14h ago

Why Is US Congress Silent on the Manmade Nightmare It Is Enabling in Gaza? | Common Dreams

www.commondreams.org

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/29824159

Bernie Sanders May 08, 2025
[based on speech given to US Senate]
"Thursday marks 68 days and counting since ANY humanitarian aid was allowed into Gaza. For more than nine weeks, Israel has blocked all supplies: no food, no water, no medicine, and no fuel.
Hundreds of truckloads of lifesaving supplies are waiting to enter Gaza, sitting just across the border, but are denied entry by Israeli authorities.
... Defense Minister Israel Katz said, “Israel’s policy is clear: No humanitarian aid will enter Gaza, and blocking this aid is one of the main pressure levers.” "

55 comments

Because they're complicit

AIPAC
Or, put another way: money

If it's the winning issue so many centrists act like it is, they should be way louder about it.
Why aren't they proud of their accomplishment?

You think they’re gonna admit complicity in genocide?
- History is going to absolutely shit on them. History is written by the victors, but younger generations get to have the last word. And there is a huge generational divide on this issue.

Because they’re the men who made it?

The ADL that's why. Fuck those guys.
- And AIPAC, and other de facto foreign government pressure groups that wouldn't be allowed to have a tenth as much influence on American politics if they were representing any other country.

Literally every country on earth is doing nothing. Where is your precious China, ML? Why don’t you harp about that? Oh right, it’s because you don’t actually care about Gaza or genocide.
- Because the U.S. will attack anyone who tries to intervene.
  
  I don’t think they would. They might sell more guns to Israel though.
- Oh look, more whataboutism for netanyahu.
  
  lol fuck that guy
- I didn't realise China was providing arms to Israel. Because if they were, like they are providing arms to Russia, then they would be being at harped on, as they are. But there is one cuntry in particular that is enabling genocidal Israeli monsters. The US of fuckwitt A. Fuck Trump, Genocide Joe and every American who has allowed and continues to allow this heinous crime against humanity. You are the worst version of yourselves yet.
  
  I don’t see Australia providing aid. Or even offering. Everyone wants to point a finger but the entire human race seems to not give a shit. Yeah, the largest arms manufacturer in the world provides arms to a lot of places, and that should stop being an export. The whole world should stop making guns.
  And yeah we are a shitty version, and we are going to learn the hard way real soon.

55 comments

AIPAC