Krishnamoorthi’s support of Israeli genocide in Gaza makes him unfit to remain in House, much less ascend to Senate

Krishnamoorthi’s support of Israeli genocide in Gaza makes him unfit to remain in House, much less ascend to Senate

For 23 months Krishnamoorthi has watched as over $20 billion in US bombs, providing over 50,000 tons of explosives obliterate almost every habitable building in Gaza, including every hospital, medical facility, school, university, business, sewerage treatment plant. He knows starving Palestinians are being shot down like stray rabid dogs simply grasping for the tiny morsels Israel deigns to allow in.

Yet, Krishnamoorthi claims we cannot stop supplying the genocide. “What is needed now is a cease fire that ends the suffering in Gaza . . . the return of the hostages still held by Hamas to their families in Israel, and . . . lasting peace in the region. Cutting off military aid did not right that wrong.”

A ceasefire “now” Congressman? How’d you miss the ceasefire the US brokered that ran from January 19 2025 till March 18 which achieved 8 Israeli hostage, Palestinian prisoner exchanges? You know damn well Israel broke the ceasefire with a dastardly, massive bombing that killed over 400 Palestinians. We know from a leaked March 1 Israeli cabinet meeting transcript that Netanyahu broke the ceasefire to resume the genocidal attacks including forced starvation upon the decimated Palestinians. In so doing he rejected more humane Israeli officials who sought continuation of the ceasefire to return all remaining Israeli hostages.

So your sick policy for Gaza in not only ensuring the complete destruction of Palestinians not yet dead under US bombs, It ensures all remaining Israeli hostages you claim to champion will die.

We can only guess as to your motivation for this ghoulish policy. Political expediency as you seek to become Illinois Senator alongside follow genocide supporter Tammy Duckworth? The $269,530 in campaign cash you receive from the Israel Lobby which will go to your opponent if you oppose Israeli genocide? A moral defect which makes you turn away from the Israeli genocide destroying Gaza? Maybe all 3 and more.

You call the current situation a Gaza a ‘moral catastrophe’’. Yes, genocide always is a moral catastrophe. In Gaza it is enabled by the moral catastrophe in the heart and soul of Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi.

Walt Zlotow, West Suburban Peace Coalition, Glen Ellyn IL 

Ten of 535 congresspersons condemning US enabled Israeli genocide not enough to end it

 Ten of 535 congresspersons condemning US enabled Israeli genocide not enough to end it

 

Every peaceful American beseeching our cowardly Congress to call out US complicity in Israeli genocide in Gaza should salute the pitifully small but morally decent congresspersons who have used the ‘genocide’ word.` And they’re not using it to support the genocide like Congressman Randy Fine (R-FL) who grotesquely called for Palestinians in Gaza to “starve away.”

 

Republican Congresswomen Marjorie Taylor Green joined 9 Democrats, Rashida Tlaib (MI), Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (NY), Ilhan Omar (MN), Ayanna Pressley (MA), Summer Lee (PA), Al Green (TX), Delia Ramirez (IL), Bonne Watson Coleman (NJ), and John Garamendi (CA) to stand out against a sea of congressional depravity.

 

But 10 of 535 congresspersons correctly calling out US enabled Israeli genocide will not stop this monstrous war crime. Why? No one in the Trump administration dare call it genocide and demand its end. No one in a mainstream media dare call it genocide and demand its end. And the great majority of congresspersons dare call it genocide and demand its end.

 

We need the trickle of congresspersons charging genocide to become an avalanche that will sweep away America’s great moral stain of genocide enabler besmirching every moral principle America should represent.

 

Walt Zlotow, West Suburban Peace Coalition, Glen Ellyn IL

Trump and Zelensky, two cornered rats with no way out of Ukraine catastrophe

 Trump and Zelensky, two cornered rats with no way out of Ukraine catastrophe

Ukraine’s military is being systematically obliterated on the battlefield. US President Trump knows this. Ukraine President Zelensky does as well.

Yet, both are pretending the war can be won on terms favorable to the US and Ukraine. Trump is threatening secondary sanctions on nations buying Russian oil if Russia doesn’t end the war by August 8. Zelensky applauds this threat. Trump is also selling additional weapons to NATO allies to give to Ukraine’s lost cause.

Neither of Trump’s actions will have any effect on Ukraine’s impending battlefield defeat. Trump gets the ‘rat’ designation because he broke his campaign pledge to end the war by withdrawing US support and forcing Ukraine to negotiate the war’s end. But since that signals defeat of the US proxy war to weaken Russia, he clearly has decided it’s better to keep the war going rather than suffer a humiliating defeat. That merely ensures Ukraine’s near complete destruction as a functioning state.

Zelensky earned his ‘rat’ designation when he bailed out of ending the war in April, 2022. He was on the cusp of a negotiated settlement with Russia that would have ended Ukraine’s effort to join NATO and guaranteed regional independence for Russian cultured Ukrainians in Donbas. For Ukraine it would have mean no lost territory and no massive casualties or infrastructure destruction. That is classic diplomacy achieving win-win.

But the rat Zelensky caved to US/UK pressure to dump that deal because Zelensky believed US/UK lies he could win simply with continued Western weapons. That, along with Trump’s refusal to end the war after promising to end it, has put Ukraine into a death spiral.

So with no way to win on the battlefield, our cornered rats are risking nuclear war every day this catastrophe continues. Zelensky keeps begging for long range NATO missies to attack deep into Russia. While that has no strategic value, it has value in provoking a Russian nuclear response, something to which Zelensky remains oblivious.

The nuclear risk Trump has embarked upon is even more reckless. He responded to a harmless Russian social media comment about a potential US/Russia nuclear confrontation, by sending two Ohio Class nuclear submarines toward Russian waters. Just as provocative and reckless, Trump’s sent B61-12 nuclear gravity bombs to the UK. These are offensive weapons having nothing do with will standard NATO defensive weaponry. They are the first delivery of these offensive weapons to the UK since removing them in 2008.

To Trump, reckless action is an appropriate response to relatively harmless words. Particularly since Trump is the world champ at using social media to threaten, browbeat friends and foes alike.

It’s not just the beleaguered people of Ukraine whose lives are threatened by the two cornered rats with no sane, safe way out of the lost war in Ukraine. It is all of us.