It’s Time That Our Elected Officials Call It What It Is……A Genocide
For far too long, our elected officials have stayed quiet, refusing to speak out on the horrors of what is happening in Gaza.
100% of the population in Gaza is displaced. 92% of all housing units and 70% of ALL structures are either damaged or destroyed. 50,000 dead, 17,000 of whom are children. Humanitarian aid denied entry. Electricity and water were cut off. Doctors are jailed and tortured. 44 first hand accounts from doctors and nurses of children who weren't even teenagers shot in the chest and head, including an 18 month old.
Read that paragraph again, and again. Until you are as horrified as I am.
It is a Genocide. And we are funding it. Our representatives who voted for the aid packages are complicit in this genocide.
Both the Trump and Biden administration have authorized weapons and aid packages for Israel totaling in the billions. The ICC has issued arrest warrants for Hamas for their attack on October 7th, which is well deserved. They have also issued arrest warrants for Bibi Netanyahu & Yoav Gallant. For the actions that have occurred since October 7th, everyone deserves to be arrested and sent to the Hague. Honestly, they all deserve to share a cell for the crimes they’ve committed.
What makes it worse, is every single day that it goes on, the horrors that we hear about keep getting worse and worse. Earlier this week, video evidence was released that shows that Israel deliberately targeted medics and ambulances, contradicting their claims. They lied and said that 15 people were killed because they were approaching Israeli forces suspiciously with their lights off and Israel troops were forced to shoot them.
Israel lied. There’s video evidence that they lied about every detail. They deliberately targeted these emergency personnel.
They deliberately target UN clinics and health centers.
They’ve blocked all aid into Gaza for over a month.
I mean, just look at how evil of a grin that is from Bibi while Trump is talking. They enjoy this. They're having fun killing innocent civilians. Videos are posted online of Israel soldiers smiling, and laughing while attacking mosques and other buildings throughout Gaza.
It’s absolutely despicable behavior. If it was any other country other than Israel or the United States doing this, we would be calling it a genocide. But yet, we refuse to do so.
Let’s be clear - it’s not anti-semitic to want to stop killing innocent civilians. It’s not anti-semitic to call someone a war criminal who has authorized the killing of those civilians, and who has cut off all humanitarian aid to them for over a month. I am not condemning, or speaking out against Bibi Netanyahu and Israel’s actions because they are Jewish. I am speaking out because their behavior is despicable, inhumane, and if our leaders had any shred of decency, they would be doing the same.
I know its a genocide, and I have no problem calling it one. I just wish more of our elected officials had any courage or moral dignity left and would recognize it as a genocide. And I wish they would come out and say so.