Vietnam- Gaza Strip. Image: MC

By Guillermo Alvarado

During the 1960s and early 1970s, American society was shaken by massive acts of protest against the Vietnam War, a conflict in which that power had absolutely nothing to do with it.

On April 24, 1971, in Washington, half a million people gathered to express their rejection of a military adventure that ended in a disaster for the northern country, not only because of the number of dead troops and the money wasted, but also because of the negative image projected to the world.

Well, a similar phenomenon is happening today, the focus of which is on university campuses for now, and which has to do with the complicity of the United States with the genocide against the Palestinian population in the Gaza Strip.

It is common to say that this is a crime against humanity perpetrated by the Zionist Stadium of Israel, but it must be remembered that this bestiality would not be possible only by the will of Benjamin Netanyahu and his clique, without the explicit approval of President Joseph Biden and the financial involvement of the most powerful elites of the northern nation.

Tel Aviv would never have launched a missile or an unmanned device on the Gaza Strip without first consulting with the White House and obtaining its approval, which makes Biden not only an accomplice, but a co-author of the most serious barbarity known. in the XXI century.

Each dead Palestinian weighs on Netanyahu's conscience, but also directly and precisely on that of the president of the United States and his security cabinet, including Vice President Kamala Harris and Secretary of State Artur Blinken.

For this reason, I think, tens of thousands of university students are occupying the campuses and land surrounding the centers of higher education to repudiate the crimes, which are the direct responsibility of the White House and of which rectors and academics are being made guilty. That country.

In fact, the until now prestigious Columbia University, the oldest in that country, founded in 1754, warned of expelling students who participate in acts of solidarity with Palestine and other centers in the “land of freedoms” are going down that path. .

The truth is that in an ideal world, the best of all possible worlds according to Voltaire's Candide, the day Netanyahu is tried for war crimes, at his side, in close embrace, must be the president of the United States and good part of the directors of the academic world of that country.