ATOMIZE GAZA: U.S. Representative Says Quiet Part Out Loud
ATOMIZE GAZA: U.S. Representative Says Quiet Part Out Loud
Rep. Tim Walberg's comment came shortly after the Biden administration agreed to send Israel more weapons to kill Palestinians
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Rep. Tim Walberg, R-Mich., said at a recent event that the U.S. should not spend another dime on humanitarian aid for starving Gazans, and instead should atomize the city like “Nagasaki and Hiroshima.”
“We shouldn’t be spending a dime on humanitarian aid. It – it should be like Nagasaki and Hiroshima. Get it over quick. The same – the same should be in Ukraine. Defeat Putin quick. Instead of 80 percent of our funding for Ukraine being used for humanitarian purposes. It should be 80 percent, a hundred percent to wipe out Russian forces, if that’s what we want to do.”
Walberg’s call to kill Gazans is Washington’s official position. President Joe Biden tries to act like he cares about the genocide but will send Israel even more weapons to kill Palestinians.
Common Dreams wrote: Walberg's comments were made public a day after it was reported that the Biden administration had approved the transfer of new weapons to the Israel Defense Forces, including 2,000-pound bombs like those that have already made Israel's bombardment one of the deadliest and most destructive in modern history.
Earlier this year, Amichai Eliyahu, Israel's Jerusalem Affairs and Heritage minister, stood by his previous comment that his country should strike the Gaza Strip with a “nuclear bomb” because there are no innocent civilians in the coastal enclave.
While these views have been called extreme, mainstream news personalities in the U.S., like Fox News’s Mark Levin, have suggested that Israel should go nuclear if it begins to lose. The commentator also retweeted a column asking if there is such a thing as innocents in Gaza.
Galit Distel-Atbaryan, a Knesset member and former information minister, called for “erasing all of Gaza from the face of the Earth” and making it so “the Gazan monsters will fly to the southern fence and try to enter Egyptian territory – or they will die….Gaza should be erased.”
Nissim Vaturi, a far-right member of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud Party, said in an interview last month that he stands by his earlier comment that Israel has been too soft in Gaza and should burn the coastal enclave to the ground.
Vaturi said he stands by his comment because it is “better to burn, to bring down buildings than for soldiers to be hurt.”
Bezalel Smotrich, Israel’s finance minister who was once considered a hardliner but now is an Israeli moderate, said there are two million Palestinians in Gaza who want to “slaughter, rape, and murder Jews.”
Smotrich urged Palestinians to leave the coastal enclave so Israelis could "make the desert bloom," The Jerusalem Post reported. He said 70 percent of Israelis agree with him that Palestinians need to be moved from the enclave.
TRENDPOST: Jake Sullivan, the White House’s national security adviser, posted on X on Sunday that he met with Israeli Minister of Defense Yoav Gallant in Washington and the two just had a grand old time. (Gallant is famous for announcing a complete siege on Gaza at the start of the war.)
“There will be no electricity, no food, no fuel, everything is closed. We are fighting human animals and we are acting accordingly,” he said at the time.