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American Complicity: The Genocide in Gaza [1]

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Date: 2024-04-03  

As the ashes settle over Gaza, the air is thick not just with the smoke of destruction, but with the silence of the American people—a silence that speaks volumes of complicity in what can only be described as an attempted ethnic cleansing.

Recent attacks have laid bare a harrowing strategy: the targeting of humanitarian aid, a lifeline for the besieged inhabitants of Gaza, where over 33,000 souls, two-thirds of whom are women and children, have been brutally extinguished. This is not warfare; it is a deliberate massacre, an obliteration of the innocent under the guise of conflict.

The term "Never again," once a global pledge against the horrors of genocide, has been rendered a grotesque irony as we stand witness to its betrayal. How can we, especially in the United States, reconcile our ideals of freedom and justice with our government's support of such atrocities?

Our tax dollars, funneled into the machinery of oppression, make us unwilling participants in this tragedy. The blood of Gaza's children stains not just the hands of their direct aggressors but also the collective conscience of the American public.

It is a moral failing of catastrophic proportions that we, as a society, have allowed our compassion to be dulled by distance and politics.

The Biden administration's continued arming of Israel is not just a diplomatic stance; it is a mirror reflecting our own apathy, a testament to our willingness to overlook the slaughter of the innocent for political expediency. This is not just Israel's war; it is America's shame, a dark shadow cast over our nation's soul.

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