Jan 4, 2009
As Americans from coast to coast protest the Palestinian Genocide being
Perpetrated by the Government of Israel on the Palestinians, Dennis
Kucinich and Cynthia McKinney prove that they are committed to ending
the current Holocaust.
After creating a crisis by cutting off humanitarian aid, including
medical aid, to women, children and babies in Palestine, Israel
followed up prior attacks on Gaza's civilian population with a
series of air strikes on homes in densely populated area. Because
Israel had already cut off medical supplies, it was nearly impossible
for the Palestinian babies and children, who survived the bombings, to
receive life-saving medical care.
Seeing pictures of dying babies and children wasn't enough for the
Israeli Government. Today, the Israeli Army marched on Gaza in
what appears to be an Israeli policy of ethnic cleansing.
No leader in Congress has been as outspoken against the slaughter than
Dennis Kucinich, who has been standing up and speaking out since the
crisis began. Supported by Jews for Peace and others opposed to
the killing of innocent children, Dennis Kucinich has been trying
to get the United Nations to investigate the actions of the Government
of Israel. More and more Americans are calling these actions,
"crimes against humanity." Former Congresswoman was almost
assassinated by the Government of Israel while McKinney attempted to
bring medical humanitarian aid to the people and children of Gaza.
On December 29, Dennis Kucinich issued the following statement:
"Today I sent a letter to Secretary General Ban ki-Moon urging the
United Nations to establish an independent inquiry of Israel's war
against Gaza. The attacks on civilians represent collective punishment,
which is a violation of Article 33 of the Fourth Geneva Convention (http://www.unhchr.ch/html/menu3/b/92.htm).
The perpetrators of attacks against Israel must also be brought to
justice, but Israel cannot create a war against an entire people in
order to attempt to bring to justice the few who are responsible. The
Israeli leaders know better. The world community, which has been very
supportive of Israel's right to security and its right to survive, also
has a right to expect Israel to conduct itself in adherence to the very
laws which support the survival of Israel and every other nation,"
Kucinich said.
"Israel is leveling Gaza to strike at Hamas, just as they pulverized
south Lebanon to strike at Hezbollah. Yet in both cases civilian
populations were attacked, countless innocents killed or injured,
infrastructure targeted and destroyed, and civil law enforcement
negated. All this was, and is, disproportionate, indiscriminate mass
violence in violation of international law. Israel is not exempt from
international law and must be held accountable. It is time for the UN
to not just call for a cease-fire, but for an inquiry as to Israel's
actions."http://kucinich.house.gov/News/DocumentSingle.aspx?DocumentID=108039
Green Presidential candidate and former Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney
took matters into her own hands. On December 30, in an effort to
save the lives of children who were on the verge of death,
Congresswoman McKinney accompanied a humanitarian shipment of medical
supplies enroute to Gaza on the ship Dignity. While the
ship was still in international waters, the Israeli Navy
rammed the humanitarian boat several times in an apparent attempt to
sink it and likely kill the passengers. The ramming attack was
followed up with shots fired from by the Israelis towards those
bringing the supplies, all in international waters. McKinney's
life was spared when the Israeli Navy learned
that the boat contained a live video feed and that seeming
assassination attempt had been exposed. Though the seeming
assassination attempt prevented the humanitarians from dropping off the
medical supplies in Gaza, the ship made it to Tyre, Lebanon, where
the Lebanese people were jubilant and gave the former Presidential
Candidate a heroes welcome.
How many dead babies is enough? How many bombed children, dying
from lack of medical care, is enough? When will the Israeli
Government begin to value human life? Will the Olmert Government
be prosecuted for crimes against humanity? Thousands of Israelis
have deserted the mandatory military service and sought to bring about
an end to the violence. Peace-loving Israelis continue to
demonstrate side by side with Palestinians in an effort to let their
government know that they don't want their government to kill
anymore innocents. Can peaceful Israelis kick the warmonger out of
their government? Members of Jews for Peace and other
groups opposed to this new Holocaust are hoping for Regime Change in
Israel.
Both Dennis Kucinich and Cynthia McKinney ran for President in
2008. In the face of the humanitarian crisis in Gaza, these two
former Presidential candidates proved to be the most Presidential of
America's leaders.
Not one person on the Creative Youth News Team is Palestinian.
Several members are Jewish or part Jewish.
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