By Al Mytty, The News-Gazette, November 22, 2024
Stop slaughter in Middle East
Having marked Veterans Day this year, we should remember its origin, at the end of World War I on Nov. 11, 1918.
This date was celebrated as Armistice Day, a day to end all wars. However, in 1954, Congress renamed it Veterans Day. Yes, we owe a great deal to U.S. veterans, but let’s not use this day to glorify war.
We can reclaim the spirit of Armistice Day by calling for a permanent cease-fire in Gaza and throughout the Middle East. The surest way to achieve such a cease-fire is for our own government to stop sending bombs to Israel.
Sending those bombs and weapons may be violations of the Symington-Glenn Amendments, codified at 22 U.S.C. § 2799aa-1. Those amendments prohibit the provision of any U.S. military assistance to a nation that possesses nuclear weapons outside the controls and safeguards of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty of 1968.
Further, sending those bombs and weapons may be in violation of the Foreign Assistance Act, Arms Export Control Act, Leahy Laws, the Conventional Arms Transfer Policy (NSM-18) of February 2023, the U.S. War Crimes Act and the Genocide Implementation Prevention Act.
Our government should not be violating the law.
The bombs are being dropped on Palestinian children and their parents. It is high time to end the genocide and military confrontation and reduce the prospects of a nuclear war ending human civilization.
Let’s stop the slaughter and start celebrating Armistice Day, an end to war, again.
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Our government is breaking the law by ending weapons to Israel against the wishes of the U.S. population.
Sending those bombs and weapons may be violations of the Symington-Glenn Amendments, codified at 22 U.S.C. § 2799aa-1. Those amendments prohibit the provision of any U.S. military assistance to a nation that possesses nuclear weapons outside the controls and safeguards of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty of 1968.
Further, sending those bombs and weapons may be in violation of the Foreign Assistance Act, Arms Export Control Act, Leahy Laws, the Conventional Arms Transfer Policy (NSM-18) of February 2023, the U.S. War Crimes Act and the Genocide Implementation Prevention Act.
For months I have been watching the indiscriminate torture of the people of Gaza through bombing homes and hospitals, through preventing good nutrition to reach them, through causing innocent civilians including children to suffer life-changing injuries.
I love the Jewish people but the government of Netanyahu and his ruthless coharts have caused me to despise Israel. That we are sending Israel weapons out of habit is so disgusting it turns my stomach. This is not who I am. I will never trust Israel again.
It must stop NOW. TODAY. THIS MINUTE.
By arming Israel we are enabling that country’s terrible crimes against humanity, and a genocide that will remain a stain on our history forever. For shame!
What does an armistice mean, or a ceasefire, or a peace deal, if the killing doesn’t stop?
Genocides continue because it has been used and continues to be used to take resources. Religion, race and other ideas are used to stir the pot to get them to commit these crimes on behalf of the companies that profit from the genocide. This is what must stop. Our government is run by these companies and does not represent the people of this country. The government, and those who work in it, are guilty of these heinous crimes. One day these methods will be used to slaughter us too. We must change how this happens. Those who participate must be identified and held accountable.
America should not be sending weapons to Israel for their genocide of Gaza. Retaliation against Hamas was understandable but destroying a country and it’s people woman and children is more than disgusting. I can’t believe my country is helping to do his!