Prior to October 7, Hamas has repeatedly warned Israel not to evict Palestinians in Sheikh Jarrah’s neighborhood in occupied East Jerusalem, attack worshippers at Al-Aqsa Mosque, torture and abuse Palestinian prisoners, or bomb civilian targets in Gaza. Israel ignored the warning and bombed a 15-story residential building in Gaza, which is home to dozens of families and tens of local international media offices. Immediately, Hamas responded by showering most of the Israeli cities with homemade rockets, forcing Israelis to live in bomb shelters and shutting down Ben Gurion airport in Tel Aviv. By Mahmoud El-Yousseph

September 14, 2024

 

For VP Kamala Harris, people with short memories and/or people not in the known, since 2007, Israel has kept Gaza under an illegal and inhumane military siege, counting calorie intake for Palestinians, and permitting the water in Gaza to become undrinkable, thereby creating a humanitarian crisis widely condemned by the international community. Ethnic cleansing of Palestinians has always been Israeli policy. Over the past year under the leadership of the most right-wing government in Israeli history, the Israeli military and settlers have led an escalated campaign of displacement, dispossession, and violent repression against Palestinians across Israel and the West Bank, including East Jerusalem according to Jewish Voice for Peace.

 

In the 20 years before October 7, 2023, Israel killed at least 8,000 Palestinians in Gaza by bombardment and blockaded Gaza for the 18 years causing uncountable deaths by poor health and sanitary infrastructure. THEN came October 7. Since then, 41,000 Palestinians were killed by bombing and an estimated total death of 180,000 according to a study published in the Lancet. 2,200,000 live in a concentration camp with little food, no clean water, and no medical facilities. Only monsters can do these crimes against humanity.

 

Eleven months after the war on Gaza, Israel has failed to produce any evidence about its claim of mass rape and beheading. Even though there is absence of testimony, evidence, DNA tests or video/recordings, or even a dress aka Monika Lewinsky's dress, VP Kamala Harris saw fit during her first presidential debate to parrot the Israeli propaganda in an effort to dehumanize Palestinians. Even though President Biden was forced to backpaddle his statement early during Gaza genocide about the rape and beheading which the Israel daily Haaretz called it hoax. 

 

VP Harris, the President, and our Secretary of State are all guilty not only of spreading demagoguery and smear campaign against the Palestinians, but they are also complicit in the genocide in Gaza by providing Israel with bombs, intelligence and political cover and voting several times against UN Ceasefire Resolutions. That could have easily saved thousands of innocent Palestinian lives as well as Israelis. History will remember all 3 of them as war criminals.

 

I am not so sure why did you refer to Hamas as terrorist organization during the debate? However, as the saying goes, "One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter." I am old enough to remember when former President Reagan invited the head of the Taliban Rep. to the White House and called the "Mujahideen" (in Arabic: freedom fighters) the equivalent of our founding fathers." The reason was they were fighting then our enemy, the former Soviet Union. Well, like it or not, Hamas are freedom fighters who are defending Palestinian lands from brutal foreign military occupied who are the strongest army in the Middle East as well as illegal Jewish settlers. I should add Hamas never:

 

* Attacked the US or other western allies.

* Stole top US secrets.

* Never sold our top and industrial secrets to our advocacies.

* Never interfered in our election.

* Never killed US citizens in cold blood as Israel did with the USS Liberty, Rachel, Shireen, Omar, and Aisha Nur last week to name few.

 

Trust me, Crime Minister Netanyahu and the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) lie through their teeth to cover up their crimes in Gaza and their crimes and incompetence during the war. By lying on Netanyahu's behalf, VP Kamala Harris is helping Israel escape blame and accountability for its war crimes against Palestinians.

 

An apology to Palestinians is in order.