As expected, the settler state of Israel is again slaughtering Palestinians in the streets of Gaza, breaking a so-called ceasefire that was never about solutions and only a momentary shift of murderous actions from the enclave to the West Bank.
But whether in Gaza, or the West Bank—where according to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East—between October 7, 2023 to March 14, 2025, over 900 Palestinians were killed—Israel has engaged in the unapologetic, intentional, wanton, and wicked destruction of an entire people.
As the bombs fall on Gaza and attention focuses on Israel’s atrocities, the United States must be unmasked and condemned as the power behind the killings.
“Since October 2023, Israeli forces have killed or wounded more than 175,000 Palestinians in Gaza, including people who are missing and presumed dead and buried beneath rubble, according to the Gaza Health Ministry.
Israel unilaterally abandoned an eight-week cease-fire and resumed its assault on Gaza, killing more than 400 people including at least 174 children in airstrikes that wiped out entire families,” observed Brett Wilkins in a piece for CommonDreams.org.
“United Nations experts, international jurists, human rights groups, and others have found that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, as well as crimes including indiscriminate and disproportionate killing of civilians, extrajudicial killing, torture, sexual violence including rape, use of starvation as a weapon of war, and forced displacement,” he wrote.
None of this is possible without American money, American enabling, American arms, and American bullying.
“President Donald Trump ‘gave the green light’ for Israel to begin an onslaught on the Gaza Strip that killed at least 400 people,” reported the UK-based Independent. The British newspaper also reported Israel “gave the Trump administration a ‘heads up’ before it carried out the attack.”
“Despite these clear war crimes, the U.S. government continues to supply Israel with weapons and bombs that will be used to kill more civilians,” said Rep. Ilhan Omar, the outspoken Muslim congresswoman from Minnesota.
“Already, Trump has bypassed Congress multiple times to send billions of dollars’ worth of weapons to Israel.” Rep. Omar explained that among other things President Trump also gloated about turning Gaza “‘into a Middle East Riviera’ with hotels and beachfront properties he can profit from.”
She added, “Millions of Palestinians in Gaza are facing famine, with all of their borders tightly controlled by Israel. … In violation of the ceasefire and international law, Israel’s government has continued killing civilians and destroying civilian infrastructure in Gaza.”
According to Gaza’s health ministry, some 50,000 Palestinians have been massacred. Israel resumed dropping bombs on Gaza on March 18.
Democracy Now reported on March 20, “Gaza’s Health Ministry says Israel’s renewed attacks have killed 710 Palestinians, including at least 95 people since daybreak today. One of those was a newborn baby.
Another 900 Palestinians have been injured, a majority of them children and women. Some of the wounded died due to severe shortages of medical equipment from Israel’s total blockade of Gaza, which took effect on March 2.”
Then there is the case of Mahmoud Khalil, who was arrested after the Trump administration stripped him of his status as a U.S. legal permanent resident. His crime was standing against the slaughter of Palestinians in Gaza and organizing protests at Columbia University in New York.
President Trump declared, “This is the first arrest of many to come.” He vowed to imprison and deport other students involved in pro-Palestinian protests, though U.S. permanent legal residents are supposed to enjoy free speech protections guaranteed by the Constitution.
U.S. colleges and universities stand to lose millions unless they kowtow to White House and Israeli demands that students, professors, and administrators end any criticism of Israel.
“The right to dissent is a foundation of democracy. Criminalizing protest is not only intended to silence the U.S. solidarity movement with Palestine but is also a threat to all Americans who dare to speak out against our government,” warned Michigan Democrat Rashida Tlaib, a Palestinian-American congresswoman.
“Since last spring’s campus protests, when police arrested over 3,500 students across the country, universities have put in place new rules to suppress dissent, surveil students, and increase campus collaboration with law enforcement.
Now the new presidential administration could further endanger students with visas, the 13 million green card holders in our country, and even U.S. citizens,” she noted.
The White House and pro-Israel elements in Congress are enablers of widespread death that stalks Palestinians. They thwart international efforts to hold Israel accountable with members of Congress threatening sanctions against officials and staffers with international courts and prohibiting them from entering the U.S. if they seek justice for Palestinians.
The president and Congress welcomed indicted war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu to the “world’s greatest democracy” and treated a man widely seen as a butcher and terrorist as honorable. A Feb. 4 meeting with the president made the Israeli prime minister the first foreign leader to be welcomed to D.C. by Mr. Trump.
As he settled into the White House, the second-term president backed the illegal Jewish settler state through arms, funding and executive orders that crush dissent and condemn those opposed to Israel’s pogrom of mass destruction and murder.
When President Trump ordered a 90-day pause on foreign development assistance so his administration could review spending and make sure it aligns with his policy, Israel was reportedly one of two countries given a waiver. President Trump also cleared the delivery of 2,000-pound bombs held up by the Biden administration, saying Israel paid for the weapons.
Now the New York Times reports about a pending travel ban, which intensifies scrutiny of those already in the U.S. and introduces provisions to possibly deport individuals lawfully issued visas in the past four years, lists 11 nations forbidden from coming into the U.S.
Among countries thought to be on the list are Afghanistan, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, and Yemen. President Trump’s 2017 ban targeted seven Muslim-majority nations: Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen.
The marginalization of and U.S. attacks on Islamic countries are part of her determination to protect Israel. Instead of treading carefully, America’s chief executive is moving forward in his inordinacy, blindly wandering on.
If unchecked, his actions and those of politicians, and powerful cultural, media, economic figures and organizations, like the ADL, AIPAC, and American Jewish Committee, are bringing the U.S. closer and closer to divine destruction she has been warned of.
Consider these prophetic words first spoken by the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan in 1984 and repeated during his Saviours’ Day 2024 address: “… ‘America and England and the nations backed Israel’s existence. Therefore, when you aid and abet someone in a criminal conspiracy, you are a part of that criminal conspiracy.
Therefore nations are criminals in the sight of God. Now, that nation,’ listen to your brother, ‘called Israel never has had any peace in forty years and she will never have any peace because there can never be any peace structured on injustice, thievery, lying and deceit and using the Name of God to shield your dirty religion (practices) under His holy and righteous name. ’ ”
Since Israel cannot have peace, neither can her enablers who foment injustice, thievery, lying, deceit and using the Name of God to shield dirty practices under His holy and righteous name.
—Naba’a Muhammad, editor in chief, The Final Call
