Dear President Joe Biden,
Your most vocal detractors would not have foreseen your post-election
facilitations of the Israeli genocide in Gaza. They anticipated sterner
stuff after the election.
The expanding Gaza-like destruction of Lebanon evokes no public
criticism by you of the Netanyahu regime. The targeting of apartment
buildings, health facilities, emergency responders, children, civilian
infrastructure, whole villages, and booby-trapped pagers continues, with
your obeisant shipment of evermore ships and aircraft full of deadly
weapons.
You have previously called Lebanon a U.S. ally, but its government’s
pleas to you have been handed off to a chosen intermediary shuttling
back and forth ostensibly for a ceasefire that eats up time without
materializing. The current ceased fire is honored more in the breach
than in the observance. The camouflage of this effort gives Netanyahu
more time to destroy Lebanon and lure you, the U.S. military and
intelligence agencies, into a hot war with Iran without a
constitutionally required congressional declaration of war.
Your dutiful service to the imperial designs of the present Israeli
regime has not been reciprocated by Netanyahu who expeditiously showed
his preference for Trump before the November elections. Trump favors
annexation of the West Bank and Gaza and Israeli warfare without Geneva
Convention guardrails.
Still, you minister to the Israeli extremist regime’s terrorist demands.
Orders for more 2000- pound bombs designed specifically to obliterate
neighborhoods? Sure, you say. Violate your oath of office and refrain
from faithfully executing six federal statutes conditioning U.S.
shipments of weapons to foreign governments implicated in war crimes or
blocking U.S. humanitarian assistance? No problem. Even after your phony
30-day notice to Israel to cease the violations was ignored with a
sneering worsening of the blocking of humanitarian trucks into Gaza, you
surrendered to Netanyahu, exhibiting weakness and betraying the
American people!
You won’t even demand that Netanyahu open the borders of Gaza to
American journalists to report the facts on the ground to the American
taxpayers. Over 70 media (
New York Times,
Washington Post,
AP, BBC, etc.) organizations have been demanding this entry for months.
They were recently backed by 64 House Democrats, led by Representative
Jim McGovern (see
attached letter). Still no action from Biden.
Have you no thimble of empathy or compassion left in your soul? Your
briefers have probably brought to your attention shocking pictures of
Palestinian youngsters as amputees and afflicted with other horrid
injuries. This grim reality was described in two documented letters to
you from over sixty American physicians and health workers back from
Gaza. Not even the courtesy of an acknowledgment from you. Their
observations filled a page in the
New York Times recently, among other media (
attached);
so clearly, they had to be included in your briefings. These are
courageous medical experts and you have disrespected them as you keep
describing yourself as a “Zionist Irish American.”
Perhaps you can learn some lessons from the way peace negotiations
started and succeeded in the long-standing Northern Ireland dispute with
the U.K. Your stark disposition is to push the expansion of the
military alternative at the expense of rigorous peace negotiations
regarding the war on defenseless Palestinians and Lebanese and the
Russian/Ukrainian battles.
How will opening more Russian territory to more powerful U.S. missiles
and anti-personnel mines for Ukraine do anything other than deepen the
spread of that war and increase the risk of wider wars involving
additional countries? You are ending your political career like a
gunfighter in the old Western movies backing out of the saloon’s
swinging doors with guns a ‘blazing. You are turning yourself into a
referential citation for the incoming Trump. You must know that you and
‘Bibi’ Blinken are mocked as automatic dittoheads by Netanyahu’s inner
circle.
The most powerful military nations should lead by waging peace. Instead,
you have humiliated the American people by being Netanyahu’s toady and
have brought the U.S. into an unconstitutional state of full
co-belligerency both in the Middle East and also in Ukraine. Don’t you
remember your December 2007 castigation on Chris Matthews’ Hard Ball of
President George W. Bush’s threat to attack Iran without a congressional
declaration as an impeachable offense that you would eagerly
prosecute?
In your remaining few weeks in office, can you at the very least use
decisive leverage over Netanyahu to (1) open the Gazan borders to
thousands of humanitarian aid trucks, with security provided by the
Israeli military, as required by international law to protect the
civilian population under its occupation, (2) to open the borders to
independent reporting by American journalists (all Israeli and foreign
journalists for that matter), and (3) airlift some of the horribly
burned and amputated Palestinian children to ready and able U.S.
hospitals for specialized treatments for the shocking injuries that your
weapons inflicted upon these innocent souls.
The December 2023 words of your spouse, Dr. Jill Biden, in the White
House, “Stop it, stop it now, Joe” will ring through the history of the
most gravely rejected advice by an American president.
You are a practicing Catholic. (See the letter sent to you dated December 28, 2023.)
A fable in the current issue of the
Capitol Hill Citizen (attached)
portraying a fictional narrative between you and your confessional
priest illustrates how you should resolve your self-inflicted, ghastly
moral predicament promptly before the American people.
Otherwise, you are ending your presidency as the total enabler and
protector of the most violent, prolonged mass murder of a trapped and
besieged, defenseless people by another country in the 21st century.
Having ignored all our prior letters, you should respond to this one
with its specific requests, reflecting the majority views of the
American people.
Thank you.
Sincerely,
Bruce Fein, Esq.
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Ralph Nader, Esq.
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Enclosed:
CC: Your office, The Press Office, The East Wing, The Press Secretary
Karine Jean-Pierre, The National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan, and the
Muslim-American liaison.
Also, other interested parties.
Click here for a PDF version of this letter.