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Jill Stein released the following statement today on the latest developments in Gaza and the urgent need to stop US complicity in genocide:
The unfolding tragedy in Gaza and the escalating military conflicts in the Middle East have demonstrated that the leaders of the two political war parties and the leading presidential candidates have hearts and brains of stone.
The growing massacre our Pledge to Stop Genocide <[link removed]> addressed has not just been ignored but worsened when the U.S. and its allies pulled the plug on the life-saving aid provided by UNRWA based on mere allegations from a party, in essence, under arrest for genocide. That is similar to asking someone who has been arrested for murder and then held over for trial to weigh in on whether the family members of the alleged victim should be allowed to continue to receive food, water, medicine or shelter.
The U.S. must immediately end its complicity in the slaughter and destruction. It must use its air, land and sea resources along with other UN nations to bring life-saving aid to a dying people. We must act not just to save the people of Gaza but our standing in the world. The world is watching aghast and now attaches “US-supported” to every death and atrocity in Gaza and the West Bank. Less than 1% of the rest of the world’s population now supports our insistence in the UN that the slaughter continue.
Contrast this lightning fast reaction to UNRWA allegations to our non-reaction to the thirty blindfolded, hands-secured-behind-their-backs, tortured Palestinian bodies with Hebrew tags found buried several days ago beneath Khalifa ben Zayed school in northern Gaza. This discovery occurred shortly after the Israeli military withdrew from the area. The video and print coverage of these likely field executions is awash in the Arab and Muslim world but, not surprisingly, absent in our mainstream corporate media.
We agree with the Palestinian authorities and are asking for an international forensic team to examine the site. Certainly, if the Biden administration can continue its non-stop resupply of our weapons to Israel, we can divert a forensic team to investigate what happened. This is especially important because it is now clear to the most respected legal authorities that the United States has now moved into a direct state of complicity with a plausible genocide.
Listening to administration officials, leaders in Congress, and the four likely leading presidential candidates would sound like a comedy routine if lives were not being lost and the world sliding into a much wider conflict. It would be hard to make up more embarrassing statements than those put out by this White House.
How should a rational person who described the South African 84-page filing with the ICJ as “meritless” react when a nearly unanimous court accepted every one of its claims? One would expect John Kirby to react with shame but that is expecting an ounce of logic or humanity from heads and hearts of stone.
It is now up to the American people to sign on to our Pledge To Stop Genocide <[link removed]>, to call their elected officials and to demonstrate for peace and justice. It is time to show that the power of the donor class can be overwhelmed by the power of the people.
Jill Stein
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