If you agree with my view that American aid to Israel should be conditional instead of unconditional, consider sending this statement to your Congressional representatives or to the White House directly;
Dear Joe Biden,
Please enforce the Leahy Laws. The failure to enforce human rights conditions on US aid to Israel makes the United States complicit in Israel’s war crimes. Please end US complicity in Israel’s ongoing collective punishment and indiscriminate bombing of Gaza.
I agree with Senator Bernie Sanders; the U.S. State Department’s determination that Israel is not violating international law makes a mockery of U.S. law. “Thirty-two thousand Palestinians in Gaza have been killed and almost 75,000 injured, two-thirds of whom are women and children…Some 60% of the housing units have been damaged or destroyed, and almost all medical facilities have been made inoperable. Today, hundreds of thousands of Palestinian children are facing starvation because Netanyahu won’t let in sufficient humanitarian aid, while thousands of trucks are waiting to get into Gaza.”
I also agree with AOC; “As we speak, 1.1 million innocents in Gaza are at famine’s door…A famine that is being intentionally precipitated through the blocking of food and global humanitarian assistance by leaders in the Israeli government…If you want to know what an unfolding genocide looks like, open your eyes….There is no targeting of Hamas in precipitating a mass famine of a million people, half of whom are children…The actions of Hamas should not be tied to whether a 3-year-old can eat. The actions of Hamas do not justify forcing thousands, hundreds of thousands of people to eat grass as their bodies consume themselves. We and the Israeli government have the right to go after Hamas. But we are talking about population of millions of innocent Palestinians. We’re talking about collective punishment, which is in unjustifiable,”
Unless Joe Biden chooses to acknowledge the reality of the situation and enforce human rights conditions on all aid the US sends Israel, he is complicit. I hope Biden chooses to end his complicity in the starvation of children by enforcing the Leahy laws.
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