The Moral Issue Of Our Time
America's genocide in Gaza will someday come back to haunt us all. Generations to come will describe the empire that talked about human rights and freedom, while it slaughtered tens of thousands of civilians, and starved their children.
For proof of American's war crimes and crimes against humanity, historians need only look at last week's shameful events. As a parting gift to Israel, Genocide Joe is sending another 8 billion in bombs and missiles to get the job done faster. This while the House of Representatives is writing up a plan to sanction the International Criminal Court for its attempts to end the butchery.
To be honest, our Congress is awash in Zionist bribes. A quick look at opensecrets.org reveals the tens of thousands going to almost every member of this unscrupulous and venal institution. For 2024 the Israel Lobby spent twice as much on bribes than even the weapons makers.
As many of us know, our government represents the interests of the billionaire elites rather than the workers of this country. They don't care about our own children, much less about the wandering hoards of Palestinian youths, crying about their murdered parents and looking for a piece of bread.
Our news media suffers from the same affliction. It is owned by the billionaires, just like Congress and our president. That leaves only us to resist the American genocide of the Palestinian people. It is the moral issue of our time, the true measure of our humanity.
Fred Nagel
Our murderous parent
My country is like a bad parent who never really changes his abusive habits. He sent me off to war in 1967, only to have all the lies come back to haunt him. He killed two million Vietnamese along with 58,000 US troops, and never even said he was sorry.
In the 1980s, he was training death squads in Central America, and arming them to commit atrocities in Nicaragua, Honduras, and El Salvador. And after all that bloodletting, he never whispered a word of remorse.
The invasion of Iraq was another inexcusable moment for my American family. The invasion was all based on his lies about weapons of mass destruction, and again we murdered millions of innocent people. But our media hid most of the slaughter from us, and neither political party thought to condemn his obvious war crimes.
Now our parent is paying for and perpetuating the worst genocide of the 21st century. True to form, he never bothers to look at the torture, the starvation, the endless bombing of hospitals and schools in Gaza. The charnel house of his wars reminds us once again of how criminal our parent really is. And how dangerous. His wars abroad are based on carnage, and that is what our shameless parent is very good at. He sees some strategic goal in the eradication of the Palestinian people and there is nothing that can stop him. Not even the slaughter of 20,000 children.
Our murderous parent will one day destroy our American family.
Fred Nagel
Over $17 Billion of your tax dollars
Imagine the agony of freezing to death or the horror of starving to death slowly while being crushed beneath tons of rubble from bombed out buildings. Imagine seeing your child incinerated before your very eyes. Imagine relentless drones, jets, and quad-copters circling above your head 24 hours a day. Imagine fighter jets, tanks, missiles and bulldozers bombing, burying, and blasting you, and your family and your neighbors ceaselessly. Imagine no hospitals, no food, no water, no heat, no electricity. Imagine no place to hide. No need to imagine. This describes Gaza as Israel exterminates and cleanses Palestinians from their homeland. (see electronicintifada.net for documentation)
I have a hard time wishing you a “Happy New Year” while genocide is being perpetrated by the Zionist entity called Israel with the full support and encouragement of our government. Over $17 Billion of your tax dollars have gone to Israel in the last year alone (apnews.com). Sadly, our elected officials are bought off or intimidated by the powerful Israeli lobby (AIPAC) to place Israel’s interests above the interests of the American people. If any of this bothers you maybe it’s time to call the White House: 202-456-1111 or Pat Ryan:202-225-5614 and say, “No U.S. weapons or money to fund Israeli genocide.”
Although my heart is broken, I still pray that 2025 will bring an end to the genocide in Gaza, and that this year will bring peace and justice to Palestine, as well as, to all oppressed beings around the world. With love in my heart, and tears in my eyes, I wish you “Happy New Year.”
Eli Kassirer
Resisting the Right!
A world of difference
Gaza’s civilians and militants are in such close proximity because Zionist Israel has forced them to be – just as Nazi Germany concentrated Jewish civilians and militants in the Warsaw Ghetto as a step toward eliminating them. Consequently, there’s virtually no place from which Gaza’s militants – like their Warsaw Ghetto counterparts – are/were able to resist other than from the proximity of their civilians.
There’s a world of difference between this and human shielding, which involves intentionally positioning civilians between the resistance and the enemy. These realities also make a mockery of Israel’s ceaseless efforts to portray Gaza’s civilian casualties as “proportional” to its military objectives. Israel has no legitimate military objectives in Gaza. Its aim to ethnically cleanse most of Palestine is the prime source of the horrendous death and destruction, and its framing of Palestinian resistance to its criminal agenda as “human shielding” is the height of Orwellian doublespeak. Hamas is not practicing it any more than the Warsaw Ghetto Jews were.
Best,
Greg
To the Editor:
There is an effort on the part of the Elting Library Board to censor free speech on library property. The First Amendment of our Constitution guarantees freedom of speech, as well as the right to assemble peacefully. The Constitution is the highest law in the land, far superseding library “policies.” The library is simply acting on the behalf of those who do not want the truth to be told. The truth about Israel’s genocide, war crimes, extermination, and ethnic cleansing of Palestinians. New Paltz Women In Black expose the truth about the savage year long slaughter, starvation, and brutalization of innocent Palestinian women, children, babies, and men which is fully supported and funded by our government and our tax dollars. The nonsense about library policy is simply a smokescreen designed to prevent the expression of a truth that Zionists want to keep hidden. The library has referenced the need for “neutrality.” As Bishop Desmond Tutu a frequent critic of Israel’s apartheid stated, ““If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.” When a male dog is castrated it is called “neutering.” “Neutral” and “neutering” have the same origins. With that in mind, I hope the library board can stop hiding behind neutrality and “grow a pair.”
Eli Kassirer
New Paltz, NY
Where have we seen this
A video of the mass displacement of Palestinians from the north under threat of fire. We watch the struggling, exhausted women and children and elderly herded by a relentless military. Shooting stragglers or those who refuse to leave.
Where have we seen this?
In Zamosc, Poland, there were four "aktions" (the euphemistic term for the herding of Jews to death camps). The first was in April 1942, the last and final one in October 1942. In the first 3 aktions, Jews were forced onto trains, 100 people or more squeezed into freight cars made to carry no more than 40 people. Those slow to move, or who refused, were shot. Many died of suffocation or heat in the packed cars. The 'survivors' arrived at Belzec or Sobibor where they were gassed. During the final aktion, which took place in October 1942, for some reason there were no trains available. So the remaining Jews were marched to the town of Izbica, where there was a transit camp, 11 kilometers away. Those who lagged behind were shot. One well known citizen of Zamosc, Bronislawa Spiegelglass, a physician, slipped away to the side of a church (pointed out to me by Polish historians), and injected her 11 year old son and herself with a fatal dose of morphine.
My grandmother's niece, husband, and 4 year old daughter were rounded up for an earlier aktion. Her husband said to the Nazi guarding them: "You're going to kill us anyway. We're not leaving our home". They were told to stand against a wall, and all three were shot. Her husband and child died instantly, but she did not, and survived a few days with a bullet wound to her head.
This is happening right now in in Gaza. A family has said: "We can go no further" and been shot. Children have been shot. Babies have been shot. Old people, handicapped people, sick people, shot. People attached to IVs bombed, burned to death. Forced to keep moving. To where? To certain death. Only in a different place. A transit camp.
From above a line of human beings looks like ants. If one of the ants is felled, so what? What does it matter to the ubermenschen. What if a giant foot comes down and steps on the entire column? Well, the world leaders will say, the ants should have been following orders.
This heinous travesty. This massive war crime we're all funding.
This insane specter of "antisemitism" raised again and again to any who dare protest it. To silence us. I will tell you what is antisemitic. Associating being Jewish with Israel, with this horrific marauding entity which learned nothing, nothing at all from the holocaust, except how to perpetrate one.
Marcy