Trumps Demented Gaza Threats, And Other Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix by Ms Caitlin Johnstone!
(2025-03-07 at 07:14:24 )

Trumps Demented Gaza Threats, And Other Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix by Ms Caitlin Johnstone!

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United States presidents kill civilians all the time, but it is highly unusual for them to explicitly threaten a civilian population with extermination in a statement addressed directly to them

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 Gazas population, not only to Hamas. United States presidents kill civilians all the time, but it is 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 Israels 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 is making peace" - he is assisting Israels mass murder and tyranny.

"He supports free speech" - but not speech which criticizes Israel.

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

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

But also, Israel does not even feed Gaza. They are 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 are not providing.

Sixty-one Palestinian detainees have reportedly died since October 7 because of the cruel treatment they receive at the hands of their captors. Israeli hostages died because Israel was dropping bombs and laying siege on the place where the prisoners were, while Palestinian hostages are dying because Israel tortures, rapes, starves and abuses them. Israel kills Palestinian hostages and Israeli hostages.

People tell me "Caitlin I like what you say about Gaza, but I hate what you say about Ukraine!"

Okay well that is because you are only partially awake to the abuses of the western empire. Gaza is much, much easier to understand than Ukraine. You have still got a lot of learning to do.

I can understand why some antiwar people backed Trump over Harris; there were arguments to be made that he was the lesser warmonger. What I cannot understand is how anyone who seeks peace can continue defending him now that he is in office, though. It is just bootlicking at this point.

Defending Trump by babbling about how bad Kamala Harris was is like defending the United States invasion of Iraq by saying "Oh so I guess you wish Hitler had won WWII." The election is in the past. It was four months ago. It has no relevance to current criticisms of Trumps actions.

It annoys me how Trumpers will do this in anti-war circles. The other day I criticized the presidents actions in Gaza and got multiple MAGA people in my mentions babbling about Kamala Harris. It is like, who? I have practically forgotten who Harris even is. I am busy criticizing the actual empire as it actually presently exists. If Harris had won I would be criticizing her, but she did not, so I focus on Trump. That is what anyone who is not a blind partisan bootlicker would do.

They did this throughout Trumps first term with Hillary Clinton. "Okay sure his Yemen veto was bad but I would rather have him than Hillary." Okay, so? Why are you interrupting important criticisms of the powerful to prattle about an irrelevant former Democratic presidential candidate? How could you possibly even think that is something worth saying?

No matter how bad Kamala Harris or Hillary Clinton were, it does not magically make Trump good. That is like thinking cancer is good just because heart disease is bad. It is shitbrained thinking, and it has become a real pet peeve of mine.

In the west we have the saying "talk is cheap", but what is funny is that there is absolutely nothing in western society that reflects this as our actual position.

The politicians who talk the biggest talk are the ones who get into power. The promotions, investments and business loans go to the people who talk the best game. Our whole society is perpetually marinating in propaganda where skillful manipulators use words to influence the way people think, speak, vote, work, spend, and behave at mass scale.

Talk is not cheap in western society. Talk is highly valued and handsomely rewarded. Talk is our most prized product.

Interestingly I have read that in China the exact opposite is the case. Very little value is placed on talk. The politicians who are elevated to prominence are the ones who have proved themselves with accomplishments over the years.

Western businessmen sometimes struggle in China because their whole careers they have learned that making big deals comes down to talking big talk, but Chinese businesses are only interested in whether you have a solid track record of coming through with the goods. Even between family members and romantic partnerships there is a lot less emphasis on saying "I love you" and a lot more emphasis on showing your love with deeds, because in China, talk really is cheap.

And funny enough that is how we are seeing things play out on the world stage: the west pouring immense amounts of resources into propaganda, cultural domination and soft power influence operations while China quietly surges ahead in more and more fields every year. We are talking while China is doing!

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