Dear Editor,
The Israeli genocide against the people of Palestine in general and those in Gaza in particular is now in its eighth month. In that time, more than 36,000 Palestinians are confirmed to have been killed, and thousands of others still uncounted are lying dead under the mountains of rubble caused by the tons of bombs that were dropped on the people. It is estimated that more than 100,000 have been seriously injured, most having lost one of more of their limbs.
In addition to the known dead, many mass graves, each with more than two hundred bodies, have been found in almost every area from which the Israeli Defence Force (IDF) had withdrawn. Many of the victims had their hands tied behind their backs, and gunshot wounds were evident to their heads. Doctors have confirmed that some had even been buried alive.
This is the level of inhumanity that is occurring in this 21st century. Apart from the direct killings, thousands are dying from wounds sustained as the IDF is making sure that medical services are unavailable.
Hospitals are being deliberately destroyed. Almost all have been bombed, and those where the IDF soldiers enter are made dysfunctional by the deliberate destruction of medical equipment. Wounds are being infected, leading to death.
Professional persons such as medical personnel, journalists, and workers involved in the search-and- rescue are all prime targets for the fascist regime in Israel. More than one hundred journalists and some 500 medical personnel have been killed by the IDF.
Despite two international courts: the International Court of Justice (ICJ) and the International Criminal Court (ICC), having pronounced on the industrial scale murder that is taking place and urging an immediate halt, the IDF continues the relentless killings, disregarding those court rulings.
The Israeli racist/fascist regime has even threatened to arrest the chief prosecutor of the ICC, Mr. Karim Khan, and his staff. In this lawless attack on the ICC, the Israeli regime has been joined by US Congress and Senate members. They have expressed their intention to withhold funding from those international bodies unless the call for Netanyahu s arrest process is stopped.
The US Administration is in full support of the Israeli regime. They continue to pour billions of dollars to keep Israel s economy afloat, and continue to supply the bombs and other military equipment to kill Palestinians.
The US administration is supporting Israel s regime in all of their murderous genocidal actions. They have remained deafeningly silent to Netanyahu government s designation of the UN body, UN R.W.A., as a terrorist organization. That is a direct attack on the relief effort of the UN. Starvation has become another weapon in the hands of the racist regime.
It is indeed nauseating to look at the press briefings being done by US officials Matt Mathews and John Kerby. They have reduced themselves to being chief defenders of the murderous regime. The mask has fallen from the face of the US Government. It is now clearly seen as being complicit with genocide. It is even attacking at universities its own young people who are actually representing the conscience of the American people.
It is time for the world community to expel Israel from the United Nations for the terrible crimes against humanity. Israel does not belong to the civilised world! The horrors committed by the apartheid regime in South Africa decades ago pale into insignificance in the face of this barbarism taking place in Gaza. Yet, South Africa was severely sanctioned by the United Nations, and was even suspended. Incidentally, it was the US & UK that prolonged the apartheid regime in South Africa by the staunch support which they gave to the racist regime.
We must demand that the US in particular stop its total support for the butchers of Israel! It must also be called upon to respect international law, and to show some sympathy for the human rights of Palestinians.
Eight months of the wholesale slaughter is far too much!
Any person or state with a modicum of humanity must demand a ceasefire now!
Finally, the call for Israel s expulsion from the UN bears repeating!
Sincerely,
Donald Ramotar
Former President
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