Re: “Sit down and be quiet? No thanks” (June 4, Opinion):
Sen. Patty Murray writes that President Donald Trump needs “to create a way of apathy and helplessness that silences critics …”
That’s how I felt about President Joe Biden and Democrats as they spent billions to ship extra weapons to Israel to bomb and starve folks residing in Gaza. My calls had been ignored. Democrats and Biden implied folks essential of this terror had been antisemitic or dupes for antisemites. Protests by college students and lecturers on American campuses, usually led by alliances of Jewish- and Palestinian-Individuals, had been demonized — by Democrats and Republicans.
This paved the best way for Trump’s assaults on universities and anti-constitutional arrests of individuals for protected speech justified to “combat antisemitism.” Sen. Murray needs to cease unlawful acts, however, when members of the Division of State mentioned extra army help would violate the Leahy Legal guidelines meant to cease us from abetting conflict crimes and genocides, she nonetheless voted towards Sen. Bernie Sanders’ Joint Resolutions of Disapproval to attempt to cease army assist.
Tens of 1000’s of kids have been killed in Gaza and but nonetheless we ship army help. Civilian infrastructure is essentially destroyed and virtually no meals is getting in. Nonetheless we pay for this genocide.
Rachael Ludwick, Seattle
