Trump: Genocidal Maniac

The legal term “genocide” refers to certain acts committed with the intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group. Genocide is an international crime, according to the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (1948). The acts that constitute genocide fall into five categories:

Killing members of the group

Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group

Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction, in whole or in part

Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group

Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group

President Trump threatened to wipe out a “whole civilization” on Tuesday, hours before his deadline for Iran to fully reopen the Strait of Hormuz or face a wave of strikes on critical infrastructure.

Mr. Trump issued the grave warning in a post on social media as Israel and Iran launched a new round of attacks in the Middle East. The increasingly incendiary threats and intense fighting reinforced the fragile state of diplomacy, with no public signs of a diplomatic breakthrough to end the war.

“A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again,” the American president wrote.