I have to begin this by saying how difficult it is to honestly talk about it, but we need to talk about it. I am going to label it as a genocide because that is what it is, and that is what the United Nations has been openly discussing the prevention of. Because of the likelihood that you have already tuned out based on that statement, please allow me to say a couple of true things. Hamas attacked Israel on October 7, 2023 and it was horrific. The government of Israel does not represent Jewish people as a theocracy, and criticism of the government is not anti-semitic.

Terrorist attacks do not come out of nowhere. With that statement I am in no way justifying the actions of Hamas, merely stating a fact that there are causes. The US support of the Abraham Accords under Trump, the apartheid state that Israel has been responsible for for decades, I know why the caged bird sings. Terrorism is not justifiable in any way, but to deny the causes is to bury one’s head in the sand and prepare for another prolonged Middle Eastern war.

The actions of Benjamin Netanyahu in response to the attack and hostage crisis have been homicidal. The indiscriminate killing of civilians in response is a war crime. The collective punishment of the Palestinian civilian population through starvation and bombing is a war crime. There isn’t much coverage of it, but there are significant protests going on in Israel now for a cease fire to get the hostages back. Remember way back when it was about getting the hostages back?

Over 30,000 civilians have been killed in this ‘surgical’ military campaign in Gaza, and the United States is complicit in it. We provide 4 Billion dollars a year in aid to Israel to fund this atrocity. To be clear, I am not against the recent aid package because the aid to Ukraine was absolutely necessary and it had to pass the batshit House of Representatives. That does not mean we can’t move to right our wrong and force a cease fire.

The college kids are saying it for the rest of us that have to work day jobs. The unrest on campuses across the country should be waking up ‘Sleepy Joe’ to his responsibility as our empathizer in chief. I very badly don’t want to see this country turn into a dictatorship, and Biden ignoring this for another week, another month just isn’t going to work. Joe Biden your 4th alarm is going off on your phone this morning, wake the fuck up.