by Amal Zadok
There are moments in history when a single sentence rips the mask off hypocrisy. President Donald Trump’s words before the Israeli Knesset did exactly that:
“We make the best weapons in the world… and you obviously used them very well.”
This was not a diplomatic courtesy or a careless gaffe. It was a confession, delivered proudly — an open acknowledgment that the United States deliberately armed and encouraged a genocidal campaign against the Palestinian people of Gaza.
The President Who Boasted of Genocide
Trump’s declaration before Israeli lawmakers was not about peace or security. It was about destruction as partnership — about a superpower congratulating a client state for the efficiency of its slaughter. When he smiled and referred to Benjamin Netanyahu asking for “this weapon or that weapon,” he wasn’t reminiscing over friendly deals. He was confirming that the American state was complicit in the mechanical extermination of a trapped civilian population.
In any moral vocabulary worth speaking, this is genocide. Over 67,000 Palestinians — mostly women and children — have been killed by 2025, entire neighborhoods pulverized into dust while U.S.-made missiles and bombs lit the sky. Gaza’s hospitals are ruins; schools, refugee camps, and mosques have become graveyards. This was not a war between equals. It was a cage turned into a furnace, with Washington fueling the fire.
Trump’s words are evidence — not just rhetoric — that he knew how the weapons would be used. He admitted to delivering them knowingly, even gleefully: “I made them.” That admission ties America directly to every child buried beneath the rubble, every mother clawing at the ruins for her dead.
Netanyahu’s Calculated Requests, Trump’s Deliberate Supply
When Trump recalled Netanyahu personally requesting advanced weaponry, the picture became unmistakable. These weren’t abstract transfers overseen by bureaucrats. They were personal conversations between two men who knew precisely what these weapons would do — and who were proud of the outcome.
Netanyahu, the architect of the siege, asked for more lethal hardware, and Trump obliged, boasting about manufacturing new instruments of death for him. They were not unaware of the consequences; they were co-authors of the genocide that followed. Every weapon request was a death warrant for families trapped in Gaza. Every shipment signed off by Washington made America an active participant, not an observer.
The Mask of “Defense” Has Fallen
For decades, America’s political establishment has hidden behind three deceitful words: “Israel’s right to defend itself.” That phrase has been used to launder atrocities, sanitize massacres, and rewrite the language of genocide into the language of “security.”
But defense does not mean crushing entire populations under bombs. It does not mean starving millions, bombing hospitals, or murdering aid workers. Trump’s statement revealed the truth — this was not defense. It was conquest, ethnic cleansing masked as counterterrorism, genocide celebrated as strategy.
The United States knew exactly what it was funding. American intelligence agencies monitor all Israeli operations in real time. Satellite imagery, weapons inventories, and strike reports flow freely to Washington. There is no plausible deniability. When Trump smiled before the Knesset and congratulated Israel for “using them very well,” he was acknowledging U.S. satisfaction with the results — the bodies, the ghosts, the silence.
America’s Role in the Machinery of Death
Every warplane that flattened Gaza bore an American signature. The F-35s that torched apartment blocks — made in Texas. The JDAM smart bombs that vaporized families — assembled in Missouri. The Hellfire missiles that tore convoys apart — stamped with “Made in the USA.”
Trump’s pride in this arsenal was not patriotic; it was pathological. He turned America’s defense industry into a mercenary factory for genocide. Under his administration, arms shipments expanded faster than ever, bypassing congressional oversight through emergency authorizations. Billions in taxpayer-funded weaponry were shipped to Israel, even as humanitarian groups screamed for embargo.
He stood before the world and gloated: We made them, you used them well. In those words, the United States confessed to being more than Israel’s ally — it confessed to being its accomplice in war crimes.
The Moral Collapse of the West
The genocide in Gaza did not unfold in silence; it unfolded in full view of the world’s cameras. Yet the so-called “civilized nations” looked away. Europe wrung its hands, issued “deep concerns,” then resumed trade. Washington doubled down, vetoed cease-fire resolutions, and blamed the victims.
The West’s moral bankruptcy is total. When Trump delivered his speech, Israeli legislators applauded. Western journalists pretended not to hear the line that should have shaken governments to their core. American media sanitized it as “strong support,” proving once again that empire’s crimes are always narrated as acts of virtue.
But history will not forget this moment. Trump’s words are stained in the blood of Gaza. They will be quoted in future tribunals, studied in war-crime archives, spoken aloud over mass graves as proof that genocide was not accidental — it was endorsed, encouraged, and armed.
Netanyahu’s Legacy of Blood
Benjamin Netanyahu will be remembered as the architect of Gaza’s destruction, a man who traded morality for mythology, who sold his soul to power. But he did not act alone. His genocide required the protection, money, and machinery of the United States. Trump gave him all three — and then congratulated him for using them “very well.”
This is not a partnership; it is a pact of death. It binds the two leaders together in history’s darkest ledger: the butcher and his supplier, the arsonist and the one who sold him the gasoline.
When Genocide Is Public Policy
The Palestinian genocide is not a policy failure — it is policy design. Its purpose is to erase a people, to make Gaza uninhabitable, and to rewrite the map of the Middle East. Trump and Netanyahu’s collaboration turned genocide into a geopolitical project: annihilation with approval, extermination with applause.
Their rhetoric makes clear that this was not accidental excess. It was intentional. When you starve a population, bomb evacuation corridors, obliterate hospitals, and deny medicine, you are not fighting terrorism — you are committing genocide.
The international community can no longer hide behind “complexity.” There is nothing complex about genocide. It is simple: one power holds the bomb; the other holds the bodies.
History Is Watching
One day, American and Israeli leaders will face legal and historical reckoning. The Nuremberg principle does not expire. Supplying weapons for genocide is a crime under international law. Trump’s own words provide the evidence prosecutors dream of — the public boasting of intent and awareness. “You used them very well” is not diplomacy; it is complicity.
The world must remember those words as the moment America stopped pretending. The genocide of Palestinians in Gaza was not silent, accidental, or denied. It was televised. It was funded. It was cheered from a podium with an American flag behind it.
And unless the world acts, those same words — proud, lethal, obscene — will echo again, over another city, another people, another genocide that could have been stopped.
Trump confessed. Netanyahu executed. America armed. Gaza bled.
History will decide what humanity did next.
©️2025 Amal Zadok. All rights reserved.
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