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Complicity

In addition to this failure to hold Rep. Carbajal responsible for his open complicity in genocide, the Independent fails to inform readers of the candidacy of Helena Pasquarella running on a Peace platform.

The Independent has endorsed Salud Carbajal for re-election to represent the 24th District of California. This is an astonishing admission by the newspaper that it endorses the conduct of Rep. Carbajal and his support of the Biden administration's foreign policy in the Middle East, Europe, Africa, and Southeast Asia.

The hundreds of billions of dollars that Carbajal signs off on include the five months of relentless, ruthless, and targeted bombing of an imprisoned, sanctioned, civilian population by Israeli occupation forces in its nonstop destruction of Gaza, the "largest open-air concentration camp" in the world. This receives nothing but a nod of approval for the massive billion-dollar military expenditures that Carbajal endorses.

This is a shameful admission of complicity in the genocidal crimes committed by Israel. Gaza has been under illegal occupation for over 57 years by a fascist, Zionist cabal that has hijacked Judaism, when it is in fact a criminal, billionaire-funded land grab enterprise, a "colonial enterprise," as Theodor Herzl (founder of political Zionism) wrote. The population of Gaza, 2.3 million of them, have endured (in 1948 and 1967) being removed from their homes and villages in Palestine only to be herded and locked behind electronic fences and 24/7 surveillance for 57 years!