Duckworth pockets cool $782,000 from Israel Lobby to erase ‘genocidal ethnic cleansing’ from her Senate vocabulary

 

Duckworth pockets cool $782,000 from Israel Lobby to erase ‘genocidal ethnic cleansing’ from her Senate vocabulary

Peruse IL Sen. Tammy Duckworth’s website and you will find nary a word about Israel's genocidal ethnic cleansing of 2,300,000 Palestinians in Gaza. She does state she “will do everything in my power to encourage de-escalation that ultimately brings bout a two state future that strengthens the safety of Israel, eliminates the threat posed by Hamas and ends the prolonged and continuing suffering of innocent Palestinians.”

The truth is slightly different. Duckworth is doing everything in her power to ensure the genocidal ethnic cleansing continues till all the Palestinians in Gaza are dead and gone. She’s supported every dollar of the 18 billion dollars in weaponry the US has sent to Israel to conduct the genocide there now in its 14th month.

She knows the genocide could not have commenced, much less continued, without America’s 50,000 tons of ordinance obliterating tens of thousands of Palestinian moms and kids, while destroying nearly every home, hospital, school, water treatment facility among infrastructure necessary for sustainable life. She approves all US vetoes of UN resolutions calling for an end to the genocide.

Duckworth knows her unquestioned genocide support ensures that the 97 Israeli hostages in Gaza will never come home alive. Had Duckworth truly worked to end US genocide support when it commenced, those hostages might be already safely home.

Duckworth cannot be unaware that US support of genocide in Gaza may be destroying Israel as well. Outside of the US, Israel has become reviled worldwide for continuing the most horrific genocide this century. Tourism is nearly gone. Foreign investment drying up like the desert. Thousands of Israeli businesses shuttered. The IDF suffering significant casualties and demoralization from having to participate in atrocities, with no chance of attaining Israel’s imagined end game. Hezbollah in Lebanon, the Houthis in Yemen are disrupting life in northern Israel, forcing tens of thousands to flee their rocket attacks in support of ending the genocide. Duckworth knows these attacks can never be stopped.

Why Duckworth does not do the right thing and demand, like her more humane colleague Bernie Sanders, that the US cut off all weapons to Israel, is no mystery. There are 782,000 reasons she does not to the right thing. They are the $782,000 in campaign cash the Israel Lobby has gifted her since becoming a senator in 2016.

My Senator Tammy Duckworth learned the first lesson of political survival in the Israel Lobby dominated US Congress. Money talks….and Palestinians die.

Walt Zlotow

West Suburban Peace Coalition

Glen Ellyn IL