OP-ED-Cliff Jackson, Larchmont
What we are seeing today are two criminal enterprises that are destroying people in this country and around the world. The impact is due to the unfortunate power and influence of President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. These two men have a level of racism and hatred that shapes their domestic and international foreign policies. They both have expressed their racism and hatred at a very early age and have been supported by right wing forces in this country and the state of Israel.
Netanyahu, in an interview more than 30 years ago, expressed his disdain for Palestinians. He said, ” hit them hard and continually hurt them”. His Judaism, as well as many within the Likud Party, is a farce and abomination. The voices of pure evil that have sanctioned Netanyahu and his genocidal war on Palestinians are replete within the state of Israel. More than 70,000 Palestinian men, women, and children were slaughtered by the IDF at the behest of
Netanyahu and his contempt for Palestinians. Make no mistake this was not a war in Gaza! Adolf Netanyahu is doing and attempting to do the same thing as what Adolf Hitler did in buchenwald, Bergin-Belson and Auschwitz.
Actor Mandy Patakin, in an impassionate speech, talks about the evil of Benjamin Netanyahu. “What this man is doing to Palestinian men, women, and children is unconscionable , unthinkable, and unsustainable. Jews around the world should look at what is happening in Gaza and think about what has happened to them, especially their ancestors, and that is what is happening in Gaza is no different than what happened in Nazi Germany! Netanyahu is making it dangerous for Jews around the world!”
Patinkin’s speech is no different than Tupac’s speech on the holiday season. Both of these men showed not only a depth of moral courage and understanding of how, in their respective pleas of how wrong this is, but they also said something more important than anything else that you could see or hear. Unfortunately, what they both said you will not see as a lead headline in the corporate media. The terror act in Australia recently is an example of what Manday Patakin is talking about. That level of hate and violence towards Jews certainly can be attributed to Netanyahu’s genocide in Gaza. To starve men and women and children as Netanyahu has done is just as evil as what white supremacists did in this country to native Americans and African Americans, as well as what the English did to the Irish during what we now know was a politically stewarded potato famine.
Donald Trump has been Cosa Nostra on steroids since he started working for his father more than 55 years ago. The racist housing policy that he and his father administered in Stuyvesant Town in New York against African American and Latino WWII veterans is the beginning of his evil.
He has shut down USAID, which has led to people dying. He has summarily killed more than 100 people in gunboat attacks near Venezuela, and most of those people were non-combatants. He has gutted FEMA, and the consequences have been that people have died, as we saw in Texas and California, because the resources were not there to support them. He has a brutally racist immigration policy that has resulted in people being savagely beaten by ICE thugs.
Thousands are being put in detention centers, where many predominantly Latino immigrants are not getting proper medical care. Babies are not being given milk in some cases, and many are eating molded food in these detention centers across the country. The big ugly bill, sponsored by Trump, not only cuts off Medicaid for millions but will have the effect that the white Western world always creates when it increases the gap between rich and poor: people will die because of a lack of food and housing. We see this every day with the death and misery that is seen in the so-called third world that is directly attributable to the brutally racist policies of the West. He has continued a tradition of American terror across the globe with the overthrow of the Venezuelan government, killing civilians in the process, as the United States has done in Iraq, Guatemala, Chile, Iran, and a host of other countries in the last 125 years.
Trump’s evil, racist rant that black males ” are criminals and born that way” is his words matching his actions with the hate and contempt that he has shown people of color and nations of color with his travel bans. His hatred and contempt for the lgbtq community is turning deadly, with the healthcare for them that he is attempting to terminate around the country, mainly for transgender recipients of healthcare, and the fact that the suicide rate for transgender people is on the rise. The main reason is that the Trump administration is viciously attacking them. The world is a perilous place for millions of people because of these two despicable human beings.
