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, with mostly civilian deaths over 60,000. Their blockade is causing starvation and cholera, making Yemen one of the most sorrowful places on earth. The world is aghast except for Saudi Arabia's local Sunni allies, the UAE, Bahrain, Qatar, and Kuwait. But without US support of billions in Weapons of Civilian Destruction (WCD), refueling Saudi bombers, and intelligence, the Saudi war in Yemen would collapse.

Nearby, the 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 withing several years. Three quarters of Gazans are food insecure; 40% unemployed and 80% rely on humanitarian aid to survive. Yet, every year Congress tosses $4 billion at Israel to buy our largest export...WCD. A UN Independent Commission of Inquiry reports Israel may have committed war crimes allowing soldiers to use live ammo which killed 189 unarmed Palestinians at border protests last year. An additional 6,000 were wounded.

The Palestinians plight, like 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 votes and military hardware; so their pleas for relief are ignored. But any time we want to dispose a foreign ruler we don't like, such as Venezuela's Maduro, we assume the mantle of the world's protector, demanding immediate intervention to save his suffering people.

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