Donald Trump's Demented Gaza Threats - And Other Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix

Donald Trump's Demented Gaza Threats - And Other Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix

March 5, 2025

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Caitlin Johnstone

In a statement addressed “to the People of Gaza,” President Trump warned on Wednesday that “A beautiful Future awaits, but not if you hold Hostages. If you do, you are DEAD!”

Again, this was explicitly addressed to the entirety of Gaza’s population, not only to Hamas. U.S. presidents kill civilians all the time, but it’s highly unusual for them to explicitly threaten a civilian population with extermination in a statement addressed directly to them; you have to go back to the leaflets President Truman dropped on Japan warning of nuclear annihilation in 1945 to find anything like this.

At the same time, Israel is reportedly preparing a “hell plan” in which it will resume its genocidal onslaught and cut Gaza off from electricity and water if Hamas refuses to accept Israel’s revised terms for the ceasefire deal in the coming days. The plan to cut off water is especially terrifying, as it would lead to mass civilian deaths relatively quickly.

All of Trump supporters’ reasons for supporting Trump are invalidated by his positions on Israel.

“He puts America first” - he puts Israel first.

“He’s making peace” - he’s assisting Israel’s mass murder and tyranny.

“He supports free speech” - but not speech which criticizes Israel.

The current Israel apologist line on the IDF’s siege on Gaza is that Israel isn’t obligated to feed people it’s at war with, which is idiotic in a couple of different ways.

Firstly, saying Israel doesn’t have to feed Gaza is like saying you don’t have to feed the people in a prison or a hospital. Yes you obviously do you psychopath, it’s an area you’ve enclosed and made fully dependent on outside aid.

But also, Israel doesn’t even feed Gaza. They’re currently stopping other people from feeding Gaza, which is like putting security outside of a hospital or prison to make sure nobody can bring in the essential aid you’re not providing.

Reading by Tim Foley

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