Jeremy Scahill,    -  The Intercept Stephan: This is what genocide looks like and the United States is providing the weapons to make this happen. The problem we face as a country is that in the midst of this Israeli created genocide, our American democracy hangs by a thread and we are faced with an election that is not about Democrats vs. Republicans. It is about continuing democracy or becoming a pseudo-democracy ruled by an authoritarian criminal and the uber-wealthy oligarchs who fund him. abetted by the peasants who were ignorant enough to vote him into office. A makeshift graveyard near the European Hospital outside Khan Younis, Gaza. “This is just one graveyard I discovered just outside the hospital,” says Khan. “There’s so many dead.” Credit: Yasser Khan Throughout the past five and a half months, Israel has waged a full-spectrum war against the civilian population of the Gaza Strip. The United States and other Western nations have supplied not only the weapons for this war of annihilation against the Palestinians, but also key political and diplomatic support. The results of the actions of this coalition of the killing have been devastating. Conservative estimates hold that more than 31,000 Palestinians have been killed, including 13,000 children. More than 8,000 people remain missing, many of them believed to have died in the rubble of buildings destroyed in Israeli attacks. Famine conditions are now present in large swaths of the Gaza Strip. The fact that the International Court of Justice has found grounds to investigate Israel for plausible acts of genocide in Gaza has not deterred the U.S. and its allies from continuing to facilitate Israel’s war. The massive [...]

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