The following letter was sent to Senator Warren in response to her recent statement alleging that there are grounds for finding Israel culpable of genocide. The statement was without merit. Below please find AJC’s letter explaining why.
Murder, arbitrary imprisonment, torture, rape, persecution, and enforced disappearance are among the crimes the Iranian regime inflicted against thousands of its citizens who dared to voice their opposition to the regime’s systematic discrimination against women and girls.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has declared that Hamas terrorists remaining in the southern Gaza city of Rafah will be the next objective of the war. As long as Hamas operates from Rafah, Israelis are in danger of rocket fire and a reoccurrence of October 7.