Wyden: No Palestinian, No Problem
"The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil." — Hannah Arendt.
Oregon Senator Ron Wyden had a chance to demonstrate that he had limits to what Israel could do to Palestinians. Senator Bernie Sanders introduced Joint Resolutions of Disapproval to try and stop the constant flow of weapons that Israel uses to destroy Gaza. Oregon Senator Jeff Merkley voted along with 15 Senators to stop arming Israel. Unfortunately, Senator Wyden voted to continue the mass killing and starvation of the Palestinians of Gaza.
I read today that Israel killed another eight Palestinian children, burned to death in their tents in a so-called Gaza "Safe Zone." The survivors smelled the stench of burning human flesh, the flesh of children. This criminality is what Wyden is paying for.
The life of a Palestinian child is worth nothing to Wyden. Or rather, he is willing to spend and continue to spend billions of dollars to kill her, kill her family, and destroy every aspect of her existence.
The other week, Israeli soldiers executed fifteen medical rescue workers; the rescuer's vehicles were marked with flashing emergency lights. Israeli soldiers systematically killed them, and then Israeli bulldozers came in and buried them, still wearing their medical gloves, some with their hands tied behind their backs. Israel buried them and their vehicles under the sand.
The life of a Palestinian medical worker means nothing to Wyden. Or rather, he is willing to spend billions of dollars to kill them.
The brutal Soviet leader Joseph Stalin was quoted for saying, "Death solves all problems. No man, no problem."
I fear that Senator Wyden has embraced the same for Palestinians, "No Palestinian, no problem."
Kill children in droves. No child, no problem.
Kill medical workers by the score. No doctor, no problem.
Murder journalists daily. No news, no problem.
Destroy schools and mosques and churches and hospitals. No hospital, no problem.
Deny food and medical aid to hundreds of thousands. No food, no problem.
There is no red line, no stopping Wyden's support for genocide—a brutal rejection of human rights, the sanctity of life, international law, and our values. Wyden and most in Congress, Democrat or Republican, uplift their own version of Stalin's infamous phrase: No Palestinian, no problem.
Peter Miller - April 2025
Benefit Concert for the People of Gaza
Friday, May 30, 2025 · 7:30 PM (Doors open at 6:30 PM)
First Unitarian Church · 1211 SW Main St, Portland, OR
For more information and tickets, go to https://www.jpao.org/events
Project Esther: Suppressing Palestinian Solidarity in the US
Executive Summary
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Microsoft faces growing unrest over role in Israel’s war on Gaza: ‘Close to a tipping point’
Turmoil spreads at company over Israel’s extensive use of its AI and cloud computing services in Gaza war
or the second time in the last month, Microsoft employees disrupted high-level executives speaking at an event celebrating the company’s 50th anniversary on 4 April, in protest against the company’s role in Israel’s ongoing siege on Gaza.
The AI executive Mustafa Suleyman was interrupted by the employees Ibtihal Aboussad and Vaniya Agrawal. The two were fired within days. The Microsoft president, Brad Smith, and the former CEO Steve Ballmer were shouted down at Seattle’s Great Hall on 20 March by a current and former employee.
The March event was preceded by a rally outside that also included current and former employees of the tech giant. Protesters projected a sign on to the hall’s wall saying: “Microsoft powers genocide” – a reference to Israel’s extensive use of the company’s AI and cloud computing services since 7 October 2023, as “the IDF’s insatiable demand for bombs was matched by its need for greater access to cloud computing services,” the Guardian reported.
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Gaza is a ‘killing field’ where people are being starved. How long will the world tolerate this?
What is happening is, quite simply, annihilation. Yet our politicians keep funding it and media outlets normalize it
Where do I even start? In recent weeks I’ve sat down to try and write about Gaza and, every time I steel myself to write about one atrocity, another atrocity is committed. Palestinian journalists have been burned alive, babies have frozen to death, medics have been executed and buried in mass graves, kids are being killed in their sleep. Meanwhile, in the US and Germany, speaking out about dead Palestinian babies can land you on a deportation list. Arguing that international human rights law should be respected can put you at risk of being snatched off the street and stuck in a detention centre.
I don’t know where to start and I don’t know what is really left to say at this point. After 18 months of endless carnage, it should be clear to everyone that this is not a war. That this is not self-defence. What is happening in Gaza is, quite simply, annihilation. A litany of genocide experts have stated this. Respected international organizations like Amnesty International have concluded that Israel is committing genocide – and yet our politicians are still funding this.
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