President Donald Trump shakes hands with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a meeting in the Oval Office in April. Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images
In his recent speech before the Zionist Knesset, Donald Trump spoke with overwhelming pride of having “equipped Israel with the weapons necessary to defend itself.”
But they weren’t weapons to defend itself. They were weapons to murder Palestinians.
Every missile, every bomb, and every bullet delivered under his administration fell on innocent bodies in Gaza. Trump boasts of having armed a state that, for decades, has used its military power not to protect itself, but to sustain a brutal occupation and apartheid regime against the Palestinian people.
What he calls “defense” is, in reality, a strategy of extermination. The weapons he delivered were not directed against enemy armies, but against children, doctors, journalists, and entire families. Gaza has become a collective cemetery, and Trump celebrates his contribution to that tragedy as if it were a political achievement.
Under international law, anyone who provides arms, financing, or political support to a state that commits war crimes or acts of genocide becomes a direct accomplice.
And Donald Trump, by publicly declaring this, has confessed his complicity to the world.
This is not just a moral issue. It is an international criminal responsibility.
His words, spoken with arrogance before the Knesset, constitute sufficient evidence for the International Criminal Court to investigate his role in the genocide in Gaza.
Justice can no longer turn a blind eye.
The Palestinian people demand truth, memory, and reparation.
The silence of governments and the complicity of those who arm the executioner are part of the same crime.
History will remember those who remained silent, but it will single out more forcefully those who celebrated the horror.
UPAL – Palestinian Union of Latin America
UPAL Editorial – October 15, 2025
