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The Partial Observer by Wriley Nelson

J'accuse: Every American Has Palestinian Blood on Their Hands

Have we all gone mad? Since my last column six months ago, the American genocide in Palestine has killed at least another 50,000 civilians, with total death estimates now reaching over 200,000. Two million civilians, half of whom are children and most of whom were already refugees from previous Israeli ethnic cleansing across the country, are starving as you read this. They wander back and forth in the bombed-out shell of their homeland from fake safe zone to fake safe zone while brave American Zionist teenagers sit in air conditioned trailers and drop more American bombs on them.

I need not repeat the main points of my first column; it is still available on AllOtsego.com. Nor is this the place to examine the inherent absurdity of Zionism, or any other claim that a national or religious group has the right to an apartheid ethnostate on someone else’s land. For the uninitiated, Zionism is the 19th century European ideology that Jewish people should build a 19th century European-style nation-state somewhere, and is quite distinct from the ancient, vibrant and culturally rich major world religion that is Judaism. I doubt I have ever attended a pro-Palestine event without a significant contingent of anti-Zionist Jews. In fact, the vast majority of the world’s Zionists are evangelical Christians and secular liberals in the U.S. and Western Europe. Zionism was implemented through self-styled terrorism in the British colony of Palestine in 1948, creating the state of Israel through massive, intentional ethnic cleansing that killed 15,000 people and drove 750,000—fully half of the Palestinian population—out of their homes and villages.

Let me give you a small taste of what the overgrown American aircraft carrier calling itself “Israel” has done in our name and on our dime since last I wrote. It has done these things with the full backing of the Biden/Harris administration, which provides the occupation regime with at least two-thirds of its weaponry, supplemental air cover from resistance missiles, and unlimited diplomatic cover. They offer bald lies, “refuse to speculate,” ask us to wait for the IDF to investigate itself and get back to them. The motto of Kamala Harris’s Democratic Party—proud home of Dick Cheney and Alberto Gonzalez—is “now is not the time.”