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Americans in Gaza: Financiers of a Graveyard

Photograph Source: WAFA (Q2915969) – CC BY-SA 3.0

The protracted slaughter in Gaza stands as one of the defining moral catastrophes of the modern era.  With tens of thousands of Palestinians killed, disproportionately women, children and infants, the descent of an entire enclave into manufactured famine, medical collapse and total annihilation has unfolded in real time.

This is not happening in the dark.  It is happening in broad daylight; funded, diplomatically shielded and witnessed by the world.  To examine the shameful silence of the American public and motivations of the Zionist state after nearly three years of this horror, is to confront a profound erosion of collective humanity.

For citizens of the United States, this genocide has exposed a dark reality: personal ease and comfort have been prioritized over conscience.

The bombs flattening apartment blocks, tent camps and the entirety of Gaza, are branded with “Made in the USA” and paid for with billions of dollars plucked from American taxpayers. The........

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