Gaza: When a Genocide is Happening Silence is Complicity.

Richard Mellor
Afscme Local 444, retired
HEO/GED

12-03-2024

As you watch this, think of the monsters that inhabit the US Congress. After you watch it, never again allow someone to question why the Germans allowed Hitler's rise to power or the Nazi Party itself. Tell them to STFU when they go on about Stalin or Mao. 

The savagery that we see in the video, occurred, not in opposition to US policy and the Biden/Harris Administration, but with its full cooperation. If you are silent on this in your everyday life then you too are complicit, not at the same level for sure, but you are not an innocent bystander any more than someone who witnesses an assault on another person and chooses to not get involved in any way, even as a witness.

No one with any sense blames all Germans for Hitler, nor are all Americans responsible for the war criminals Biden and Harris or the US Congress. We are not responsible for the three million Vietnamese the US government killed, under the leadership of Nixon, Kissinger, (one of the world's preeminent killers) and LBJ. The twin parties of capitalism that have a dictatorship over US political and economic life are responsible.

But if you say nothing or support their policies you are. If you don’t raise it with friends now and then. If you don’t mention it at dinner with neighbors or relatives, you are taking sides, this is particularly true if you are in a trade union and have not raised this issue here as most oil the victims are workers for one thing. 

I stopped by my city council meeting for a brief moment last night and spoke to one of the regular attendees. I asked if there was any efforts to pass a resolution against the genocide in Palestine. She replied that, "oh we don't get involved in national or international politics."

Firstly, that is not true, if Jews were being bombed rather then Muslims, or the British were bombing the Catholic communities in Northern Ireland we'd see a different scenario for sure. 

Secondly, what a myopic view of the world. Nothing that happens locally can be separated from international events. Climate change doesn't affect California's West Coast does it?

When I ran for Oakland city council in 1996 I remember getting a book that all candidates received. One sentence stood out for me, it was a sentence that stressed that what happens in Oakland is dependent on "Pacific Rim Trade". Oakland is a major container port in the U.S., and the main port for trade with Asia.

Israel is a racist Apartheid state. The Zionist regime is bombing civilians, women and children and the US is supporting it. Say something.