cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/36142552
By Syma Mohammed
Published date: 12 September 2025 19:49 BSTVan Hollen of Maryland and Merkley of Oregon produced the report after a week-long visit to Israel, the occupied West Bank, the Rafah border with Gaza, Jordan and Egypt at the end of August. The damning 21-page report is titled, “The Netanyahu Government is Implementing a Plan to Ethnically Cleanse Gaza of Palestinians. America is Complicit. The World Must Stop It.”
The report observed that overwhelming evidence shows “Israel is…implementing a plan to ethnically cleanse Gaza of Palestinians and dealing a death blow to the vision of a future Palestinian state”.
USA is genocide-enabler country and that is the fact.
Ok, what are you doing about it?
They acknowledged that the campaign of destruction included the destruction or damage of 92 percent of housing units, 94 percent of the enclave’s hospitals, 92 percent of schools and university buildings, and 86 percent of water and sanitation facilities.
I’m trying not to be a pessimist about this, but if only we had senators willing to call this genocide before so much destruction has already been done. So many of us are unwilling to call something a genocide until hundreds of thousands have died.
This report might be entirely ignored since these are Democratic senators.
Large USA media outlets are too focused on the death of a hatemongering podcaster to even report on this. I tried looking for articles from larger media outlets, and I only found an article from The Guardian (UK) and an MSN article… really wasn’t expecting to see an MSN result.
Focusing on the death of one hatemongerer while our government supports genocide… we do live in a violent society.
Van Hollen of Maryland and Merkley of Oregon produced the report after a week-long visit to Israel, the occupied West Bank, the Rafah border with Gaza, Jordan and Egypt at the end of August. The damning 21-page report is titled, “The Netanyahu Government is Implementing a Plan to Ethnically Cleanse Gaza of Palestinians. America is Complicit. The World Must Stop It.”
They acknowledged that the campaign of destruction included the destruction or damage of 92 percent of housing units, 94 percent of the enclave’s hospitals, 92 percent of schools and university buildings, and 86 percent of water and sanitation facilities.
They said that Gaza Humanitarian Foundation sites, the scandal-plagued aid scheme backed by the US and Israel, were built as tools to restrict the flow of food and control the movement of the population to the point where Palestinians find it so unbearable that they “volunteer” to depart.
The senators found that unnecessary screening and red tape meant that less than one-tenth of humanitarian aid entering Gaza via the Jordan Corridor was able to make it through.
This is despite the fact that the US had provided 280 trucks and helped build 10 warehouses to triple the capacity for humanitarian aid along the Jordan Corridor, enabling 150 trucks per day of aid.
They also shared how the US had spent about $1.5 m to purchase advanced screening machines, following a request by the Israeli government, but since the ceasefire ended in March, “Israel no longer accepts trucks screened at the US facility”.
The senators said that Jordanian officials told them convoys were coming under increasingly frequent attacks by violent settlers and protesters in recent weeks, who slashed tires and “inserted substances into the diesel tanks to render the trucks inoperable”.
Overall, the senators concluded that “the world has a moral and legal obligation to stop the ongoing ethnic cleansing… Strong words alone will not be sufficient. The world must impose penalties and costs on those who are implementing this plan”.
Wow. Never saw this coming but fucking finally. They just needed it turned into someone else’s genocide. NOW FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THAT IS HOLY HELP. We don’t have time left. We need action NOW.
I am calling rep tomorrow. Hopefully this will work. Finally, for fucks sake.
A little late. How many times did these same two senators vote Israel Aid since October 7th? Did they just vote to send more assault rifles for Israel to hand out to settlers this summer? Ron Wyden the other senator from Oregon just did.
These Senators knew from the start what Israel was, what they wanted to do, and how they were going to do it. I knew all that and I do not have access to their intelligence or news. I am glad a couple of old cynical cunts finally decided to do the bare minimum 2 years after the fact but it hardly atones for pretending to give Israel the benefit of the doubt until now, with what, 20, 25% of gaza’s population exterminated?
That information is available from the CRS; unfortunately it really isn’t completely clear in the way you’re suggesting because of the role of the Senate - in the few instances where the Senate has voted on a bill that includes provisions relating to Israel, they have been part of some other enormous bill, often in bills that were already contentious on their own.
The article linked makes it clear that these Senators understand that America is complicit and they’re using their limited power to call attention to the issue.
There are no single issue voters in Congress, and certainly none who place the affairs of Israel-Palestine over the issues that the voters in their districts care about. That these two men took the time to travel to the other side of the world and return to share their finding should be celebrated, held up as an example, not treated with derision.
While your rhetoric sounds geared in favor of ending the genocide, you’re either not considering the above or your goal is to cause further division. It’s unclear if you consider yourself to be a Progressive, and I’m not suggesting you do or don’t, but for those of us who do use that label, ask yourself: when elected leaders take steps towards our ultimate goal (ending the conflict/genocide), is that worth encouraging or discouraging? Progress is defined by incremental positive change over time, changing everything all at once is a revolution.
Conflict in Palestine has raged cyclically for millenia, and while I understand the outrage, it sounds like the demand is for these two Senators, 1/50th of the Senate, from the party that currently holds no power in any branch of government, to single-handedly solve the conflict. Anything less is a failure. How could anybody possibly meet that standard? Just for sharing this report, both of these Senators will face an uphill battle in their next election as Israel funds their opponents’ campaigns. It is therefore unsurprising that so many politicians have given up on this issue, realizing that the costs vastly outweigh the benefits.
@[email protected] - you seem to have a lot of feelings about this issue, which is awesome. Instead of being enraged about it online, insisting that the entirety of the Congress is fully aware of the intricacies of this issue and therefore complicit, perhaps channel some of that energy into making positive change? Amplify the messaging from these Senators, whose report you seem to wholly agree with, and become a thorn in the side of the other 98 Senators who, frankly, probably don’t know enough about this issue.
Learn more about the way that Congress operates; did you know most Congresspeople spend a majority of their time fundraising? It makes sense if you think about it, but unfortunately it leaves an insufficient amount of time to focus on the issues they need to make tough decisions about. Instead of assuming maliciousness, assume ignorance, because the average person is not evil, just lazy. Congress too. It’s shitty, and it should be different and better, but it’s the system we’ve got until someone like you has enough rage-fueled energy to make positive change.
Our senators are old hacks, chosen to be weak.
You can talk all you want about unity and moving forward but you are not fooling anyone, it only gets worse from here.
And I do not identify as a progressive, because many that do would tar me in association. Content to be the little junior partners of the moderstes that have nothing but contempt for them, that would rather the Republicans win than a progressive…
It is pathetic, and republic ending allowing this dynamic to continue.
Oh trust me. I know. But something has to give. I need it to for our own personal lives. I have a personal connection to Gaza. I need something, anything, to give. Even just a trickle more of aid is something. Everyone is sick and there’s no steady clean water and no food. I can’t do anything when there’s nothing there physically. They’re bones and fighting infection. Everyone is already so so weak and everyone is dehydrated and ill. Calories. Just calories. Two kids were hospitalized last week. None of the adults are eating. Watching someone lose weight day by day is only something I ever dealt with with cancer patients. Not healthy adults. They’re dipping into the realm of they’re going to need extensive treatment to recover. But anything is better than nothing. We just need something hearts are going to start giving out soon and I can’t. I just can’t.
I don’t need politicians absolved. I need hope. And we need food.
Indeed. And the only one that could make that happen is the US government. But since they have evidence of politicians and business leaders fucking underage girls and whatever else there is apparently nothing that would cause them to put the brakes on Israel.
The leak of all the Epstein info there being blackmailed with is about the only thing that may help at this point.
Starvation and disease are going to cause more deaths than anything, and they’re not even counted in the bullshit figures that they still disputes and claim our lower. Wish there was something I could do to help.
Continuous pressure on power and hope. I don’t have the luxury of cynicism or apathy.
“The world,” no, the USA. The USA can stop it they do these reports, then vote to keep funding Israel. Forked tongue but watch the limbs.
America Complicit in Ethnic Cleansing? THESE Senators are ANTI SEMETIC because ETHNIC CLEANSING is a National Jewish Pasttime!
Say what you will about Charlie Kirk but he did warn against this.
Duh!
Fuck Israel, genocidal scum!
*incredulous sputtering*
Which of these politicians just voted to send Israel more assault rifles to hand out to settlers just this summer? I know Ron Wyden the other Oregon Senator that I thought I liked did.
Better late than never I suppose but what the fuck it’s been 2 years now and if I knew what Israel was doing from the start the Senators knew or should have known as well.
Even my man Bernie pretended to give Israel the benefit of the doubt for what 8 months?
Duh! Captain Obvious strikes again…
This just in! Water is wet! Details of this astounding study at 11!
Yes! C’mon guys get those cojones to do something!
But otherwise yould have a woman in power! A woman of color!
If only Americans cared this much when they are the ones bombing innocents and doing genocide. I guess it’s easier to criticize others than fix your own shit
Excuse me? This has been going on for over 2 years with full support of the US and most of its people, this is America’s genocide as much as it is Israel’s, the American weapons made it possible and they’re still flowing on Americans’ dime. Don’t distance them from their fair share of the blame.
This is America’s shit to fix, this is Biden’s genocide that he and Kamala lost the election over, this is his genocide that Trump allowed to continue, almost everything that’s currently going down hill with no brakes in the US is a direct result of this genocide, and the consequences aren’t fully there yet.
Americans need to wake up and hold both parties accountable, purge the Nazis on both sides, take them to the Hague and remove every powerful monster that supported this genocide from power and polite society, because the tide is turning quick now and keeping their head in the sand won’t work much longer. We’re at the “we’ve always been against it stage”, but that window is quickly shrinking.
Don’t let Nazi supporters get away with this, if Americans cared enough to fix their own shit, they world reject both Nazi parties and revolt. But the ones who say they care to fix shit, are busy cheerleading for Newsom…
I still remember you guys bombing my country and calling us racist names, only for you to move on and expect me to
Pakistan? Libya? Iraq? Presumably not Afghanistan, Somalia, Syria, cuz those places are super-fucked. Can you give me a better hint than “place America bombed since WWII” and “people americans are openly racist towards”? That venn diagram is a circle covering half the planet.
You guys? Dude I’m Palestinian.
That’s the idea.
