Some of the most fervent pushback to Donald Trump’s plan for Gaza is coming from the same people, institutions, and newsrooms that refused to challenge, and even supported, the mass slaughter of Palestinians during the Biden administration. What we find is that there is a manufacturing of a moral hysteria around Trump’s proposal that seeks to – either intentionally or by way of liberal anti-Trump muscle memory – erase the direct culpability of the Biden-Harris administration and the Democrats in the genocide of Palestinians.
Then there is the performative anguish of the Democrats. Last week, 145 House Democrats signed a letter <https://www.axios.com/2025/02/13/democrats-trump-gaza-israel-netanyahu> urging that President Trump retract his “dangerous” comments about Gaza and that they “are alarmed that an American president would advocate for the forcible removal and permanent displacement of two million people” Forced removal and permanent displacement are inarguably bad. But where were these words of moral outrage, anguish, cries of “ethnic cleansing” and war crimes when Palestinians were being forced from one corner of Gaza to the other by the Israelis, only to continue having bombs rain on them hour after hour for fifteen months straight? Where was all this screaming and pearl clutching when North Gaza was cleansed of its inhabitants and put under a devastating siege <https://www.aljazeera.com/program/newsfeed/2025/1/13/100-days-of-siege-in-north-gaza> for months? When Palestinian babies were left to die and decompose <https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/abandoned-babies-found-decomposing-gaza-hospital-evacuated-rcna127533> in their hospital beds? When children were shredded into bags of meat? Where was the outrage when hospitals were eradicated one by one? When journalists, healthcare workers, professors were killed one by one? Kidnapped and tortured <https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/11/24/dying-in-hell-palestinian-medics-jailed-by-israel>, one by one? Nowhere. The Democrats—and liberals at large—need us to forget about what was happening in Gaza before Donald Trump came into office. They need us to believe that the physical displacement of Palestinians is worse than the eradication of over 1,000 bloodlines, worse than the decimation of all life-sustaining infrastructure that rendered Gaza inhabitable; worse than upwards of 200,000 killed by bombs, starvation, and disease. The current manufactured fervor plays a singular function, however expressed: it positions the current President as directly culpable for a crime that has yet to be committed by him while erasing the direct culpability of the previous President in every single crime he and his administration did commit against the Palestinians. And the media plays a key role in this narrative. In other words: Trump is threatening what the Biden administration already tried <https://reason.com/2025/01/27/trump-revives-bidens-failed-proposal-to-remove-palestinians-from-gaza/> and what the Israelis had always intended. Any and all reporting that refuses to place Trump’s plan as contiguous of Biden’s policies is not only propaganda to exonerate the Biden administration but is also genocide denialism. Whatever President Donald Trump plans for the Palestinians—for Gaza, the West Bank, Lebanon, and Syria—cannot happen without the bloody and devastating realities that were wrought by President Joe Biden, his administration, and his party. The consequences of their own electoral and political failures <https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/biden-voters-passed-kamala-harris-because-gaza-new-poll-shows>, alongside their moral failures <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HAedspO8hM>, have left the liberal and media classes in this country with little to offer in the face of anything and everything the Trump administration has planned. Except, perhaps, a pathetic and transparent politics of outrage. https://mondoweiss.net/2025/02/the-liberal-establishment-is-finally-criticizing-ethnic-cleansing-in-gaza-now-that-they-can-blame-trump/ -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#35284): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/35284 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/111252780/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: marxmail+ow...@groups.io Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/13617172/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [arch...@mail-archive.com] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
