We missed writing you last week. The level of threat to humanity and the planet has taken a leap as we work to focus on what is key to stop these maniacs of global power. And, as always, it is the actions of decent people.
The seminal moral question of our time, internationally, is the open slaughter and starvation — the attempted obliteration — of the people of Gaza. We are heartened to see more Israelis showing up at protests and daring to charge genocide on the part of the Israeli government.
For the first time, two leading Israeli human rights groups — B’Tselem and Physicians for Human Rights Israel — have accused Israel of committing genocide in Gaza. B’Tselem’s report, “Our Genocide,” says, “Israel is taking coordinated action to intentionally destroy Palestinian society in the Gaza Strip.” [Democracy Now]
Scholars and medical professionals are publicly demanding “Israel, Stop Starving Gaza.”
And former Green Beret Anthony Aguilar who seems to have made it through the U.S. Global War of Terror with pride quit his assignment with the so-called “Gaza Humanitarian Foundation” to expose the killing of starving people seeking food aid:
“What I witnessed in Gaza, I can only describe as a dystopian, post-apocalyptic wasteland,” says Anthony Aguilar, a retired U.S. soldier who worked as a subcontractor with UG Solutions in the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation aid delivery operation. “We, the United States, are complicit. We are involved, hand in hand, in the atrocities and the genocide that is currently undergoing in Gaza.” [Democracy Now]
Pitifully few Democratic politicians have broken with funding Israel’s genocidal war and the fascist Republicans see Israel as acting in their interests. It truly is up to the people of the U.S. to say NO NO NO to the destruction of our siblings in Gaza.