Israeli bombs kill more health care workers in Gaza. Israeli bombs kill more journalists in Gaza. Israeli bombs kill more children in Gaza. Israeli bombs kill more hope for the future in Gaza.
Who have you helped kill today?
Silence and willing taxpayer support for a savage Israeli slaughter has contributed to the death and destruction of Palestinian life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, solemn values Americans supposedly embrace and nurture. Unless you oppose the Israeli/American genocide and do something to help make the carnage stop, you help kill the sacred idea that we are obligated to help stop war crimes and human extermination.
Unless you oppose occupation and support the idea of Palestinian freedom you have helped kill America’s democratic and patriotic belief in law and justice. Unless you stand against our lackluster and dangerous local, state and national elected government officials who support Israeli military madness, you have sided with ongoing barbaric furor that fuels Israel’s unjust war on Palestinian people, culture and identity.
You help the madness continue.
Last September Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy visited former President Joe Biden’s birthplace in Scranton and the Scranton Army Ammunition Plant that makes 155 shell casings civilian workers later fill with explosives to send to Ukraine and elsewhere.
Government officials barred media from the tour.
Some of Pennsylvania’s most powerful and popular elected officials, all loyal Blue MAGA yellow dog Democrats, showed up to greet Zelenskyy and autograph or write notes on new bomb casings to send a message to whoever has the bad luck to be on the explosive receiving end of a Scranton-made shell.
Chipper cheerleaders included Scranton Mayor Paige Cognetti, Gov. Josh Shapiro, then U.S. Rep. Matt Cartwright and then U.S. Sen. Bob Casey. Cartwright and Casey lost re-election bids in November to right-wing zealot Republicans Rep. Rob Bresnahan Jr. and Sen. Dave McCormick, losing countless Democratic and Independent votes because of their support for Israeli genocide. Israeli lackey and Pennsylvania’s other U.S. Sen. John Fetterman missed the Scranton rally due to previously scheduled goose-stepping practice.
Nowadays Zionist zealot Shapiro keeps busy trying to curtail free speech and intimidate college presidents with phony accusations of antisemitism the way he bullied University of Pennsylvania administrators who had respected faculty and students during legitimate pro-Palestinian campus protests. Zionist darling Shapiro now uses his position as governor to set the stage for a future Democratic bid for president of the United States.
Cognetti busies herself running for re-election as Scranton mayor as well as playing cutsey about whether she’ll run for the Democratic nomination to face Bresnahan in November. Cognetti once publicly stated, “I stand with Israel.” The Oregon-raised hipster and Harvard Business School graduate steadfastly refuses to respond to my questions as to whether she still supports the colonialist apartheid state. Liberal warmonger Cognetti wants to have her bombs and drop them too, all while Gazan children and other innocents die at the hands of Israeli/American mass murder she supports.
Army spokespersons refused to grant me a subsequent tour of the Scranton ammunition factory and repeatedly refused to answer my questions about whether Israel receives our Scranton homemade bombs to kill Palestinian children, women and men.
I joined Palestinian rights protestors Monday at the Scranton ammunition plant to call attention to the Israeli/American slaughter. After the protest I offered the best advice I could about how to pressure our local, state and national elected officials who depend on Northeastern Pennsylvania (NEPA) voters for re-election and why we need to confront, embarrass and shame them at every turn.
Pickets at their homes and weddings, disruptions of public and private events and civil disobedience need to increase. Increasing numbers of people of conscience need to make these so-called public servants aware of their hypocrisy. We must voice our unwillingness to ignore their self-absorbed apathy. We pay for their salaries and benefits. We must hold them accountable for their crimes of silence.
We must also pressure NEPA media.
Despite the Israeli military killing more than 200 local Palestinian journalists, some with assassination, and barring international press organizations from freely covering Gaza, other than a shallow local report here and there, NEPA television stations and newspapers have failed to report the Palestinian genocide appropriately or thoroughly. Not one local broadcast or print reporter or local news executive has been brave enough to dig deep or push for easily available local angles in this tragic story. Of course, Scranton Times-Tribune columnist Chris Kelly long ago relinquished the aggressive voice of an honorable news columnist and remains an apologist for status quo Democrats and sweetheart to the liberal beautiful people.
Many more of us must speak out against Israel’s final solution against the Palestinian people. We must resist and oppose our family and friends’ support for the Israeli/American plan for annihilation. We must fight the cruel for-profit system that kills in our name.
Humanity depends on it.
