People across the country and around the world, inclusive of Jewish organizations, have watched and been horrified by what they have seen unfold in Gaza and the occupied Palestinian territory. People have watched as more than 35,000 Gazans, the majority of them civilians and children, have been killed. There are reports daily of Israeli military and Jewish settlers killing Palestinians in the West Bank. People have watched as people are being starved to death and faced with health services virtually destroyed because of Israeli military actions. People have watched as journalists have been targeted and killed, and humanitarian workers murdered. People have watched and the outrage has been growing worldwide and on U.S. campuses. All of this has been taking place while the U.S. administration and its politicians first denied the devastations, doubted the casualty count, vetoed condemnations at the UN, and found creative ways to minimize any criticism of Israel while the U.S. enabled the death and destruction in Gaza.
The U.S. government has consistently supplied Israel with weapons to prosecute the war. Even as the U.S. administration admonished Israel to be more careful of killing civilians it supplied Israel with $17 billion in supplemental aid. The support to Israel occurs despite the Leahy Law, named after former U.S. Senator Patrick Leahy. The rules under the law require that military assistance be withheld from forces engaged in human rights violations. Clearly, the excessive death and destruction, and the extra-judicial killings in the West Bank constitute gross human rights violations. Yet, the Biden administration, as well as other administrations before has persisted in violating its own law. https://mondoweiss.net/2024/05/outside-agitators-how-the-power-elite-talk-about-dissent/ -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#30319): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/30319 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/106073739/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: marxmail+ow...@groups.io Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/8674936/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [arch...@mail-archive.com] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
