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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 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, 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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