The Jerusalem Post reports: “U.S. sends 500th aircraft to Israel as airlifts of weapons, equipment continue.” See: “The Doctors Who Want to Tell the DNC About the Hell They Saw in Gaza” and “’Trying to Repeat the Nakba’: Israel Launches Largest Military Raids in West Bank in Two Decades.”

ABBA SOLOMON, abbasolomon@gmail.com, www.threads.net/@abba.a.solomon
Solomon is author of two books on Zionism, The Miasma of Unity: Jews and Israel and The Speech, and Its Context: Jacob Blaustein’s Speech “The Meaning of Palestine Partition to American Jews.“

He just wrote the piece “Why Are Liberal Zionists Cheering as Harris Echoes Biden on Gaza?” which states: “Key to Harris’ brief discussion of Gaza in her acceptance speech was the customary refusal in American political discourse to attribute the slaughter to the U.S. or its Israeli partner. Instead, there was a reference to ‘what has happened’ –evoking victims without victimizers…

“After pledging unconditional support for Israel’s military, Harris expressed sorrow — as if the horrors are being inflicted by a force of nature, not a military force that the U.S. government supplies with fundamental and essential support. …

“Harris carefully omitted any mention of the only way that the U.S. government could actually put an end to the suffering in Gaza that she called ‘heartbreaking’ — an arms embargo to stop the huge shipments from the United States that provide the Israeli military with the weapons and ammunition it’s using to continue to massacre Palestinian people of all ages.”

Solomon concluded that the Democratic Party-aligned “pro-Israel, pro-peace” American Zionist organization J Street “represents untenable liberal American Zionism that clings to the fantasy of a democratic and humane ‘Jewish state.’ Washington office-holders pledge continued weapons resupply for that fantasy Jewish state — with no connection to the actual Israel that is now engaged in remorseless genocide.”