War Crimes: Who Are the Criminals?

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60 Minutes just released a program featuring interviews with a number of U.S. officials who have resigned over the last year and a half, reporting that “U.S. policy on Gaza has led to widespread dissent at the State Department.” The program featured footage — taken back in May — of U.S.-made munitions casings throughout Gaza. Biden is scheduled to give a foreign policy speech at the State Department today, reportedly at 2:00 p.m. 

KATHY KELLY, kathy.vcnv@gmail.com@voiceinwild

NICKMOTTERN, nickmottern@gmail.com

    Kelly and Mottern are with the Merchants of Death War Crimes Tribunal, which will have a news conference on January 15, 2025, as the world marks the birth of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, and release the report of ten international jurors who have weighed the evidence submitted to them.

    Mottern wrote the piece “Judgement Day for the Merchants of Death,” which states: “A permanent military industry was needed to enable this mafia-style scheme of international exploitation. Tribunal video episodes describe ways in which the U.S. public has been manipulated to support this military industrial system, to their great economic, spiritual and intellectual disadvantage as the U.S. economy and the wealth of its oligarchs, like Elon Musk, has become more and more dependent on war and intimidation.” 

    Kelly wrote the piece “Dr. Martin Luther King’s Prophetic Warning, Denouncing the Merchants of Death,” which outlines “holding accountable four weapon manufacturing corporations based in the U.S. Their tribunal amassed copious evidence to prove that Boeing, Lockheed Martin, RTX (formerly Raytheon) and General Atomics (a company which manufactures weaponized drones) are guilty of committing war crimes.”

    Kelly highlights a series of reports from various groups documenting criminality including a report issued on December 19, 2024 “from Human Rights Watch, entitled ‘Extermination and Acts of Genocide,’ stating that Israel has killed thousands of Palestinians in Gaza by denying them clean water which it says legally amounts to acts of genocide and extermination. …

    “Of necessity, the evidence was culled from examining a limited range of devastatingly criminal U.S. ‘forever wars,’ of brutal and needless wars of choice. … What if we could enlarge the Tribunal, bringing before it war crimes occurring right now, the U.S.-assisted massacres we watch in real time on our phone and computer screens?

    “Certainly, one witness we would beg to appear for testimony would be Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, who was the director of Gaza’s Kamal Adwan Hospital when such a place existed. The Tribunal would wish to amplify his testimony on the harrowing weeks of siege during which Israel subjected his hospital to artillery and aerial bombardment. …

    “Considering such testimony from so many diverse sources, one might expect that U.S. lawmakers would re-evaluate their murderous, unwavering support of Israel. Instead, on January 9th, 2025, the U.S. House of Representatives voted to sanction the International Criminal Court in protest of its arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his former defense minister.

    “Who are the criminals? U.S. news coverage of five former or current presidents gathered for the funeral of President Jimmy Carter never hinted that hideous wars of choice along with massive increases in weapon sales had marked the administration of each of the five. There was no mention of President Biden’s order to send $8 billion of weapons to Israel. This gathering of U.S. presidents is referred to as ‘The World’s Most Exclusive Club.’ Exclusive indeed. What other club of so few has caused so much suffering to so many?”