3 IV 2024: Stop funding Israel’s aggressions

Israel has become a rogue nation. We must stop funding Israel and stop backing Israel up in the U.N., for we are, and have been for years, the main enabler of Israel’s disgraceful conduct.

From its founding, Israel has been conducting a constant program of ethnic cleansing, driving out Palestinians and denying the rights and impairing the lives of those who have remained. Israeli zealots will not rest until only Jews live in an enlarged Israel.

The world is expressing outrage at the latest murder of aid workers. Israel promises to investigate. That’s like Russia promising to investigate. No, Israel will not stop murdering and starving and dislocating civilians until it has annexed Gaza and the West Bank. The Israeli forces may engage in fewer criminal acts, like rape and torture, than the Nazis, the Russians, and other amoral regimes, but their overall behavior is just the same.

The war on Gaza is ripping off Israel’s mask of righteous victimhood. No longer will Israel and its supporters be able to dismiss criticism of Israel as antisemitic. Israel is being subjected to the same international disgust and disdain as other rogue nations. And it’s time for the U.S. to stop pretending and enabling.