{"id":44983,"date":"2023-12-07T13:08:40","date_gmt":"2023-12-07T21:08:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=44983"},"modified":"2023-12-07T13:08:40","modified_gmt":"2023-12-07T21:08:40","slug":"a-personal-message-from-eric-garris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/07\/a-personal-message-from-eric-garris\/","title":{"rendered":"A Personal Message From Eric Garris"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Readers,<\/p>\n<p>I never thought the situation in Palestine could become this dire.\u00a0It is clear that the goal of the Israeli government is total war against all Palestinians in Gaza.\u00a0The Israelis told Gaza citizens to leave the north to avoid being bombed, and <a href=\"https:\/\/news.antiwar.com\/2023\/12\/04\/israel-bombs-areas-of-southern-gaza-where-it-told-palestinians-to-flee\/\">then they started bombing the south<\/a>. Now they are planning for<a href=\"https:\/\/news.antiwar.com\/2023\/12\/01\/israel-planning-for-gaza-war-to-last-over-a-year\/\/t_blank\/oThis external link will open in a new window\"> a year-long war<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Israel is <a href=\"https:\/\/news.antiwar.com\/2023\/11\/30\/report-details-how-israel-intentionally-targets-civilians-in-gaza\/\">deliberately targeting civilians<\/a>. &#8220;The emphasis is on damage and not on accuracy,&#8221; Israel Defense Forces official Daniel Hagari <a href=\"https:\/\/www.milwaukeeindependent.com\/syndicated\/damage-accuracy-israel-admits-bombing-campaign-gaza-not-limited-military-targets\/\">said<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #b30000;\"><b><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><i><a href=\"https:\/\/antiwar.com\/donate\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/antiwar.com\/aapledge\/antiwar_donate_160a.gif\" width=\"160\" height=\"153\" align=\"right\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"15\" vspace=\"7\" \/><\/a><\/i><\/span><\/b><\/span>This week, the US House of Representatives <a href=\"https:\/\/news.antiwar.com\/2023\/12\/05\/house-passes-bill-that-states-anti-zionism-is-antisemitism\/\">voted to equate anti-Zionism with anti-Semitism<\/a> (not just anti-Israel). I am not sure how many members of Congress even understand what Zionism means. The Biden Administration has stated that it places <a href=\"https:\/\/news.antiwar.com\/2023\/12\/06\/us-not-considering-leveraging-aid-to-israel-to-limit-civilian-casualties\/\">no conditions<\/a> on how Israel uses the massive military shipments being sent to Israel. Congress is about to send even more money for war in Gaza, while the majority of Americans now support a <a href=\"https:\/\/news.antiwar.com\/2023\/12\/05\/poll-majority-of-american-voters-want-us-to-call-for-permanent-gaza-ceasefire\/\">permanent ceasefire<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Our task at Antiwar.com has become monumental.\u00a0We have expanded our coverage.\u00a0US support for the war in Ukraine and the budding war against China is still going full speed but Palestine is the focal point.\u00a0All of us opposing this slaughter are also under attack for simply calling for peace.<\/p>\n<p>We are struggling to keep up with all this. But will continue providing the truth without paywalls and without reservation.<\/p>\n<p>We are beginning another fund drive because we have to.<\/p>\n<p>I hope you are willing and able to provide this support.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you,<\/p>\n<p>Eric Garris<br \/>\nCo-Founder of Antiwar.com<br \/>\n<a href=\"mailto:eric@antiwar.com\">eric@antiwar.com<\/a><\/p>\n<h3 align=\"center\"><b><a href=\"https:\/\/antiwar.com\/donate\/\"><span style=\"color: #dd0000;\">Please make your tax-deductible donation today!<\/span><\/a><\/b><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Readers, I never thought the situation in Palestine could become this dire.\u00a0It is clear that the goal of the Israeli government is total war against all Palestinians in Gaza.\u00a0The Israelis told Gaza citizens to leave the north to avoid being bombed, and then they started bombing the south. Now they are planning for a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-44983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44983"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44985,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44983\/revisions\/44985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44983"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=44983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}