American Medical Professionals' Letter on Gaza
99 American physicians and nurses have addressed this letter to President Biden and Vice President Harris. All Americans should read it in its entirety.
https://www.gazahealthcareletters.org/usa-letter-oct-2-2024
OPEN LETTER FROM AMERICAN MEDICAL PROFESSIONALS WHO SERVED IN GAZA
... Children are universally considered innocents in armed conflict. However, every single signatory to this letter saw children in Gaza who suffered violence that must have been deliberately directed at them. Specifically, every one of us who worked in an emergency, intensive care, or surgical setting treated pre-teen children who were shot in the head or chest on a regular or even a daily basis. It is impossible that such widespread shooting of young children throughout Gaza, sustained over the course of an entire year is accidental or unknown to the highest Israeli civilian and military authorities.
President Biden and Vice President Harris, we wish you could see the nightmares that plague so many of us since we have returned: dreams of children maimed and mutilated by our weapons, and their inconsolable mothers begging us to save them. We wish you could hear the cries and screams our consciences will not let us forget. We cannot fathom why you continue arming the country that is deliberately killing these children en masse.
... These observations and the publicly available material detailed in the appendix lead us to believe that the death toll from this conflict is many times higher than what is reported by the Gaza Ministry of Health. We also believe this is probative evidence of widespread violations of American laws governing the use of American weapons abroad, and of International Humanitarian Law. We cannot forget scenes of unbearable cruelty directed at women and children that our government is a direct participant in.
... the United States can impose a ceasefire on the warring parties by simply stopping arms shipments to Israel, and announcing that we will participate in an international arms embargo on both Israel and all Palestinian armed groups. We stress what many others have repeatedly told you over the past year: American law is perfectly clear on this matter, continuing to arm Israel is illegal.
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Comments
If only Rachel Maddow
would scream at the top of her lunges about the horrors of this wanton slaughter all night every night on MSNBC like she did about Russia Gate, then something positive might happen. But who am I fooling. She sold her soul a long time ago and there's no money to be made in advocating for peace and an end to war.
I'm great at multi-tasking. I can waste time, be unproductive, and procrastinate all at the same time.
Sadly Biden will ignore the report
.
just like he ignored the one from 200 American doctors who detailed the atrocities they saw.
I didn’t read either report. I just can’t understand how anyone can treat children like they don’t matter.
“When out of fear you twist the lesser evil into the lie that it is something good, you eventually rob people of the capacity to distinguish between good and evil.”
~ Hannah Arendt
The takeaway is
that none of us matter.
To the elite, we are just the useless eaters that make traffic jams and eat all the arugula. We are in the way, just as the children here and the whales there and the trees somewhere else.
The sooner we all just die off and give them all the Liebensraum they clearly desire, the happier they will be. Our blood, and our tears, are as nothing.
Humanity doesn’t enter into it. There are pockets to be lined.
Twice bitten, permanently shy.
I can’t understand that either
I guess that’s a good thing because it means I’m not evil. Good gravy they have money and power and still they aren’t happy until we’re all dead.
“When out of fear you twist the lesser evil into the lie that it is something good, you eventually rob people of the capacity to distinguish between good and evil.”
~ Hannah Arendt
And
not even then. When we are all gone, the survivors will turn upon one another, until only one is left- and they will then commit suicide, having no remaining audience to whom to proclaim their greatness, and from whom to demand obeisance.
I just want to wake up not dead tomorrow. The things that motivate our psychopathic Betters are completely opaque to me. The older I get, the less I understand.
Twice bitten, permanently shy.
Here's what -I- don't understand...
...The whole (non-brainwashed/insulated/cowardly) world knows this about them.
Where are the vigilantes?!?
There has been one of which I am aware, and where he popped up would surely be regarded by many as surprising:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetsuya_Yamagami
I know at least one person there who openly deems him a hero, too.
In the Land of the Blind, the One-Eyed Man is declared mentally ill for describing colors.
Yes Virginia, there is a Global Banking Conspiracy!
Caitlin on this
.
We're The Fucking Terrorists
“When out of fear you twist the lesser evil into the lie that it is something good, you eventually rob people of the capacity to distinguish between good and evil.”
~ Hannah Arendt