The world cannot ignore the threat of Trump's death to Gaza people | Views

“For Gaza People: A beautiful future awaits you, but not if you hold hostages. If you do, you are dead! Make an intelligent decision. Put the hostages now or there will be a hell that you will pay later! “

These were not the words of some far right provocateur lurking in a dark corner of the Internet. They were not called by an unwavering commander who seeks revenge. No, these were the words of the United States President Donald Trump, the most powerful person in the world. A person who, with a signature, speech or one phrase, can form the fate of whole nations. Yet, with all this power, all this influence, his words to Gaza people were not from peace, not from diplomacy, not from relief – but from death.

I read them and I feel sick.

Because I know exactly who he's talking to. He talks to my family. To my parents who lost relatives and their home. My siblings who have nowhere else to return. For the starving children in Gaza, who have done nothing but born of a people that the world thinks is unworthy of existence. To the grieving mothers who buried their children. Fathers who can do nothing but watch their babies die in their hands. People who have lost everything and are still expected to last more.

Trump talks about a “beautiful future” for Gaza people. But there is no future where the homes have disappeared, where whole families have been deleted where the children have been killed.

I read these words and I ask: What world do we live in?

A world in which the leader of the so-called “free world” can issue the death sentence of a blanket to the whole population or two million people, most of which are displaced, starving and barely cling to life. A world in which a person who commands the most powerful military can sit in his office, isolated from the screams, the blood, the unbearable stente of death, and declares that if the gas people do not comply with his request – if they do not find magical and free hostages in any way – then they are just “dead”. The world in which the genocide survivors receive an ultimatum from mass death from a person who claims to stand up for peace.

It's not just absurd. This is evil.

Trump's words are criminal. They are direct approval of genocide. Gaza people are not responsible for what is happening. They do not hold hostages. They are the hostages – caught by an Israeli military machine that stole everything of them. The hostages of a brutal siege that hungry them, bombed them, displaced them, leave them without where to go.

And now they have become hostages to the most powerful person on earth, who threatens them with more suffering, more death, unless they meet a request that they are not able to fulfill.

Most cynical, Trump knows that his words will not be met with any meaningful discount. Who in the US political institution will hold him responsible for the threatening genocide? The Democratic Party that allowed Israel's genocidal war against Gaza? Congress that largely supports the sending of US military aid to Israel without conditions? The main media that systematically deletes the Palestinian suffering? There is no political cost for Trump to make such statements. If nothing else, they strengthen its position.

This is the world we live in. A world in which the Palestinian life is so disposable that the United States President can threaten mass death without fear of any consequences.

I am writing this because I refuse to let it be just another scandalous statement by Trump that people laugh that the media is becoming a spectacle that the world forgets. I write this because gas is not a point of speaking. This is not a title. This is my home. My family. My story. My heart. My everything.

And I refuse to accept that the President of the United States can make impunity to my people with impunity.

Gaza people do not control their own fate. They never had this luxury. Their fate has always been dictated by the bombs that fall on them, by the siege that starve them, by the governments that abandon them. And now their fate is dictated by a man in Washington, Colombia County, who sees no problem with the threat of the destruction of the whole population.

So I ask again: What world do we live?

And how long will we allow it to stay that way?

The anger expressed in this article are the author's own and do not necessarily reflect Al Jazee's editorial position.