Anthony Aguilars Comments to Democracy Now.

Aguilar's comments were shared by Elizabeth Berry on Facebook 

 

Below are former US Green Beret, Anthony Aguilar's comments on Democracy Now describing US genocide in action. There are thousands of Americans that are complicit as IDF soldiers or simply supporters. The US government, or as Michael Beckley writing in Foreign Affairs Magazine refers to it, the "Rogue superpower" , is behind the genocide. The most vitriol is directed at the Israeli neo-Nazi regime which is justified but it is important to point out that this human catastrophe is Washington's project. Biden could have stopped the mass murder a long time ago. The tail does not wag the horse in this situation as some people are arguing. 

 

This situation in Gaza is not uncommon at all for US military ventures. Let us not forget Fallujah which will be a shrine forever for the Iraqi resistance to an illegal war waged on them by the US. The assault on Fallujah was punishment for the population taking revenge on US mercenaries they managed to get their hands on.The most prolific terrorist organization in the world is the CIA and its parent, US imperialism. A Aguilar reveals the hypocrisy and brutality of the phone US/Israel aid centre let's not forget the US dock built that last a month or so at a cost of around $500 million. I have a popular footbridge over the creek in my ton damaged by storm felled trees and we can't get that fixed.

 

Here are Aguilars's comments.

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"What I witnessed in Gaza, I can only describe as a dystopian, post-apocalyptic wasteland. We — we, the United States — are complicit. We are involved, hand in hand, in the atrocities and the genocide that is currently undergoing in Gaza. For anyone who says that there is no starvation or mass hunger, or that not only are we at the precipice, but we have stepped over the line of wide-scale famine, to anyone who says that that’s not happening, shame on you. Shame on you. It’s inhumane.

What I witnessed in Gaza at all four distribution sites — I didn’t just go to one for a photo-op. I didn’t go to one to watch a distribution and then say, “Yes, this looks great.” I spent days on end in Gaza at all four distribution sites, at Kerem Shalom, where the aid is loaded for distribution, and at both operation centers that control the daily convoys, logistics operations and distribution for the four sites. What I saw on the sites, around the sites, to and from the sites, can be described as nothing but war crimes, crimes against humanity, violations of international law. This is not hyperbole. This is not platitudes or drama. This is the truth."

RAZOR WIRE WAS USED AT THESE SITES

The sites, not only where they were built, all four sites around the perimeter and the roads leading in and out are barricaded by razor wire — not barbed wire, not concertina wire that we use in warfare for obstacle obstruction or for paths. Razor wire. Geneva Conventions specifically prohibit the use of razor wire to restrict areas that civilians are servicing — hospitals, water points, food distribution points. And we’re using it. Not only did the IDF provide it for us to use it on the sites, we, UG Solutions, the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, asked for it specifically. Razor wire is designed to maim and kill, and we’re using that to channelize and herd, if you will, thousands of unarmed, starving civilians. That’s a war crime.

GHF EMPLOYEES WERE GIVEN AUTOMATIC WEAPONS TO DEFEND THEMSELVES AGAINST STARVING CIVILIANS 
The equipment, the equipment that we were issued, fully automatic weapons, which, in and of itself, is not a violation of protocol. However, we were issued M855 green-tipped ammunition. That’s important, because green-tipped ammunition is a steel-jacketed copper round that’s designed to — specifically designed to penetrate armor. It’s designed to kill. It’s designed to shoot through reinforced objects, to kill someone on the other side of it. That’s what all the UG Solutions contractors are equipped with right now in country. Everyone carries a standard basic load of 210 rounds of M855 armor-piercing military combat ammunition. Why would anyone need that, even if to defend themselves for their — defend their lives, against an unarmed population? It’s inappropriate. That, in and of itself, that action there, is a war crime.

SITE WERE DESIGNED TO LURE AND KILL, NOT TO MEET THE NEEDS OF A STARVING POPULATION.

The sites were designed to lure, bait, aid and kill. The food that we distribute, nowhere near enough. To Mr. Johnnie Moore, shame on you for celebrating 92 million meals delivered into Gaza. Shame on you. It’s a very simple equation: 92 divided by 2.2 million people, divided by 3 million — or, three meals a day. That’s what GHF proclaims. We’ve been distributing aid since the 26th of May, 26th May to now the 29th of June, 64 days of continuous distribution, and we’ve only managed to distribute 92 million meals. When you break that down, again, it’s a simple equation. That’s 14 days of meals. So, out of 64 days, we’ve provided 14 days of meals to the entire population in the enclave of Gaza. That’s inhumane. That would be like saying that you only eat every fourth day — you only eat on Thursday, and you only eat on Monday. And to say that that’s humanitarian? So, to anyone that says that that’s enough or — not even close to enough. The narrative of GHF needs help to do the rest, you don’t need help, because you’re not even anywhere close to where we need to be.