24, June 2023 Drone Strikes
I am appalled that our government is aiding terrorist attacks by Israeli settlers and the army on defenseless Palestinian civilians including young children. For decades the US government has donated $billions of aid and a blanket complete impunity to facilitate these terrorist attacks.
From Drone Strikes to Settler terrorist attacks, Israel
is intensifying efforts to drive out all Palestinians to usher in a “greater Israel.”
Israel has launched several attacks on Palestinians with
new weapons, including deploying U.S.-made Apache helicopter gunships inside
the West Bank and firing a targeted assassination aerial strikes. Jewish
settlers have also raided Palestinian villages in the West Bank, attacking
residents and setting fire to homes and vehicles. Mariam Barghouti, senior
Palestine correspondent for Mondoweiss, calls the attacks “an intensification
to completely take over Palestine.” The growing violence is reflective of the
leadership of Israel’s minister of national security, Itamar Ben-Gvir, who
recently called for the renewing of Defensive Shield, a military operation
which used similar weaponry in 2002 that has been condemned for “crimes against
humanity.” This all comes as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s
far-right government has agreed to accelerate the process for approving new
settlements in the West Bank despite criticism from the United Nations,
European Union and United States.
Mr. Biden, it's time to stiffen your spin, call on Prime
Minister Netanyahu to immediately halt Israel’s terrorism, end the occupation
and lift the siege of Gaza.
