Israel has sparked global outrage after dropping leaflets over the besieged Gaza Strip, warning Palestinians to either cooperate with its forces or face forced displacement or eradication. The messages, written in Arabic, carried explicit threats, including the chilling statement: “The world map will not change if all the people of Gaza cease to exist.”
The move, condemned as a psychological warfare tactic, has intensified concerns over Israel’s military campaign in Gaza, with many seeing the leaflets as an open admission of ethnic cleansing.
The threats also reference a so-called “Trump plan”, aligning with recent remarks by US President Donald Trump. who suggested the mass expulsion of Gaza’s population to neighbouring countries. The posters featured images of Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who is facing accusations of war crimes and crimes against humanity and wanted by the IC
My stance was “Trump is going to make a lot of things worse, including the ongoing genocide in Gaza. You’re either for Trump or against Trump, and if you’re a single issue voter, you’re either voting in favour of, or against, making the genocide worse”.
Some people told me that the Democrats are definitely in favour of the genocide, but who knows what Trump would do! I told them everyone else knows. They told me it’s impossible to know because there was no genocide during Trump’s first term, but there was during Biden’s first term. So Trump is a safer bet for single issue voters.
Regardless, single issue (non-)voters have succeeded in making life much worse for Americans and Palestinians.
We would still be supporting Israel with Biden in place. The only difference is there would be a few “we are very concerned” statements from the White House press secretary instead of Trump’s reality TV show statements. But in the background, the same number of MK84 2,000lb bombs are being transported by the same military vehicles and they blow up on top of the same people.
By what measure is trump making it worse than it was under biden, biden supplied the weapons for a 15 month long genocidal carpet bombing campaign, has trump done something worse than that?
How is that worse than a genocidal carpet bombing campaign?
In combination with what Trump has said before, and with what Israel has been doing, this isn’t a peaceful eviction. This is Trump pushing for “finishing the job”. Or, “completing the genocide”, to use more straightforward terms.
How is that worse than a genocidal carpet bombing campaign?
Equally as bad yes, but worse?
Explicitly committing to “finishing the job” sounds worse to me than what could be described as “feigned unwillingness to support the job”.
Bidens actions showed that he was always willing to finish the job, if not he could’ve reined in netanyahu at any point by putting conditions on arms transfers.
I don’t care if he pretended to care more than trump, actions matter more than words