[1]Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for Congress

Alexandria has called for a ceasefire in Palestine since the beginning of
the Israel-Hamas War, but on Friday she stood up in the House to demand
action to prevent the genocide unfolding in Gaza.

Please read Alexandria’s full speech below, published in the op-ed section
of The Guardian yesterday.

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[1]The US must stop facilitating mass killing in Gaza

I know a man, a decent man, who said that “preventing genocide is an
achievable goal, a goal that requires a level of government organization
and engagement that matches in its intensity the brutality and efficiency
required to carry out mass killing. Too often, these efforts have come too
late, after the best and least costly opportunities to prevent them have
been missed.”

The man that said that was then Vice-President and now President Joseph
Biden. And he was right.

I rise to say that such a time is now. As we speak, in this moment, 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.

This is a mass starvation of people, engineered and orchestrated following
the killing of another 30,000, 70% of whom were women and children.

There is hardly a single hospital left. And this was all accomplished with
US resources and weapons. If you want to know what an unfolding genocide
looks like, open your eyes. It looks like the forced famine of 1.1 million
innocents. It looks like thousands of children eating grass as their
bodies consume themselves, while trucks of food are slowed and halted just
miles away. It looks like good and decent people who do nothing. Or too
little. Too late.

It is against United States law to provide weapons to forces who block
United States humanitarian assistance. And that is exactly what is
happening right now. So much so that the president himself stated, during
the State of the Union, that the United States must and will be building
its own port to let aid through. It will be too late.

The time is now to force compliance with US law and the standards of
humanity. And fulfill our obligations to the American people to suspend
the transfer of US weapons to the Israeli government in order to stop and
prevent further atrocity.

Honoring our alliances does not mean facilitating mass killing. We cannot
hide from our responsibility any longer. Blocking assistance from one’s
closest allies to starve a million people is not unintentional.

We have a responsibility to prove the value of global democracy, enshrined
in the upholding of civil society, rule of law, and commitment to human
and civil rights.

This is not just about Israel or Gaza. This is about us. The world will
never be the same. And we will never be the same. And we must write our
story in this moment, of what it means and who we are as Americans.

And our story must be not that we were good men who did nothing. But that
we were a committed democracy that did something.

And we must prove that now. With that, I yield back. Thank you.

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Thank you for reading,

Team AOC

 

 


 


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