PREMISE:
The actions perpetrated against the non-military Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank constitute a crime, a crime against humanity, a war crime or Genocide. Call it what you will.
FACT
The Biden Administration and the candidates for President of the United States chosen by each of the two major political parties openly support Israel’s actions in both Gaza and the West Bank and thus are complicit in them. So say a majority of the UN General Assembly and a significant number of the Countries of the world, the UN International Court of Justice, UN Court of International Law, Scholars of International Law and many well-known scholars, such as Norman Finkelstein and Prof. John Mearsheimer and other reputable and knowledgeable individuals such as Max Blumenthal, Scott Ritter, Jeffery Sachs, Ray McGovern and Alastair Crooke to name a few.
And what can be said of those who vote for one or the other of the aforementioned candidates and their party? Will they have denied that which has been seen ad nauseam on mainstream media since October 8th, 2023, reason that such actions are justified by the right of Israel to exist or find some other rationale to justify their vote and thus become complicit themselves? Since a vote is tantamount to support, one could reasonably conclude the chain of complicity has not been broken so, indeed, the hypothetical voter would surely be complicit.
A prudent voter would, when determining whether to vote for a candidate, determine that candidate held the voter’s basic principles.
Further, if a liberal Democrat or other Democrat holding some liberal views, they would decry racism in any form. Since genocide is racism in its most vile and virulent form, how could said voter cast a vote, say, for the present democratic presidential candidate without violating a basic principle of liberalism and thus becoming complicit in genocide?
Since the Republican Party’s candidate also supports Israel’s actions against the Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank, this same question could be posed to a conservative Republican voter, providing they decry racism in its varying forms.
This scenario provides both major parties with a conundrum … one which calls for the voter to remain true to their basic principles or allow the policies of their Party or Party’s candidate to supersede them. It is times like these that try one’s faith and resolution.
Chuck McLaughlin