End the Genocide in Gaza
The genocide in Gaza must come to an end. I strongly support Rep. Delia Ramirez’s “Block the Bombs” Act to stop the sale, transfer, or exporting of offensive weapons to Israel. The Netanyahu government is corrupt and cannot be trusted with U.S. taxpayer-funded weapons. They are being used to willingly mass bomb innocent civilians and an absurdly high number of women and children in the name of eliminating Hamas militants. I am haunted by the images of civilians – tens of thousands of Palestinians who have been bombed to death, displaced, and starved among much else. This crisis is a generationally defining one for us all. We cannot stand by as the supply of food aid and power are turned on and off at will, hospitals, homes and schools are flattened, and an entire group of people are subjugated in every aspect of their lives.
The attacks of October 7, 2023 conducted by Hamas terrorists - the single deadliest day for Jewish people since the Holocaust - are atrocious and must be condemned. We should never condone the murder, rape, torture and kidnapping of civilians. The Netanyahu government’s use of these attacks to conduct indiscriminate killing for the past 2+ years is abhorrent.
The ceasefire in place as of October 2025 is tenuous and dubious (as is everything associated with Trump), and we've already seen attacks with mass civilian casualties since the agreement as well as continued blocking of aid to Gaza.
We must recognize full Palestinian sovereignty and human and civil rights. This does not and should not preclude Israel’s right to exist. In Israel now we have Israeli Jews, Palestinians, Arabs, Ethiopian Jews and others who should all be able to live in a state of peace and harmony free of negative racial and class dynamics.
After ending arms sales to Israel, the United States must consider re-directing the billions of dollars in weapons we have and continue to provide to Israel (across many Republican and Democratic Presidential Administrations) to rebuilding Gaza and offering financial compensation to Palestinians whose lives the U.S. has had a role in upending. Of course Trump should not have any responsibility or role in what is best for Gaza because as is typical of people like Trump, he’s only concerned about the land or profit and not the people.
