Trump is bombing Yemen to defend Israel’s right to commit genocide.
President Donald Trump during a press conference on Air Force One on Monday. (White House/Flickr)
By Caitlin Johnstone
CaitlinJohnstone.com.au
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President Donald Trump posted a video on social media showing an apparent U.S. airstrike in Yemen killing dozens of people who he claims are “Houthis gathered for instructions on an attack.”
Trump also bizarrely suggested that Ansar Allah has been sinking U.S. ships in its Red Sea attacks, writing “They will never sink our ships again!”
There is no public information about any U.S. ships having been sunk by Houthi attacks. Nor, as of this writing, is there evidence supporting the president’s claim that the people killed in the airstrike were combatants; there are photos online of unarmed Yemeni tribesmen standing in the exact formation seen in the video Trump posted for normal civilian gatherings. [The Houthi say Trump actually bombed a religious gathering.)
I’ve seen many observers comparing the video Trump posted to the leaked Collateral Murder video published by WikiLeaks in 2010, which showed U.S. servicemen firing on Iraqi civilians and journalists from Apache helicopters while laughing and joking about the carnage they were inflicting.
What hasn’t received quite enough attention is the fact that Trump actually shared his Collateral Murder-style snuff film on the 15th anniversary of the day WikiLeaks published Collateral Murder.
These Houthis gathered for instructions on an attack. Oops, there will be no attack by these Houthis!
They will never sink our ships again! pic.twitter.com/lEzfyDgWP5
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 4, 2025
Within hours of Trump’s posting, the WikiLeaks Twitter account tweeted the following:
“On this day in 2010: Collateral Murder. WikiLeaks released a secret US military video depicting the indiscriminate slaying of over a dozen people in the Iraqi suburb of New Baghdad — including two Reuters news staff.”
For those who don’t know, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was savagely persecuted by the U.S. government for the information he published in 2010, spending 2012 to 2019 trapped in the Ecuadorian embassy in London under political asylum from U.S. extradition attempts and then jailed in a British maximum security prison on a U.S. extradition warrant from 2019 to 2024 before securing his freedom.
It was the first Trump administration who had him dragged from the embassy for the crime of journalism in 2019.
This is just the latest disgusting act of warmongering that Trump has inflicted on Yemen, and as always it is completely unjustifiable.
It’s obviously idiotic to think bombing Yemen again will bring peace to the region; only a foam-brained moron would believe such a thing. But it’s also worse than that, because Trump wouldn’t even have any moral legitimacy in bombing Yemen if peace really was his goal.
Yemen is trying to stop an active genocide. That’s what its Red Sea blockade has always been about. That’s the only reason Ansar Allah has ever attacked ships in the region. Their explicit and publicly stated goal is to exert pressure on Israel and its allies to halt the genocide in Gaza.
Trump has no moral legitimacy in trying to stop Yemen from doing this. The New York Times reports that the Pentagon is telling Congress behind closed doors that Trump’s costly war on Yemen is failing to achieve its objectives despite daily airstrikes, but even if Trump was successful in bombing Yemen into submission, all he’d be succeeding in doing is removing economic pressure on Israel to end its ongoing mass atrocity.
Trump is actually bombing Yemen to defend Israel’s right to commit genocide.
Even if Trump could mass murder his way into ending the Houthi blockade, that wouldn’t be peace — at least not the kind of peace that normal, healthy people care about. It would be the kind of “peace” that exists in a room full of corpses.
The kind of “peace” that exists on a slave plantation where all the slaves have been successfully whipped and tortured into obedience.
On this day in 2010: Collateral Murder. WikiLeaks released a secret US military video depicting the indiscriminate slaying of over a dozen people in the Iraqi suburb of New Baghdad — including two Reuters news staff. pic.twitter.com/x4iyqbcKsV
— WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) April 5, 2025
When Trump’s supporters babble about “peace through strength,” that is what they mean by “peace.” When normal, healthy people say peace, they mean the absence of abuse. When empire loyalists say peace, they mean obedience and submission to the empire.
This is what people are saying when they claim, “There was a ceasefire on October 6th,” implying that there was peace before Hamas launched its attack in 2023. They don’t mean the same thing that normal, healthy people mean by peace.
Their vision of “peace” was always Palestinians lying down and submitting and slowly getting shuffled out of the way, like the indigenous victims of other western settler-colonialist projects throughout history.
That’s not peace. That’s just unresisted abuse.
But that’s the only kind of “peace” that Trump and his fellow empire managers will ever accept in the middle east. The “peace” of compliance and obedience.
The “peace” of prostration before the empire. The kind of “peace” you get when you start murdering everyone in the room until there’s nobody left but corpses and those who submit to your will.
This is who these people are. This is the closest thing to “peace” that they will ever allow under their rule.
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“Orange you wondering,” where’s the “blowback” from Democrats &/or that Independent, hot-air factory, from Vermont who caucuses w/the Democrats?!?
Obviously, the US House of Reps’ Democrats’ “RESISTANCE” to DJ TRUMP is everything but war! After all, this is the same warmongering Congress that rocks & raises the National Defense Authorization Act’s (NDAA) funds & philosophy, every f/year. The ties that bind, regardless of who’s POTUS. The sum’s the same, US POTUS’ 42-47 + US Congress = MADness, “Mutually Agreed Deception, Destruction, Death,” NESS! It’s Endless!
The Democrats don’t even “Squawk. Squawk. Squawk about “Peace On Earth.” Imo, Democrats are totally void of peace. Their currency is hate & war. No doubt about it, the Democrats are in solidarity w/the “Eagle,” #47, “Peace” is NOT in the Cards!!!
No doubt, Trump-Vance, Inc., will poke, provoke & trigger the Democrats all day long; &, “Shake ‘Em Off,” in a heartbeat!!! The Democrats’ goose is cooked! Hence, they, the Democrats, stopped waving their black signs w/white letters: “Save Medicaid,” “Musk Steals,” “Protect Veterans,” “False” written on the back. Even Tlaib’s M.I.A! She’s taken HER small dry erase board, Home! She’s NO longer rock’n HER messages: “No king!” & “That’s a LIE!”
Democrats, including the Democrat, that was thrown outta the People’s House, “GOT” nothing but “Bernie “B for Betrayal” $anders’ & Sandy “AOC” Cortez’ “Fighting Oligarchy Tour.” Big f/whoop, eh? “Sandy” Cortez yapp’n & yell’n about “The ABC’s of the Old Guard,” w/the oldest $enator, on The Hill, next to HER!!! “Hey, Bernie, Keep Your Head, On A Swivel!? First she came for Chucky… The papers report, “Sanders’ & Ocasio-Cortez’s message is clear: “Americans should have a say in shaping an economy that works for everyone—not just the wealthiest few.”
Save The Dates: 1) March 20, 2025-$anders “gambles”for relevance & Kicks-Off” his “Fighting Oligarchy Tour,” in Vega$!!! “The dice were loaded from the $tart!!!” Back ‘atcha Bernie, “F/O, w/your Tour.” 2) March 24, 2025, the S.O.S., “Leaks Plans to Bomb Yemen!” 3) 4.10.25, “Oops. there will be no attack by these Houthis.” DJ Trump blasts Video across the Universe! DJTrump BOMBS Yemen!!! 4) March, April 2025, the Democrats response, Zip. Zero. Zilch. Nada! “Mums the Word.”
TY Caitlin Johnstone, CN. Onward & Upwards. Ciao.
To hell with genocide, to hell with both political war parties.
I don’t see more than a handful Congress people demanding Congress exercise the constitutional responsibility to declare war. Both parties have made the US constitution into toilet paper. To hell with genocide, to hell with both political war parties.
“The antebellum south was relatively peaceful, but the living situation was obviously intolerable brutal exploitation.”
The film Gone With The Wind opens depicting the outwardly relatively peaceful and bucolic life on a plantation in Georgia at the outset of the Civil War. It was such relatively peaceful and idyllic living that was referred to as being “gone with the wind”, the wind referring to the Civil War, and the defeat of the South in the Civil War, and General Sherman’s March to the Sea through Georgia.
Maybe Trump’s “They will never sink our ships again!” refers to the USS Liberty, which Israeli forces nearly sank in 1967. Perhaps he hopes the IDF will in future leave US vessels alone?
In that photo at the top of the article, POTUS looks completely demented with a far away look in his eyes. He’s sick.
That photo of Trump reminds me of the character Rygel from the Farscape tv series….
The single most important fact concerning the Mideast is that, other than having stolen the name, 1948 “Israel” is NOT in any way, shape or form related to Biblical Israel! Who then are they?
The total time in which Jewish kings were pre-emminennt in that region is at most 300 years ( Hezekiah, The Hasmonean rulers and the Herodian rulers) , possibly less. So say Israeli archeologists Silberman and Finkelstein in The Bible Unearthed. Human occupation in the region goes back thousands of years. The rest of the time including 1900 year of the Common Era the region has been ethnically mixed and the most common ancient references are to Palestine. Hebrew is a Canaanite language with about 25 Egyptian words. Egypt was the dominant regional power during much of ancient history and controlled the Levant more than once. This small number of words makes no sense if they were in Egypt for 400 years and speaking a Canaanite language makes no sense if immediately on their arrival from Egypt they conquered and subdued the Canaanites as happens in the Bible legends.
One interesting book to read about the region is The Crusades Through Arab Eyes.
Everyone wants “peace” per se.
The meaningful question is ‘peace on what terms?’
The antebellum south was relatively peaceful, but the living situation was obviously intolerable brutal exploitation.
It brings to mind the old bumpersticker that read, “if you want peace, work for justice”. (I remember Christian fundamentalists then bastardized this by affixing bumperstickers that read, I’m paraphrasing, “if you want justice, work for Jesus”.)
“The antebellum south was relatively peaceful, but the living situation was obviously intolerable brutal exploitation.”
The movie Gone with the Wind opened depicting the outwardly bucolic and peaceful living situation on a plantation in Georgia at the outset of the Civil War (and with peacetime personal issues among the characters). This relatively peaceful and idyllic southern life (at least for white landowners) was what was to become “gone with the wind”, here the wind referring to the Civil War, the defeat of the South in the Civil War, and General Sherman’s March to the Sea through Georgia.