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U.S. President Donald Trump has once again issued a threat to the Palestinian resistance movement, Hamas, and in fact all the people of Gaza to release all Israeli captives in the territory. In a social media post on Wednesday, Trump said once again “there will be hell to pay” if captives are not released. Now Hamas spokesperson Abdul Latif Alkanu said on Thursday that “Trump's repeated threats against our people represents support to Netanyahu to evade the Gaza ceasefire agreement and tighten a siege and starvation against our people.” Hamas said threats will not work against Palestinians. In fact, the ceasefire was working and is the only way that the captives will be released. Now Donald Trump's threats and the occupation utilizing those threats as cover to renege on the Gaza ceasefire is a pressing issue of today's spotlight program and now for our guests Kevin Barrett from Saida, Morocco, and Sakina Datu, journalist and writer joining us out of London.

Hello, Dr. Kevin Barrett. Welcome to the program, sir. We're gonna start with you. Trump also said in the last couple of days, to the people of Gaza, “a beautiful future awaits you, but not if you hold the hostages. If you do, you are dead. Make a smart decision.” Now the same government's complicit in ruining your homeland, killing over 50,000 of your people, annihilating everything, all the infrastructure that you've grown up through and lived upon for many decades, is promising you a beautiful future—the same guy that's threatening you with complete dispossession and ethnic cleansing of Gaza. Your initial thoughts.

Kevin Barrett: Well, the headline of the article I just published in Crescent International Magazine was that Trump is the ugly American on steroids. There's a stereotype of the ugly American, kind of the brutal, uncultured, uncouth, loud-mouthed ignorant slob who, if he gets a few drinks in him, is aggressive and extremely obnoxious. This obviously doesn't describe all Americans, but it describes, unfortunately, more than enough of them, including Trump. In fact, Trump is completely obviously just out of control.

And these obnoxious genocide threats are obviously illegal under international law. He's basically threatening to kill everybody in Gaza and finish the job, which means finish the genocide. He’s essentially threatening genocide. And that's really about the most extreme case that we can think of with regard to the kind of discussions people have had around the responsibility to protect or R2P concept, which is that when there's the imminent danger of an atrocity, even something much less than a genocide of the kind that we're seeing in Gaza, that force is required to stop it. And so that means that Trump has really put himself in the crosshairs of anybody in the world who believes in enforcing international law. He's made himself basically what Hitler would have been if Hitler were everything that they said he was, which he wasn't. But Trump is.

And in fact, half the American public basically sees Trump that way. And half of the European public or more sees him that way. And the whole Global Gouth sees that this genocide has put the United States so far on the wrong side of history that not only is that Zionist settler colonial project now doomed, with six billion people in the Global South determined to make sure that these genocide perpetrators meet their comeuppance and that this experiment be terminated with extreme prejudice, but the United States itself is now in the crosshairs of those 6 billion people too. And nobody more than Donald