By Vineet Malik | December 14, 2023 | London, England
The United States Senator for Vermont - Bernard Sanders wrote a letter to the American President Joe Biden on Tuesday with a dual plea to withdraw $10.1 billion military aid to Israel and extend support to the United Nations (UN) to end the ongoing bloodshed in Gaza
The letter begins by justifying the war between Israel and Hamas. Thereafter, it dramatically goes on to a trajectory with most jarring criticism blaming Israel for violating the international law and the international humanitarian law in Gaza, raising the issues of moral conscience, killing of innocent civilians and children, UN officials and more funded by American taxpayers.
The Letter
“But while there is a moral case for a military response against brutal terrorist attack, it is clear that the Netanyahu government’s current campaign is being conducted in a deeply immoral way. A just cause for war does not have the right to go to war against innocent men, women and children in Gaza.
Israel’s reliance on widespread and indiscriminate bombardment including with massive explosive ordinance in densely populated urban areas in unconscionable.
Israel’s military campaign will be remembered among some of the darkest chapters of our modern history. Depriving adequate food, humanitarian relief, clean water constitutes not just a humanitarian cataclysm but a mass atrocity.
And it is being done with bombs and equipment produced and provided by the United States and heavily subsidized by American taxpayers.
Tragically, we are complicit in this carnage."
The United States government has urged Israel to change its tactics but we have done little but ask nicely while continuing to enable that campaign.
The Netanyahu government’s current military approach is immoral, it is in violation of international law and the United States must end our complicity in those actions.
Sanders quoted investigations conducted by prominent human rights organizations and media reports to evidently demonstrate such atrocities committed by Israel in Gaza.
The UN General Assembly adopted a resolution in New York on Tuesday demanding immediate ceasefire in Gaza where U.S was left isolated among 153 member states out of 193 who voted in favor of the resolution. U.S along with Israel, Austria and seven other states voted against and 23 that included the United Kingdom (UK) and others abstained.
Biden in an event interacting with Democratic donors and international press in Washington on Tuesday, admitted of indiscriminate bombing by Israel in Gaza where he also openly said “Israel is beginning to lose support around the world due to military offensive against Hamas and the rising number of civilian deaths.”
Despite Biden’s open admission of war crimes committed by Israel, he said on Tuesday, the White House will continue to support Israel with its artillery and weapons. “We are not going to do a damn thing other than protect Israel in the process. Not a single thing.”
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