Mr. President, you lied when you “saw” images of decapitated Israeli children. You lied when you prematurely absolved "Israel" of the Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital massacre and then enabled "Israel" to target more hospitals and ambulances. As of November 5, "Israel" attacked additional healthcare centers, to name but a few: Al-Shifa Hospital, Al-Quds Hospital, the Indonesian Hospital, and Al Nasser Hospital (in the “safe” south), killing and maiming civilians seeking “safer” shelters.

You lie, Mr. President, when you deny Palestinians the right to mourn their own victims. You lie when you dehumanize Palestinians by portraying them as human shields only to rationalize the brutal Israeli murder of children. You lie when you call "Israel’s" aggression against the people of Gaza “Israel-Hamas” war. This war is a continuation of the 75 years old Israeli war on Palestine.

Your Secretary of Defense was dishonest stating that your administration “mourn Palestinian civilians” while you stand before the international community not only in opposing the ceasefire but also by replenishing "Israel’s" arsenal to murder more Palestinian children. Your Secretary of State is ingenuine claiming that your administration is “committed to the protection of civilian life” when a Palestinian child is being killed every 10 minutes.

You lied Mr. President, when you told us two weeks ago that more aid trucks would be allowed into Gaza. The Strip used to receive 400 to 500 trucks daily before the latest Israeli war. For almost four weeks, the number of trucks that entered Gaza was less than 20% of the daily need. Unfortunately, you now appear to be serving as a means for "Israel" to quell international outrage through false promises of delivering food, water, fuel, and medical supplies to 2.3 million people. This is while "Israel" is further tightening the siege and extending it to natural resources, targeting solar panels producing electricity to hospitals and bombing drinking water storage tanks. At present, the only resource that remains relatively accessible to the people of Gaza is the air, although, at times, it’s mixed with the searing stench of Israeli phosphorous bombs.

Mr. President, your biggest lie was claiming that "Israel" has the "right to defend itself". Would you extend the same right to Russian forces in Ukraine?

Self-defense is a right for the occupied, not the occupier. Occupation and blockade constitute an act of aggression. A power that maintains a system of aggression is not entitled to claim "self-defense". An occupier that usurps land and forcibly displaces its civilian population into occupied territory in violation of the Geneva Convention is the party that uses its civilians as human shields, rendering it ineligible to characterize its war as "self-defense".

The US and Europe condemned what they described as "Russian horror" in Ukraine. It took no time for the International Court to investigate alleged Russian “war crimes". Biden even called (Vladimir) Putin a “murderous dictator” and “pure thug".  Meanwhile, twenty months into the Ukraine war, the “pure thug” war had resulted in the loss of 9,600 civilians, according to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. 

In Gaza, however, in just twenty days, the same mathematical number, not proportional, of Palestinians have been killed by the more “civilized” Benjamin Netanyahu. While Biden labels Putin a “murderous dictator", he proposes to award the more efficient Israeli murderous machine an additional $14.3 billion and opposes a ceasefire to satisfy Netanyahu’s insatiable ravenous lust for vengeance. Israeli politician, Moshe Feiglin, detailed "Israel’s" veracious craving for revenge in his interview on Israeli TV, "We still have not revenged in a biblical way… did not burn Gaza to ashes … Do not leave a stone upon stone in Gaza. Gaza needs to turn to Dresden."

Israeli Heritage Minister Amichai Eliyahu even exceeded the diabolical “biblical” revenge, suggesting on November 5 that “one of Israel’s options in the war in Gaza is to drop a nuclear bomb…” because “there is no such thing as uninvolved civilians in Gaza.”

The juxtaposition of Gaza and Ukraine exposes the blatant American and Western double standards. In proportion to the Ukraine population of 44 million, 190,000 civilians need to die in Ukraine to match what Netanyahu had done in twenty days—not twenty months. Contrary to what the West may want us to believe, the abject disregard of Palestinian vis-à-vis Ukrainian or Israeli life reveals the deep-seated racism toward non-westerners.

"Israel" has so far dropped 25,000 tons of explosives over a 140 sq mile area, equivalent to two Hiroshima-sized nuclear bombs. 11,000 American-made and financed ordinances have murdered more than 10,000 civilians, 70% of whom are children and women, in a war where the principles of proportionality between civilian and military targets show that murdering civilians is the main Israeli objective. This is evident in the more than 200,000 damaged homes, 203 schools, 53 mosques, 3 churches, 16 hospitals, civilian convoys, bakeries, and water outlets.

11,000 bombs translate to dropping 78 explosives over each square mile area. It is even more striking when considering that approximately 80% of the bombardment is concentrated in an area covering 40% of Gaza, north of Wadi Gaza. This means 157 bombs on every square mile or one bomb per 4 acres populated with approximately 16,500 residents.

The population density becomes even more dire in the refugee camps. Refugee camps house Palestinians who were ethnically cleansed from historical Palestine in 1948. One of the targeted camps is Jabalia, a prototype of the Palestinian refugee camps in the Strip. I have been to Jabalia, homes typically house four to five families of various generations. The camp has a population of 117,000 living over 0.54 sq mile; the most densely populated area within the most overcrowded piece of land on earth - hovels built the wall on the wall and alleys barely wide enough for single-file individuals to pass between homes. The camp has been the site of at least three massacres (as of this writing). More than four hundred people were killed or are missing under the rubble of their homes and 777 were injured.

It's crucial to note that Israeli acts of brutality targeting civilians do not occur in a vacuum. It followed an Israeli ground offensive from the prior weekend, which was met with fierce resistance. The military made insignificant advances and lost more than 20 elite infantry soldiers. Facing heavy losses, "Israel" reverted on Tuesday, October 31, to softer targets to inflict the highest level of pain by dropping 6 bombs; one ton each over one block area in Jabalia refugee camp. Within seconds, fifteen homes were gobbled in a large crater. "Israel’s" “agency of lies” alleged that its raid targeted a Hamas combatant; 400 civilians, dead or injured, and 15 homes leveled for supposedly one person of interest. "Israel’s" principles of proportionality in war give "Israel" the right to kill and maim 400 human beings because there might be one "value target". Similar heinous crimes were repeated in al-Maghazi, Nuseirat, al-Bureij, and al-Shati' camps.

The deliberate targeting of civilians is part of the psychological warfare in "Israel’s" undeclared strategy since its creation in 1948. Civilians have consistently borne the brunt of Israeli murders in every war waged by "Israel". Unfortunately, the tactic of causing pain by targeting women and children will likely persist as long as "Israel" remains an exception to international law and grants its citizens escape from the same pain.

The only possible deterrence to Israeli civilian massacres would be copying "Israel’s" psychological warfare strategy by exposing Israelis to the same carnage of war. "Israel" is a militarized society with 630,000 soldiers, active and reserve. Almost every Israeli home has an active or reserved army soldier. The Palestinian Resistance should order Israelis to evacuate "Tel Aviv" to safer areas further north and then replicate the Israeli strategy koshering the targeting of homes of Israeli officials, government buildings, offices, telecommunication centers, hospitals, ambulances used by the government, banks, universities, airports, police stations, transportation centers, highways, schools, banks, and the buildings where they suspect the presence of an Israeli combatant. These are just a small number of targets "Israel" uses to "justify" the killing of civilians.

Despite all this, and after failing to force the US foreign aid welfare queen to agree to a humanitarian pause, the US Secretary of State parroted Israeli objections, claiming a ceasefire “would simply leave Hamas in place, able to regroup and repeat what it did," almost rephrasing the same position taken by another US Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice, during the Israeli war on Lebanon in 2006 where she compared the Israeli bombs murdering Lebanese children as “birth bangs” and that “a ceasefire would … simply returns us to the status quo.”

In the 2006 war on Lebanon, much like today, "Israel" rejected any ceasefire until the release of Israeli soldiers held by Hezbollah. The then-Israeli Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert, was allowed to murder Lebanese until exacting a satisfactory level of pain on Lebanese civilians and the country’s infrastructure. In the end, no Israeli prisoner was released without a negotiated agreement meeting Hezbollah's demands.

Similarly, Anthony Blinken's demand for the release of Israeli prisoners without a negotiated agreement that secures the freedom of Palestinian hostages held by "Israel" appears as delusional as Condoleezza Rice's stance in 2006.

Concerning the post-war governance of Gaza, Blinken has no vote, now or then, regarding the future of Gaza. If it isn't Hamas, another group will emerge from the same deplorable conditions that gave birth to Hamas 35 years ago. Most Palestinian fighters today, whether from Hamas or other factions, were born or grew up during the Israeli blockade of Gaza. Their entire lives have been shaped by living in the largest open-air prison and their deepest aspiration has been to break free from this confinement, as they demonstrated during the raid on the prison's guards on October 7.

To that end, "Israel" and the US could succeed in eradicating Hamas as much as the US was triumphant in removing the Taliban in Afghanistan, or "Israel’s" lofty objectives to eliminate the PLO in 1982, or Hezbollah in 2006. National movements might evolve becoming more hardened due to circumstances and conditions as with the rise of Hamas and Jihad during the first Palestinian Intifada in the late 1980s. In the dichotomy of oppression and liberation, there has never been a case throughout history where a colonizer or an occupier prevailed and a national movement was eradicated by brutality or murdering women and children.