As usual, Israel responded to this news with defiance, denials, and deceit.
The official statement released by Israel via X/Twitter flatly denied that they are even conducting military operations against civilians in Rafah and lied about keeping the Rafah passage open to allow aid in. Everyone can see the truth of what is happening there. Some will choose to disbelieve their own eyes, and they will have to live with that choice.
Many will not close their eyes to Israel’s atrocities, and also not stop until Palestine is free.
In the forthcoming election of United States, scheduled for November many of the citizens stand unequivocally with the people of Gaza. Their fight is for people, planet, and peace as inextricable from the fight for Palestinian liberation.
Benjamin Netanyahu may have a close, personal friend, Joe Biden, who may not be there after November 2024.
The first thing the new president may do, end the supply of weapons and military aid to Israel that is in violation of international law, including its practice of genocide, ethnic cleansing, and the occupation of Gaza and the West Bank.
The new president may also push the Senate to ratify the Rome Statute recognizing the legal authority of the International Criminal Court. He may also direct all US federal agencies with the proper authority to recognize and execute any valid arrest warrant issued by the ICC over Israel’s war crimes.
If he has the spine, he may not allow the foreign policy of
the most powerful and influential nation on earth to be dictated by a despot
clinging to the last threads of his power in a genocidal apartheid state.
