More than 10,000 Palestinians in Gaza have been killed and nearly half of those are children. UNICEF warns that Israel’s attack on Gaza is killing or wounding 420 children a day. Israel has wiped out entire families in Gaza. No one is denying that the attack by Hamas was terrible, but what is the justifiable response? Israel’s response is not proportional!
Furthermore, the United States is funding the brutality and rushing billions of dollars more to Israel for the destruction of the Palestinian people. We have blood on our hands, and future generations will recognize this dark moment when the U.S. has been complicit in war crimes and genocide and the decades in which United States has subsidized apartheid in Israel.
With the support of the U.S., Israel brutalizes, murders and imprisons Palestinians and has done so for over 75 years. This is not morally excusable in any context. Israel is bombing schools, hospitals, the refugee camps where they have imprisoned Palestinian for decades. How can we allow our tax dollars to support this?
Regardless of political persuasion, no one should support our tax dollars contributing to the brutality and suffering of the Palestinian people, or of any people.
Rose-Marie Muzika
Bloomfield