📢 Send a letter to President Biden condemning the NO Vote at the UN
“If I were to remain silent, I'd be guilty of complicity.” ― Albert Einstein
Good Morning! Based on recent reporting of what is happening at Rafah, I am re-upping this call-to-action:
Send a letter to President Biden condemning the NO Vote at the UN
In December 2023, the United States VOTED AGAINST a cease-fire in GAZA at the United Nations. It is being reported that the United States is once again planning to VOTE AGAINST a cease-fire in GAZA at the United Nations.
One hundred fifty-three nations, including many of our allies, voted for a cease-fire. Reports indicate that 70% of the fatalities in GAZA have been women and children, with more than 29,000 dead.
We support these seven moral principles on the Hamas-Israeli War (h/t Robert Reich):
1. What Hamas did on October 7 was morally despicable.
2. Hamas’s avowed aim to murder all Jews is morally despicable.
3. What the Israeli government has done since then in Gaza is also morally despicable.
4. The murder or kidnapping of innocent civilians is morally wrong.
5. Israel’s policies toward Palestinians have been segregation and discrimination, based on ethnicity and religion, which are morally wrong.
6. It is morally wrong to urge genocide against any group — whether they constitute a religion, ethnicity, race, or nation.
7. All of us have a moral obligation to do everything within our power to prevent and stop all forms of genocide, all killing of innocent civilians, and the promotion of hate.
A vote against a cease-fire in GAZA is unconscionable.
With regards to a cease-fire, anyone resisting a cease-fire in GAZA is, at this point, standing in the way of peace in the Middle East. The argument that a cease-fire will only benefit Hamas by allowing it to regroup and carry out fresh incursions is very weak, and here is why:
The United States and Israel have world-class military forces and intelligence-gathering capabilities. Suggesting that the Israeli border cannot be secured by the combined might of these two nations would acknowledge that millions of dollars have been squandered over the past 51 years, and giving Israel more money at this point in history would be a wasted effort.
A senior UN aid official has warned that half of Gaza's population is starving as fighting there continues. Additionally, no current or long-term plan is in place to return the displaced women and children to their homes. Nor is there a plan to restore hospital services in a war-torn country. Again, this is unacceptable.
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https://www.cnbc.com/2023/12/11/israel-hamas-us-has-failed-the-palestinian-people-officials-say.html
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/dec/12/united-nations-general-assembly-vote-ceasefire-israel-gaza-war
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-67670679
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/02/19/israel-hamas-war-news-gaza-palestine
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