ACTION ALERT: A Year of Genocide in Gaza
And Escalating Regional War
Cole Harrison / Massachusetts Peace Action

After one year of genocide in Gaza, the Administration continues to pretend that the problem in the Middle East is “terrorism”, that a “ring of fire” surrounds poor Israel and that the United States must “stand with Israel” as it “defends itself”.

In fact, both Hamas and Hezbollah were formed precisely to combat Israeli occupations of Palestine and Lebanon respectively — after nonviolent means of resistance decades ago had failed to restrain its violence.

This genocide is supposed to make Israelis safer, but it cannot. People throughout the Middle East and around the world, are watching our bombs destroy homes, hospitals, schools, churches and mosques; doctors and other healthcare workers, journalists, and families — over 15,000 children! Crushed to death in the rubble of their homes, shot by IDF snipers, and now slowly starved to death.

This is being done with our weapons, and we keep sending more. What economic and violent blowback will we suffer as a result of our cruel, illegal, destructive and self-destructive actions?

The pervasive racism that continually centers Israeli narratives and Israeli pain over the pain of Palestinians, occupied for 76 years and now facing savage attacks by US-supplied bombers and tanks, is played on an endless loop by the mainstream media and both Democratic and Republican politicians.

But the world has moved on from their lies, and so have the American people.

The World Court in July ruled Israel’s occupation of Palestine illegal, and the UN General Assembly last month called on it to leave the occupied Palestinian territories, including Gaza, the West Bank, and east Jerusalem, within a year.

A large majority of Americans favor ending US military aid to Israel.  Thousands marched yesterday in Boston to spread that message.

But Kamala Harris plans to keep it up.  So do Senators Warren and Markey, and seven of Massachusetts’ nine House representatives, who have never missed a chance to vote to send more weapons.  None of them have yet signed on to Senator Bernie Sanders’ resolutions to stop the flow of bombs.

The US government’s defiance of international law to continue supporting the outlaw state of Israel is bringing about a breakdown of international humanitarian law — one of the achievements of humanity’s response to the horrors of modern warfare.  After Israel has destroyed every hospital, university, school, and mosque in Gaza and is now doing the same in Lebanon, our politicians continue to send more lethal weapons to ensure it can continue.

Rushing to further injure Palestinians, Congress cut off US funding for UNRWA, the UN agency set up to provide humanitarian aid to the Palestinians driven from their homes in the 1948 Nakba, over soon disproven accusations by Israel that a few of UNRWA’s tens of thousands of employees participated in the Oct 7 attacks. In Massachusetts, only Reps. Pressley, McGovern, and Lynch have so far cosponsored the UNRWA Funding Restoration Act.

On the anniversary of October 7, we demand that politicians stop the flow of death that is destroying Palestinians and Lebanese, and pushing the Middle East ever closer to a regional war, which could draw in the United States.

Break the alliance with Israel.  Break the alliance with Saudi Arabia.  Abolish NATO.  End military alliances.  Abolish nuclear weapons and stop threatening the world with annihilation.  Respect our obligations.  Put global citizenship first.  Treat all peoples with respect and dignity.  No more hollow words.  No more lies.

ACTION: Tell Washington: Not Another Bomb

Cole Harrison for the Gaza-Israel-Mideast Peace Campaign