Trump Administration’s Complicity in Israel’s Genocide in Gaza

28 March 2025

Israel’s Genocide in Gaza and Biden Administration’s Complicity

On 7 October 2023, Israel launched an unjustified and illegal war against Gaza committing genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes. It was in response to a blistering resistance operation from Gaza against the system of its occupation and enclavement. IDF’s Gaza division was blissfully struck hard and soldiers were taken as captives. Gaza’s encircling colonizing communities were reached by resistance fighters some of whom were taken captives as well. Most of the Israeli civilians killed that day died as a result of Israeli-intended gunfire. Israeli military censorship and government do not permit to this day publishing this fact. Contrary to Israeli propaganda no rape of Israeli women had taken place during and after the resistance operation.

Biden administration, the democratic party establishment as well as its supporting media led by the New York Times, and Bernie Sanders stood behind Israel in its ordinary massacring performance for several months despite domestic and international challenge to its perpetration of the crime of Genocide. The rhetoric shifted in the wake of the massive demonstrations, particularly by university students and faculty that spread throughout the United States.

An ardent Zionist and a long-time ally of the Israel lobby, Biden sidelined Israel’s representatives in his advocacy for the illegal war and repetition of its lies. According to Biden, Palestinians burned babies and raped women while Israel was following the applicable international law. Saban and a special team of American Jewish organizations briefed Biden.[1]

Biden administration’s complicity in Israel’s genocide is defined by four elements: absolute ideological identification with Israel and its war; constant and exceptional arms supply; diplomatic shielding at the U.N. Security Council; and opposition to attempts to hold Israel accountable for its international law violations.

Biden and his team objected to the request of the International Criminal Court’s Prosecution for arrest warrants against Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu and Minister of Defense Gallant despite the Prosecution’s glaring incompleteness and visible shortcomings. Represented by Foreign Secretary Blinken, the Biden administration sharply opposed South Africa’s dignified case before the International Court of Justice against Israel under the Genocide Prevention Convention. American diplomacy enlisted its G7 allies particularly Britain and Germany to hamper international legal efforts at the ICC. The U.S. military and the British army engaged militarily against Yemen’s humanitarian intervention at the Red Sea. Under the direction of Biden American intelligence agencies provided material assistance to Israel’s illegal war, namely the CIA and the NSA.

Biden and his fellows were hoping to crush the Palestinians in Gaza and generate a governing entity that would join the process of official regional normalization with Israel in total disregard for the rights of the Palestinians commenced under a bullying Trump administration. Israel demonstrated once again to itself and the world its butchery and incompetence. The Palestinian resistance performed beyond expectations exceeding exceptional mythologies of resistance movements throughout history. Aware of America’s complete diplomatic and military backing, Israel stalled and backtracked from reaching a ceasefire relying on its military’s banality of evil in systematically targeting civilians and civilian objects with the intent to commit genocide.

Trump Administration’s Complicity in Israel’s Genocide in Gaza

The Middle East policy of the first Trump administration (2017 – 2021) was Israel centered fueled by the dominance of the Adelson family’s political donations. Trump, Kushner, Friedman, and Greenblatt failed to pressure the Palestinians into waiving their rights. American diplomacy acted alone producing incentives to developing Arab countries to cut a deal with Israel and pushing willing states in the Gulf to bring their security connections with Israel into the open. The deal reached with Iran by the previous administration and European powers was severed topped by aggressive military actions that almost led to a war with Iran.

The current and last Trump administration has been acting on its domestic and international agenda of populist America first. In the realm of governance, a severe corporate effectiveness model has been adopted. Trump’s anger at his democratic foes generated policies of vengeance. Palestine remains absent from Trump’s consciousness with an administration committed to Israel through Miriam Adelson’s donating presence[2] and an ideological perception of Israel that is both mythical and destructive.[3] Trump’s general policies captured also his essentialist anti-Palestinian ruling principles in the Harvard spirit of Lawrence Summers, Martha Minow, and Noah Feldman.[4]

Trump maintained America’s absolute military support to Israel engaging in a chaotic diplomatic campaign purportedly designed to shield Israel from international legal accountability. Trump sanctioned the International Criminal Court, suspended aid to South Africa, and expelled its ambassador to the United States. Israel’s resumption of a slaughterous military activity on 18 March 2025 breaking a ceasefire was met with complete silence from the Trump administration only to demonstrate its acceptance of the ‘pressuring’ and coordinated conduct.[5]

Individual members of the Trump administration are no less liable for Israel’s crimes than their Israeli counterparts.

The Future

The starting point for resolving the Question of Palestine and securing the rights of Palestinians is Zionism’s lack of right to sovereignty in Palestine in the past and today. Indeed, it is the quest for sovereignty in an inhabited foreign land that has shaped Israel’s coloniality and apartheid subjectively and objectively. The ‘redemption of the land of Israel’ which has been a central feature of Zionism for decades is a basic rational for its abolishment. Israel’s constant subversive hostility to the region in the form of terrorist activity stems from the country’s abnormal being.

The current breaches of Palestinians’ rights cannot be surpassed without a genuine international tribunal tasked with the mandate to hold Israel’s senior military, governmental, and political leaders to account. Generally, Israel as a polity should cease to exist with the aim of forming an alternative one based on the following propositions:

- All settlers living in all 1967 occupied territories (East Jerusalem, West Bank, Gaza) should be evacuated.

- A sovereign Palestinian state would be established in those territories.

- The Right of Return for 1948 Palestinian refugees should be implemented justly and decently to pre-1948 Palestine.

- Palestinians residing in Israel would be granted full autonomy in governance and geography that would include a distinct parliament. Free trade between them, the region, and internationally would be established. Their autonomous region would be called by a name of their choosing.

- Israel should pay reparations for its grave injustices against the Palestinians since 1948.

- Israel should apologize to the Palestinians for its intended violations of their rights for decades since 1948.

- Israeli Jews would be able to form a polity in Palestine (Israel’s pre-1967 borders) limited to them with no ties to or applications of Zionist ideology. Israeli Jews are free to call this entity Israel or any other name.

[1] Philip Weiss, “Biden’s Israel policy is scripted by Saban”, Mondowiess, 19 September 2023; Sara Fischer, “Exclusive: Top U.S. Jewish groups target misinformation on Israel – Hamas war”, Axios, 5 December 2023.

[2] Philissa Cramer, “Pro–Israel megadonor Miriam Adelson takes centre stage at Trump’s inauguration”, Times of Israel, 21 January 2025.

[3] Yaakov Ariel, “An Unexpected Alliance: Christian Zionism and its Historical Significance”, 26(1) Modern Judaism, pp.74-100 (2006).

[4] Nadia Abu El-Haj, “’Mahmoud is Note Safe’”, New York Review of Books, 15 March 2025; Judith Butler, “This is Wrong”, London Review of Books, 3 April 2025; Aziz Rana, “Constitutional Collapse”, New Left Review, 21 March 2025.

[5] David Hearst, “Israel’s Ramadan massacre obliterates any remaining Western claims of moral leadership”, Middle East Eye, 19 March 2025.