Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York claimed on Sunday that Israel is committing “genocide” in Gaza and carrying out “forced starvation” by blocking humanitarian aid to Palestinians. I emphasized it even more.
Appearing on CNN’s “State of the Union” on Friday, Ocasio-Cortez defended her speech in the House of Representatives in which members of the progressive “Squad” called on President Biden to end U.S. military aid to Israel.
“If you want to see what an ongoing genocide looks like, open your eyes. It looks like the forced starvation of 1.1 million innocent people,” she said on the House floor. Ta. “We have to write our story in this moment about what it means and who we are as Americans. And our story is about who we are. It shouldn’t be that he was a good person who did nothing.”
CNN’s Jake Tapper says that “genocide” is a term that has “serious and specific connotations and suspicions,” defined by “the intent to destroy all or part of a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group.” I objected that there was. He asked the congressman who coined the term AOC whether he believed that the Israeli government or Israeli military was “actively trying to destroy or actively trying to destroy the Palestinian people.” It’s not that something terrible is happening, it’s happening because Israel is going after the Hamas terrorists who attacked them on October 7th and Hamas has infiltrated the civilian population. ”
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York spoke on the House floor, condemning the “genocide” in Gaza and calling on President Biden to halt aid to Israel. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)
“These words are very serious and carry extraordinary weight, and to me, the intent is high and serious, and they are not uttered lightly,” Ocasio-Cortez said. I complied.
“But when we look at the precipice of what is happening with the forced starvation of 1.1 million Gaza residents, we see that multiple governments, NGOs, and even officials in the U.S. State Department, the Israeli government and leaders within the Israeli government, “They are deliberately denying this aid, blocking it, slowing it down and causing mass starvation, but we have overstepped the limits of our intentions. “I think it’s scary. It’s scary,” she said.
The lawmaker added that there are “differences between the people and their governments,” such as Israelis in the Israeli government and Palestinians in Hamas. “But I believe that what we are witnessing here is forced starvation that is beyond our ability to deny or explain. The mass starvation of a million people. “We did not target Hamas, who caused the attack and half of whom are children,” she said. she said.
On March 23, 2024, Palestinian children in Rafah stand in line with water bottles as water shortages are expected due to Israel’s attack on Gaza. (Abd Rahim Khatib/Anadolu via Getty Images)
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Tapper said Israeli authorities allow hundreds of aid trucks a day into Gaza, but the shipments must be inspected to ensure they do not contain weapons. He pointed out that the war could end “tomorrow” if Hamas released the hostages and hostages. Lay down their weapons. Mr. Tapper asked if AOC disagreed.
Egyptian trucks carrying humanitarian aid bound for the Gaza Strip line up outside the Rafah border crossing on the Egyptian side on March 23, 2024. (KHALED DESOUKI/AFP via Getty Images)
“I don’t agree, because when you’re talking about hunger, Hamas’s actions shouldn’t be tied to whether a three-year-old can eat or not. “There is no justification for forcing people to eat grass because their bodies deplete themselves,” she said. “And while the Israeli government has the right to go after Hamas, we are talking about millions of innocent Palestinians. We are talking about unjust collective punishment. This is the excuse that the Israeli government is making about who they are.” What the British government is saying, what international aid agencies are saying, what our own State Department officials are saying: It just doesn’t agree with not allowing passage. ”
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“To operate as an ally,” AOC said, the U.S. “must act with integrity to uphold democratic principles, including respect for human rights, and to recognize that our country is different from authoritarians.” We must prove the value of our principles.” We are different from other types of regimes that do not consider innocent people. ”
