On Israel-Hamas war

The Sunday Democrat-Gazette had an article about the resignation of UPenn President Liz Magill due to “pressure from donors and criticism over testimony at a congressional hearing where she was unable to say … that calls on campus for the genocide of Jews would violate the school’s conduct policy.”

The article ends: “Experts and advocates say the chant, ‘Israel, we charge you with genocide,’ is a typical refrain heard at pro-Palestinian rallies. Jewish and Palestinian supporters both acknowledge protesters aren’t saying ‘we want Jewish genocide.’”

On the same page is the continuation of a story with the headline “U.S. approves $106M ammo sale to Israel/ State Department bypasses Congress, cites ‘emergency.’” Josh Paul, a former State Department official, is quoted as noting that this approval combined with the U.S. veto of a cease-fire resolution in the UN “should cause some serious consideration about whether … assertions that the U.S. seeks to minimize civilian casualties in Gaza are sincere.”

That page makes it clear that those who protest the genocide of the Palestinians will be criticized and even punished, but that Israel’s genocide of the Palestinians itself is being financed by the U.S. This article has some explanations: longreads.tni.org/stateofpower/israel-the-model-coercive-state

Our tax dollars are being used in the murder so far of over 18,000

Palestinians, 70 percent women and children, innocents not a threat to Israel. We must demand that the U.S. Congress support a cease-fire now, an end to the occupation, and civil rights for Palestinians in their own homeland.

SHELLEY BUONAIUTO Fayetteville