"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