The United Staes has reached a new low in its foreign policy. We are starving tens of thousands of children to death in Gaza. First we destroyed their schools and colleges. Then we blasted their houses into dust. We demolished all their hospitals and medical facilities, and destroyed their access to potable water. At this point, we have turned the Gaza Strip into a killing field, with millions of Palestinians digging through the rubble just to find their children.
Of course, there have been other holocausts in history. But even the Nazis tried to cover up their mass extermination of Jews and Romany. Towards the end of World War II, they buried millions in secret graves. Even the Nazis knew that their slaughter was beyond any boundaries of human kind. Even the Nazis knew enough to feel shame.
We, as citizens of the most powerful military empire the world has ever seen, have complete access to pictures and stories of this Palestinian holocaust. Our mainstream media doesn't dwell on it much, but the charnel house of Gaza isn't kept a secret. An internet search of "children" and "Gaza" will fill your mind with the unbearable images of our country's war crimes. Yet few in our government seem to care very much. They sit around and spout Israeli talking points while collecting their hundreds of thousands in bribes from Zionist billionaires.
And we are oblivious to what our government is doing, as we turn a blind eye to this wholesale slaughter of the Palestinian people.
Fred Nagel
Starving the Children
Dear Mr. Levine:
As a Jewish New Yorker who opposes Israel's genocidal actions in Gaza and the ethnic cleansing of the West Bank, I am appalled to learn you plan to disregard Brad Lander's principled decision to cease investing NYC pension funds in Israel Bonds, when you assume the role of Comptroller of the city of New York.
Taxpayers have already funded actions against our moral principles: the mass killing of civilians--83% of those killed in Gaza were civilians according to the IDF's internal data, as reported in +972 the Israeli newsmagazine--starvation of a population, and the pogroms and killing in the West Bank, amply covered by The New York Times. We've also funded the continued destruction of East Jerusalem homes, Bedouin villages, and the apartheid system of education that prevails within Israel's "green line".
Further, Israel Bonds do not represent a good investment for the city of New York. Using city pension dollars to offer generous loans to the Israeli government, despite major credit rating agencies like Moody's warning that Israel Bonds are an “increasingly risky investment.”
I protest this decision strongly.
Sincerely,
Marcy
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