Friends don't let friends commit crimes against humanity

America's best pals in the Middle East, Saudi Arabia and Israel, are both perpetuating crimes against humanity which we aid and abet. The Saudi's have intervened in neighboring Yemen's civil war, bombing and blockading the hapless Yemenis, ratcheting up deaths to over 16,000, 10,000 of which are civilians. Their blockade is causing starvation and cholera, making Yemen one of the most sorrowful places on earth to inhabit. The world is aghast except for Saudi Arabia's local Sunni neighbors, UAE, Bahrain, Qatar, Kuwait, Jordan and far away supplier of Weapons of Civilian Destruction (WCD) America, who support Saudi atrocities because they view it as a proxy war against Iran.

Not far away two million Palestinians cooped up in Israel's decade long blockade of land, sea and water routes has caused the UN to warn Gaza may be uninhabitable by 2020. Three quarters of Gazans are food insecure; 40% unemployed and 80% rely on humanitarian aid to survive. Israel has recently cut electricity from roughly 5 hours a day to a paltry 3. Yet, every year Congress tosses $4 billion at Israel to buy our largest export...WCD.

The Palestinians plight, like that of the Yemenis is a non story in US media and totally ignored by Congress and president after president. The Yemenis and Palestinians have no clout and no money to buy American military hardware so their pleas for relief are ignored. But any time we want to dispose a foreign ruler we don't like, we make up a fairy tale they're abusing their own people which demands immediate intervention.

American may be the home of the brave and land of the free. But it's also the land of 330 million who are helping destroy those a lot more brave...and a lot less free.