Lies All Along, War Again
October 02, 2024
By Scott Steward
51 Weeks of Protest, Yolo for Palestinian Justice weekly protest in front of Mike Thompson's Woodland Office. We witness a genocide and Mike does nothing. It will be a year next week.
It is some comfort, if small comfort, that the moorings of our Davis democracy are relatively intact, even as our "leadership" gambles our democracy on US/Israeli war crimes. I would say that Israel has drawn Iran into war and the US along with it, except that it is obvious that the US has been party to the war plan all along. 12 months of Genocide? That is the cost of doing business for Israel and the US.
After yesterday's 200 mostly destroyed Iranian missile attacks on Israeli military targets, “Make no mistake,” Joe Biden said, “The United States is fully, fully, fully supportive of Israel.” October 1 2024, Michael Birnbaum Washington Post.
Blinken has been lying about peace (see Veterans for Peace lawsuit below). Joe is delusional. Together along with most all of our federal representatives, including our Congressman Mike Thompson, we have been lied to about any and all consternation concerning Israel. No serious thoughts of how to secure the return of the hostages, no thoughts on how to give honor to those killed on October 7th, just a year of killing (42,000 Gazan's dead, mostly women and children).
As we debate Measure Q and the rest of the November ballot here in Davis, you are about to see your future hopes, dreams, and dollars be flushed down the war toilet - again. Why not pay the extra 1% sales tax for Measure Q, and get our $11 million local dollars. We might as well, we are about to experience the same Iraq/Afghan Washington Beltway war f-- up with Iran ($21 Trillion US dollars, 2,000 US and 200,000 Iraq killed). In the end, we will have a more radicalized and impoverished Arab world when it is all over. Let's all go buy Raytheon stock!
What does this amount to as we enter high holidays, Rash Hashanah, and the days of awe? Why would we not question the authority of any religion and their profiteering DC lobbyists that attempt to give moral certitude to vanquish an entire people, blow off their hands and eyes with remote devices, bomb the civilian populations in Gaza and Lebanon to get at a few persons who are enemy?
There are no ears to hear the Arab and Muslim country leader’s plea to anyone who will listen that they guarantee Israel’s security if Jerusalem agrees to allow the establishment of a Palestinian state (the same policy that the US lies about being in support). 27, 2024. ( JACOB MAGID , The Times of Israel, 30 September 2024).
What does this come down to?
Unless we stop the flow of US weapons to Israel, the worst will keep coming and Netenyahu's dream of an all-out regional war with Trump as President is more certain.
Maybe Harris will win the election despite it all. Maybe we will stop killing Arab people out of our misguided notions as to who is a threat to our future. Maybe we stop being the world's war machine.
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September 30, 2024
United States Department of Justice
Matthew Graves, Esq.
U.S. District Attorney
United States Attorney's Office
RE: Request for immediate empanelment of grand jury to investigate criminal violations of federal laws governing provision of military weapons and munitions aid to Israel
Dear Ms. Olds, Ms. Urschel and Mr. Graves:
On behalf of the members of Veterans For Peace (VFP), an international organization of former military, we urgently request that you, as DOJ attorneys entrusted with enforcement of human rights laws, immediately empanel a grand jury to investigate whether U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and U.S. Ambassador to Israel Jack Lew have:
- lied to the U.S. Congress in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1001;
- violated the Export Control Act, 22 U.S.C. § 2778(a)(2) by misrepresenting and/or disregarding the contents of official U.S. government reports documenting acts by the government and military of Israel to block delivery of humanitarian assistance to the population of the Gaza Strip;
- violated the Genocide Prevention Act, 18 U.S.C. § 1091, by failing to treat acts by the government and military of Israel of blocking delivery of humanitarian assistance to the Gaza Strip as furtherance of genocide of that population, and so attempting and/or conspiring to cause genocide of Palestinians;
- violated the War Crimes Act, 18 U.S.C. § 2441 by failing to treat acts by the government and military of Israel to block delivery of humanitarian assistance to the Gaza Strip as genocidal and/or war crimes, and doing so in order to continue U.S. military aid to Israel to perpetrate offensive war crimes against the population of Gaza
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