Statement By Ralph Nader And Bruce Fein – OpEd
By Ralph Nader and Bruce Fein
You have just decided that grizzly bears can remain on the endangered species list. Yet, week after week, you have watched Netanyahu target with U.S. F-16s innocent defenseless Palestinian families, killing 50-100 a day, and blocking humanitarian aid trucks with food, medicine and water for the dying and sick people in this encircled, blockaded tiny Gaza enclave.
Have you no decency? No willpower to make your master Netanyahu obey? Any final demands by the President of the United States?
In your eulogy of Jimmy Carter yesterday at the Washington Cathedral, you said President Carter taught you “the strength of character.” Where is the strength of character in 16 months of co-belligerency with genocidal Netanyahu massacring innocent civilians in the hundreds of thousands in Gaza? Where is the strength of character in allowing Netanyahu to block thousands of U.S. paid for humanitarian trucks to enter Gaza with lifesaving food, medicine, water, and other critical supplies? Where is the strength of character in allowing Netanyahu to block the entry into Gaza of U.S. reporters to tell the American people about the ghastly, illegal use of U.S. taxpayer-funded weapons of mass destruction against defenseless civilians, babies, mothers and fathers? Where is the strength of character in allowing your State Department to cover up credible evidence about the vast undercount of deaths and serious injuries in Gaza, blocking Freedom of Information requests? And where is your compassion for horribly burned children and amputees not being allowed by Netanyahu to be airlifted to ready and able U.S. hospitals for treatment?
Where is your strength of character in your choice not to denounce and stop Netanyahu’s increasing slaughter of Palestinians in the West Bank and Lebanese civilians in Lebanon, and Netanyahu’s killing of over 200 journalists and over 400 UNRWA staff – all war crimes under the Geneva conventions to which the U.S. was an early signatory?
Where is your strength of character in capitulating to Netanyahu’s expulsion of UNRWA from any role in humanitarian assistance to hundreds of thousands of Palestinian civilians on the verge of death?
Where is your strength of character in surrendering justice to power?
And where is your strength of character in 16 months of violating 6 federal statutes conditioning the shipment of weapons to foreign countries—such as protecting human rights and allowing entry of American humanitarian aid, etc.—violated every hour of every day by the Netanyahu genocidal regime?
Among the judgements of history on your cowardly, cruel and brutal record, your hatred of Palestinian Arabs and their right to live, you will be known by the moniker of “Bibi Biden before, Bibi Biden now, and Bibi Biden forever.”
