AnarchoNinaAnalyzes on Nostr: So what exactly do I mean by "supporting the genocide of the Palestinian people is a ...

So what exactly do I mean by "supporting the genocide of the Palestinian people is a bipartisan position in American politics?" To answer that question, let's take a look at a story that *was* reported by the corporate media complex, but you might have missed if you haven't paid to remove the paywall from Washington Post stories online. As it turns out, and despite the Biden administration's recent halfhearted attempts to mitigate the fallout from supporting war crimes and the extermination of children in Gaza, the United States has sent over 100 shipments of weapons to Israel since October 7th; the date of the Hamas attack and the beginning of the IDF's now inarguably genocidal response.

https://truthout.org/articles/report-us-has-secretly-sent-israel-over-100-weapons-shipments-in-last-150-days/

Look folks, this isn't a rumor, or propaganda; these shipments were revealed to Congress by administration officials in a recent classified meeting and are thus, now a matter of publicly reported fact. Although many news outlets have tried to downplay the nature of these shipments, these arms deals included precision-guided munitions, bunker busters, numerous types of bombs, and buttloads of firearms. When mathed out over the course of the "conflict" (that's a funny word for a genocide, isn't it?) this amounts to roughly one arms shipment every 1.5 days; which is an alarming amount of weaponry to push into an ongoing "conflict," particularly from a country that supposedly maintains a policy of *not* shipping arms under those circumstances; even if we all know that policy is malleable and not really worth the paper it's printed on.

Furthermore, while it's not openly discussed in the Truthout article, I think it's very clear that spreading these shipments out over 100 installments represents a clear effort by the Biden administration to actively conceal their material support for a genocide in Gaza; if they'd simply put them all together, they would have been required by law to inform Congress of their actions far sooner than they ultimately did. Instead, they've managed to publicly maintain a dangerous double game of pretending they oppose the violent "excesses" of Netanyahu's genocidal campaign in Gaza, while directly supplying the bombs and weapons the IDF is using to conduct it. Many Americans saw progressive members of the Democratic Party holding up signs saying "Stop Sending Bombs" during Biden's State of the Union speech and had no idea what they were talking about, as a direct result of this deception.

At this point, I think it's far past time for the American establishment, including the Democratic Party to cut the bullshit. You can't say you're opposed to war crimes and genocide while you're funding the US ally conducting them, and supplying the arms required to do so. Bombing hospitals and engineering a famine that is killing thousands of Palestinian children is a type of collective punishment the American people would recognize as monstrous if anyone bothered to tell them it was on purpose; and it was, because when you pursue policies that you are warned repeatedly will cause these outcomes, you don't get to pretend it's an accident later.

Whether you believe Biden can stop Netanyahu's mass murder campaign or not, I think we can all agree that it's high time the American government stopped supplying the weapons necessary to conduct it. Anything less is participating in that genocide in a very real, and obviously material way; no matter how many speeches you give about how unfortunate the consequences of those actions are.

#Gaza #Genocide #Israel #USImperialism