COMMENTARY: By Marilyn Garson, of Sh’ma Koleinu – Alternative Jewish Voices
Vietnam survived Nixon’s madman theory and the world survived the era of mutually assured destruction. Now we face the moment of two super-empowered shitheads. There is nothing nicer to call them.
Who will stop two self-obsessed, very old men, already dedicated to tearing down humanity? Today Trump openly declares his intention to destroy a civilisation. They are apparently only able to see war personally, Netanyahu as the climax of 40 years of dreaming, and Trump as his arbitrary prerogative.
In lockstep they destroyed Gaza’s homes, places of learning and culture, health and modernity. They murdered civilians with abandon and drew pictures of capitalist castles on the beach — and still they failed, just as their over-armed predecessors have failed from Vietnam to Afghanistan.
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People still live, in great need of our action.
The scorched-earth vision of Trump and Netanyahu rolls onward. Now in Iran and again in Lebanon, they make war on civilian homes and infrastructure. They destroy families and livelihoods, places of beauty and culture, the bridges that connect us, the industries that rebuild and the energy that lights the darkness.
They desecrate all of our religions. The list of their crimes grows daily.
These two evil despots are content to erode the world’s supplies of power, fertiliser, manufacturing components. They are oblivious to the lives they imperil in Iran, Lebanon and Palestine — and countless other people who they will kill around the world by hunger and hardship.
Anything to rule, even over a landscape of bones and dust. They will fail but they must not be allowed to play this out.
We are beyond disgust. We are witnessing the end of an order indeed: America’s empire is flailing in its death throes. How many people will Trump take down with it?
Weighed down with dread, we have no words but these: someone, everyone, stop them!
Republished from Sh’ma Koleinu — Alternative Jewish Voices.
Trump may have backed down for now, but he’s shown how unhinged he is by threatening the death of a “whole civilization.”
I’m heading back to DC to try and get answers for the American people. Congress needs to return to the Capitol immediately and vote to end this war. https://t.co/vZLXb0anhq
— Senator Andy Kim (@SenatorAndyKim) April 8, 2026
