Trump's words made me vomit.
Speaking alongside a wanted war criminal Trump makes terrible comparison
I listened carefully to the words of U.S. President Trump as he met with a foreign leader wanted for war crimes, and all I could feel was that I wanted to throw up in disgust.
Watching and hearing in my ears and knowing the reality in Gaza and the West Bank, I was unable to figure out what planet Trump lives on.
He spoke for nearly 45 minutes and not once did he show any compassion or feeling for Palestinians, including the medics, which the NY Times had concluded were killed in cold blood in Rafah, or the 14-year-old American teenager Omar Mohammad Rabea that was killed in the West Bank village of Turmus Aya.
What made my blood my blood boil was when Trump talked about his meeting with the released Israelis who he met and his question to them of whether Hamas showed them any sign of gratefulness, if they offered them an extra meal and then his repeated examples of the claims that they looked like the holocaust starving prisoners. Give me a break.
Trump realized that those Israelis who had duped him had been handpicked to meet him because he claimed that he believed that they were representative of the released Israelis. If that is what they said, they were not.
To be clear, I am not in favor of any civilians taken hostage at all; this is a war crime, just like what Israel has done and continues to do in Gaza and the West Bank are war crimes. Still, I know for a fact, and Israelis have said in public after their release, that they were not badly treated.
It has been proven and documented that Israelis held by a nongovernmental organization, Hamas, were better treated than Palestinian prisoners held by a state that is still a member of the UN, Israel.
A large number of before and after pictures, testimonies, and reports by credible international organizations have all concluded that Palestinian prisoners were badly treated, malnourished, and repeatedly violently treated in Israeli prisons since October 7th. Israel’s Minister of Police boasted about their maltreatment, and in fact
, sixty-three healthy Palestinians have died in Israeli jails since October 7th.
The repeated effort to compare the treatment of Israelis by Hamas to the Holocaust is not only false, but it also demeans and denigrates the atrocities of the Nazis and gives Israel which has killed journalists, doctors, children and women a free pass by the so-called leader of the free world.
Truly, the press conference by Donald Trump was a nauseating experience.