A History Lesson on Gaza: And Why Trump is a Fucking Idiot

When you hear the wailing of a Palestinian mother clutching her lifeless child's body in Gaza today, you're hearing the same scream that has echoed across that land for more than a century. The current bloodshed isn't some isolated event—it's the continuation of a systematic erasure that began long before most of us were born, an erasure that Donald McStinkTrump champions with his unwavering support of Israel's brutality

To understand why Trump's Israel policy is so catastrophically wrong, you need to understand the blood-soaked history that brought us here. This isn't some "both sides" bullshit. This is about colonization, ethnic cleansing, and the weaponization of one people's suffering to justify inflicting suffering on another.

The Seeds of Catastrophe: Colonization Disguised as Redemption

The roots of this conflict weren't planted in 1948, or even during the British Mandate. They trace back to the late 1800s, when European Zionist leaders—facing legitimate antisemitism in Europe—made the fateful decision to create a Jewish homeland in Palestine, a land already inhabited by an indigenous Arab population.

Theodor Herzl and the First Zionist Congress in 1897 set in motion what would become one of history's most devastating colonial projects. While fleeing persecution was understandable, the chosen solution—displacing another people—contained the seeds of perpetual conflict. The early Zionist slogan of "a land without people for a people without land" was a fucking lie from the start. Palestine was home to thriving Arab communities, with their own culture, economy, and deep connection to the land.

By the early 1900s, European Jews were arriving in increasing numbers, buying land from absentee landlords and displacing Palestinian peasants who had worked that land for generations. The taste of dispossession was already bitter in Palestinian mouths.

But the true architects of disaster were the British, who in their imperial arrogance issued the Balfour Declaration in 1917, promising Palestine as a "national home for the Jewish people" without consulting the people who actually lived there. Imagine some foreign power deciding your neighborhood should be given to someone else. That's the foundation of this entire conflict.

The Nakba: Not Just History, But Ongoing Reality

The catastrophe that Palestinians call the Nakba wasn't a single event in 1948—it was the culmination of decades of colonization and the beginning of ongoing ethnic cleansing that continues to this day.

Between 1947 and 1949, Zionist militias—later becoming the Israeli army—systematically expelled at least 750,000 Palestinians from their homes and lands. These weren't the "voluntary departures" that Israeli propaganda has claimed for decades. These were forced expulsions, often at gunpoint, sometimes accompanied by massacres like the one at Deir Yassin where Zionist forces slaughtered more than 100 Palestinian men, women, and children.

The smell of burning villages filled the air as the Zionist forces destroyed over 500 Palestinian towns and villages, erasing not just homes but centuries of Palestinian history and culture. Those displaced became refugees in Gaza, the West Bank, and neighboring countries, never allowed to return to their homes despite international law supporting their right to do so.

The blood of these villages still seeps through the soil beneath Israeli settlements and parks built deliberately to erase any trace of Palestinian existence. The stones of demolished homes still whisper the names of those who once lived there.

Occupation, Expansion, Apartheid: The Aftermath of 1948

The creation of Israel didn't end Palestinian suffering—it institutionalized it. The 1967 war saw Israel seize the remaining Palestinian territories of the West Bank, Gaza, and East Jerusalem, beginning a brutal military occupation that continues to this day.

Every single fucking day of occupation brings new humiliations: checkpoints where pregnant women have died waiting to reach hospitals; arbitrary arrests, including of children; home demolitions carried out by American-made bulldozers; olive groves—some hundreds of years old—uprooted to make way for illegal settlements; water sources seized so Israeli settlers can have swimming pools while Palestinians lack drinking water.

Since 1967, Israel has steadily built illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem, creating a fragmented patchwork of Palestinian enclaves surrounded by Israeli-only roads and military checkpoints. This isn't a "security measure"—it's a land grab, plain and simple. International law prohibits an occupying power from transferring its civilians into occupied territory, but Israel has moved over 700,000 settlers into Palestinian land while facing zero consequences.

In Gaza, Israel's 2005 "withdrawal" merely transformed occupation into a brutal siege. Israel controls Gaza's borders, airspace, and coastline, determining who and what can enter or leave. They control the calorie count of food allowed in, electricity, water, and medicine. When they bomb Gaza's only power plant or water treatment facilities, they're not targeting Hamas—they're targeting civilian infrastructure essential for human survival.

Trump's Bloody Handshake: Enabling and Emboldening Oppression

Enter Donald McDumpstain, the self-proclaimed "best friend Israel ever had." His policies didn't just support Israel—they poured gasoline on an already raging fire.

Moving the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem, cutting humanitarian aid to Palestinian refugees, closing the Palestinian diplomatic mission in Washington—each action was a middle finger to Palestinian rights and international law. His "Deal of the Century" peace plan was crafted without Palestinian input and offered them a fractured pseudo-state with no real sovereignty, a surrender document masquerading as diplomacy.

Trump's administration was packed with hardline pro-Israel ideologues who rejected even the concept of Palestinian statehood. His ambassador to Israel, David Friedman, was a financial supporter of illegal West Bank settlements. His son-in-law, Jared Kushner, crafted a "peace plan" that legalized land theft while showering Israel with diplomatic victories.

Now that this asshole is back in office, his administration features figures like Mike Huckabee, his pick for ambassador to Israel, who has said "there's really no such thing as a Palestinian" and called the two-state solution "irrational and unworkable." His national security advisor, Mike Waltz, has urged letting "Israel finish the job" in Gaza.

These aren't policy positions—they're death sentences written on official letterhead. When Trump says he wants to "let Israel finish the job," he's endorsing the mass killing of civilians, the destruction of hospitals and schools, the starvation of an entire population.

The Hypocrisy: Selective Outrage and Double Standards

The moral bankruptcy of Trump's position is most evident in the double standards applied to Palestinians versus Israelis. When Hamas killed approximately 1,200 Israelis on October 7, 2023, the world rightly condemned the attack. But Israel's response—which has killed over 50,000 Palestinians, most of them women and children—receives unwavering U.S. support.

Every Palestinian life is treated as disposable, every death dismissed as "collateral damage" in the fight against terrorism. The bitter irony is that Israel itself was founded through terrorism—Zionist groups like Irgun and the Stern Gang bombed hotels, assassinated British officials, and massacred Palestinian villages in the lead-up to 1948.

Trump waxes poetic about Israel's "right to defend itself" while denying Palestinians the same right. Palestinians who throw rocks at tanks are terrorists; Israelis who bomb apartment buildings are defenders. Palestinians who resist occupation through armed struggle are condemned; Israelis who enforce occupation through military violence are praised.

The language used to describe the conflict itself reeks of bias. Palestinians aren't "killed"—they "die in clashes." Israel doesn't "occupy"—it "administers disputed territories." Palestinians don't have "homes"—they have "structures" that are "demolished." This linguistic sleight of hand helps mask the reality of what's happening.

The Historical Weight of Complicity

The weight of history hangs heavy over Palestine today. When Gaza's children drink contaminated water because Israeli bombs destroyed the water treatment plants, they're drinking the bitter legacy of the Balfour Declaration. When West Bank families are evicted from homes their grandparents built, they're experiencing the continuation of the Nakba.

The Palestinian struggle isn't about religion or ancient hatreds. It's about land, rights, and the most basic human desire for freedom and dignity. It's about resisting a system designed to make Palestinian life so unbearable that they will either leave or submit.

Donnie Turdman's policies didn't create this system, but they've supercharged it, removed what few restraints existed, and given Israel's most extreme elements a green light to act with impunity. His "peace" initiatives have only entrenched occupation and apartheid while pretending to solve the conflict.

The Future: Between Catastrophe and Justice

As Trump settles back into the Oval Office, Palestinians are bracing for another four years of abandonment and betrayal. His administration has already made it clear that Palestinian self-determination isn't on their agenda. Peace isn't on their agenda. Human rights aren't on their agenda.

Instead, we're likely to see more settlements, more demolitions, more killings, and more dispossession—all funded by American tax dollars and shielded from international accountability by American vetoes at the UN.

The patterns are clear. The intentions are transparent. The consequences will be measured in Palestinian lives—more dead children, more grieving parents, more families torn apart, more futures obliterated.

The Path Forward (For Paying Subscribers Only)

What can be done in the face of such overwhelming injustice? How can we challenge a system that values some human lives so much more than others? What strategies might actually bring lasting peace to a region that has known so much bloodshed?

Those are the questions I'll be answering in depth for my paid subscribers in the companion piece to this article. I'll be breaking down the specific actions that ordinary citizens can take, the pressure points in the system that can be leveraged, and the paths forward that could lead to genuine justice.

Because while the situation may seem hopeless, it isn't. There are ways to fight back. There are ways to stand in solidarity. There are ways to dismantle the systems that enable this ongoing catastrophe.

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The Blood on All Our Hands

Until then, remember this: We are all complicit in this tragedy. Every tax dollar, every silence in the face of atrocity, every acceptance of the status quo as "just the way things are"—it all adds up to a collective moral failure that will shame our generation in the eyes of history.

Donaldo Shitsburger may be the face of America's unconditional support for Israeli aggression, but the blood is on all our hands. The question is: What are we going to do about it?

The answer to that question will determine not just the fate of Palestinians, but the soul of our nation and the future of a world where such atrocities can either be challenged or normalized.

The choice is yours. And it's a choice that matters more than you can possibly imagine.

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Sources:

1. United Nations, "About the Nakba - Question of Palestine," February 3, 2025

2. Council on Foreign Relations, "Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Timeline"

3. Al Jazeera, "The Nakba did not start or end in 1948," August 1, 2024

4. Wikipedia, "1948 Palestinian expulsion and flight"

5. Institute for Middle East Understanding, "Quick Facts: The Palestinian Nakba"