Letter to Congress

[Boilerplate:] 

I am a constituent and I have been horrified at the loss of life in Palestine/Israel over the past week. Over 10,000 Palestinians and 1,400 Israelis have been killed and many more are at risk every day this conflict continues. 2.2 million people are under siege in Gaza, almost half of whom are children. Every human life is precious and President Biden and Congress must act to save both Palestinian and Israeli lives. I urge you to support the Ceasefire Now Resolution introduced by Representative Cori Bush and Representative Rashida Tlaib as the only way to prevent more bloodshed is de-escalation and an immediate cease-fire.

[Original from me:]

The time for the supposed "two state solution" came and went in 1967 when Israel refused to relinquish conquered Palestinian and Syrian territories, and soon began settling them.  The idea of a "Jewish State" which discriminates against all other people in housing and other crucial matters was an ethnic supremacist and fascist one from the beginning, so it is no surprise that Zionist Israel more and more resembles Nazi Germany, with concentration camps (or open air prisons) for the out groups, checkpoints, starvation protocols applied to Gaza, and the use of terror and carpet bombing instead of gas chambers to accomplish ethnic cleansing and genocide (carpet bombing using US supplied weapons is also quite efficient in Israeli time and effort).

The clock didn't start on October 7, 2023.  It didn't even start in 1948 when Zionists ethnically cleansed 750,000 Palestinians in order to steal their land and build the Zionist fascist state of "Israel", creating the ongoing Palestinian Issue ever since. There were many previous incidents of Zionist terror, and longstanding Zionist claims and threats from the beginning of Zionism have to be understood as a looming threat over the sovereignty of the Palestinian people even prior to and certainly ever since the British Mandate.

The only solution that should really be acceptable to everyone now is the creation of a new government in the whole area of Israel/Palestine with equal rights and non-discrimination for people of all ethnicities who have legitimate claims to live there.  That includes the now millions of Palestinian refugees and Gazans.  They should have the same rights as everyone else in getting their property back.

Only then will there be at least a shred of justice for those who suffered from the catastrophe caused by the Ethnic Supremacism known as Zionism, and until then there will never be peace.

The many Jews I most respect have always been critical of if not opposed to the Zionist idea of Israel as a "Jewish" supremacist state, including Albert Einstein, Noam Chomsky, Norman Finkelstein, Aaron Mate, and Tony Greenstein.  Sadly many other Jews fell for Zionism after the horrors of the holocaust were revealed and also due to brilliant Israeli propaganda.  The majority of every group are fools.  But future generations can and seem to be learning.  I completely reject the idea that anti-Zionism is antisemitism.  If anything it is Zionism itself which is antisemitic by attacking a different set of Jews, including more and more Jewish youth, not to mention all true Jewish leftists, and calling them names such as Self-Hating.