Editor:
In 1988 the United States ratified the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide. This month the director of the New York office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, Craig Mokhiber, resigned, describing the situation in Gaza as a textbook case of genocide.
On Nov. 7, Nobel Peace Prize winner Mairead Maguire called for the Genocide Convention to be invoked. She said, “The governments of the U.S., U.K., Germany and much of Europe are wholly complicit in the horrific assault on the people of Gaza.”
Almost every elected official in Congress and the White House has failed to uphold and defend the U.S. Constitution of the United States by ignoring the Supremacy Clause which states in part, “… all Treaties made … shall be the supreme law of the land.” Not only are these official ignoring their responsibility to uphold the Constitution, they are aiding and abetting Israeli war crimes of ethnic cleansing and collective punishment by providing massive amounts of taxpayer money for more weapons with which to bomb civilians living in the prison camp known as Gaza.
Shame on our elected officials who hold out their hands to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee for campaign contributions, pledge their support for Israel after being elected, and for the past 75 years vote in lock-step to provide the Israeli government with whatever it wants.
Louise Legun
Blandon
Source: Berkshire mont