My Peace Stances:

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​I have been a peace activist, as long as I can remember. From opposing the War in Kosovo to opposing the current war in Gaza, there has not been a war in my memory, that I have supported.  With almost all Democratic and Republican politicians agreeing on almost every domestic and foreign policy issue, I stand opposed to their unconstitutional and evil (they support killing men, women, and children) foreign policy. Below is only a partial list of the wars that I opposed.

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Serbia

Unlike Bernie Sanders and Joe Biden, I was opposed to the bombing and targeting of civilian infrastructure in Serbia (waged by President Clinton, without a declaration of war by Congress, in a direct violation of the US Constitution), resulting in the slaughter of thousands of Serb civilians by the US government. The US government lied and claimed that hundreds of thousands of ethnic Albanians were killed in Kosovo, where the number of deaths on both sides of the conflict was around 2,000. The US government lied about mass graves, that were never found, and did not exist. I was also opposed to the US government's (and funded by US taxpayers – in violation of the US Constitution) “regime change” operation in Serbia, which would later be replicated in Georgia in 2003, Ukraine in 2004, Kyrgyzstan in 2005, and again in Ukraine in 2014 (all funded by the Republican and Democratic Party NGOs).

 

Afghanistan

I was opposed to the War in Afghanistan even before it started. When Congresswoman Barbara Lee was the only member of the US House to vote against the authorization of the use of force resolution (this was a simple resolution – meaningless with no legal power in the US Constitution) in 2001, she faced death threats, but she persevered in the face of adversity and opposition from her own Democratic Party. I supported using the letters of marquis and reprisal against Al-Qaeda, in line with the US Constitution. Instead, the US government launched a 20-year failed & undeclared by US Congress, War in Afghanistan, that claimed the lives of thousands of Americans and tens of thousands of Afghans.

 

Iraq

I opposed the Iraq War (where more than 4,000 Americans were killed) before it happened, and exposed the lies that the Iraq War was based upon, before its start. It was clear that there were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, because the US government confirmed that they were destroyed after the First Persian Gulf War in 1991. Furthermore, it was revealed before the war, that the British dossier that was used to justify the war was based on erroneous information. Prior to the war, the Israeli government pushed for the invasion, with the Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon insisting that the US government must invade Iran, as soon as the Iraq War is over. Not to be outdone, former Israeli Prime Ministers Netanyahu and Barak wrote regular columns in US newspapers, calling for war. In terms of why the US government went to war, as discussed by Philip Zelikow, a Counselor to the Secretary of State,  the US government went to war to benefit the Israeli government, a sentiment revealed in 1998 (5 years before the war) by the Project for the New American Century (where a number of signers ended up in the Bush Administration). 

 

Ukraine

I opposed the US government fueling the conflict in the Donbas region of Ukraine during the Trump - Biden Administrations via weapons sales and military training (not authorized by the US Constitution under Article I, Section VIII), which culminated in the Russian government's invasion of Ukraine in 2022, which I also condemned. From 2014 onward, ethnic Ukrainians and Russians in the Donbas region tried to integrate into Ukraine under the Minsk Accords. However, the Ukrainian government was opposed to granting voting rights to the people of Donbas. It launched a military campaign in the region, that killed 14,000 people from 2014 to 2022. They were backed militarily by the Trump and Biden Administrations, as well as by the Republicans and Democrats in Congress. With a major escalation of the conflict (according to the UN, over 80% of the attacks were coming from the Ukrainian government's side, and as the February 19 2022 OSCE report indicated 591 Ukrainian government cease-fire violations and 553 explosions in Donbas in 24 hours), fearing an imminent full scale  invasion of the Donbas region by the Ukrainian government and its likely military win, Russian President Putin launched an invasion of Ukraine in 2022. Earlier, President Putin did state that he would invade Ukraine, to prevent the military takeover of the Donbas region by the Ukrainian government.  Also, prior to Putin's invasion of Ukraine, the Ukrainian government refused all negotiations with the Donbas rebels as it launched its mass attacks, effectively putting an end to the Minsk Accords (Ukrainian President Zelenskyy declared the Minsk Accords “dead”).

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Two years later, hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians are dead, as the Biden Administration appears to be only interested in having the military industrial profit at the expense of the economic well-being of the American people. There is little interest even in a dead American journalist, like Gonzalo Lira, who died in the Ukrainian prison, after being tortured. Since Gonzalo Lira was critical of the Ukrainian government, his death is ignored by the Republicans and Democrats in Congress, even if he was an American.

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The most significant peace effort in Istanbul, Turkey, was killed by the Biden Administration in 2022, when both Russian and Ukrainian governments came close to signing an agreement, where the Ukrainian government would have kept its territories and would have declared neutrality. The Biden Administration opposed the peace deal and promised to arm the Ukrainian government, instead,  for “as long as it takes”. This promise was impossible to keep, given the vast population differences between Russia and Ukraine, and large war production gaps between the European powers and the US on one hand, and the Russian government on other, as it switched to a war economy. The promise to send more military weapons came after the initial plan to bring down the Russian economy failed. After the 2013-2014 sanctions, the Russian government prepared to limit any damage from future sanctions. The territories that were annexed by the Russian government were pro-Russian, so the hope from the Biden Administration and the Republicans and Democrats in Congress that there would be a “guerrilla movement” against the Russian government, among the local population, was always going to be just wishful thinking, not based in any reality.

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We have seen comparisons to Hitler made in the past, as with Ho Chin Minh, Gadaffi, Hussein, Milosevic, and others, for every “bad actor” wants to “conquer the world” according to these warmongers (who have no  evidence for their claims), who could care less about the lives of the American people (the Afghan War, the Iraq War, and other disasters), or foreigners (millions of dead), for that matter. These politicians are feigning tears (such as Admiral Mullen at his press conference, who pretended to shed tears for Ukrainians, which he never did for the dead Palestinian children). The politicians are abusing the sympathy that Americans feel for dead Ukrainians, in order to seduce them to support a policy of sending weapons, which is just getting more Ukrainians killed, and isn't saving any lives. Surely, if these politicians actually cared about Ukrainian people, they would not be funding the fueling of the slaughter of the Ukrainian soldiers (who are being forced to fight against their will, after being dragged in the streets – a sight that has been seen by people around the world via social media). 

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They claim that President Putin wants to conquer Europe, if not the World, but history shows otherwise. Leaving aside the multiple times that the Russian government offered to negotiate peace (and the fact that it took President Putin over a week on February 21, 2022 to recognize the independence of the Lugansk and Donetsk republics as independent, amid amid a massive shelling increase of Donbas by the Ukrainian government) they cannot explain why the Russian government invaded Georgia, after the Georgian government invaded South Ossetia in 2008 (making the anti-NATO argument how NATO expansion could lead to World War III, and why it is dangerous). Even the New York Times that supported the Georgian government in 2008 and its prospective membership in NATO, had to admit that it was the Georgian government that started the conflict. Not only was South Ossetia and Abkhazia not annexed by the Russian government, but it recognized their de-facto independence. These politicians also cannot explain why President Putin was against the annexation of the Donbas region of Ukraine in 2014, when the people of the region voted to join Russia. Of course, it could not have possibly anything to do with the idea that President Putin wanted to allow the Minsk Accords to work, of course... Surely, if Putin was really “Hitler”, he would have followed the “will of the people” and had Donbas annexed in 2014... If these politicians had looked at actual history, and ignored their ideological blindfolds (where it is always Munich, 1938), they would have seen, that unlike the actions of the Nazi government, the actions of the Russian government were always reactive, not proactive (which still should be condemned). 

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It was in 1990, that the Soviet government was promised by the US government that there would be no expansion of NATO. Despite the warnings from George Kennan – an ex- US ambassador to the Soviet Union that NATO expansion could lead to a future Russian government invasion, his warnings, as well as of other diplomats, including Jack Matlock (US ambassador to the Soviet Union from 1987-1991) were ignored by every administration from Bill Clinton and Joe Biden (Trump also supported and oversaw NATO expansion and had Ukraine's NATO membership as its goal, as well as by the Republicans and Democrats in Congress). Even the pro-Clinton Boris Yeltsin government in Russia was opposed to the NATO expansion, fearing that NATO expansion would increase the likelihood of World War III (the same way that military alliances made World War I possible).

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Just like the history did not start on October 7th, 2023, it did not start on February 24, 2022, either. As the US Ambassador and the current CIA Director William Burns predicted in 2008, the US government's push for NATO expansion would split Ukraine, lead to a civil war, and could end with a Russian government's invasion of Ukraine. He also noted that even the opposition to Putin was opposed to NATO membership for Ukraine. His warning proved to be prophetic. The US government insisted on Ukraine joining NATO (which at the time was backed by about a half of Ukrainians), despite the opposition from such European leaders, as Angela Merkel of Germany. Rather than cause tensions with the US government and undermining trade and the reliance on the US taxpayers to pay for the defense of Europe, almost all of the European governments went along with the US government's plan. The Ukrainian President Yanukovych (who called for trade with both Russia and the West, but was rebuffed by Western leaders) was overthrown in 2014 with the backing of the US government (through the US taxpayer funding of the Democratic Party led National Endowment for Democracy and the Republican Party led National Republican Institute). With violence led by the Neo-Nazi Right Sector, the protesters refused a deal under which new elections would be held. They then proceeded to move to storm the Ukrainian Parliament building, which under duress, voted to illegally remove President Yanukovych from power (it lacked two-thirds of the vote to do so). The Parliament proceeded to declare Nazi collaborators from WWII to be “freedom fighters” and voted down the “language law”, which banned the use of any minority language spoken by less than 15% in any select area. Along with the first cabinet being made up of 1/3 of the Svoboda Party members (it started off as a Socialist Nationalist Party – a Neo – Nazi Party, led by Andriy Parubiy, who would become a Speaker of the Ukrainian Parliament, and be welcomed by Republicans and Democrats alike in Congress), and the burning down of the Trade Union building in Odessa, where dozens of people died, who were opposed to the new government, Ukraine was being moved towards a civil war, as predicted by William Burns. 

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With half of Ukrainians opposing the promised NATO membership, and the Ukrainian government calling for the removal of the Russian naval base in Sevastopol, Crimea, the Crimean Parliament switched sides, declared independence, and called for a referendum on joining Russia (majority of the population indicated support for joining Russia by both Ukrainian and US polling firms). It is true that the referendum was illegitimate under the Ukrainian Constitution for only a national referendum on independence could be held. The new government of Ukraine did not come to power through constitutional means, either, a claim that the Russian government made in its reasoning, why its previous treaty with the Ukrainian government was null and void. Meanwhile, while the interim Ukrainian President Turchynov did veto the language bill, the increased tensions led to the violence in the Donbas region. For as the groups backed by US government, illegally took over the government buildings in Kyiv, the supporters of the now – ex- President Yanukovych, who refused to recognize the new government, began to take over government buildings in the Donbas region, as well. This prompted a military response from the Ukrainian government in 2014 and a civil war (with the Donbas side backed by the Russian government). The 2014 Minsk Accords were officially meant to end the war in Donbas in 2014. However, as stated by the German ex-Chancellor Angela Merkel, French President Hollande, as well as Ukrainian Presidents Poroshenko and Zelenskyy, the Minsk Accords were meant not to bring peace to the Donbas region, but to buy time for the Ukrainian government to re-arm (which was accomplished both with the help of the Trump and Biden Administrations, and by Republicans and Democrats in Congress) and fully re-start a war (take over the Donbas region).

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I condemn the actions of the Russian government, the Ukrainian government, as I do the actions of the US government, but one should not be throwing around Hitler comparisons, with no basis in reality. Otherwise, the same careless comparisons could be made about leaders closer to home... There is one caveat. Our tax money didn't pay for the 2023 Nagorno-Karabakh offensive and starvation/slaughter by the Azerbaijan government. We do pay for the two major wars that are in the news, so more American people care about how their tax money is being spent in Ukraine and Gaza.

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What was clear in 2022, that the promise made by the Bush Administration in 2008, that Ukraine would join NATO, was only going to be used by the Biden Administration (which refused to make any promises on NATO expansion in writing, but verbally promised not expand NATO in the “near future”) to bait the Russian government into invading Ukraine (as acknowledged by the NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg who claimed that the reason why President Putin invaded Ukraine was to prevent NATO expansion, not to take over Ukraine or Europe). Earlier, the Rand Corporation offered its analysis that ways to increase the likelihood of the Russian government's invasion of Ukraine should include arms sales to the Ukrainian government in order to end the cease-fire and militarily take over the Donbas region, and the ceasing of peace talks and all communication with the Russian government, steps that were all followed by the Biden Administration. Now, the Biden Administration argues that the Ukrainian government is “too corrupt” to join NATO. As told by President Biden, the purpose of the war was to “bleed Russia”. Since that effort has failed, weapons sales, is all that the Biden Administration has left, to try to prevent a complete collapse of the Ukrainian military before the November election. 
 

Given the population size and industrial production differences, when Joe Biden was still Vice-President, President Obama warned that in any future Russia-Ukraine war, the Russian government will always have, as Obama put it, “escalation dominance”. President Obama was opposed to arms sales to the Ukrainian government and was also opposed to the arming and training of the Neo-Nazi Azov Battalion (now the same group is called the Azov Brigade), something that the Biden Administration currently supports. 2 years later, the armies of Ukraine have been decimated, so there are not even enough people in Ukraine to use the weapons that the US government can produce, much less to keep up with Russia's war economy. Both Biden and Trump support fueling the war via the continuation of weapons sales (originally started by the Trump Administration), in complete disregard of the US Constitution, the economic well-being of the American people, or the lives of ordinary Ukrainians. Both Presidents Trump and Biden are opposed to peace talks, that do not call for a complete surrender of the Russian government. Unlike Presidents Trump and Biden, I call for the complete stop of arms sales (which violate the US Constitution), which would increase the likelihood of peace talks, and an end to this war.

 

Gaza and the West Bank

The Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu's official policy of funding Hamas via Qatar had the prevention of the Palestinian state as its goal. The Israeli government made it clear that the ultimate goal of the Israeli government was to wipe the Palestinian people off the map, as the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made it clear with the map that he showed at the UN, which had both the Gaza Strip and the West Bank erased out of existence. Considering that before the formation of the State of the Israel, ethnic cleansing (Nakba) was an official policy of Ben-Gurion (he called it “cleansing”), Dayan, and Begin (he called himself a “terrorist”), the current state of affairs is just the the same public policy, performed at a faster rate. Top Israeli government officials stated multiple times in recent months, that their goal is the physical elimination of the Palestinian people. With hundreds of thousands of Palestinian deaths (the Lancet), the reduction of Rafah to rubble, the Israeli government tries to do its best to get its wish fulfilled, with the full enabling by the Republicans and Democrats in Congress. The US government is supportive of the Israeli government via weapons sales, even as it kills Americans, because when choosing between the American people (Rachel Corrie, Shireen Abu Akleh, etc) and the Israeli government, the Republicans and Democrats always choose the Israeli government (which is why it whitewashed the deaths of 34 Americans that were deliberately killed by the Israeli government aboard US Liberty ship in 1967. As it was revealed by the Israeli government, it was fully aware that it was targeting an American ship before the attack). The Republicans and Democrats in US Congress even support the Israeli government as it purposefully executes hundreds of Jews (not “anti-Semitic”?), as carried out on October 7th, 2023 (first revealed and documented in October of 2023 by the Grey Zone, and later published by the Israeli Haaretz newspaper in July of 2024 after an investigation). The more the Israeli government exterminates the Palestinian people, the more it spreads falsehoods about its behavior, including pretending that a hospital calendar was a Hamas list, the planting of weapons in the bombed al-Shifa hospital to “prove” that it was the site of the “Hamas headquarters”, etc., the more the Israeli government loses support among the public in the world and the US. The common practice by the Israeli government to add metal (balls and cubes that shoot in the radius of 20 yards and cause maximum injuries) in shells and missiles to cause greater suffering, amputations, and deaths in men, women, and children (more than 2/3 of all Palestinian deaths are women and children) is one of the many examples of what the Israeli government describes as the “most moral army in the world”.

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Despite the hope of the Oslo Peace Talks of 1993 and others that followed, the Israeli government continued to build new settlements in the West Bank even under the supposed pro-peace Prime Minister Rabin of Israel, who never promised Palestinians a state. As settlements grew, making a Palestinian State in the West Bank an impossibility (without the removal of the Israeli settlers), so did the hopes of peace were dashed. When the Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon removed a small number of Israeli settlers from the Gaza Strip, he did so, in order to concentrate on expanding settlements in the West Bank, seeing the expenditures in the Gaza Strip, as being too costly. 

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For the last 18 years, the Gaza Strip has been under an economic blockade by the Israeli government, a policy that has been described by the Israeli government as “placing the Palestinian people on a diet”, where men, women, and children would suffer from malnutrition, and would be prevented from leaving the Gaza Strip by the Israeli government, leading to a 50% unemployment. This is the reason why the Gaza Strip has been described as “an open-air prison”. Periodically, the Gaza Strip would be bombed by the Israeli government, a process called “mowing the lawn”, where thousands of men, women, and children would be killed. While the Israeli government would criticize the violent actions of Hamas and Hezbollah, it would never entertain the notion of either ending the occupation, ending the settlement expansion, ending firearm attacks against Palestinian residents, or stopping the periodic bombing campaigns against civilians.

The October 7th, 2023 vile Hamas attack was forewarned by the Egyptian and the US government, including Israeli soldiers, and Israeli civilians, who saw Hamas attack preparations across the fence in plain view, made phone calls, and posted warnings on social media. The response of the Israeli government was to state that no attack was coming. The Israeli government had the blueprints of the attack 2 years before it happened. Rather than beefing up security, the Israeli government removed all surveillance of Hamas, restricted the ability of the Israeli civilians to monitor Hamas' wireless traffic, warned the Israeli soldiers that they would prosecuted, if they keep warning about the Hamas attack, and removed the presence of two commando Israeli brigades from the exact location of the future attack, 2 days before it happened. 

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The planned destruction of the Al-Aqsa Mosque (the third holiest Muslim site) in order to build in its place the Temple of Jerusalem, led to further restrictions on the use of the mosque for the Muslims by the Israeli government, as Muslims were prevented from praying there. The military wing of Hamas called its vile operation “the Al-Aqsa Flood” on October 7th, 2023 that killed hundreds of Israeli soldiers and hundreds of Israeli civilians. Besides killing the Hamas fighters, with the use of the Hannibal directive, the Israeli government justified targeted killing of hundreds of Israeli soldiers and civilians via artillery fire in a declared “kill zone” with hundreds of cars being burned to the ground with Apache helicopters and civilians being exterminated by Israeli tanks that targeted the residential kibbutz area, as being done in order to prevent them from being taken hostage, and being exchanged for the Palestinians (finally admitted by the Haaretz newspaper in July of 2024, after this was already revealed by Grey Zone in October of 2023). Sadly, the Israeli government continues to spread discredited stories from ZAKA – a single source (they were first discredited in October of 2023 by the Grey Zone and later confirmed by human rights groups) about beheaded babies, burned babies in ovens (in complete contradiction of the official death count by the Israeli government), and mass rape of women (with not a single woman claiming rape, no video or photo evidence, as even the UN report has concluded) on October 7th, 2023, in order to justify the starvation and slaughter of hundreds of thousands of innocent Palestinian civilians. Furthermore, US politicians and media hosts (all of whom know better) use these lies about October 7th, 2023, to justify their support for the slaughter of men, women, and children in Gaza. They view the Palestinian people as sub-human, so they are OK with their slaughter. This is shown through words like “animals” and “cancer”, always bringing up October 7th, 2023, but ignoring hundreds of thousands of innocent Palestinian civilians killed, conflating all Palestinian people in Gaza with the Hamas militant wing, which is no different than what is being claimed by the Israeli government.

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After turning the Gaza Strip into Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Israeli government dares to claim complete respect for human life, even after stating at the highest levels of government (Prime Minister and the President) that the civilian Palestinians are to be targeted through warfare. The Israeli government claims respect for human life, even as its actions have resulted in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Palestinian civilians, including scores of their own hostages. Even an Israeli judge on the ICC panel agreed that the ICC ruling that the actions of the Israeli government were consistent with what appeared to the ICC as genocide. One shipment of weapons by the Biden Administration to the Israeli government was withheld, to placate his base, that has been largely horrified at atrocities in Gaza. However, this PR move doesn't change the fact that the rest of the shipments have flown with no restrictions, resulting in more Palestinian civilians getting killed. President Biden's offer of a temporary cease-fire includes the continuation of weapons sales and the slaughter of the Palestinian people. While Hezbollah has offered in return of a ceasefire in Gaza, to end its rocket attacks, the Israeli government has rejected these offers.  Not only did the Israeli government reject the offer of peace, it launched coordinated pager and walkie-talkie attacks in Lebanon, where a third of the people who were killed, were unrelated to Hezbollah, including a child. In response, some of the people in Israel and the United States expressed happiness and made jokes about wounded children (such as that "wounded boys turned into girls"). The opposition to viewing any Arabs as humans is evident in such cases, hence the support for their extermination. The Israeli government also rejected peace offers from the Yemen government. The bias of President Biden is demonstrated by his condolences to the victims of the bombing of one Ukrainian hospital, while not mentioning anything about the countless dead in the destroyed hospitals throughout the Gaza Strip. 

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With the full backing of Donald Trump, President Biden and the bipartisan Congress continue to violate the US Constitution via weapons sales (Article I, Section VIII), the Leahy Act, and other laws, and enable the slaughtering of men, women, and children in Gaza and the West Bank. I am calling for an immediate and permanent ceasefire and a complete stop to all weapons sales and taxpayer-funded foreign aid by Congress and the President. 

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Furthermore, with the increased attacks on Palestinian homes in the West Bank, the Israeli government announced in the middle of 2024 that the largest seizure of Palestinian land in over 30 years will take place, cutting off the Palestinians from the Jordanian border. Without being able to use Hamas as a justification (because it isn't present in the West Bank), the multi-generational policy of the destruction of Palestinian homes in the West Bank (hence the nickname of the Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon  “The Bulldozer”) is rooted in the goal of ethnic cleansing of Palestinians to create a Jewish majority in the historic Palestine. Founded based on false statement (“a land without people for a people without land” - surely Palestinians are people), the government of the State of Israel, has caused the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians since 2023 through violence, starvation, and a denial of access to healthcare (according to Lancet). The seizure of the Palestinian land has been the policy of the Israeli government since 1948, which is based on at least three justifications. One: the ancestors of all Jews have originated in Palestine (this is historically untrue, as Ashkenazi Jews had traveled from Mesopotamia to Europe, and not to Palestine, making the entire “right of return” claim ahistorical), the Jews were the first people to live in Palestine (also historically untrue), and this is what God wants (a debatable claim that cannot be proven, which is opposed by anti-Zionist Jews who practice Judaism. Zionism is a political ideology. Judaism is a religion. In fact, many of the anti-Zionist organizations are  Jewish, and include such organizations as the Jewish Voice for Peace, The American Council for Judaism, etc.). Even if all of these claims were true, there can be no justification for kicking Palestinians out of their homes and exterminating them, just because they happen to come from the “wrong ethnic group”. Otherwise, anything can be justified, including the extermination of the American people.

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I demonstrate the hypocrisy of self-described Christians in the US, including public officials, who support the Israeli government, which funded the starvation and slaughter of Armenian Christians in Nagorno-Karabakh in 2023. They also support the Israeli government's persecution of Armenian Christians in Israel, including the goal of destroying their churches. Meanwhile, they also support the Israeli government, which has been killing Christians for generations and is currently wiping Christians off the map of the Gaza Strip, because according to these self-described Christians, purposefully killing Christian women and children, is “what Jesus would do”.

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During his time in office, President Trump publicly backed the slaughter of hundreds of innocent Palestinians during the peaceful March of Return by the Israeli troops. Donald Trump's actions against peace (including his support for funding the Yemen genocide, which led to the deaths of 300,000), his decision to ignore the plight of the  Palestinians with the Abraham Accords (an anti-Iranian arms deal, which he falsely described as a “peace deal” and which he now claims, in complete contradiction, would have included Iran), the demolition of Palestinian homes and slaughter of Palestinians in the West Bank by the Israeli government, and with a generation-long economic starvation campaign against the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip by the Israeli government, all hopes for peace were extinguished. Now, with the Biden Administration turning a blind eye to slaughter by making sure that more weaponry is sent via Congress to kill more men, women, and children, it is time to hold its administration and members of Congress accountable, by the American people.

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Looking at the response of the Israeli government after October 7th, 2023, reminded me of the US government's response after September 11th, 2001. Rather than prosecuting those responsible for the attacks, both governments have gone after people, who had nothing to do with the attacks. Both governments' actions resulted in diplomatic isolation and hatred of both governments, after the initial world sympathy after the attacks. Both governments set themselves into traps, which in the case of the Israeli government, is setting its people for a bigger economic shock, as over half a million people have left the country, Israeli companies are being boycotted worldwide, and foreign companies are leaving Israel, as well. There is no doubt that given Netanyahu's stated plan to erase the Gaza Strip and the West Bank before October 7th, 2023, he has been using that event as an excuse to wage war against the people of the Gaza Strip, just like President Bush was using the 9/11 attacks to wage the Iraq War.

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Foreign government lobbying groups may spend hundreds of millions of dollars to defeat members of Congress, who refuse to obey a foreign government. Foreign government lobbyists may buy members of Congress and Presidents with family trips and campaign contributions. However, they will never win the support of the majority of Americans, who are sick and tired of having their tax dollars being used to purposefully slaughter men, women, and children by a foreign government! It is time to stop electing candidates who represent the interests of foreign governments. I support the US Constitution, not the military industrial complex, and the impoverishment of the American people!