Dismay at U.S. policies in the Middle East

For 76 years, the U.S. has pretended to broker peace in the Middle East while unconditionally using our taxpayer dollars to provide billions in weapons, then blocking or defunding United Nations peace and humanitarian aid efforts. The U.S. is complicit in the ongoing murder of over 42,000 people in Gaza since October 2023, half being children, and in the intentional starvation and displacement of over 2 million Gazans.

Israel’s shameful genocide is hidden by media blackouts. Reporters and doctors are targeted. 70% of buildings are crushed, including hospitals, with their patients still inside. With U.S. backing, Israel is metastasizing into the West Bank, Lebanon, Syria, and threatening Iran. Their future and ours becomes more dangerous every day. Join me in contacting our candidates and elected officials to insist the U.S. to stop all arms shipments to Israel. We must require an immediate, permanent cease-fire in Gaza. It’s also time to end the illegal occupation of Gaza and the West Bank.

Ginny Paulson

Iowa City