By Walt Zlotow
Why won’t 519 other congresspersons join Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene and 13 other congresspersons in condemning US enabled Israeli genocide in Gaza?
Only 14 of Congress’s 533 members (2 vacancies) are correctly calling Israel’s genocide in Gaza… genocide and calling for end to all US weapons fueling that genocide.
The most impassioned and articulate in condemning the most grotesque US foreign policy in its 250 years is Georgia Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene. She doesn’t hold back while the 519 congresspersons who dare not jeopardize their standing with the Israel Lobby cower in the background.
“I don’t know about you, but I don’t want to pay for genocide in a foreign country against a foreign people for a foreign war that I had nothing to do with. And I will not be silent about it.”
Greene is an outlier in the Israeli genocide loving Republican Party. All 272 other Republicans in the House and Senate want nothing to do with Greene’s principled stance.
Democrats are just a tad better. The other 13 congresspersons condemning Israel’s genocide and calling or end to all US weapons fueling it are Democrats. But that is only 5% of 260 Democrats in Congress, a sorrowful indictment of the so called progressive party. Supporting genocide is not progressive. It is ghastly.
My peace organization West Suburban Peace Coalition in Glen Ellyn IL in the IL 6th District, reached out to our Congressman Sean Casten in January, 2024 and this month on Zoom regarding the genocide. He refuses to join the morally centered congresspersons calling the genocide what it is and demanding end to all genocide weapons to Israel. He continues to claim he’s “doing everything he can to end the suffering of the Palestinian people.” Nonsense, he doing nothing except engaging in ‘happy talk’ designed to lull his constituents into believing he cares about a people being wiped out of their homeland with his tacit cooperation.
My appeal to Congressman Casten including this appropriate warning. “Congressman Casten, please do not let ignoring the genocide you surely know is happening remain a stain on your congressional resume for one more day during your congressional career.”
Sadly, my Congressman Sean Casten remains in league with the other 518 congresspersons who refuse to stand up against the Israeli genocide their government, of which they are members of and are complicit with, is supporting.
Walt Zlotow, West Suburban Peace Coalition, Glen Ellyn IL
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re. Why won’t Congress join Marjorie? Snouts in the trough seems a relevant point.
The American Zionist lobby consistently funds federal and local politicians via AIPAC and other pro-Israel groups… millions of dollars flow into the hands of the American political class.
In the land of the Great Satan, where Mammon rules supreme, why would you bite the hand that feeds you?
I’d be surprised if Walt Zlotow was unaware of this fact.
Demand that every Congress member declare all of their sources for campaign expenses and personal income and wealth and you will find one source common to all. And that is the extent of interference and influence of a foreign nation that cannot survive without US Congressional support. Guess who?
It is not just about the Gaza thing, every single Congress person is just standing there doing nothing and allowing Chump to just go around and literally do anything he wants. They are all 100% complicit in the destruction of America and its democracy.
Magnifying the Zionist lobby, a once small part, we have the long-time US plan of maintaining its hegemon through brutal coercion, via economics, legal exceptionalism, military domination and the power of surveillance, espionage and global propaganda.
Its plan has increasingly become its art-form, initially post-WWII-funded by the MICs, then spreading through financial abstractions such as ‘derivatives’, ‘hedges’ and other insurances, and algorithm-only-based market manipulation of international bourses by drugged-up cowboy neophytes, along with the influence of social media and the techbros of Silicon Valley. They all gouge and bleed money and liquidity from ordinary global citizens’ real economies.
The scourge became immutably interdependent, leaving the US economy reliant on debt and quantitative easing, leading to a plague of paranoia. Institutions and investors manufactured their own indeterminable sovereignties freebooting across the globe, and with them a spread of paranoia throughout the ‘West’, and like Gargantua, bringing reticence and hysteria.
Congress fully captured, entered a roller-coaster of spin, electing to pursue self-righteous wars, which although further bankrupting it, was the only thing left to proffer. Today we are left with two deliberately designed ‘intractable’ wars that serve no purpose other than increasing the spin, and maybe staving off for the time being, Americas inevitable demise.
No-one of competence wanted the poisoned chalice. So bring on the demented and narcissistic T-Rump and his cling-on flunkies. Clueless, they rampage wielding sticks and turds, accelerating America’s plunge to oblivion whilst everyone ducks for cover hopeful of survival.