Democratic Senator John Fetterman of Pennsylvania continued the Democrats’ piling on against Palestinians this past Sunday.
Fetterman asserted to CNN’s Manu Raju: “There’s no ethnic cleansing. It’s not a genocide. This is a just war.”
Asked by Raju if Israel was using “starvation as a weapon,” he claimed: “No. Absolutely not. Absolutely not. Israel is not deliberately starving people, absolutely.”
He added: “Those conditions are miserable there. And it is hell on earth. Why? Some people blame Israel for that? I blame Hamas and Iran for that thing.”
This continues most Democrats’ failure to recognize the Gaza genocide, even walking back the genocide assertion in the recent case of Congresswoman Katherine Clark, a top leader in the House of Representatives.
“Ongoing since 1948” includes every time period between now and 1948.
There was nothing approximating genocide in this period. Therefore not “ongoing”. I chose an uncontroversial time period of about 17 years before the October 7 attack. 2006 was when Israel removed their settlements from Gaza. I could go back earlier but it is unnecessary for the point I am making.
That period was “peaceful” (relative to now) although Hamas/Hezbolah couldn’t let it rest so they kept attacking Israel who retaliated each time and could not let up with the border controls (hence the “open air prison”).
Therefore that period could be replicated but with 100% peace this time since Hamas and Hezbollah would be dismantled.