This article appears in the February 9, 2024 issue of Executive Intelligence Review.
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WALL OF SHAME
The U.S. Congressmen Who Are Defending Israel’s Genocide
Interview with Diane Sare, 2024 independent candidate for U.S. Senate from New York. She was on the ballot in the 2022 U.S. Senate race as a LaRouche independent against Senate majority Leader Chuck Schumer, having submitting 66,000 validated signatures of New York voters, an achievement no other statewide independent or third-party candidate was able to meet. Sare, a musician, is the founder of the Schiller Institute NYC Chorus.
EIR: I’m Daniel Platt of Executive Intelligence Review, and I am talking with Diane Sare, who is challenging incumbent U.S. Senator from New York Kirsten Gillibrand in the November 2024 general election. Welcome, Ms. Sare. I’d like to begin by asking about one of your recent initiatives.
On the day before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) reported its preliminary findings in South Africa’s case against Israel for genocide, you made an announcement. You announced a “Wall of Shame” with the names of over 200 members of the U.S. House of Representatives who had added their names to a letter, sent two days earlier, to Secretary of State Tony Blinken. The letter characterized South Africa’s case as “grossly unfounded” and claimed that it “perpetrates false and dangerous allegations” against Israel, which is referred to as the “Jewish state.” Could you elaborate on why you have announced this Wall of Shame, and can you add any further observations in light of the ICJ’s preliminary decisions on January 26?
Diane Sare: Sure. Well, of course, when I wrote the letter, I didn’t know what the ICJ was going to find, and I was very pleased with their result, because I think the genocide is undeniable and their decision actually reflected that. But I want to inform the American people that there’s a higher standard of truthfulness in the universe, and that the Congress cannot escape it, and it’s one of these moments for those of us who anguished about “how could Hitler have not been stopped—why did the people go along with it?” You’re seeing that right now in the United States, and I’m sorry to say that it’s being led by Members of Congress, like the 200-plus who signed this outrageous letter. So in a sense, I’m putting them on notice, because there will be a day of reckoning; I don’t know if it will be when they’re alive—but there will be a day of reckoning, and the truth will come out, and they are on the wrong side.
EIR: Also on January 26, the Israeli government attempted to distract world opinion from the ICJ rulings by making sensational allegations against the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA). It alleged that 12 employees of the Agency had actively participated in the October 7 attacks on Israel. Although no evidence was made public for the allegations, all the major Anglophile nations immediately announced plans to cut funding and effectively disable the agency. Yesterday a Norwegian Member of Parliament responded by nominating the Agency for the Nobel Peace Prize. What are your thoughts on this controversy?
Sare: I think the timing is most suspicious. The UN Relief and Works Agency has over 13,000 employees delivering relief. I’m sure they don’t know what every single one of them is doing at every moment. I understand they fired the nine employees immediately, without an investigation—they’re investigating it now.... Nonetheless, this [is a] pretext to really escalate the genocide. I would put that in the category along with flooding the tunnels with seawater—because what you see is an escalation of exactly what was found in the International Court of Justice—not only that the actions taken by the IDF result in massive loss of life, but the statements from Benjamin Netanyahu, President Herzog, and Defense Minister Galant, reflect an intent to eliminate an entire group of people, which is the definition of genocide according to the 1948 Convention.
EIR: Let’s speak for a moment about your opponent in the Senate race, Kirsten Gillibrand. She gave an interview to Jewish Insider, also on January 26, in which she said that she had recently returned from a trip to Israel, Saudi Arabia, and Jordan. She described a plan to persuade Saudi Arabia and Jordan to join with Israel in an alliance against Iran, in exchange for the formal establishment of a Palestinian state. This is apparently her policy, despite Prime Minister Netanyahu’s public rejection of a Palestinian state. She also said that she doesn’t think efforts by her Democratic colleagues to condition or otherwise restrict U.S. aid to Israel are necessary or appropriate, and that she believes Israel is in compliance with the U.S.’ laws for recipients of military aid. How do you respond?
Sare: It’s obviously why people should not reelect her (laughs). That’s my first response. I mean, this is really disgusting. And frankly, it’s what you could say—peeing into the wind. I’II put it that way. Because the world has moved in a different direction. This is the problem of the Americans. They haven’t even stopped to reflect on what it means that an African nation, South Africa, with a particularly important history, could actually uphold principles of morality, justice, and truth that people once trusted the United States to uphold; perhaps long ago, before the assassination of President Kennedy, when FDR was President, there were certain moments. We no longer represent that, and we can run around the world, trying to bludgeon people into submission and give them orders, but frankly, China and Russia and the BRICS process have much more clout. Look at Germany, our “great ally.” First, we likely blew up their pipeline—Biden certainly announced his public intention to blow up their pipeline, the Nord Stream 2, then he starts restricting licenses to sell them liquid natural gas (laughs)—so what’s the great benefit of being a partner of the United States? And I don’t think this is lost on these other nations. One other aspect about Gillibrand, is that her father-in-law—she married a Brit—her father-in-law was the vice-chairman of British Aerospace, so she is absolutely, intimately tied to the military-industrial-financial complex that’s destroying our nation.
