"As more and more children die of starvation and the famine deepens, as the Netanyahu government begins its attack on Gaza City, moving to occupy all of Gaza, as Israeli soldiers and bulldozers systematically level city after city in Gaza, the criminal horror is reaching its obscene goal: the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians from Gaza (and, if Netanyahu's ministers have their way, all of the occupied West Bank)."
"While all signatories to the Genocide Convention have the right-and indeed the duty-to intervene to halt this slaughter, only two countries have the power to actually stop the genocide: the Israeli government that is committing it and the US government that is aiding, abetting, and arming it. The US could stop this criminal assault by ending its support for Israel, cutting off the flow of arms, ammunition, bombs, and military coordination and demanding and helping to organize immediate, emergency humanitarian relief."
"David Grossman, Israel's leading literary and moral voice, says that for many years he has refused to use the word genocide, but now he must-"with immense pain and with a broken heart." Two leading Israeli human rights groups-B'Tselem and Physicians for Human Rights Israel-released a report on "Our Genocide," detailing the unfathomable violence and concluding that there is "no doubt" that since October 2023, the Israeli regime has been responsible for carrying out genocide against the Palestinians in the Gaza strip."
The United States provides arms, ammunition, bombs, and military coordination that enable an assault on Gaza widely described as genocidal. Bipartisan US political support sustains policies that coincide with mass civilian starvation, systematic leveling of cities, and an explicit push toward ethnic cleansing of Palestinians in Gaza and potentially the occupied West Bank. International obligations under the Genocide Convention place a duty to intervene, yet only Israel and the US currently have the power to halt the destruction. Ending US military support, cutting off transfers, and organizing immediate humanitarian relief are presented as necessary steps to stop the ongoing crime.
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