By Walt Zlotow
For 188 days President Trump has been voraciously supporting the Israeli genocide of Palestinians in Gaza. He’s given Israel billions in weapons, Intel, logistics, vetoes of UN ceasefire resolutions, public support.
On day 188 Trump encouraged Israel to “finish the job” in Gaza:
“I think they want to die, and it’s very, very bad… It got to be to a point where you’re gonna have to finish the job.”
They don’t want to die more than you do, Mr. President. Netanyahu, with Trump’s support is bombing, shooting and starving them to death. It’s more than very, very bad. It is genocide and Trump is all in, following his predecessor Biden who originally enabled the genocide’s start 21 months ago.
Twenty-four hours later Trump appeared to have an epiphany during a meeting with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer in London. Or maybe he just forgot his cue cards of genocide support:
“There is real starvation in Gaza. That’s real starvation stuff, I see you. You can’t fake that.”
Trump actually contradicted Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu who claimed there was no starvation. Trump’s evidence?
“Based on television, I would say not particularly because those children look very hungry.”
They don’t look very hungry Mr. President. They’re dying every day from your encouragement for Israel to starve those Palestinians not killed by your bombs and bullets.
The grotesque reality is the US and Israel abandoned the Gaza ceasefire talks so both can continue the genocidal ethnic cleansing there unabated.
While Biden kept a low profile about the extermination he green-lighted, Trump is positively ecstatic about completing it for his ultimate real estate project.
We can hope Trump is feeling the pressure of living out his remaining days damned to eternity for enabling the Gaza genocide. Maybe it will force him to buck Netanyahu who is starving Palestinians right before our eyes. Or maybe on Trump presidency day 190 he will go back on script and ignore the monstrous death toll he’s enabled.
While most of the civilised world is repulsed by the Israeli/US genocide tag team, everyone in the Trump administration and nearly the entire 535 member Congress is on board the Genocide Express. It’s all ‘self defense’ they mutter.’ Mainstream media has blocked discussion of the genocide, the word and subject that dare not speak their name.
We need a 21st century Nuremberg War Crimes Trial. First up in the dock? Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, closely followed by Joseph R. Biden and Donald J. Trump.
We cannot say we didn’t know. Unless we hold them to account… we are complicit in their guilt.
Walt Zlotow, West Suburban Peace Coalition, Glen Ellyn IL
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The only time trumper is shocked is when people disagree with him – otherwise he doesn’t give a flying flamingo about anyone else but himself.
By the way, in old English to trump meant to fart – pretty appropriate in his case.
Either there has been a failure in the intel that Trump is receiving, or Trump is refusing to listen : either way that is a problem !
Terry, I’m of the sound opinion that everything Trump says is to deflection, from you know who.
Trump says he saw the starvation on television. I thought cartoons were about his level of viewing but anyway if he saw it on TV ( and apparently now believes it) then one wonders how the Israeli consul can’t see it. Did any of those at his press conference challenge him on that I wonder?
RC, it’s the million dollar question: Why doesn’t someone in the press challenge him?
It is reported that Starmer said the UK will recognise Palestine as an independent state in September if Netanyahu does not cease the IDF’s genocidal activities. Starmer could act NOW if he is so concerned – why doesn’t he? What is holding him back? Similarly, why won’t the Australian Government act responsibly and directly call out Israel for the inhumanity that Netanyahu has created in both Gaza and the West Bank? If Trump has eyes to see the Palestinian tragedy on tv then surely the Israeli lobbyists who plague Western Democracies have eyes too – or are they blind?
You are correct, Trump is just so much bad air.
Just what I want to know Mediocrates – don’t warn them you’re going to do it, just DO IT. And then the West can assist in supporting a State to defend itself against an aggressor who has colonised, stolen land, and is gradually starving them to death. This is EXACTLY the same scenario from WWII except then it wasn’t on our TVs every day. How often do we need to see a mother holding a dying child !!!!!
Does this man ever have light bulb moments or just months or years after everyone else has figured it out and he has nowhere else to go – sound like Netanyahu and Putin? The horror of these self made monsters is they start with a lie, deny it till the cows come home, and then twist the narrative to paint themselves as peacemakers, heroes and defenders of civilisation or humanity – the tyrannical dinosaurs of our modern day world, scapegoators and perpetrators of global conflict, war, mass murder and genocide!
As for his administration and Congress – they live in a delusional fictitious world where world reality is like Batman flying through a wormhole to the Delta quadrant, ‘international’ means within Federal borders and all overseas countries are alien worlds to be bullied, subdued and contained for profit and pleasure like Jurassic Park – USA is an alternate reality or in plain sociological terms a delusional baseball game where you knock the shit out of anything that moves, you don’t understand or just because you can – a modern day Roman coliseum.
Trump will only accede that there’s starvation. He won’t acknowledge GHF’s complicity, nor the supply of bombs and weaponry, nor being guiled by Netanyahu, nor the attacks on the UN. Nor the ultimate desire for the cleansing of the entire Levant and Fertile Crescent