‘War Criminal’, ‘Guilty in Genocide’

Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib representing Detroit had this to say for Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu when he was addressing the US Congress, Tuesday.

Her image continues to trend, setting with all the other Congressmen and Congresswomen as if this was the most natural thing in the world with signs of “War Criminal” and “Guilty in Genocide” staring Netanyahu in the face.

In protest of Netanyahu’s visit to Congress, activists in Washington dyed multiple fountains around Capitol Hill with red and projections cast demanding the arrest of war criminal Netanyahu.

Tlaib had wrote: “Netanyahu is a war criminal committing genocide against the Palestinian people. It is utterly disgraceful that leaders from both parties have invited him to address Congress. He should be arrested and sent to the International Criminal Court.”

In a statement on her website she clarified: “Since 1948, the US has provided more than $141 billion in weapons to the Israeli government to fund the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians, including $17.9 billion since October.

Netanyahu’s apartheid regime has already slaughtered over 39,000 Palestinians in Gaza, including 15,000 children. Yet my colleagues and the Biden administration continue to approve more funding and send more weapons – even as innocent children like Hind Rajab are targeted with 355 bullets, shot in the heart by Israeli sniper, burned to death in their tents with US-made weapon, bombed while playing at school, deliberately starved to death, and Palestinians are bombed in refugee camps and discovered in mass graves, naked and with their hands tied, all live-streamed for the world to see.

These are undeniably wore crimes under international law.

 Make no mistake: This event is a celebration of the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians. It is a sad day for our democracy when my colleagues will smile for a photo op with a man who is actively committing genocide.

It is hypocritical to claim to be concerned about the massive death toll of innocent civilians, and then turn around and welcome the person responsible for these war crimes to our Capitol. Their silence is betrayal, and history will remember them accordingly.

Our government must stop supporting and funding this genocide now,” Tlaib ends by saying.

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Dr. Marwan Asmar holds a PhD from Leeds University and is a freelance writer specializing on the Middle East. He has worked as a journalist since the early 1990s in Jordan and the Gulf countries, and been widely published, including at Albawaba, Gulf News, Al Ghad, World Press Review and others.

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