President Biden needs to Dump his War Hawks and Turn to Peace Work if he wants to Salvage his Presidency

The rate of the killing of Palestinian civilians is similar to the rate of killing during the Cambodian genocide. Within a week of the Israeli assault, 880 scholars and practitioners of international law, conflict studies, and genocide studies signed a statement warning the public and political leaders of the possibility of genocide…“As scholars and practitioners of international law, conflict studies and genocide studies, we are compelled to sound the alarm about the possibility of the crime of genocide being perpetrated by Israeli forces against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. We do not do so lightly, recognising the weight of this crime, but the gravity of the current situation demands it.”.. Many of these signatories such as the Israeli scholar Raz Segal, is Director of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Stockton University, said back then that what Israel is doing is “a textbook case of genocide.”

OMER ABID

Grand Blanc, Mi. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – It has been clear since the horrid terror attack of October 7 by Hamas that President Joe Biden has been getting dreadful advice from his top officials, whether at the State Department, the CIA or the National Security Council. The president’s refusal to draw any red lines for an Israeli response endangers the entire rules-based international order, of the United Nations Charter, the Nuremberg Trials, the Geneva Conventions, the UN Declaration of Human Rights, and the Rome Statute, which Biden and his aides have spent nearly two years throwing in the face of Vladimir Putin over his invasion of Ukraine.

Biden has presided over a genocide in Gaza, the fiercest assault on a civilian population in this century, in which nearly half the habitable buildings have been damaged or destroyed, thousands have been killed (mostly women and children) and thousands more wounded. Biden kept denigrating the whole idea of a ceasefire and kept resupplying Israeli munitions for this Cambodia-on-the-Mediterranean. He clearly is surrounded by hawks who have more hatred than good sense, and if he is to survive politically, and if the US is not to be blemished by yet another mass atrocity, he must start firing people.

As our entire nation ate and drank to our fill and then some on Thanksgiving weekend, according to the World Health Organization (WHO), 2.3 million Palestinians are trying to get by with only 3% of water that the WHO says is minimum water requirement. As a physician and as a former Epidemic Intelligence Service Officer at the CDC, I know that a person typically dies after 3 days without any water. Gaza, under an Israeli economic blockade that crashed its economy and produced 54% unemployment, used to receive 500 trucks of aid daily before the war. The food trucks allowed in the Gaza Strip from the Rafah crossing in the past month have only provided 7% of the caloric needs of the population, according to the World Food Program of the United Nations. Even during the humanitarian pause of this weekend, only 63 aid trucks came in on Saturday….

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