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Emboldening genocide is not a peace plan: the U.S. government continues to be a moral failure
Today’s meeting between Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu once again exposed the selective morality and dangerous political theater that continues to define the U.S. role in Israel’s ongoing genocide against Palestinians. Trump’s focus on the 25 Israeli hostages, while failing to even mention the thousands of Palestinian hostages (including men, women, and children, many of whom have been imprisoned by the apartheid state without charge for decades) is a shameful display of inhumanity and moral bankruptcy. He couldn’t even bring himself to mention the recent murder of 14-year-old Palestinian-American Amer Rabee, a U.S. citizen from Saddle Brook, New Jersey, who was fatally shot by Israeli forces in the West Bank yesterday. This only proves the administration's disregard and willful erasure of all Palestinian life and suffering, even when American citizens are among the victims.
Trump’s reference to Gaza as a "real estate opportunity" and “free zone” not only dehumanizes Palestinians but dangerously echoes calls for the forced population transfer and the ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian people. His comments suggest that Gaza was somehow “given away” by Israel in 2005—ignoring that under international law, Gaza remains occupied territory. Israel never left Gaza; it simply turned it into an open-air prison, sealing it under a brutal siege that has lasted nearly two decades. Real peace requires the Israeli government and its allies to put an end to this occupation, not the commodification of Palestinian land or the displacement of its people.
Trump’s description of Gaza as “one of the most dangerous places in the world” is, ironically, the only honest thing he said. Yes, it is one of the most dangerous places on Earth right now. But not because of Palestinians. It’s dangerous because the Israeli government has been actively committing genocide with full U.S. military, financial, and political backing for over a year and a half with no end in sight. The relentless bombardment, suffocating blockade, deliberate starvation, and systematic destruction of hospitals, schools, refugee camps, and all of Gaza’s essential infrastructures are the direct result of Israeli aggression, made possible only by unwavering American complicity.
Trump claimed he would bring peace as president—but what kind of peace is built by bowing to every demand of an apartheid regime and embracing a war criminal currently facing an arrest warrant from the International Criminal Court (ICC)? What kind of peace ignores the more than 50,000 Palestinians killed (and that’s a conservative estimate), over 80,000 injured, and millions displaced, starved, and traumatized? Peace is obviously not going to be found through genocide nor through the erasure and displacement of Indigenous people.
If Trump, or any U.S. leader, truly wants to bring peace, they must start with one simple reality: Israel must end its occupation. And for that to happen, the United States must demand it by holding Israel accountable and immediately ending all military funding, political cover, and diplomatic protection. President Biden began the dangerous path of isolating the U.S. from the global consensus by backing Israel’s genocide in Gaza in 2023; now Trump is finishing the job, doubling down on that isolation by legitimizing war criminals and parroting apartheid propaganda. Both the U.S. and Israel need to get one thing straight: Palestinian land is NOT for sale, and Palestinian lives are NOT expendable.
AJP Action continues to demand an immediate end to U.S. complicity and a total halt to all military aid to Israel. Anything less keeps our government an active partner in genocide. We demand real accountability, not empty rhetoric or performative meetings that embolden war criminals and further entrench apartheid.
In solidarity,
Americans for Justice in Palestine Action
Today’s meeting between Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu once again exposed the selective morality and dangerous political theater that continues to define the U.S. role in Israel’s ongoing genocide against Palestinians. Trump’s focus on the 25 Israeli hostages, while failing to even mention the thousands of Palestinian hostages (including men, women, and children, many of whom have been imprisoned by the apartheid state without charge for decades) is a shameful display of inhumanity and moral bankruptcy. He couldn’t even bring himself to mention the recent murder of 14-year-old Palestinian-American Amer Rabee, a U.S. citizen from Saddle Brook, New Jersey, who was fatally shot by Israeli forces in the West Bank yesterday. This only proves the administration's disregard and willful erasure of all Palestinian life and suffering, even when American citizens are among the victims.
Trump’s reference to Gaza as a "real estate opportunity" and “free zone” not only dehumanizes Palestinians but dangerously echoes calls for the forced population transfer and the ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian people. His comments suggest that Gaza was somehow “given away” by Israel in 2005—ignoring that under international law, Gaza remains occupied territory. Israel never left Gaza; it simply turned it into an open-air prison, sealing it under a brutal siege that has lasted nearly two decades. Real peace requires the Israeli government and its allies to put an end to this occupation, not the commodification of Palestinian land or the displacement of its people.
Trump’s description of Gaza as “one of the most dangerous places in the world” is, ironically, the only honest thing he said. Yes, it is one of the most dangerous places on Earth right now. But not because of Palestinians. It’s dangerous because the Israeli government has been actively committing genocide with full U.S. military, financial, and political backing for over a year and a half with no end in sight. The relentless bombardment, suffocating blockade, deliberate starvation, and systematic destruction of hospitals, schools, refugee camps, and all of Gaza’s essential infrastructures are the direct result of Israeli aggression, made possible only by unwavering American complicity.
Trump claimed he would bring peace as president—but what kind of peace is built by bowing to every demand of an apartheid regime and embracing a war criminal currently facing an arrest warrant from the International Criminal Court (ICC)? What kind of peace ignores the more than 50,000 Palestinians killed (and that’s a conservative estimate), over 80,000 injured, and millions displaced, starved, and traumatized? Peace is obviously not going to be found through genocide nor through the erasure and displacement of Indigenous people.
If Trump, or any U.S. leader, truly wants to bring peace, they must start with one simple reality: Israel must end its occupation. And for that to happen, the United States must demand it by holding Israel accountable and immediately ending all military funding, political cover, and diplomatic protection. President Biden began the dangerous path of isolating the U.S. from the global consensus by backing Israel’s genocide in Gaza in 2023; now Trump is finishing the job, doubling down on that isolation by legitimizing war criminals and parroting apartheid propaganda. Both the U.S. and Israel need to get one thing straight: Palestinian land is NOT for sale, and Palestinian lives are NOT expendable.
AJP Action continues to demand an immediate end to U.S. complicity and a total halt to all military aid to Israel. Anything less keeps our government an active partner in genocide. We demand real accountability, not empty rhetoric or performative meetings that embolden war criminals and further entrench apartheid.
In solidarity,
Americans for Justice in Palestine Action
