Marjorie Taylor Greene first house Republican to use G word for Gaza
Skeletal babies. Hungry families have shot down by queuing for food. The images and videos of famine in Gaza are now everywhere, and they did in a few weeks what 21 months of war could not: press empathy for Maga Palestinians.
This week, Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia has become the first republican of the Chamber to publicly use the term “genocide” to describe the actions of Israel in Gaza and the humanitarian crisis now striking the Palestinian enclave. “It is the most truthful thing and the easiest to say that on October 7 in Israel was horrible and that all hostages must be returned, but the genocide, the humanitarian crisis and the famine that occur in Gaza,” Greene said in an article on social media on her X account on Monday evening.
More than 125 people died because of malnutrition, including 85 children, said the Gaza Ministry of Health managed by Hamas during the weekend. According to the United Nations, more than 875 people have been killed in recent weeks, most of them by Israeli troops, while trying to access food and aid in the distribution centers of the Gaza Humaninian Foundation. Only Monday, Israeli strikes or shots killed at least 78 Palestinians through the Gaza Strip.
Greene’s comments coincide with growing global indignation concerning mass famine reports in Gaza since Israel first reduced the Enclave supplies in March, then reopened the aid lines in May but with new restrictions. In recent days, photographs and videos of emaciated children and dying infants have proliferated in news and social media, as are videos of desperate Palestinians killed by queuing for food.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday “that there is no famine in Gaza”. And commander Effie Defrin, spokesperson for the Israeli defense force, told journalists that most of the images were false and distributed by Hamas. “It’s a campaign,” he said. “Unfortunately, some of the Israeli media, including some of the international media, distribute this information and these false images, and creates an image of famine that does not exist.”
But even President Trump, a fervent supporter of Israel and Netanyahu, had to concede when he asked him about the crisis. “These are real things of famine-I see it, and you cannot simulate this,” he said in Scotland on Monday, where he met European leaders and asked questions about a crisis of another kind (his relationship with the sexual trafficker Jeffrey Epstein). “We have to have children nourished.”
The undeniable horror in Gaza has reached an inflection point, and although the peak of compassion among the maga can be momentary, other world leaders are looking for solutions to suffering with or without American support. Tuesday evening, France and 14 other Western nations have called for other countries to go towards the recognition of a Palestinian state. The declaration was signed by the foreign ministers of Andorra, Australia, Canada, Finland, France, Iceland, Ireland, Luxembourg, Malta, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, San Marino, Slovenia and Spain.
The use by Greene of the word “genocide” is his strongest conviction to date of the conduct of the War of Israel, and it deviates from the line of the Republican Party of unconditional support for the Jewish State. But she also targeted pro-Palestinian legislators such as representatives Ilhan Omar (d-minn.), Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.), Accusing them of “anti-Semitic activity” and “sympathetic with terrorists” when they called to Israel to lift its blocking of humanitarian aid for gas.
The comments of Greene on Gaza were partly a reprimand to a republican representative, Randy Fine de Florida. Last week, he said that the images of the children of the skin and the bones in Gaza were “the propaganda of Muslim terrorism” and published: “Release the hostages. Until then, hungry. ” The New York Times reported that the remarks of Fine had been made on the same day that it had been promoted to a siege at the Chamber’s Foreign Affairs Committee where it would focus on international politics.
Greene posted on Sunday that she “could say unequivocally that what happened to innocent in Israel on October 7 was horrible. Just as I can unequivocally say that what happened to innocent and children in Gaza is horrible. ”
Recently, the FDI has announced that it would take a break in certain parts of Gaza for hours every day and increase the reductions in help. The number of war dead in Gaza exceeded 60,000, with more probably buried under rubble of almost two years of fighting. Hamas killed around 1,200 people in an attack on Israel on October 7, 2023.
Although there has been an uproar on the amazing number of civilian deaths since the start of the war, the increasingly graphic coverage of the famine of Gaza has generated new levels of indignation on both sides of the political spectrum. Too bad it took the unspeakable suffering of babies, families and innocent to bring us here.
