PRESIDENT TRUMP: STOP THE SLAUGHTER IN GAZA

Me: If we cannot abjure ourselves from the passions of hate and war to protect against and deny a military force the access to slaughter children in this manner, we have failed as a nation.

In the 100 days from October 7, 2023 to January 14, 2024 Israeli forces killed more than 1% of Gaza’s population according to the Ministry of Health data. A UN ESCWA report noted that “No other armed conflict in the twenty-first century” has had “such a devastating impact on a population in such a short timeframe. To find a 100-day period…with greater bloodshed, it is necessary to go back to the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda.”

Appendix to letter of October 2, 2024 re: American physicians observations from the Gaza Strip since October 7, 2023

First and foremost, let’s be clear. Any war involves both direct and indirect death. Indirect death is caused by obvious lack of food, water, and medical care.

The above figures are AI generated, and I’ve been unable to locate the source, but the figures pique interest enough for exploration.

The Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs (Brown University) under a heading COSTS OF WAR in an article entitled The Human Toll: Indirect Deaths from War in Gaza and the West Bank, October 7, 2023 Forward gives detailed information.

One of their sources is an Appendix written by healthcare workers who have worked in Gaza since October 7, 2023:

This appendix complements the letter sent to President Joseph R. Biden, Vice President Kamala D. Harris, and others on October 2, 2024 by 99 American healthcare workers who have served in the Gaza Strip since October 7, 2023.

We need perspective. How does the death rate in Gaza compare with other death rates in armed conflicts we’ve witnessed? I noted one such instance with the opening quote above. Here are some other excerpts:

As of August 31, 2024 11,355 fully identified children are known to have been killed by Israeli military violence in Gaza. Indeed, 710 fully identified newborns and 1,400 toddlers (children under 2 years of age) have been killed in Gaza since October 7. Far more newborns and toddlers have been killed in Gaza since October 7 than all Israeli civilian deaths in the First Intifada, Second Intifada, and the October 7 attacks combined.

These numbers are so large that they require some reference to be meaningful. Many of us have worked in the horrors of the war in Ukraine, and we believe it provides a useful measure of scale. In the United Nations Secretary General’s 2023 report Children and armed conflict the war in Ukraine was the deadliest armed conflict in the world for children. In all of 2022, in a country of 38 million people under relentless assault from a military superpower, 732 children were killed, a rate of 0.0053 children killed per 100,000 people per day. In Gaza, with an estimated 11,355 fully identified children killed in the eleven months, the rate is 1.5 children killed per 100,000 people per day. In other words, the rate of killing of children in Gaza since October 7 is 293 times higher than in Ukraine in 2022. If we assume 33% of the unidentified fatalities are children, the differential is 353 times higher than in Ukraine. No other conflict in living memory has killed an absolute minimum of 1% of the children in any territory in eleven months through violence alone. This is the population adjusted equivalent of 743,700 children being killed in the United States, an atrocity that is simply unfathomable!

I quote extensively from this Appendix because these people have been on the ground; worked in Gaza since October 7, 2023; and provide one of the very few conduits we have, as impartial citizens, to understand the reality on the ground.

We need not look far when we see everywhere that our media march in lockstep with our government to support, fund, and supply Israel. Only individual posters on social media or Substack voice opposition.

In further AIPAC inroads, the U.S. Congress passed a bill in April 2024 called "Antisemitism Awareness Act.” In the legislation, antisemitism is described although never defined. Mike Adams at Natural News gives an account.

The Intercept in 2017 had raised concerns with a bill drafted by AIPAC with this article entitled “U.S. Lawmakers Seek to Criminally Outlaw Support for Boycott Campaign Against Israel: The two parties join together to sponsor a bill, spearheaded by AIPAC, that would be one of the most authoritarian congressional measures in years.” Essentially, if the bill had passed, U.S. citizens would have been designated criminals for supporting BDS which is an international movement to boycott, divest, and sanction Israel as an attempt to limit their actions against Palestinians. When the bill failed nationally, AIPAC took their campaign to local states. Wikipedia tells us: “As of 2020, 32 state legislatures have already passed bills similar to IABA.”

I believe this blanket saturation by AIPAC explains why we see so little impartial and fair evaluation toward Israel in this current military operation.

In fact, we reached the height of absurdity in the recent Amsterdam brouhaha after Maccabi Tel Aviv soccer team fans arrived to watch the game against Ajax. Mondoweiss gives this fair account:

On November 5th, hundreds of Maccabi Tel Aviv fans – reportedly accompanied by Mossad agents – had flown into the city for a game against Ajax FC. It was reported, in the preceding days, that pro-Palestinian groups were planning a large protest outside the stadium against the presence of the Israeli football team. In the two days before the game, there were many reported incidents of violence and intimidation from the Israeli fans – including anti-Arab chants, attacking taxi drivers, ripping down Palestinian flags and attacking homes with any Palestinian imagery.

Emerging video evidence and testimonies from Amsterdam residents (here, here and here for instance) indicate that the initial violence came from Maccabi Tel Aviv fans, who also disrupted a moment of silence for the Valencia flood victims. 

But despite that footage and Amsterdammer testimonies, coverage – across international media, especially in the United States – has failed to contextualize the counter-attacks against the anti-Arab Israeli mob. 

Where there have been mentions of the actions of the Maccabi fans, the critical context of anti-Arab violence and chants is simply an additional detail versus the foundation of the counter-violence. The context of the violence and racism against Arabs is also downplayed, with less severe language being used to describe it.

European leaders ranging from conservative Gert Wilders to flaming Globalist Ursual van der Leyen called the actions against rude and abusive Israeli fans “pogroms” or denounced the events as anti-semitism. Hysteria ensued in the Western press aided and abetted by Israel.

I would urge the reader to expand their view on how the world has come to this juncture where Israel does no wrong. The below image is a zoom frame from The Economist’s front cover January 4, 2013. These covers are scrutinized because they often foretell or, perhaps more accurately, portend future world events.

See how war is manufactured? You wall people into information concentration camps so that they can’t see, hear, or think clearly. Matters became even more serious in the U.S. via AIPAC’s influence the last few years. We could also subtitle this Kabuki Theatre “How to Annihilate Opposition so That Your War is Financed and Supplied into Perpetuity.”

A few years ago, AIPAC began funding election campaigns for elected U.S. officials. From the Occidental Dissent: “AIPAC Funded 342 Members of Congress.”

How is President-elect Trump’s cabinet stacking up?

MSNBC does a great job of presenting AIPAC in this short video if you have time:

We are witnessing the most atrocious slaughter by one group against another because this slaughter has exceeded any other in our recent history in the singularity of killing children.

If we cannot abjure ourselves from the passions of hate and war to protect against and deny a military force the access to slaughter children in this manner, we have failed as a nation. We have no moral authority whatsoever to preach or lead anywhere in the world.

I am in complete agreement with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. who gave a famous speech against the Vietnam War. I am only an elderly substack writer with nothing. I don’t seek numbers of readers or followers, but I cannot sit in my home and not fight, in some fashion, against this decimation in Gaza and now Lebanon. I must go on record. This travesty called a “war” in Gaza is not a war. This violence is genocide.

Now, let me make it clear in the beginning, that I see this war as an unjust, evil, and futile war. I preach to you today on the war in Vietnam because my conscience leaves me with no other choice. The time has come for America to hear the truth about this tragic war. In international conflicts, the truth is hard to come by because most nations are deceived about themselves. Rationalizations and the incessant search for scapegoats are the psychological cataracts that blind us to our sins. But the day has passed for superficial patriotism. He who lives with untruth lives in spiritual slavery. Freedom is still the bonus we receive for knowing the truth. "Ye shall know the truth," says Jesus, "and the truth shall set you free." Now, I've chosen to preach about the war in Vietnam because I agree with Dante, that the hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in a period of moral crisis maintain their neutrality. There comes a time when silence becomes betrayal.

“He who lives with untruth lives in spiritual slavery. Freedom is still the bonus we receive for knowing the truth.”