MSM coverage masks criminal’s murderous criminality – and his accidental condemnation of ‘sick and twisted’ Israel
US president Donald Trump has joined the Israeli regime in signalling clear genocidal intent toward innocent Palestinians, but the western, including UK, press is whitewashing his murderous statement – and his inadvertent condemnation of ‘sick and twisted’ Israel.
On his ironically-named ‘Truth Social’ platform, Trump posted – specifically “to the People of Gaza” – that if the last Israeli hostages are not released, despite Israel’s abandonment of its ceasefire obligations, then “you are DEAD!”:
This is as unequivocal a statement of intent to commit genocide as the many that Israeli political and military leaders have made, but the western media chose to ignore ‘to the People of Gaza’ and create headlines as if Trump only addressed ‘Hamas’, as a selection of headlines screengrabbed by Newscord shows:
Others softened it still further, into a ‘last warning for Hamas’:
The supposedly impartial BBC was no better:
If any of them mentioned the threat to the wider population at all, it was buried deep into the article, beyond where most readers would reach. Of the ‘mainstream’ press, only the Independent and Evening Standard headlines were accurate, though without mentioning the obvious criminality of the statement:
And none appear to have bothered to observe the obvious: that when Trump said those who ‘keep bodies’ are ‘sick and twisted’, he was inadvertently talking to Israel, which is holding onto well over a thousand Palestinian dead, some for years – as long as half a century, and for so long that the exact number is unclear – and many of them tortured to death in notorious Israeli detention camps:
Sick and twisted indeed – and neither UK PM Keir Starmer nor his Foreign Secretary David Lammy have breathed a public word about the war criminal in chief’s criminal threat, though both have been posting on X, including Starmer wittering about loving football.
Both of them, along with Trump and his war criminal partner in genocide who have resumed their murder of hundreds of thousands of civilians and counting, should be in the dock at the Hague.
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Is Lumpen ‘Don The Con’ blissfully unaware that there are also 10,000 Palestinians in Occupation Force Israeli jails including women & 160 children?
And according to Human Rights Watch “These are often held on no charges or the flimsiest of charges.”
Trump for supplying 2,000 pound bombs etc & for this statement should be added to the ICC Wanted List.
Oh and Arab countries, though many feel they could have done more for Palestinians, have come up with a £43b Gaza Reconstruction Plan and Western Governments who supplied the arms to aid the destruction should get NO contracts.
“Clean hands only.”
“The West” and its politicians and client media, and the elite and the rich have been screwing us all over for 50 years and more. Our wages are low our taxes are high, we are used to finance the cock-ups of the rich. Our freedoms have been reduced, our countries’ moralities have sunk. Our services and infrastructure have been decimated, our great education system sacrificed on the altar of privatisation and making kids lives hell, and all the time our politicians are raking in unearned cash, acting like 5 year olds in Parliament, pretending to care about one or two dead people to whitewash their appearance in Parliament, and 90% of our country starved of cash. Suddenly the Yanks go and elect an imbecile, and hey, our politicians hadn’t noticed we had sold ourselves into slavery! What an utter s***show!
Perhaps Trump’s threats are merely those of his financial backers, particularly Miriam Adelson, Israel’s richest woman and widow of Las Vegas casino mogul Sidney, who bankrolled his election campaign to the tune of $100 million and whose heart is set on the Greater Israel project?
Correction: Sheldon, not Sidney Adelson.
The only real difference between Trump and his predecessors is that Trump actually says the quiet part out loud, rather than attempting to run with all the hypocrisy about ‘democracy’ and ‘human rights’.
To take one example; the so-called Democrat wing of single transferable uniparty under Obama dropped more bombs on brown skinned people than GW Bush (whilst at the same time decrying racism – go figure!). But got a free pass (along with a valueless Nobel ‘Peace prize’ (sic)) because Obama looked cool whilst doing it.
In that regard, Trump is the ideal representative of the dead end zero-sum duplicity of not simply the dominant US culture but that of the West as a whole. There seems to be, for example, a school of thought among too many in the USA that Europe, to quote from one BTL comment on Larry Johnson’s SONAR21 site, “is a conglomeration of uncivilized, hate filled, neurotic, tribes who cannot go more than a few years without war”……and that The US needs to be done with [Europe] once and for all.
Which is ironic really given that the dominant culture of the population is descended from that same “uncivilized, hate filled, neurotic, (Colonialist European) trib[al]” background.
brilliant post, thousand likes, Dave H. sadly, i can’t register even one.
NOTICE to SKWAWKBOX: Like is not working
Nor is labour.
The problem with murrica is that it’s convinced itself of its own hyperbole (or bullshit, as most would deem it – I’m being polite)
And trump is THE quintessential example, fully reflective of the hard-sell that few outside the US buy into.
Now I’m not a clarkson fan (although in fairness his historical documentaries are rather on point)
But this, too, is on point.
https://youtu.be/_33z-NhiNfA
The septics honestly believe they gave the world the bleeding lot.
Nope. I once had a similar ‘discussion with a murrican. I told him about how the yanks would never have broken the sound barrier had they not demanded british jet engine technology as part of the repayment of ‘lend lease’.
Something they promised to share the fruits of their development with us…They reneged, but we had the last laugh.
Then he tried going on about Boeing and how they built the fastest and best (subsonic) jet airliners.
…Until I pointed out to him that it was, in fact, the (british) VC10 that held the record for the fastest subsonic Atlantic crossing….and still did at the time (not sure if it still does but I wouldn’t be surprised)
And then when it eventually came to militaria, of course he started bragging about the abrams (m1a1) tank. How it was the fastest, and(so he thought) with the biggest gun, and the best armoured
Until I put him right about Chobham armour** – and how the yanks demanded the formula for that, too, again as payback for ‘lend lease’ – which the UK gladly handed over as we’d already improved it (mk2 composite armour under the name ‘Dorchester’ which is NOT ‘shared with them).
Needless to say, he didn’t like his bubble being burst, and skulked off, rather deflated and a lot quieter.
Pity, as I was only getting warmed up.
**Chobham armour was, IIRC, the final piece of hardware the yanks extorted out of us before lend lease was finally ended in 2006.