The national organization Veterans For Peace has written an Open Letter to Vice President Kamala Harris, asking her to push for an immediate end to the siege of Gaza. The letter begins:
“Dear Vice President Harris, we are reaching out to you as military veterans who have fought in multiple US wars, and who continue to uphold the US Constitution and international law, to organize for justice and equality in our home communities, and to advocate for a peaceful foreign policy. We are appalled by the ongoing Israeli slaughter of tens of thousands of Palestinian men, women and children and by the maiming of tens of thousands more. We are outraged by the systematic blocking of food, leading to malnutrition, starvation, disease and the deaths of many more, particularly babies and young children. These are unbearable and unacceptable crimes that will go down in the history books as a terrible genocide – a holocaust.”
The veterans’ letter reminds Vice President Harris of her own words after her meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu:
“What has happened in Gaza over the past nine months is devastating – the images of dead children and desperate, hungry people fleeing for safety, sometimes displaced for the second, third, or fourth time. We cannot look away in the face of these tragedies. We cannot allow ourselves to become numb to the suffering. And I will not be silent… It is time for this war to end and end in a way where Israel is secure, all the hostages are released, the suffering of Palestinians in Gaza ends, and the Palestinian people can exercise their right to freedom, dignity, and self-determination… So, to everyone who has been calling for a ceasefire and to everyone who yearns for peace, I see you and I hear you.”
Veterans For Peace also reminded Vice President Harris of the growing danger of nuclear war:
“As you must know, Vice President Harris, continued US support for Israel amid the Gaza genocide also risks further regional and global escalation, with potentially irreversible consequences, even the unthinkable horror of nuclear war. We urge you to demonstrate the kind of leadership for which so many people are waiting – for which we are hoping and praying. Please use all your influence to end the unfathomable suffering in Gaza.”
Signed by Veterans For Peace president Susan Schnall, the letter encourages Vice President Harris to take immediate action:
“Don’t wait until January. Do the right thing NOW, even as you are campaigning for president. Please urge President Biden to change course in Gaza, to support an immediate, permanent ceasefire, the opening of Gaza’s borders for massive humanitarian and medical aid, and to stop sending weapons to Israel as long as this massacre continues.”
Veterans For Peace is sending the letter to Vice President Harris on Tuesday, July 30. It can be read in its entirety here.
Gerry Condon is a Vietnam-era veteran who resisted the war while an active-duty soldier. He is a past president of Veterans For Peace, a current Board member, and a coordinator of its Nuclear Abolition Working Group.
Way to go Vets.!
Kamala should take over now. It’ll give her a better chance at winning the election later, and she might improve things over Biden, now.
Does she have the legal power to do that?
No. However, Biden could be impeached, and Biden could step down.
That process would go into 2025.
Impeachment removing a sitting President? Unpossible in our modern era.
NO.
She might speak up more than Biden but she will do the same things he is doing and what Trump will be doing if he gets back in the DC Swamp.
Oh, there would be differences. We just don’t know what those differences would be. She might be under pressure to end the conflict earlier to improve her chances, for example.
Would you rather have her or the Convicted Felon? I've been voting since 1964, and each and every vote was executed while holding my nose. I KNOW who I'll vote for this time, but I expect this country just may stay intact.
All political systems eventually come to an end and get replaced. That’s arguably happened at least a couple of times in the US (Civil War and New Deal are popular dividers between different “republics,” and the JFK assassination was arguably another), and it will happen again … probably in the not too distant future.
Voting in general, and particularly voting for either major “party,” is just kicking the can down the road while whistling past the graveyard and hoping history magically stops.
Maybe the way to prevent that, and I hate to play this "race card" (useful as it would be), could be for the media to play the whole "…and least President Harris would continue the policies that MEN left for her, and do what MEN like Netanyahu and Zelenskiyy tell her to" until he decides to wear her ovaries on the outside and show the compassion and intelligence women own in abundance.
You go vets!!! She may not be listening to you. Keep pounding away.
Harris is a Lawyer, should know that the actions of the Biden Administration violate International Law and yet still speaks as if what the USA is doing is LAWFUL? She is a FRAUD, a Zionist, just like the majority in D.C. Vote OUT all the Zionist, the American People have the power to take the Rep/Dem Party to it's knees, vote against them.
The American People should also take down the Electoral College. Only Democrats and Republicans get votes from them.
International Law does not apply to the USA, Israel or other allies,Otherwise, Biden, Obama, Trump, Bush, Clinton, Netanyahu and Blair and the people that work or have worked for them would be rotting at the Hague.
“Only Democrats and Republicans get votes from them.”
Usually. But in 1972, Libertarians got one each for president and vice-president (the latter being the first woman and the first Jew to receive an electoral vote; the former may or may not have been the first gay man to get one).
Another utter waste of time… Harris is NOT IN CHARGE. Get a clue.
Biden is supposed to be in charge, he is the POTUS. He is too senile to know what's going on. Harris is really in charge.
If you listen to her, she is making policy.