Norman Solomon is the national director of RootsAction.org and executive director of the Institute for Public Accuracy. His latest book, War Made Invisible: How America Hides the Human Toll of Its Military Machine, was published in paperback with a new afterword about the Gaza war in autumn 2024.
U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris won the debate. People being bombed in Gaza did not. The banner headline across the top of The New York Times home page—“Harris Puts Trump on Defensive in Fierce Debate”—was accurate enough. But despite the good news for people understandably eager for former President Donald Trump to be defeated, the Harris debate performance was a moral and political tragedy. In Gaza “now an estimated 40,000 Palestinians are dead,” an ABC News moderator said.
In truth, as time went on, the entire Israeli war in Gaza amounted to one gigantic atrocity with uncountable aspects.” As with the steady massacres with bombs and bullets in Gaza since early October, “the Israeli-U.S. alliance treated the increasing onset of starvation, dehydration, and fatal disease as a public-relations problem.
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