In his 2005 Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech, anti-racist Jewish British playwright Harold Pinter stated re the US Alliance-imposed Iraqi Genocide: “How many people do you have to kill before you qualify to be described as a mass murderer and a war criminal? One hundred thousand? More than enough, I would have thought. Therefore, it is just that Bush and Blair be arraigned before the International Criminal Court of Justice”.
In 2026 one can ask: 14 million predicted to die from Trump’s abolition of USAID (The Lancet)? Over 875,000 Gazans killed by US-Israeli-imposed violence and deprivation, this including 325,000 children, 207,000 women and 342,000 men (as extrapolated from The Lancet statistics)? 1.16 million global opiate-related deaths, including those of 57,000 Americans (UN ODC) and 1.36 million Afghan deaths from violence and deprivation under Trump in 2017-2021)? Trump’s notional “share” (8.1 million) of 82 million avoidable deaths from deprivation in countries variously occupied by the US since World War 2? 25.6 million deaths attributable to Trump policies in 5.5 years of Trump rule? 40 million Asian deaths from violence and war-imposed deprivation in Australia-complicit US Asian wars?
Arraign Trump and Netanyahu before the ICC, together with journalists and others complicit by their silence.