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Sign CODE PINK Petition to End Genocide Against Palestinians in Gaza

by Code Pink
Bombing Gaza is a deliberate act of genocide against the Palestinian people.
https://www.codepink.org/indefensible
The US has played a significant role in this by being the biggest funder of Israel’s military, providing it with $3.8 billion every year, as well as currently working to send $14.5 billion more in military “aid”. Despite Israel’s brutal violence against Palestinians increasing this year, and the blatant genocide being carried out in Gaza now, the US has repeatedly expressed its support for the occupying forces. Now 15,000+ Palestinians have been killed by Israel since October 7. Help us move towards peace by adding your name to the petition below.
STOP arming genocide in Palestine!

Dear President Biden and Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III,

With over 15,000+ Palestinians murdered by Israel since October 7, most of the bombs dropped on them say “Made in the USA.”

Israel has fired over 32,000 tonnes of explosives into Gaza since 7 October 2023. The explosive force is estimated to be equivalent to double the nuclear bomb dropped on Hiroshima in Japan in 1945. Palestinians in Gaza have nowhere to go but face the horrific genocide being unleashed on them by Israel.Israel has forced Palestinians to live in oppressive conditions since the start of its settler colonial project in 1948. As Israel continues to bombard civilians, the US shares responsibility, considering the significant role it chooses to play as Israel’s most powerful supporter.

Yet, despite the increased horror by Israel in Gaza recently, Congress is honoring Biden’s request to continue to fund genocide. The United States House of Representatives has passed a Republican plan providing $14.5 billion in military aid for Israel. The package includes $4 Billion to replenish Israel’s Iron Dome and David’s Sling missile defense systems and military equipment transferred from US stocks. That means more weapons and more murder!

We call on you to respect and recognize the rights of Palestinians, withdraw ALL support from the apartheid state, and call for an immediate ceasefire and an end to Israel's genocide campaign against Palestinians.

The US has had many opportunities to stop supporting Israel’s indiscriminate violence towards Palestinians. Despite this, the US remains staunch in its support for Israel, increasing the suffering of Palestinians and fueling the resistance.Now is the time to call for a ceasefire and end to the genocide of Palestinians, not to send more weapons to Israel.
https://www.codepink.org/indefensible
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Bombing Gaza is a deliberate act of genocide against the Palestinian people.
https://www.codepink.org/indefensible

The US has played a significant role in this by being the biggest funder of Israel’s military, providing it with $3.8 billion every year, as well as currently working to send $14.5 billion more in military “aid”.

Despite Israel’s brutal violence against Palestinians increasing this year, and the blatant genocide being carried out in Gaza now, the US has repeatedly expressed its support for the occupying forces.

Now 15,000+ Palestinians have been killed by Israel since October 7.
Help us move towards peace by adding your name to the petition below.
https://www.codepink.org/indefensible

STOP arming genocide in Palestine!

Dear President Biden and Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III,
With over 15,000+ Palestinians murdered by Israel since October 7, most of the bombs dropped on them say “Made in the USA.”
Israel has fired over 32,000 tonnes of explosives into Gaza since 7 October 2023.
The explosive force is estimated to be equivalent to double the nuclear bomb dropped on Hiroshima in Japan in 1945.
Palestinians in Gaza have nowhere to go but face the horrific genocide being unleashed on them by Israel.
Israel has forced Palestinians to live in oppressive conditions since the start of its settler colonial project in 1948.
As Israel continues to bombard civilians, the US shares responsibility, considering the significant role it chooses to play as Israel’s most powerful supporter.
Yet, despite the increased horror by Israel in Gaza recently, Congress is honoring Biden’s request to continue to fund genocide.
The United States House of Representatives has passed a Republican plan providing $14.5 billion in military aid for Israel.
The package includes $4 Billion to replenish Israel’s Iron Dome and David’s Sling missile defense systems and military equipment transferred from US stocks.
That means more weapons and more murder!

We call on you to respect and recognize the rights of Palestinians, withdraw ALL support from the apartheid state, and call for an immediate ceasefire and an end to Israel's genocide campaign against Palestinians.

The US has had many opportunities to stop supporting Israel’s indiscriminate violence towards Palestinians.
Despite this, the US remains staunch in its support for Israel, increasing the suffering of Palestinians and fueling the resistance.
Now is the time to call for a ceasefire and end to the genocide of Palestinians, not to send more weapons to Israel.
https://www.codepink.org/indefensible


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by Alexandra Yurkovsky
I have written three letters to President Biden and VP Harris. In response to my second letter, the President expressed a desire to be fair to the Israelis killed or kidnapped on October 7, 2023, and the innocent civilians of Gaza. He wrote that the Palestinians are not to blame, but Hamas.

If they are not to blame, there is NO excuse for the holocaustal bombing of Gaza--harming the environment, including non-human animals, as well as mostly women and children. Kirby's facile explanation that Hamas is "embedded" in the infrastructure of Gaza is callously abhorrent, and a very poor explanation and a bad excuse for sending dumb bombs to Israel. Secretary of State Blinken shouldn't be trying to *cajole* Netanyahu and IDF to be more *careful* in their bombing; as so many have demanded, the carpet bombing and abuse of non-Hamas civilians (see poet Mosab Abu Toha's account of "mistakenly" being taken into custody and abused in a recent New Yorker), as well as the "leaked" comments about relocating Palestinians to the Congo demand the only ethical action possible: end military aid to Israel.

Thank you for reading. Please consider these points carefully. I'm sure you are aware of them, but meditate honestly on the facts, which you know as well as many, but not enough, of we US citizens do. If its not genocide but only ethnic cleansing--well, you know that's still not OK.
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