America is complicit in genocide in the Middle East

Amos Goldberg, a professor of Holocaust studies at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, sounded the alarm in April this year when he declared: “Yes, this is genocide. “This is very difficult and painful to accept.”

The United Nations definition is “any act committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group.” Israel’s current military offensive against Gaza is part of Article II of the Convention. It meets four of the five criteria in the article. UN Genocide Convention This law, approved by the United States in 1948, except that the group’s children were forcibly transferred to another group. Article III lists punishable acts, including complicity in genocide.

Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu has repeatedly stated that the aim of this military operation is to destroy Hamas and release the hostages. After 13 months of bombardment and shelling that devastated the area and killed almost 50,000 Palestinians, with no end in sight, neither goal was achieved. Used to distract from Election Day in the US fired the defense ministerYoav Gallant eliminates a legitimate claim of self-defense.

On his last day, Minister Yoav Gallant told family members of Israeli hostages that the army had achieved all its objectives in Gaza and that the prime minister was continuing negotiations with Hamas. Also IDF Brigadier General on Election Night. General Itzik Cohen reportedly stated that he “does not intend to allow residents of the northern Gaza Strip to return to their homes.”

Last month, UN estimates approximately 400,000 civilians People who are unable or unwilling to comply with Israeli evacuation orders. Cohen added that humanitarian aid would not be allowed to enter the north because “there are no civilians left.” If there are no civilians left, then all humans in the area are fair game.

Of the 254 hostages, 105 were released by Hamas and 34 were killed by the hostage killers. Netanyahu has been harshly criticized in Israel for his lack of commitment to negotiating their release. One can only speculate about his reluctance to do so. It is alleged that connected persons were involved in the incident Hamas’ strategy documents are leakedThe leadership of the Palestinian militant group manipulates or edits the material to make it appear that they plan to drag out the talks for as long as possible and smuggle hostages into Egypt to justify the continued destruction in Gaza.

On the same day he fired his defense minister, he expanded his goals to include the destruction of Hezbollah, the Iran-backed extremist militia group in Lebanon. Addressing the Lebanese people after the Israeli Armed Forces’ attacks on southern Lebanon, Netanyahu said, “You have the opportunity to save Lebanon before it falls into the abyss of a long war that will lead to destruction and suffering as we saw in Gaza. “It doesn’t have to be this way.”

He knows very well that Lebanon does not have the military power or political stability to drive Hezbollah out of southern Lebanon. When they fail to do so, this will become his justification to continue increasing the level of violence in Lebanon.

The White House last month He gave Israel 30 days improve humanitarian aid convoys and other unmet conditions or risk losing military support. As of the end of October, an average of 71 trucks were entering Gaza per day. This time has come and gone.

The State Department said Israel had made limited progress and would not take any punitive action against its close ally. According to Israeli calculations, they were up to 75 trucks per day in November, four trucks per day above the daily number in October and below the minimum of 350 trucks needed to meet the basic needs of the civilian population.

All parties have a lot of blame to share about the level of instability in the Middle East. The past 72 years have been marred by Arab terrorists, Christian terrorists, and Jewish terrorists who have engaged in war crimes, including the murder and rape of innocent men, women, and children, as well as ethnic cleansing.

This cycle of violence has been exacerbated by foreign powers, including the United States, intervening in their own geopolitical agendas. Our $18 billion contribution to this genocide this year makes us complicit and in no way improves the chances of peace.

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