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Early voting’s underway. My voting site is the Willye White Park fieldhouse, a mile north of where I live — a place I have enormous affection for, even though I only ever go there for one reason, every two years or so: to vote.
It feels like a sacred ritual — a feeling that goes back to the late ’60s. As I recently wrote: “The first election in which I was old enough to vote (the voting age was then 21) was Nixon vs. Humphrey. I was a fervid anti-Vietnam war zealot and chose to skip the election, thinking there was no real difference between the candidates. But I quickly began regretting that decision as the Nixon presidency claimed hold of the country; I vowed never to skip another election . . .”
Israeli officials keep repeating that Israel is fighting on multiple fronts. The truth is that Israel chooses to fight on multiple fronts. The two claims are fundamentally different.
Recently, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu went as far as saying that his country is fighting on seven different war fronts, all driven by the objective of "defending ourselves against ... barbarism."
The U.S. government often claims to stand for the rule of law, but this past year has made it painfully clear that this doesn’t apply to Palestinians. The moral, financial, and security costs of U.S. support for Israel’s rapidly expanding wars are adding up for Americans, too.
While the name of the next president is unknown, some outcomes of the election can be foreseen. For instance:
· President Biden’s successor will be a dangerous militarist.
The situation in North Gaza is beyond the word catastrophic:
horror, massacres, extermination. People are shot on site as they even try
to evacuate injured people, medical personnel are targeted, hospitals are
targeted. No food or water allowed. Israel simply rejected UN and
humanitarian organization access. People are dying by injuries and by
thirst. It would be more merciful to drop a nuclear bomb on them. All to
clear North Gaza for Zionist nefarious schemes to control its natural
resources (e=and control the whole region). In some places they simply
rounded people up, forced the women and girls to the south and took men and
boys (we remember mass executions like this in 1948 ethnic cleansing). IN
other cases they simly sent robot explosives to clear neighborhoods or
bombed people (men, women, children) from the air. How could we tell our
children and grandchildren that we had a chance to stop this and did not,
Please see the below small examples of what is happening and write letters,
stop the world to stop a genocide. Speak out, act now urgently. The horror
is beyond description.
On Thursday October 16, 2023, Commander Yahya Sinwar was killed above the ground after a gun battle with the IOF in Rafah. He was found above ground wearing a combat vest loaded with extra magazines, hand grenades, and an AK by his side alongside three of his bodyguards. He was not hiding in a tunnel among civilians or using the hostages as human shields to protect himself as Israel always claimed. And most certainly Sinwar was not dressed up as a woman to avoid detection.
Think you’re registered? Think again, Chuck-o. I was at a polling station in Atlanta, filming one Black person after another getting the heave-ho from the poll, told they couldn’t vote, including Christine Jordan, 92-years old in a walker. They literally kicked her out into a storm. Her granddaughter was distraught, trying to speak through her tears.