Democrats Have No More Excuses on Gaza

When the Vermont senator, Bernie Sanders, made his tour “Fighting Oligarchy” in Rural Viroqua, Wisconsin, at the end of August, his speech presented a fervent call to put an end to military aid to the assault of Israel against Gaza. The crowd responded with a standing ovation. Viroqua, 4,407 inhabitants, is far from New York, where distraught experts and political agents continue to tell us that the plea of ​​the Democratic candidate of the town hall Zohran Mamdani for the end of the genocide in Gaza is too extreme. But Viroqua’s news reminds us that Mamdani and candidates like him are not on the sidelines of the national debate. They also do not threaten the democratic prospects in 2026. They pulled the party to the people.

The people knew that the United States must stop providing weapons and coordinating militarily with the government of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as he continued his criminal war against the Palestinian population of Gaza. The people knew that the United States should lead to the organization of immediate humanitarian relief to the Palestinians. People know that doing something less makes us accomplices in the crime in progress.

However, the best DC democrats – including the leader of the minorities of the Senate Chuck Schumer and the minority head of the Hakeem Jeffries room – continue to remain obstinately and horribly, on the wrong side of history. They refuse to approve candidates like Mamdani and do not recognize that tens of millions of Americans see Gaza as a measure of the human decency of moral compasse.

The people knew that Hamas launched a horrible attack on Israeli Kibbutzim on October 7, 2023. But they also know that the Israeli response killed more than 62,000 Palestinians in Gaza – most women and children – and have reduced the enclave to a wasteland. Almost half of Americans and 66% of democrats identify the massacre in Gaza as a genocide, according to a survey on August data for progress. These figures come before an Israeli air strike on August 25 at the Nasser Hospital in Gaza killed at least 20 people, including five journalists. And before a United Nations panel said that a famine was taking place in Gaza, warning that “more than half a million people are faced with the most devastating form of hunger”. A thousand rabbis have signed a letter invoking Israel to raise blockages from humanitarian aid to Gaza, because “we cannot tolerate massacres of civilians … or the use of famine as a weapon of war”.

Politicians seriously take survey and public pressure. However, for all data, for all organizations and demands of basic democrats and progressives for coherent opposition to Trump support for the murderous policies of Netanyahu and territorial ambitions – which includes the ethnic cleaning of the Palestinians of Gaza and, if the ministers of Netanyahu prevail, the occasional bank – the Democrats of Top at the Congress are in the Students. Their complicity is as blatant as they are indisputable. There is no excuse.

After looking at the other direction for two years, the traditional American media finally cover the humanitarian disaster that Israel inflicts on the Palestinians. But among those who could really end horror, courage is shortage.

Most members of the congress use an empty language to describe what the world recognizes as a current war crime. And when it comes to binding words to acts, action is thwarted not only by right -wing republicans but by many Democrats.

The Senate Republicans rejected Sanders resolution to block key weapons sales in Israel, while nodding his head while Trump was thinking about developing properties by the sea in Gaza. However, even if the resolution of Sanders has obtained the support of a majority of the Democratic Caucus of the Senate, Schumer opposed, like the senator of New Jersey, Cory Booker, who qualifies as human rights.

It is no longer a political debate. This is a moral test for each official, each candidate, each democrat. When the famine in Gaza was officially recognized, Mamdani tweeted: “The American government is not a spectator of this genocide. We can end it today. ” In fact, this will only end when our elected leaders obtain a clear signal from the people. The inhabitants of Viroqua sent their signal in August. New York people can do it on November 4 when they elect Zohran Mamdani.