Can't we just get used to ethnic cleansing if we try hard enough? There is Trump to divert our attention with his endless greed and corruption. There are these billion dollar wars spreading around the globe. And yet, just when we think we can forget about genocide, there is the news of 2,200 Israeli settlement attacks on Palestinian villages in July.
These violent and racist settlers, backed by the Israeli Defense Force, do more than burn buildings and destroy olive trees. They shoot reporters, doctors and children, the same as Israel did in Gaza. According to Nicholas Kristof of The New York Times, "The IDF also rapes and tortures its prisoners, one of Israel’s standard operating procedures and a major element in the ill treatment of Palestinians.” (NYT May 11, 2026) Then there are these 4,300 recent civilian deaths in Israel's bloody attack on Lebanon. Can't we just change the channel?
Part of the problem is that we are paying for all this carnage. We pour our tax dollars into Israel for each hideous war crime it commits. In turn, the Israel Lobby contaminates our elections by saturating each race with millions in donations. Pro-Israel groups spent at least 100 million recently on federal primary and general election races. We have let Israel turn our electoral system into a pay to play sham.
Get our bombs and missiles out of Palestine. Stop sending billions to a genocidal state. And get Israel out of our elections.
Fred Nagel
Getting Used to Ethnic Cleansing
More than Josh Riley
Although it’s way past time for Pat Ryan to vote against continuing to enable Israel’s continued killing of Palestinian civilians, he at least is doing more than Josh Riley.
The number one contributor to Josh Riley’s 2025-2026 campaign committee, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), is certainly getting its money’s worth with Josh Riley, member of Congress. More than $218,000 worth. In fact. Riley is so beholden to the Israel Lobby that since his advent to Congress, he hasn’t raised the slightest objection to Israel’s actions in Gaza and the West Bank. He doesn’t even care if American citizens of Palestinian descent are murdered while visiting family in the West Bank, or if his fellow congressional members are held at gunpoint by Israeli settlers in the West Bank.
I think Riley’s constituents deserve to know how much more money Riley expects to get for his continued silence and complicity.
— Marcy