Will Duckworth finally join Durbin in opposing weaponizing Israeli genocide in Gaza next week?

 

Will Duckworth finally join Durbin in opposing weaponizing Israeli genocide in Gaza next week?

Seventeen of Illinois’ 36 US Senators have served during my 80 years. But none has been more supportive of senseless US war than current Junior Senator Tammy Duckworth.

She exploited her service in America’s monstrous Iraq war to gain first, the House of Representatives, and for the past 9 years, the Senate.

Duckworth never fails to embrace unrelenting US wars and regime change operations worldwide. But her support of US enabling the Israeli genocide in Gaza with tens of billions in weapons is the most grotesque.

Last November Duckworth voted to kill Bernie Sanders 3 Senate Joint Resolutions to end the Israeli genocide by cutting off the genocide weapons train, without which it would collapse. To his credit, colleague Dick Durbin voted for all 3 resolutions.

Genocide opponent Bernie will try again next week, introducing 2 Senate Joint Resolutions to block Trump’s latest tranche of $8.8 billion in weapons designed to kill or remove every last Palestinian from Gaza. That massive 8.8 billion includes 35,000 two thousand pound bombs and 3,000 Hellfire missiles among thousands of other munitions and guidance kits.

I frequently implore Senator Duckworth to switch from supporting US enabling Israeli genocide to opposing it. She replies with long, disingenuous responses declaring her support for peace and aid for the 2,300,000 Palestinians marked for death and disappearance from the Gaza Israel covets. But she never works to end the genocide by voting down the genocide weapons deliveries making the genocide possible. Weapons deliveries are good for US weapons makers, Israeli genocide practitioners and Duckworth's political career. 

 

Let’s hope Sen. Duckworth has an epiphany next week and votes to end the US weapons train enabling genocide instead of continuing it till every last Palestinian in Gaza is dead and gone.

Walt Zlotow, West Suburban Peace Coalition, Glen Ellyn IL