Lame duck Biden needs to heed Leahy Law to end Israeli genocide in Gaza

 

Lame duck Biden needs to heed Leahy Law to end Israeli genocide in Gaza

 

With just 68 days left in his blood-soaked presidency, Joe Biden is running out of time to pivot to peace in Gaza. For the last 14 months he’s funneled over $18 billion in weapons for Israel to inflict genocidal ethnic cleansing on 2,300,000 Palestinians in Gaza.

 

In so doing he's  violating US laws 22 U.S.C. 2378d and 10 U.S.C. 362, collectively known as the Leahy Law. They prohibit the U.S. Government from using funds for assistance to units of foreign security forces where there is credible information implicating that unit in the commission of gross violations of human rights (GVHR). The entire world outside of the US and Israel acknowledge that ‘credible information’ of gross violation of human rights in Gaza.

 

Till now, Biden has not cared a whit about following the Leahy Law in his total support of Israel committing the worst genocide this century. Indeed, without Biden’s 50,000 tons of weaponry, Israel couldn’t have started, much less continued the genocide for 14 months. Even a high ranking Israeli official advised if Biden shuts down the weapons pipeline, Israel’s genocide would collapse within a few weeks.

 

President Biden not only flouts world public opinion in his weaponizing Israeli genocide, he ignores the majority of Democrats, Republicans and independents at home telling him to stop.

 

Biden can flout the Leahy Law because nobody in the Justice Department or Congress, other than Sen. Bernie Sanders, is raising the issue of his grisly Leahy Law violations.

 

With no public opinion or governmental resource to force Biden to comply with the Leahy Law, we’re left with a Hail Mary...Joe Biden’s conscience telling him he must end the grotesque US enabled Israeli genocide in Gaza before his dwindling time to do so expires January 20.