1. United States
2. Calif.
3. Letter

I am writing to you with a profound sense of urgency regarding the genocide of Palestinians in Gaza. By providing the weapons being used to slaughter innocent civilians and lay waste to Gaza’s critical infrastructure, the United States government is not only funding a war; it is enabling the obliteration of an entire people. Our nation’s complicity in this violence is an unforgivable moral failure that all too well parallels our inaction during the Holocaust. The use of starvation as a weapon of war is a crime against humanity, a method of torture that no human being should have to endure. While children watch bombs fall from the sky and bullets rain down around them, their suffering is compounded by a man-made famine — for many a slow death sentence. This tragedy is compounded by the proposed idea of transforming Gaza into a high-desert tech and luxury strip, a plan that is not only unconscionable but also a disgraceful vision of profiting from the rubble of a war-torn land. This is not a rebuilding plan; it is a blueprint for displacement and erasure. Your silence is not neutrality; it is complicity. History will not look favorably upon your quiet acquiescence to pure evil during times in which the loudest voices of all are needed. The future we leave for our children will be defined by whether we spoke up for humanity and peace or allowed the seeds of hate and destruction to take root. I implore you to act now. Demand an immediate and permanent ceasefire. Stop funding the violence with our tax dollars and call for the unhindered flow of humanitarian aid into Gaza. Uphold the principles of human rights and justice that our nation claims to represent and use your voice to help the voiceless. Thank you for your attention to this desperate matter.