THE "ABANDON HARRIS" V. THE "VOTE UNCOMMITTED" WINGS OF THE PEACE MOVEMENT IN GAZA - WHERE THE HELL ARE THE REST OF YOU?
- Gonzalo Santos
- Aug 25, 2024
- 3 min read
Interesting evolution of the movement, that went from pressuring the Dems and working within the DNC to bring Palestinian voices to the fore - efforts which were rebuffed callously by the Dems -, to where a new wing is prepared to focus on renewing militant street action outside the Duopoly Games of 2024.
Look for the return of encampments - and the escalation of police repression and a spiral of social chaos - now that campuses across the country are returning to classes.
The issue of genocide in Gaza cannot and will not be ignored. The Dems are deluding themselves they can ignore it - as they did at the DNC - and it will not affect the elections. They are also deluding themselves Israel will agree to a ceasefire WITHOUT Biden threatening to impose an arms embargo - which, of course, neither he nor Harris will ever do without relentless mass pressure. The Dems, after all and ever since the Israeli Palestinian conflict arose, have always played this double game of "honest broker" deception and hawkish, unconditional support for Israel's apartheid and crimes against humanity since its founding.
Trump, who has never had a problem showing his utter disdain and indifference for Palestinians and their plight, probably "persuaded" his ally Netanyahu - when they recently met in Mar-a-Lago, thanks to Chuck Schumer's invitation to come speak to Congress! - to NOT sign any cease fire deal, even if that means sacrificing the Israeli hostages, but to continue the horrendous genocide until after the Nov. elections, to help him win over a divided Dem base -- just like Richard Nixon "persuaded" the South Vietnamese president Nguyễn Văn Thiệu to NOT sign a ready peace accord with the Johnson/Kissinger administration in 1968, for precisely the same reasons.
The truth of that act of high treason on the part of Nixon - which Johnson knew but did not reveal - prolonged the war many more years at great cost in U.S. and Vietnamese lives, only came out in 2017 - 49 years later! Biden/Harris probably know perfectly well what's going on with Trump and Netanyahu, and both are sitting on it, too, though the truth of the complicity will come out a lot sooner in our digital age.
This is how the Duopoly Games are played: aside from all the hoopla, actually behind the backs of the American people, who remain as mesmerized at all the P.R. gimmicks as always, and at the expense of untold suffering of millions of Americans and millions of others deigned unimportant, unworthy of mention - let alone attention!
Speaking of "others" besides the Palestinian people also thrown under the bus in this election cycle, long-residing immigrants and flows of asylum seekers from the Americas come to mind. They may not be subjected to carpet bombing in a trapped space, like the Gaza inhabitants are, but they are experiencing a via crucis of extreme hardship and cruel treatment by all governments involved - in the failed countries of origin, in the corrupt countries of transit, and at the U.S. border and its system of unaccountable, for-profit, inhumane immigrant jails. And yet, like the Palestinians, they resist and try to survive the best they can.
Solidarity to both! Deny your vote to the callous, corrupt, immoral American duopoly that sacrifices millions for their Duopoly Games! Vote Uncommitted for the top of the ticket, vote for progressives only in the down races, and most importantly, see you at the defiant, morally clear, politically incorruptible, peaceful & massive street protests! Shut down the system until and unless it responds to our demands:
STOP THE GENOCIDE IN GAZA! PERMANENT CEASE FIRE NOW!
STOP PERSECUTING ASYLUM-SEEKERS AT THE BORDER!
PRESIDENTIAL PARDON TO ALL LONG-RESIDING UNDOCUMENTED IMMIGRANTS!
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