Trump Prioritizes a Corrupt Foreign Regime Over the American Public Dear Supporter, At today’s joint press conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, President Trump spoke as though the United States were beholden to Israel rather than the other way around. He seemed to forget that he is the President of the United States, entrusted with safeguarding American interests. His remarks reflected not “America First,” as he claims, but “Israel First.” Once again, Netanyahu outmaneuvered Trump, manipulating the optics and narrative to his advantage. If Trump genuinely seeks “eternal peace” in the Middle East, he must begin by curbing Israel’s recklessness and holding it accountable for its crimes. That includes ending U.S. complicity in Israel’s violations of international law, its destabilizing actions across the region, and the administration’s financial and political support for Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza.  Peace cannot be a reward for criminality. It cannot be built atop Israel’s occupation of Palestine, its repeated assaults on Gaza, the West Bank, Syria, Lebanon, and beyond. True peace demands justice, an end to occupation, aggression, and impunity. While Israeli prisoners receive global attention, thousands of Palestinian detainees—many held for decades, including women and children—remain invisible. To humanize one side while erasing and enabling the suffering of the other only deepens the imbalance and perpetuates instability. History did not begin on October 7, nor will it end there. The issue is not about security arrangements in Gaza that serve Israel’s interests, but about the root causes: occupation, apartheid, and aggression. It is the Palestinian people who need protection from Israeli apartheid, occupation, and ethnic cleansing, backed by American power. They do not need international guardianship. They need, want, and deserve nothing less than the right to self-determination, exercised freely and without coercion. The United States, Israel, and all governments complicit in the war on Gaza bear moral and legal responsibility to fund its reconstruction—without strings, without interference, and without using aid as leverage against the Palestinian people. How can Palestinians trust Trump’s promises of peace when he speaks of Gaza’s “real estate value” as a strip of land on the sea? Talk of reforming the Palestinian Authority rings hollow when Israel—a state that flouts human values and international law—is governed by extremists and shielded from accountability. Netanyahu is right about one thing: this is a war between civilization and barbarism. But it is Israel that embodies the latter, as the world has been witnessing in Gaza for two years now. Trump, and the U.S. government as a whole, continues to face a choice: continue enabling this brutality, or finally hold Israel accountable and redirect the administration’s resources toward serving the American people. |
