Janet Simmon: Netanyahu has no right to address Congress

To The Daily Sun,

Under Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel has killed at least 36,000 Palestinians, destroyed over 70% of civilian infrastructure, and dropped more bombs on Gaza than were dropped in Germany during World War II.

Yet, U.S. leaders invited Netanyahu to give a joint address to Congress on July 24. This is shameful.

PM Netanyahu is the leader of the operation to ethnically cleanse Palestinians. 

I grieve at his bombing refugee camps, schools, and hospitals, blocking desperately needed food, water, and medicine. Right now children are dying of starvation. This is a man-made famine.

It is on my conscience that my tax dollars are starving children, killing livestock, destroying orchards. None of this makes Israel any safer. How does shooting a child make Israel safer? How does bombing people sheltering on the hot beach in plastic tents make Israel safer? How does denying the population medicine make Israel safer?

A leader who uses these tactics has no place in our Congress. This is the cruelest action I have seen in my 82 years of life. 

Do not give Israel any more of my tax dollars.

I plead with Rep. Chris Pappas not to allow Prime Minister Netanyahu to address the U.S. Congress. This congress belongs to U.S., the taxpayers of America. 

Janet Simmon

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