300 New Jersey Avenue, N.W., Suite 900
Washington, D.C. 20001
Phone: 202-465-8728
August 30, 2024
President Joe Biden
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20500
Dear President Biden,
Ever since you withdrew from the presidential race, met with Netanyahu
at the White House and witnessed Congress give 52 standing ovations by
the GOP (and some Democrats) to this genocidal war criminal, you have
gone silent. Your public admonitions to the Israeli government have
ceased. The American people and taxpayers have listened in vain to hear
you demand the entry into Gaza, under safeguards, of thousands of trucks
with food, medicine, water, etc. for the millions of starving, sick,
injured civilians.
Your silence combined with your continuing shipment
unconditionally of
weapons to Netanyahu is a green light to expand his death and
destruction of the innocent Palestinian people in Gaza, the West Bank,
and Lebanon. Netanyahu hopes to draw you into a larger regional war. You
know this very well. So why are you mute?
More puzzling, while you constantly talk about no one being above the
law, six federal statutes, conditioning deliveries of weapons to foreign
countries on various grounds, are being violated. And you are the
violator.
Then there is the vast undercount of Palestinian fatalities and injuries
by both Hamas and Netanyahu, for different reasons, that is well known
by the State Department which possesses credible evidence for a casualty
toll multiple times the 41,000 figure. Please take a moment to read the
enclosed article from the
Capitol Hill Citizen titled
“Exposing the Gaza death undercount,” which assembles ample proof. Note,
in particular, the statements by Abba Eban in the early nineteen
eighties and the leading Israeli military analyst about the Israeli
government’s policy of targeting civilians. On July 25th, a detailed
letter was sent to you by 45 American physicians and nurses detailing
the horrors they saw while volunteering in Gaza. These medical
professionals believe that “the death toll from this conflict
is many times higher than what is reported by the Gaza Ministry of Health.”
Aristotle wrote that “
Courage is the first virtue because it makes all the other
virtues possible.” That recognition should steel your spine.
Why aren’t you listening to Dr. Jill Biden who in December, upon seeing
pictures of slaughtered Gazan children said to you “Stop it, Stop it
now, Joe.” Where is your touted empathy when it comes to hundreds of
thousands of innocent defenseless children, mothers and fathers in Gaza,
and now expanding into the West Bank, who had nothing to do with
October 7
th?
We look forward to your response.
Sincerely,
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Ralph Nader, Esq.
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Bruce Fein, Esq.
Enclosure: