their generally arrogant view of the Palestinians, eg not afraid to refer to them as "vermin".despite their own recent.history of.being so designated. Oh said one when.challenged, this is different. They (the Palestinians) really ARE vermin!

Diane Herrmann's avatar

Yes, the irony here is suffocating. Most people in the US have been taught about the holocaust but not about the nakba. That is at the root of the unconscionable role of the US.

Dav Cer's avatar

Brought to you LIVE on TV - GENOCIDE !!!

Time Warp - Imagine, really, try to imagine watching today on TV:

Hitler's Nazis persecuting Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto or sending them to the "showers" at Auschwitz.

Would we watch these atrocities on TV for over 2 years AND DO NOTHING TO STOP IT ??? Would we just watch ? Send more weapons ? No money for paid family leave, but Billions for Genocide weapons almost instantly. That is exactly what our elected "representatives" (who represent Israel) are doing for decades.

James Staudt's avatar

The Biden administration allowed this to happen. There needs to be accountability for this for both Trump and Biden administration people who allowed this to happen.

This is why Democratic leaning voters don't trust the Democratic Party. Democrats like to talk about civil rights and human rights, except when it comes to Palestinians. If they can't be trusted to speak out on a genocide, how can they realistically be trusted on other matters?

Deborah Andrew's avatar

I am stunned by these photos. As challenging as it is to look at each one, I cannot begin to imagine what it has been like every day, every hour for those who have survived - since 1948, since the Nakba, the two plus years of bombing, killing, starvation night and day since Oct 7, 2023.

That this cruelty exists and has been ongoing, in one form or another, since the founding of Israel in 1948, fully approved by the UN,fully enabled and expanded in large part by the government, the Congress of the United States and their allies, regardless of party in power has no excuse. None.

Whatever rationale permits those who have and do support the barbarism, the flagrant violations of Humanitarian Law, International Law, it is quite simply the capacity to witness and be complicit in these atrocities without a shred of compassion, a shred of integrity. There is not and there never will be any justification whatsoever for Israel's policies/actions, nor for those who have participated, those who are complicit in any way.

Sandy Pontius's avatar

Not a shred of decency

Cynthia Marchant's avatar

I agree except that I'm not sure the UN DID give permission for the expulsion of Palestinians including those living within the boundaries of the proposed new state for the Jews. I think there was silence on this matter from that quarter and ostensibly at least it was assumed that those who "fled" - & many probably DID flee across borders as well as being forced out or massacred, being to a much greater extent than the incoming Jews, natural families including children and the elderly - would be able to return once the fighting stopped, regardless of who prevailed. But some of the Jews saw it, in the words of one (can't remember who offhand) as "a miraculous simplification of our task" - which had been to "encourage" the existing population to move over a period of years. For those higher up in the hierarchy it was the fulfilment of "Plan Dalet" - indeed a planned ethnic cleansing. (His book on this subject led to historian Ilan Pappe having to find employment outside Israel - at the University of Exeter in the UK in fact.)

Actually for what it's worth, the UN GA still affirms Res 194 calling for those refugees prepared to "live at peace with their neighbours" to be able to return to their homes, but as a GA resolution it's non-binding.

Greg's avatar

Religious fanaticism knows no bounds. I think most Jews are heartbroken by what the fanatics under Bibi have wrought.

I force myself to remember that many of the World's Jews remember why Nazi Germany put so many in the camps.

"Imagine" by John Lennon said it best.

We continue to destroy ourselves over myth, magic and medicine.

Will we wake before it's too late?

Doesn't seem likely.

Gina's avatar

This administration helped turn Gaza into rubble. They see it as saving money on demolition. They want to make it a Trump playground for all the rich, powerful and evil with beachfront property.

Zero's avatar

Who in the Biden administration said that USAID reports had to be vetted by the U.S. ambassador to Israel? Given who is typically appointed ambassador, the results were a foregone conclusion. Country ambassadors do not normally screen USAID reports. The order to do so must have come from a higher official (such as the Secretary of State) in order to gaslight the situation in Gaza.

S Again's avatar

On balance, our entrenched military industrialists tip the scale of warfare, weighed down with torture, imprisonment, killing, maiming, starving, turning earth underfoot to dust and ash. So far US envoys have not succeeded in halting the clouds overhead at Checkpoints or changing the color of the sky. Earth cries for release from these two-legged deaf blind predators.