Friend,

One week ago, Joe Biden issued a televised statement outlining what he called a new ceasefire proposal originating from Israel.

The contours of the plan were actually drawn from a ceasefire proposal Hamas had accepted months ago, at least as far back as February. A plan that Israel explicitly rejected.

The rebranded proposal was floated among Israeli negotiators in the days before Biden’s statement – and again rejected by Benjamin Netanyahu.

Now that the proposal is coming from the White House, how did Israel respond?

Yesterday they bombed a U.N. school and murdered at least 33 Palestinian refugees sheltering there – and they used American bombs made by Boeing to do it.

Hours ago, they bombed another U.N. school, killing at least three more.

Before this supposed pivot, CBS News senior White House correspondent Ed O’Keefe asked National Security Council spokesman John Kirby, “How many more charred corpses does he have to see before the president considers a change in policy?”

This policy, seemingly in response to O’Keefe’s pointed question, came two days later and eight months too late.

I told you last week that Biden had no plan for getting Israel to comply with this agreement, no conditions on continuing military aid, and no real threat of withdrawal of U.S. support for Israel’s ongoing genocide.

The simple fact is that Israel could not carry out these heinous crimes without the ongoing, material support of the United States government, and the only way to stop them is to withdraw that support.

Netanyahu is sending a message back to Biden with each American bomb used to execute Palestinians: This is America’s war as much as it is Israel’s.

There is only one campaign that will be on the ballot across the country this November that can credibly challenge empire and stop genocide – ours. I need your support today to keep us in the fight.

While I am not surprised that Israel responded to Biden’s overtures of peace by escalating their violence using American weapons, I do find it revolting that our president is so lacking in courage or conviction to take any meaningful step to stop them.

This is not a game. The people of Gaza are being systematically exterminated – if not by bombs, then by starvation, exposure, and disease.

And our government is complicit.

That won’t change until we remove the American war criminals from power and deliver a clear mandate for people, planet, and peace at the ballot box this November.

In solidarity and gratitude,

Jill