Shaun King – Qatar about the role of the United States in the genocide of Palestinians

What's happening right now in Gaza could not

happen without the United States.

The United States is the primary funder of

this genocide.

They are the primary armors.

They provide most of the weapons.

One study showed that since 1950, the United

States has provided over 80 percent of all

of the weaponry that Israel uses.

The United States just sent more weapons yesterday

it was released.

So while the United States sometimes brags that

they've sent some aid, for those of us

that are from the United States, that aid

means nothing.

If you're still sending the bombs, it doesn't

matter that you sent food or water.

If you sent the aid that caused people

to need the food or water, it's even

deeper than that.

The United States is not just funding it,

is not just arming Israel.

The United States is defending Israel at every

step.

Joe Biden, the American president, literally has said

on multiple occasions, this was a quote, that

there's no red line, that there's no line

Israel could cross for him.

So while sometimes you'll hear the U.S.

say they want Israel to follow international law,

when you say there's no red line, that

means international laws don't matter.

So without the United States, I don't think

this ever would have happened.

Israel knows that the United States government has

its back.

I'm inspired that millions of people in the

United States, myself included, we don't approve, we're

disgusted, we're marching, we're demonstrating, we're organizing, in

part because we want people around the world

to know that this government doesn't speak for

us.

That, you know, I have to wake up

every day and know that my tax dollars

are funding something that I'm disgusted by.

Not only that, the United States on multiple

occasions has vetoed important resolutions in the U

.N. this morning at our opening session here

at the Doha Forum.

The secretary general of the U.N. expressed

his own frustration that he did something he

had never done before.

He filed really an emergency motion to confront

Israel and the violence against Gazans before the

U.N. Security Council.

It was 13 votes for a ceasefire, and

the United States was the lone vote against,

and they vetoed it.

People that might not understand, there are five

nations that have permanent veto power, and the

United States is basically holding the U.N.

hostage.

We believe the United States is committing war

crimes with Israel.

If Israel's committing war crimes, the U.S.

is as well.

So these are legal definitions.

When we say that this is genocide, that's

not just an emotional statement we're making.

Genocide is a actual thing.

There's a legal definition for it.

This meets that definition.

I don't think that we can count on

the United States government to do anything about

this.

It's going to require other governments to intervene,

including governments in the region.

I'm not saying that governments here need to

intervene militarily.

Maybe, if that's an option, if that's a

decision they need to make.

But there are many ways that they could

respond by maybe blocking their airspace.

One option might be to close the Suez

Canal.

I mean, there are many different ways that

you could say, listen, as long as you

are doing these crimes against Palestinians, here is

how we will respond as nations in the

region.