Shortly after that speech on Friday, Israel dropped 87 tons
of United States supplied bombs on the suburbs of southern Beirut, Lebanon,
assassinating Hezbollah Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah and a yet undetermined
number of innocent civilians.
This is not the first political assassination carried out
during this nearly yearlong terror campaign by Israel. In July, Israel
assassinated Hamas’ chief negotiator, Ismail Haniyeh in Iran. Nasrallah’s
assassination will certainly add yet more fuel to the fire burning out of control
in the Middle East.
Kamala Harris’ response to this dangerous escalation was
swift – she praised the assassination of Nasrallah, claiming that today
Hezbollah’s victims have a measure of peace while reiterating her unwavering
support to Israel, assuring that she will continue to provide them with US
weapons and billions upon billions of taxpayers’ money to fund their carnage
across the region.
Lately the Biden-Harris administration approved another 8.7
billion dollar weapons transfer to aid and abet Israeli war crimes.
What was missing from Kamala’s statement was any measure of
concern for the people of Lebanon as they’re victimized by the kind of shock
and awe bombing campaigns reminiscent of George W. Bush and prominent Kamala
Harris endorser Dick Cheney in the early 2000s when they launched their illegal
invasion of Iraq.
In fact, even George Bush demonstrated more concern for the
loss of 12 innocent lives in 2002, when he condemned a residential bombing in
the West Bank that assassinated a leader of Hamas. At least 1000 people have
been killed since Israel started its onslaught of violence in Lebanon two weeks
ago, and the death toll of this most recent bombing of six residential
buildings is still unknown as teams comb through the rubble for human remains.
Biden and Harris are following Netanyahu headlong into an
escalating cycle of violence that can only lead to more war, death, and
suffering.
As Israel slaughters tens of thousands of innocent civilians
with full US backing, they are creating more enemies than they can ever
assassinate.
The United States need new leadership to stop this military
madness by cutting off all US arms and funding to Israel to force an immediate
ceasefire and end to the illegal occupation of Palestine.