Sorry bout that,
1. Now he's went and done it, telling Israel, how to clean up Gaza.
2. No, no, no, no, I'm a Texan, and I say Benjamin, the President of Israel, should have a free hand till the jobs done right.
3. Joe making noises, on how this war should be fought, is out of line.
4. Israel has every right to protect itself, and they will.
The US said on Monday night that Israel’s planned invasion of Rafah “should not proceed under current circumstances” as it sought to use the UN to halt fighting.
news.yahoo.com
Regards,
SirJamesofTexas
As an older, "Scratch n' Dent" Veteran, my first loyalty is to the US, its genuine security and its best global interests and because of my military experience, I am also intimately familiar with what modern munitions do to human tissue.
Soon after my military service, I spent 10 - 11 months walking and hitch-hiking throughout the Middle East and spent the '73 War in and around Southern Lebanon's Palestinian refugee camps.
Of course Israel has a right to defend itself but that's not what Netanyahu and his right wing extremists are doing.
Earlier experiences make it impossible for me to understand how any loyal, rational and informed American could blindly aid and abet the systematic extermination, torture and persecution of people they have never met and about whom they know nothing except what a pro Israel, American MSM (1) tells them.
What many Americans aren't being told is that Netanyahu's genocidal foray into Gaza will simply make Israelis less secure as there are about 2.7 Billion Muslims in the world who are both forming alliances with BRIC and other growing world powers and justifiably resentful of US complicity in an internationally condemned genocide.
Nothing would delight Netanyahu and his war mongers more than to manipulate the US into a disastrous "War on Islam" and soak Middle Eastern soil with the blood of young American G.I.s, again, for Israel's regional hegemony & indefensible genocide
The IDF practice of slaughtering Palestine's native residents didn't start in October of 2023 with what ethical Jews around the word are calling the Gaza genocide (2).
During Operations "Cast Lead", "Pillar of Cloud", "Cutting Edge" etc, IDF has earned the reputation as "The Israel Massacre Forces" (3) and IDF members even shoot children "for fun",(4) so stories about Hamas using "Human Shields" is just more of the same pro Israel MSM bias most have heard.
Essentially, what Netanyahu is doing in Gaza is what foreign Zionists have been doing to Palestine's native residents since Deir Yassin (5).
What exposes Netanyahu's myopic misadventure as blatant genocide is the absence of an End Game or an Exit Strategy.
His objective is to kill off as many of Gaza's native residents as the world will stand by and tolerate.
America's complicity in the Gaza genocide will simply make America less secure while going down as another black mark on America's history.
Even if Hamas was eliminated, attempting to "...clean up Gaza" via genocide only serves to recruit millions of angry young replacements for generations to come.
I don't expect to change your mind, I simply hope you'll consider long term solutions that are are both moral and in America's best long term interests.
Future generations deserve better from us than a WW 3.
Thanks,
(1). “U.S. media coverage reveals a pro-Israel bias”
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2014/09/01/commentary/world-commentary/u-s-media-coverage-reveals-a-pro-israel-bias/#.WMLm5mafK_U
EXCERPT “Why does TV news look like a Netanyahu ad?” asked Chris McGreal of The Guardian on July 31, in his article on the “notoriously pro-Israel mainstream media in the U.S.” CONTINUED
(2) “Jews Against Genocide statement and action”
www.ijan.org
EXCERPT “We, Jews Against Genocide, came to Yad Vashem, Israel’s memorial of the genocide committed against Jews, to honor the Palestinian children who are dying in a genocide committed by Jews.
We brought dolls to symbolise the children of Gaza, and tried to bring a glimpse of the horror that Gazan’s face, to Israel’s doorstep. We hope to show Israel, and the world, the absurd reality of using the memory of one genocide to justify another.” CONTINUED
(3). "The Israel Massacre Forces"
https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/.premium-the-israel-massacre-forces-1.5962852
EXCERPT "The shooting on the Gaza border shows once again that the killing of Palestinians is accepted in Israel more lightly than the killing of mosquitoes"CONTINUED
(4). “Video Shows IDF Snipers Shooting Palestinian Children For Fun, But Facebook Won’t Let You Share It”
EXCERPT “Footage released on YouTube clearly shows Israeli soldiers firing live rounds at Palestinian children playing on a roof in Al Khalil, an area of Hebron in Occupied Palestine. An important piece of evidence attesting to the brutality of Israeli occupation. Yet, Facebook users have reported that the social media platform is preventing them from sharing the video.” CONTINUED
(5) " 9th April, 1948: 65th anniversary of Deir Yassin Massacre!"
Posts about deir yassin massacre written by truthaholics
truthaholics.wordpress.com
EXCERPT "Around 250 people were murdered in cold blood. Of these, 25 were pregnant women who were bayoneted in the abdomen while still alive. Fifty-two children were maimed under the eyes of their own mothers, before being slain and having their heads cut off. The Jewish Agency and the commander of the British ground troops were aware the massacre was taking place, but no one attempted to intervene." CONTINUED
