“The most destructive flaw that has spoiled Trump’s image with his base is his unconditional support of Israel’s war on the Palestinian people”

One recent commentator remarked that “the most destructive flaw that has spoiled Trump’s image with his [fundamentalist] base is his unconditional support of Israel’s war on the Palestinian people.” This slaughter of Gazans, and the simultaneous assault on many Christians and Christian churches, has been ongoing for more than two years now. Trump’s base “has rightly recognized that Trump is not ‘America First’ but ‘Israel First,’ ‘The Unz Review’ writes.

And now, of course, with the new war on Iran, what was clear to many is now clear to all: Trump is an utter stooge, a tool of the Jews and Israelis, and is willing to kill any number of Muslims or Americans to further Jewish/Israeli interests.

This lunatic action against Iran is highly unpopular all across the American political spectrum; in a new poll, just 27% of Americans approved of the attack. As fuel prices rise and the American death toll creeps upward, we can expect that low level of support to fall even lower.

Worse than Trump being a Jewish stooge is the fact that virtually the entire Congress is beholden to Jewish interests. We have long known that Republicans get around 25% of all campaign funding from Jewish sources, and Democrats around 50%. This ensures that Democrats will offer only the meekest of resistance to Trump’s blatantly illegal and monstrously unethical attack on Iran. They will do nothing of substance because, in the end, their Jewish sponsors like this war, and in fact have been pushing for it for years. Any Congressman who speaks too harshly against Trump’s crimes against humanity will surely lose his Jewish financial support and face a stiff, well-funded opponent in the next primary. US Congress: bought, sold, and paid for by the Jewish Lobby.

After all, perhaps 2% of the American population are Jews, so we clearly have no democratic need to bow down to them, especially when the interests of the other 98% run in the opposite direction.

Trump is serving Netanyahu, holding out a chair for him in the White House. Where is Trump's usual resolute gaze and stern words?

For Israel’s Netanyahu, Trump grants wishes, but his support carries risks

And the morning of Feb. 28 brought the biggest yet. A full-scale attack on Iran by the largest buildup of U.S. forces since the Iraq War was something Netanyahu had beseeched American presidents — Republican and Democratic — to carry out for decades, ‘The Washington Post’ notes.

It was also, by a wide margin, the most consequential bet these two political high rollers have taken together. The ongoing — and widening — war has already reshaped the region in ways neither fully controls, at the risk of making them architects of a Middle East catastrophe.

But it’s back home where the outcomes may mean — or cost them — the most personally.

For Netanyahu, the risk is that Trump’s involvement won’t be enough to reverse his anemic electoral hopes. The prime minister — who will face traumatized Israeli voters this year while still trying to escape accountability for the catastrophic security failures of the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attack — is betting the war will prove to be the latest lifeline in a political career defined by magic-trick comebacks.

“This is the biggest thing Bibi has ever gotten from Trump,” said Gayil Talshir, a political scientist at Hebrew University in Jerusalem. “Everything else can be forgotten, because this is the big one.”

For Trump, with congressional midterms on the horizon, the war strains a political base built on hostility to foreign entanglements, and it comes with gas prices already climbing. Many in his camp fault the president for letting Netanyahu drag him into what Tucker Carlson, the pro-MAGA podcast host and commentator, called “Israel’s war.”

Trump and Netanyahu are seen as more of an odd couple than Roosevelt-Churchill, Clinton-Blair or other wartime duos. At the heart of their hot-and-cold partnership is a frequently asked question of who is really driving whom.

Carlson isn’t the only one who sees a U.S. president skillfully worked by a master manipulator who has spent 30 years learning how to get Washington to do what Jerusalem wants.

In Israel, however, the view is different. Netanyahu regularly touts his relationship with Trump, reeling off the unprecedented policy shifts in Israel’s favor that Trump has delivered. But the same president who has given more than any prime minister dared to dream.

A key component of Netanyahu’s drive for war came during visits to the White House in December and February, according to two U.S. and Middle East officials and an adviser to Trump, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss highly sensitive diplomacy.

Netanyahu made clear his desire to attack Iran’s ballistic missile program in the coming weeks. The prime minister said Israel would be willing to strike Iran with or without U.S. involvement, though he wanted Trump to green-light the operation, the people said.

Netanyahu is hoping to harness Trump as he fights for political survival. Under Israeli law, elections must be held by Oct. 27. And after years of war, grief and grinding internal division, Netanyahu enters the campaign in a precarious position. Polls consistently show his coalition short of the 61 Knesset seats needed to form a governing majority.

Among large swaths of the Israeli public — particularly families of Oct. 7 victims and the hundreds of thousands who poured into the streets to protest his proposed judicial overhaul — he remains the subject of searing anger that no military victory has managed to lift.

Netanyahu is already Israel’s longest-serving prime minister. The war in Iran, waged with Trump, could be the last chapter of his political life.

Israel's online propaganda network unravels as influencers sue Tel Aviv over unpaid contracts

Israel’s global propaganda machine is facing increasing legal pressure after influencers, consultants, and media companies filed lawsuits worth millions of shekels against the government, accusing it of failing to pay for work done in support of its international messaging campaign during Israel’s genocide in Gaza, the Calcalist reported on 5 March.

According to Calcalist, many of the individuals involved say they were urgently recruited at the height of the war to promote Israeli narratives abroad, only to later discover that the government had not secured proper payment arrangements.

Investigations have since uncovered serious irregularities inside the Prime Minister’s Office, which took over Israel’s international messaging apparatus after the collapse of the Ministry of Information following Operation Al-Aqsa Flood in October 2023.

Officials reportedly bypassed formal tender procedures and instead expanded existing contracts with private production firms, which then served as conduits to funnel payments to pro-Israel commentators and consultants operating overseas.

Several of those companies now say the state has refused to settle its debts.

One firm, Intellect Production and Publishing Group, filed a lawsuit seeking roughly 1.7 million shekels (around $552,000) after covering travel costs and media operations aimed at countering pro-Palestine demonstrations during hearings at the International Court of Justice (ICJ).

Former Israeli government spokesperson Eylon Levy is among the figures who say the government still owes them money for work carried out in Israel’s international messaging campaign.

Speedy Call, established a 24-hour interview studio inside the Kirya military headquarters used by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other senior officials.

The company says Israel now refuses to pay more than 600,000 shekels (around $200,000) for nine months of work.

Investigations and public filings have shown that Israeli-linked public relations firms paid US social media influencers thousands of dollars per post to promote pro-Israel narratives online.

Israel has previously organized carefully managed influencer tours inside Gaza, inviting social media figures to visit aid distribution sites run by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), a deadly US-Israeli aid scheme, in an effort to counter international reporting on famine in the enclave.

The visits were presented as proof that Israel was facilitating humanitarian assistance, despite extensive documentation by numerous organizations, including the UN, showing that the famine in Gaza was a direct result of Israel’s systematic restrictions on humanitarian aid and its obstruction of relief deliveries.

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