CALLING ALL SUBSTACKERS! Use The Right Language: AMERICAN War Crimes & AMERICAN Genocide In Gaza

Joe Biden could stop the Gaza massacre with a phone call. As long as we do nothing and provide the weapons, WE are the war criminals -- the terrorists -- in Gaza.

We provide the money, the diplomatic cover and strong-arming and the 2,000-lb bombs dropped on schools, hospitals and refugee centers.
WE are the killers.
WE are the terrorists.
WE are guilty.

By Mark Taylor
DeMOCKracy.ink (12/21/23)

There is a subtle, dangerous denial going on in even the best coverage of the worst of what is happening daily in Gaza. Headlines talk of the “Israel-Hamas War live updates”, or “Israel continues to target Gaza hospitals and civilians”, or “As Israel’s bombing hits declared ‘safe zones’”.

But those headlines do not give the full truth. The truth is that all of those events — every hospital bombing, every UN refugee center attack, every designated safe escape route bombing, every child ripped apart and every infant found dead and rotting in a hospital neonatal unit — has been facilitated, supplied and diplomatically shielded by the United States.

We — the United States — have made ALL of those war crimes possible. We are the terrorists.

The children that will be killed today, the families vaporized at the moment of impact of another 2,000-lb. bomb, the mothers killed by Israeli snipers will have been killed… By OUR government.
By OUR “selected” members of congress.
By OUR State Department.
By OUR War Department.
By OUR big-money weapons industry.
By OUR White House.
By OUR corporate media.

These crimes against humanity are OUR crimes and that reality needs to be part of every headline, photo caption and story. It is OUR terror campaign.

To be factually correct, one of the headlines above should be written:
”U.S. & Israel continue to target Gaza hospitals and civilians”

From the beginning of the ethnic cleansing campaign, I have consistently referred to it as the U.S./Israeli Gaza genocide. I put the U.S. first because without our dollars, weapons, War Department training and intelligence support, diplomatic cover and strong-arming, the Israelis could not carry on their murderous genocidal war crime against innocent Gazans, where 70% of the known fatalities have been women, infants and children.

The systematic destruction of hospitals, schools and universities, sewage and water facilities, road and food networks, even agricultural fields and all the other infrastructure and services a community depends upon, has been done by both the U.S. and Israel working closely together in complete disregard for the rules of war, decency, humanity and world opinion.

It’s up to us to get the truth out

We — the United States of America — are the ultimate perpetrators of these horrendous war crimes and we in the alternative media need to call it out; throw a spotlight on that brutal reality with every story. We need to do it because the complicit corporate media never will and until our active role is made known, the innocents of Gaza have no hope.

For 18 years of my life I was a newspaper political cartoonist (feel free, BTW, to use the cartoon at the top of this story), outdoor writer and investigative reporter. I occasionally had important stories and editorial page cartoons banned by my editors and was eventually bumped from the editorial page for my commentary on our genocidal wars in Central America.

I know how these newsrooms work. I know how timid and cowed they are by financial interests and corporate boards and mired in editorial groupthink. It’s why we are being betrayed by much of our corporate and public broadcasting media. If the truth is to get out, it will only be through alternative media. It will be up to us.

Whenever possible, please, give the full truth in your commentary and reporting. Journalists are being assassinated by U.S. and Israeli forces. We need to carry their courageous work accurately forward. Every civilian killed. Every refugee area bombed. Every child and infant traumatized, maimed, shredded and killed is done by American and Israeli forces.

We orchestrate the killing

It’s our dollars. Our bombs. Our lies and diplomatic strong-arming that makes the genocide possible. We are as guilty as the Zionist fascists of Israel in the daily crimes shattering so many lives in Gaza, while putting the entire region on the abyss of a wider regional war.

If you would like to discuss this, or get some advice on how to accurately frame your posts, feel free to contact me.

As an example, you can see some examples of how I made the headlines below more reflective of the reality besieging the Gazans.

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Allegations Of Worsening American War Crimes Grow As US Again Cripples Security Council Vote

UNICEF has declared Gaza to be the “world’s most dangerous place to be a child.”

By Mike Ludwig
Truthout (12/20/23)

United States diplomats once again held up a vote on a watered-down United Nations Security Council resolution on Wednesday aimed at bringing more aid and relief to civilians in the besieged Gaza Strip as reports of starvation, mass killings, and other war crimes allegedly committed by the Israeli military continue to pile up.

After a vote on the humanitarian resolution was postponed on Monday, the 5 pm deadline for a Security Council vote came and went on Tuesday. U.S. officials reportedly asked for more time to negotiate and postponed the vote for a third time on Wednesday.

Two hospitals in northern Gaza, which suffered for days under a siege enforced by deadly Israeli snipers, were then shut down by [American-backed] IDF raids and the mass arrest and detention of medical workers.

Despite massive international support for a ceasefire at the UN, on December 8, the U.S. blocked a previous attempt by the Security Council to leverage international law and secure a humanitarian ceasefire so more aid can enter Gaza. Diplomats struggled on Tuesday to come up with language for the latest resolution that the U.S. would support — or at least abstain from blocking with its powerful veto on the council.

Unprecedented levels of suffering imposed by US

Mohamed Abushahab, the UN ambassador from the United Arab Emirates, told the council on Tuesday that the draft resolution later delayed by the U.S. is designed to quell the humanitarian crisis in Gaza and support aid and medical workers desperately trying to save lives.

“Gazans are experiencing unprecedented levels of starvation and thirst, while doctors lack even the most basic of medical supplies to treat the wounded and the growing threat of infection,” he told the council. …

Read the rest

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Witnesses Say American-Supported Israeli Troops 'Executed' Women & Children In Gaza School

By Brett Wilkins
Common Dreams (12/13/23)

Eyewitness testimony reported Wednesday by Al Jazeera accused Israeli troops of massacring forcibly displaced women and children sheltering at a school in northern Gaza, an allegation that prompted a leading U.S. Muslim advocacy group to demand a response from President Joe Biden.

The reported massacre took place at the Shadia Abu Ghazala School in the al-Faluja area west of the Jabalia refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip. Video footage aired by the Qatar-based news network showed numerous covered bodies piled in one of the school's classrooms.

"The Israeli soldiers came in and opened fire on them," one unidentified witness said. "They took all men, then entered classrooms and opened fire on a woman and all the children with her," including "newborn children."

"The Israeli soldiers executed those innocent families point-blank," she added.

A man who arrived at the scene after the alleged mass murder told Al Jazeera that "we found dozens of dead bodies in the classrooms."

"There is no sign of any missiles or shells," he added. "All those who were in the buildings were executed from point-blank. The Israeli soldiers opened fire on them. Many families came searching for their children. They found them all killed. They were all killed, executed at gunpoint."

As of press time, the alleged massacre had not been independently verified.

Ibrahim Hooper, national communications director at the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), said in a statement that "because the Biden administration stands almost alone on the world stage in defending and enabling the far-right Israeli government's campaign of ethnic cleansing and genocide in Gaza, administration officials must respond to the reported execution-style massacre of women, children, and babies seeking refuge in a school in Gaza."

“Our nation must stop enabling what even President Biden privately admits is the 'indiscriminate' targeting of innocent Palestinians," he added.

"Bodies are scattered on the ground."

Also on Wednesday, Palestinians sheltering in the Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza said Israeli troops stormed the facility after days of shelling and siege.

"Conditions in the hospital are dire with no water or electricity," one survivor told Al Jazeera. "Bodies are scattered on the ground."

An elderly man told the network that "the Israeli army used loudspeakers to demand the evacuation of the displaced individuals from the hospital," but IDF troops subsequently shot people trying to flee the facility.

Gaza health officials said Wednesday that at least 18,608 Palestinians—most of them women and children—have been killed by Israeli bombs and bullets since October 7, with over 50,000 more Palestinians wounded.

Additionally, more than 1.9 million Gazans—or upward of 85% of the strip's population—have been forcibly displaced since October 7, according to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.

Link to story

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"This is a Colonial War": Historian Rashid Khalidi On US/Israel War Crimes, Gaza & Future Of Palestine

Democracy Now! (12/20/23)

Historian Rashid Khalidi discusses the pending United Nations Security Council vote on suspending fighting in Gaza to allow the entry of humanitarian aid, and the future of Palestine. The Biden administration reportedly delayed the U.N. vote and pushed other countries to water down the language. This comes as Israel and Hamas leaders have signaled they are open to another truce and hostage exchange. Israel's relentless assault on Gaza has now killed nearly 20,000 Palestinians and displaced over 90% of the Gaza Strip's 2.3 million people.

"The situation in Gaza is unspeakable," says Khalidi, the Edward Said professor of modern Arab studies at Columbia University. "We are talking about traumatic events that are going to scar generations to come." He also discusses how the Gaza war risks sparking a regional conflict, ways to pressure Israel, and how U.S. leaders are prompting anger from "whole generations" in the Arab world and beyond.