CARTOON: Being Oh-So Precise ... On Genocide!
Special Action Alert at bottom of post!
Cartoon by Mark Taylor / DeMOCKracy.ink
“There will be people who will try and rewrite history to make it seem like the genocide unfolding right now was too complicated to parse. The point is to remind everyone too cowardly to speak up that your silence is complicity.”
— Arwa Mahdawi, “Where Is Joe Biden’s Fury About Decapitated Palestinian Babies?”
'Just Disgusting': Nikki Haley Writes 'Finish Them' On Israeli Artillery Shell Bound For Gaza
"Biden provided the shells, Republicans autograph them. "The U.S. political class is united in its complicity with this genocide."
— Yanis Varoufakis, former Greek minister of finance and pro-Palestine public intellectual.
By Edward Carver
Common Dreams (5/28/24)
Humanitarians reacted with outrage on Tuesday after former presidential U.S. candidate Nikki Haley wrote and signed an arguably genocidal message on an Israeli artillery shell while visiting an Israel Defense Forces post.
"Finish them! America [loves] Israel always," Haley wrote on the shell Tuesday, signing her name. She was accompanied by Danny Danon, a member of the Knesset, Israel's parliament, who posted photos from their tour on social media. Haley, who was the ambassador to the United Nations under then-President Donald Trump, has been an ardent supporter of Israel's war in Gaza and has ties to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), a pro-Israel lobby group.
Former U.S. presidential candidate Nikki Haley wrote and signed an arguably genocidal message on an Israeli artillery shell while visiting an Israel Defense Forces post on May 28, 2024. (Photo: Danny Danon/X)
"Nothing to see here, just AIPAC's favorite politician, Nikki Haley, celebrating death and destruction in Gaza with an autographed missile," IfNotNow, a U.S. Jewish group that supports Palestinian rights, wrote on social media.
"Just disgusting," wrote Alon-Lee Green, director of the Jewish-Arab Movement for Peace, Equality & Social Justice in Israel. In the post, Green pleaded with Americans to take back their "filthy death-promoting politicians."
Depraved
Alec Karakatsanis, an American civil rights lawyer, wrote that the Haley's message was "one of the most depraved things I have ever seen."
The timing of Haley's autograph of the weapon of war heightened the outrage. On Sunday night, Israel bombed the tents of displaced Palestinians in a "safe zone" of Rafah, killing at least 45 civilians, mostly women and children. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called the strike a "tragic mistake," but the Israeli military then killed at least another 21 Palestinian civilians in a similar attack on a refugee camp in the southern Gaza Strip on Tuesday.
Haley "spent Memorial Day not commemorating fallen American service members, but visiting Israel as it conducts a brutal massacre in Gaza," The New Republic's Hafiz Rashid reported, calling her autographed message "sick."
One commentator suggested that Haley's act encapsulated the attitude of America's leaders. The most powerful members of both major parties, including President Joe Biden, a Democrat, have supported Israel's war in spite of condemnation by the United Nations General Assembly, the International Criminal Court, and the International Court of Justice, which ordered Israel to "immediately halt its military offensive" in Rafah.
"Biden provided the shells, Republicans autograph them," Yanis Varoufakis, former Greek minister of finance and pro-Palestine public intellectual, wrote on social media. "The U.S. political class is united in its complicity with this genocide."
Nikki Hailey in Israel scribbling "FINISH THEM"on the shells that the IDF is about to fire into Rafah in defiance of the International Court of Justice. Biden provided the shells, Republicans autograph them. The US political class is united in its complicity with this genocide. pic.twitter.com/hejqVAjq8M
— Yanis Varoufakis (@yanisvaroufakis) May 28, 2024
Haley has spent recent days in Israel making unfounded claims about Russian, Chinese, and Iranian connections to the October 7 attack led by Hamas—and voicing her full support for the war effort, using rhetoric that wrongly indicates that she speaks for all Americans.
"America stands by Israel," Haley said during her tour with Danon, according toi24 News. "Israel is fighting the enemies of the U.S. today. Don't stop until you win."
People Burned Alive, Child Decapitated: Report From Rafah On Israeli Strike That Killed 45 In Camp
WARNING: Very graphic video. Since we are paying for it, every American should witness the result of our funding. But it is your choice.
Democracy Now! (5/28/24)
We go to Rafah for an update after an Israeli attack [Sunday] on refugee tent camps in what had previously been declared a “safe zone” killed at least 45 people, including women and children.
“Basically, the situation is totally catastrophic,” reports Palestinian journalist Shrouq Aila, from Rafah. She explains the bombs set tents made largely of nylon on fire, igniting a deadly blaze, and that Israel’s relentless assault has made three hospitals in the city inoperable. “People are in a total mess and desperate because of this,” she says.
Aila has been displaced since the start of the war from Jabaliya, where she had been studying English at the now-destroyed Islamic University of Gaza.
12-minute video
MADE IN AMERICA: US Weapons Used In Rafah Tent MASSACRE
Made by corporate murderer Boeing
Breaking Points (5/29/24)
24-minute video
BOEING ACTION ALERT! Call A Corporate Mass Murderer!
The bomb used in the war crime bombing of Gaza refugees is a BOEING GBU-39 (Cost reports range from $30,000-$40,000 per bomb). When not killing and endangering airline passengers with shoddy airplanes and missing door bolts, Boeing specializes in all kinds of bombs and missiles designed for ripping the heads and limbs off toddlers hounded by US and Israeli Zionist fascists to starving refugee camps.
Believe it or not, Boeing actually has a ‘Ethics & Compliance Department’ and you can call them at: 1-888-970-7171 (8:00 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. Central time, Monday through Friday). Be firm, but polite … make your point.
I had to wait about 20 minutes but was eventually able to express my concern and objection to a “representative” about the crooked Boeing corporation selling their products to murder and maim innocent children.
Go ahead, give the bastards a well-deserved call!
Mark, I couldn’t POSSIBLY remain polite if I were to call Boeing. (How many times could I use the term “motherfucker” in one sentence?) So I will gracefully refrain.
As for Icky Haley: she once said “I wear high heels and I use them to stomp out unions”.
I’m a UAW wife. I don’t wear high heels. I wear cowgirl boots and I live for the day when I can plant that pointy toe directly into Haley’s scrawny ass. The jail time will be worth it.
I was thinking along the same lines about the Boeing bomb--are we sure they just didn't package up a bunch of their airplanes and pack it into a case so it would detonate into shrapnel pieces upon impact? SIGH.
And now we have two presidents guilty of crimes--although Biden's are far worse, being that they're for covering up for a genocide. DOUBLE SIGH.