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Israeli newspaper Haaretz recently reported that the IDF had repeatedly fired on starving Palestinians in Gaza pursuing food. The United Nations stated that as of July 21, 1,054 of those food seeking Palestinians were killed. If it’s not that, the IDF has bombed hospitals, refugee camps, schools, and on July 17, Gaza's only Catholic church. The people of Gaza are being starved and bombed to death at U.S. taxpayer expense. How does this make us a pro-life nation funding that?

The government of Israel and many of its Zionist American supporters see everything and everyone in Gaza as Hamas, including children. And to them, everyone in Gaza deserves to die. The World Health Organization stated that 94% of hospitals in Gaza have been damaged or destroyed. Many scholars, world leaders and Holocaust survivors are calling Israel’s actions in Gaza a genocide, but not many in the United States are using the term.

On June 13, Israel bombed Iran’s nuclear facilities over its decades-long paranoia. Iran retaliated. Israel killed 935 Iranians. Iran killed 28 Israelis. On June 21, the U.S. needlessly bombed Iranian nuclear facilities.

How many people have to die before the United States government calls for an arms embargo on Israel, and Congress and the president stop taking American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) money? AIPAC and other Zionist political organizations are trying to get the United States into a needless war with Iran, which ultimately will lead to World War III.

Everyone needs to go back and rewatch that 1983 TV movie “The Day After� because it could be our reality soon. People complained about toilet paper and Lysol quickly disappearing from the shelves during the height of COVID-19. Just wait until it's food and water.

For people living under a rock, AIPAC lobbies Congress and state legislatures to criminalize people’s right to participate in protests and boycotts of Israel over its human rights abuses and to define criticism of Israel and Zionism as being antisemitic. They also lobby Congress for billions of dollars in weapons sales to Israel. AIPAC supported the U.S. entering the second Iraq War. This is not a human rights organization. 

I’m not slamming all Israelis. They’re not all warmongers. There’s a growing anti-occupation movement in Israel. Over 100,000 Israelis hit the streets on March 22 over Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu restarting Israel’s war in Gaza. I’m more concerned with the fact that 152 million Americans voted for two warmongering presidential candidates supporting genocide during the 2024 general election. What does that say about our country’s moral compass and priorities? It’s something that under Biden and Trump, we have money to support funding other countries’ endless wars, but don’t have enough money to fund universal health care,and feed and house 770,000 homeless Americans.

I call upon my fellow West Virginians to contact their congressional delegation and demand an arms embargo on Israel now to prevent more needless deaths, help free the remaining Israeli hostages, and stop the likelihood of WWIII. Thoughts, prayers, and Carebear stares ain’t cutting it. The annual $3.8 billion in foreign aid Israel receives should be redirected to Medicaid and HUD to insure and house more Americans. Benjamin Netanyahu’s extremist government is a global threat to humanity and to Jews everywhere. No one is safe as long as Netanyahu remains the Prime Minister of Israel.