We Could Try Simply NOT Provoking A Wider War Via The Continued Destruction Of Gaza by Ms Caitlin Johnstone!
(2024-01-13 at 20:17:07 )

We Could Try Simply NOT Provoking A Wider War Via The Continued Destruction Of Gaza by Ms Caitlin Johnstone!

Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley):

"I have what some may consider a dumb idea, but here it is: stop the bombing of Gaza, then the attacks on commercial shipping will end. Why not try that approach?"

The United States has carried out another air raid on Yemen, with targets reportedly including the international airport in the capital city of Sanaa. This comes a day after United States and United Kingdom airstrikes on Yemen in retaliation for Houthi attacks on Red Sea commercial vessels.

For weeks Yemens Houthi forces have been greatly inconveniencing commercial shipping with their blockade, with reports last month saying Israels Eilat Port has seen an 85 percent drop in activity since the attacks began. This entirely bloodless inconvenience was all it took for Washington,D.C. to attack Yemen, the war-ravaged nation in which the United States and its allies have spent recent years helping Saudi Arabia murder hundreds of thousands of people with its own maritime blockades.

Yemen has issued defiant statements in response to these attacks, saying they will not go "unanswered or unpunished".

The United States can have a multi-decade long blockade on Cuba and it is normalized.

Israel can have a decade and a half long total air, land, and sea blockade on Gaza and it is normalized.

But Yemenis block some ships to stop a genocide and all the sudden it is indefensible.-James Ray (GoodVibePolitik) January 13, 2024

The Biden administrations dramatic escalation toward yet another horrific war in the middle east has been hotly criticized by lawmakers on both sides of the aisle, who argue that the attacks were illicit because they took place without congressional approval.

This impotent congressional whining will never go anywhere, since, as Glenn Greenwald has observed, the United States congress never actually does anything to hold presidents to account for carrying out acts of war without their approval.

But there are some worthwhile ideas going around.

After the second round of strikes, a Democratic representative from Georgia named Hank Johnson tweeted the following:

"I have what some may consider a dumb idea, but here it is: stop the bombing of Gaza, then the attacks on commercial shipping will end. Why not try that approach?"

By golly, that is just crazy enough to work. In fact, anti-interventionists have been screaming it at the top of their lungs since the standoff with Yemen began.

All the way back in mid-October Responsible Statecrafts Trita Parsi was already writing urgently about the need for a ceasefire in Gaza to prevent it from exploding into a wider war in the region, a position Parsi has continued pushing ever since.

"Huge Miscalculation": Bidens Refusal to Push for Gaza Ceasefire Could Drag U.S. into Middle East War-Democracy Now! (democracynow) January 8, 2024

As we discussed previously, Israels United States-backed assault on Gaza is threatening to bleed over into conflicts with the Houthis in Yemen, with Hezbollah in Lebanon, with Iran-aligned militias in Iraq and Syria, and even potentially with Iran itself - any of which could easily see the United States and its allies committing themselves to a full-scale war. Peace in Gaza takes these completely unnecessary gambles off the table.

And it is absolutely within Washington,D.C.s power to force a ceasefire in Gaza. Biden could end all this with one phone call, as United States presidents have done in the past. As Parsi wrote for The Nation earlier this month:

"In 1982, President Ronald Reagan was "disgusted" by Israeli bombardment of Lebanon. He stopped the transfer of cluster munitions to Israel and told Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin in a phone call that "this is a holocaust." Reagan demanded that Israel withdraw its troops from Lebanon. Begin caved. Twenty minutes after their phone call, Begin ordered a halt on attacks.

"Indeed, it is absurd to claim that Biden has no leverage, particularly given the massive amounts of arms he has shipped to Israel. In fact, Israeli officials openly admit it. "All of our missiles, the ammunition, the precision-guided bombs, all the airplanes and bombs, it is all from the United States," retired Israeli Maj. Gen. Yitzhak Brick conceded in November of last year. "The minute they turn off the tap, you can not keep fighting. You have no capability.- Everyone understands that we can not fight this war without the United States. Period."

In the end, you get peace by pursuing peace. That is how it happens.

You do not get it by pursuing impossible imaginary ideals like the total elimination of Hamas while butchering tens of thousands of innocent Palestinians.

You do not get it by trying to bludgeon the middle east into passively accepting an active genocide.

You get it by negotiation, de-escalation, diplomacy and detente.

The path to peace is right there.

The door is not locked.

It is not even closed.

The fact that they do not take it tells you what these imperialist bastards are really interested in!!

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