Philip Giraldi – The Unz Review Jan 30, 2025
President Donald Trump has invited Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to meet with him at the White House on Tuesday February 4th. Netanyahu will be the first foreign head of state to visit America’s new president at the White House and the message being sent by virtue of that fact would seem inescapable, i.e. that Israel is in the minds of the country’s powerbrokers and media indeed America’s “best friend” and “closest ally.” Or is it. It is possible, though admittedly less likely, that Trump, he of the enormous ego, might well take the opportunity to suppress any thoughts that the Israeli leader is basically dictating the course of US foreign policy in the Middle East. Trump just might want to make it clear in the face-to-face that he is the one who is in charge.
I must admit that when the story broke my first thought was that Netanyahu might possibly discover that he has been lured to Washington. When his plane lands at Dulles International or Andrews AFB, I even hoped there would be an international police contingent waiting for him to show him the warrant for his arrest, read him his rights, shackle him, and send him off to The Hague to be tried for his numerous war crimes and his involvement in genocide. Hopefully, Joe Biden and Tony Blinken would be treated similarly and sent off on the same plane. But my dream outcome for the visit faded as reality set in and I came to accept that Bibi will be more likely feted as royalty by the neocons and other not-quite-human trash that now infests the US government.
There is however admittedly a distinct possibility that Trump will assert himself as he apparently did recently when a video was posted by him on the Trump social media site Truth Social. The video featured Columbia professor Jeffrey Sachs bad mouthing Bibi, saying “Netanyahu had from 1995 onward the theory that the only way we’re gonna get rid of Hamas and Hezbollah is by toppling the governments that support them. That’s Iraq, Syria, Lebanon and Iran. And the guy’s nothing if not obsessive. And he’s still trying to get us to fight Iran this day, this week. He’s a deep dark sonofabitch, sorry to tell you. ’Cause he’s gotten us into endless wars, and because of the power of all of this in the US politics, he’s gotten his way.”
Or, alternatively, Trump could easily continue the Middle East policy that prevailed in his first term as president, which was, like Genocide Joe Biden, to defer to Israel on nearly everything. Trump moved the US Embassy to Jerusalem and violated international law by declaring the city to be the true legal Israeli capital; he endorsed the annexation of the Syrian Golan Heights by Israel; he chose to ignore atrocities committed by Israeli settlers and soldiers directed against the Palestinians living on the West Bank; and he withdrew from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) agreement to monitor and limit a possible Iranian nuclear program. Also regarding Iran, he ordered that country’s Quds Force commander Qassim Soleimani assassinated in January 2020 while Soleimani was on a peace mission to Baghdad.
Iran continues to be the target of both the US and Israel. Lest anyone should think that the JCPOA move was motivated to encourage Iran to develop a weapon, Trump’s argument was that the program was flawed because it did not go far enough in penetrating and investigating Iranian military sites and labs. It also created a national security pretext permitting Israel to insist that Iran was hiding a secret nuke program, an excuse for a preemptive attack on it jointly launched by Israel and the United States. Interestingly, outgoing CIA Director William Burns now claims that the Iranians have no nukes and have no capability to quickly produce one. He also maintains that there is no evidence that they even have any desire to acquire a nuclear weapon, a reality that clearly contradicts the Israeli propaganda regarding an “Iranian nuclear threat.”
Nevertheless, it is regularly reported by Israel and the neocon dominated media in the US that Team Trump and the Israeli security council have been discussing a preemptive strike on the Iranians. But perhaps contrary to that assessment Steve Witkoff, Trump’s Middle East envoy and the man who pressured Netanyahu into agreeing to a ceasefire with Hamas, has since the inauguration been given the portfolio for dealing with the Middle East including responsibility for Iran negotiations. The previous Trump appointee who had that responsibility was Brian Hook, who was a hardliner who believed in applying “maximum pressure” on the Iranians and has now been replaced.
Witkoff is also reported to be continuing to meet with and pressure Netanyahu to complete all three phases of the Gaza agreement, something which is contradicted by Israeli media reporting which suggests that Netanyahu believes that he can resume his military offensive with US support after the six weeks of phase one. In addition to Witkoff, another more recent appointment might give one hope for a gradual reversal of policy in line with Trump’s apparent belief that American involvement in the Middle East has been expensive, destructive, and contrary to the American national interest. Michael DiMino, a former CIA analyst and Department of Defense veteran, is the Trump pick to be deputy assistant secretary of defense with responsibility for the Middle East operations. DiMino is facing fierce Israel Lobby opposition to his appointment, but he continues to maintain very clearly that, in his opinion, Iranian conventional forces do not pose a threat to the US, meaning that war with Tehran should not be viewed as an option.
Some observers think that Trump’s intentions might be most clearly reflected in his choices as US Ambassadors to Israel. His first term produced David Friedman, Trump’s personal lawyer and a passionate Zionist. Friedman functioned more as a cheerleader for Israel and all its works than a promoter or defender of any actual US interest. The new ambassador Evangelical Christian Zionist Mike Huckabee might prove to be even worse than Friedman, which is saying a lot. When making the appointment, Trump said in a statement regarding Huckabee that “Mike has been a great public servant, Governor, and Leader in Faith for many years. He loves Israel, and the people of Israel, and likewise, the people of Israel love him. Mike will work tirelessly to bring about Peace in the Middle East!”
Huckabee’s vision of “peace” will likely be based on a mountain of dead and dispossessed Palestinians. He believes God gave historic Palestine to the modern state of Israel, and is an outspoken advocate of Israel’s planned expansion in the occupied West Bank. While visiting an Israeli West Bank settlement in in 2017, Huckabee claimed the land was not Israeli occupied. “I think Israel has title deed to Judea and Samaria. There are certain words I refuse to use. There is no such thing as a West Bank. It’s Judea and Samaria. There’s no such thing as a settlement… There’s no such thing as an occupation.” In 2008, during his own presidential campaign, Huckabee said there was “really no such thing as a Palestinian.”
Those concerned that Trump might be moving to favor Israel above all nations note that the administration’s directive to halt all spending on foreign assistance programs, which included Ukraine, exempted Israel and also Egypt, where Trump is hoping to dump upwards of a million Palestinians in the Sinai Desert to “clean up” the mess in Gaza. Trump has also approved the sale to Israel of 1800 M-84 2000 pound bombs which are used primarily to destroy large buildings and kill large numbers of people. The transfer of the weapons to Israel had been suspended by the Biden Administration but Trump announced that “A lot of things that were ordered and paid for by Israel, but have not been sent by Biden, are now on their way!” He did not mention that US weapons “sold” to Israel are often paid for by the US taxpayer as part of military aid. The sale of a large number of dual-use armored Caterpillar bulldozers to Israel, useful for knocking down whatever habitable spaces remain in Gaza, has also received the green light from the administration. Trump has also blocked the Biden-imposed sanctions on extremist settler groups that have been harassing, beating, and killing the Palestinians who are trying to survive on the West Bank. Finally, Trump has issued an executive order that will require American universities to monitor the political activities of foreign students in a bid to reduce antisemitism. Those who have gotten involved in pro-Palestinian demonstrations on campus could have their visas canceled and they will be subject to deportation.
That is quite a bit of pro-Israel movement for Donald Trump’s first week in office, don’t you think? Those who believe that Trump might be preparing to lay down the law with Netanyahu must understand that he will also have to contend with the hopelessly Zionist Congress, which gave the monstrous Netanyahu 56 standing ovations when last he appeared in Washington. We will know soon enough what the meeting between Netanyahu and Trump in the White House was all about and we shall also find out whether the bilateral relationship will continue to consist of Israel cracking the whip and the United States government performing. If Trump dares to challenge the status quo it could set the stage for a major conflict between the new president and the immensely powerful Israel Lobby. As Trump is a very stubborn man with a huge ego, that interplay could be very interesting to watch, particularly as it could lead to the United States finally freeing itself from the country that has been pulling its foreign and national security policy strings for so many years.
Philip M. Giraldi, Ph.D., is Executive Director of the Council for the National Interest, a 501(c)3 tax deductible educational foundation (Federal ID Number #52-1739023) that seeks a more interests-based U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East. Website is councilforthenationalinterest.org, address is P.O. Box 2157, Purcellville VA 20134 and its email is inform@cnionline.org
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Trump and Netanyahu – the windbag and the mass murderer. May they both rot in hell for eternity.
israeli terrorism
PIPD’s team is in The Hague today, invited by our partners at Progressive International, to contribute and support an important high-level convening of nine nations to discuss their shared commitment to upholding international law, responding to threats against the International Criminal Court and defending Palestinian rights.
Following the meeting, nations are expected to form The Hague Group and will announce “coordinated legal, economic, and diplomatic measures” to hold Israel accountable for its violations of international law, including its ongoing actions in Gaza, at an afternoon press conference organised by the Progressive International.
The meeting between state representatives of Belize, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Honduras, Malaysia, Namibia, Senegal and South Africa – and convened by the Progressive International – will explore collective action at both national and international levels to support international law and Palestinian rights during the ongoing crisis.
We are committed to continue building strategic power through alternative diplomacy among countries that can end the impunity of the Israeli regime and its strongest allies.
This article implies that there is a chance that Trump will reverse or at least stop this Jewish madness. NOT A CHANCE.
And IRAN better wake up soon. There is nothing else in Gaza to demolish. Those 1800 M-84 2000 pound bombs are planned for Tehran.
The US & west are ruled by Rothschild Jewry, et al. They lost their sovereignty a long time ago. The west’s “Leaders” are all Rothschild agents and traitors to their nations & people. Being under Jew-Rule can only lead to unmitigated disaster for those hosting the racist, supremacist, insane parasite. Jewry has been and is the mortal enemy of Humanity and will get us all Nuked. Trump is a Crypto Jew. Nothing else about him is relevant.
Now you know why its called USrael.
it should be remembered that us brits and yanks won ww2 so these jews could establish their nation of Israel. we did it
“Politics is simply Jews advancing/implementing their eschatological/religious scriptures. The Bible was written by mongrel Jews to brainwash the rest of ‘humanity’ that they’ve been chosen by ‘God’ to rule the world. Its all Jewish propaganda of course, but try telling that to the billions of Bibletards.” –Nico X
Netayahu is Trumps boss and is coming to DC to give Trump his marching orders on finishing off the Palestinians in a bombing campaign that will follow the delivery of the 2000# bombs from the ZUS, just some details to work our and then let the genocide begin with ZUS complicit as always.
Trump’s major flaw is being supportive of Israeli actions. It will be his historical downfall. Of course, unless he is Playing Bibi for a sucker.
Ted Brinton
TWO TIER POLICING
The headlines in todays newspaper the Ely Standard
have the cambridgesheshire police chief apologising
for a lawless weekend.
Police chief Nick Dean over saw gypsies come from all over to
do hare coursing, this is when they allow dogs to chase and kill hares and rabbits
they some times bet thousands of pounds of which dog will get the hare , how many times the hare
dives away etc.
They drove though farmers fields and did terrible damage
on the same day several shops, such as the Co op BP garage Siscos and Cornthwaites eatery were attacked and robbed, various persons complained of drunken yobs driving fast and dangerous through local villages
Police felt unable to apprehend the culprits now compare that to the demonstrators who rightly complained about migrants in posh hotels
Starmer let out real criminals in prison to make room for them, the two men who sang the wartime soldiers song ” beware beware the dirty jew ) each got 2 years, for singing a song ?
So much truth-be-told in just the title, the first few paragraphs.
What America has become is the most Z-jCC, or Zionist-jewish Conquered County in the world. Metaphorically, it is more in ruins than Gaza, the West Bank or any existing or demolished to oblivion Palestinian village, for America continues to supply Israel with the means to savage the middle east, with armaments, with money and with blind, stupid, pathetic support in the United Nations and everywhere else that it does so.
And what does America receive in return? Well, the World Trade Center attack. The assassinations of the Kennedys. Of Americans, one by one, such as Shireen Abu Akleh. Rachel Corrie, on and on. Of Americans such as those of the USSLiberty, on and on and on.
And how does America receive, in turn? A Congress which will jump and applaud, repeatedly, as the Tribe’s Monster rants and raves to them, to tell them to join in its wars upon the middle east.
What a ruination is the return.
As long as Israel OWNS America, this country will never be free, nor will MAGA EVER be a reality. America must become country #110 for the pursuit of happiness to be a viable option for everyone living here.
Jews obviously have nothing better to do than KILL AND STEAL, KILL AND STEAL, KILL AND STEAL, and soon enough, they will have real TERMINATORS doing the work for them, and all because WE THE PEOPLE are the living dead, lazy good-for-nothing zombified human garbage. Not only will we not fight them ; we won’t even recognize that THEY are the enemy, and all because we’ve been Holocausted to death by the world’s greatest gaslighters and blabbermouths and supremacist PsOS.
What did you expect to happen to your race or nation after being subjected to centuries of sickening ‘Salvation is from the Jews’ (John 4:22) brainwashing/indoctrination??
Waste Whitey II
Nazi Victory = No State of Israel
Allied Victory = State of Israel
Now you know who the good guys were.
‘The root of all evil isn’t money, but mongrels (Jews).’ –Nico X
A.A.
I expect another standing ovation spectacle in Congress.
Could it be that the US sends ‘aid’ money (collected from taxpayers or borrowed) to Israel, and Israel sends ‘contributions’ to US so-called non-profits that are staffed, at generous salaries, by relatives and friends of Congresspeople and that donate to Congresspeople’s political parties and campaigns?
Money-laundering 101.
“Psychopaths FAIL This Simple Test” – Body Language Expert REVEALS How To Spot PSYCHOPATHS Instantly
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzIlhZbHL38
“Patrick Bet-David and Chase Hughes delve into psychopathy, discussing traits, emotional detachment, and manipulation tactics like “fear, obligation, guilt.” They explore empathy’s role, personality profiling, and body language cues to distinguish genuine emotions from deceptive behavior.”
Bet-David – “They are so good at making other people feeling sorry for them … “Like you don’t know what I have been through.” “
Feb. r, 2025 Speech of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel to the US Congress:
“Thank you, thank you for the warm welcome and all of your support for Israel over these past trying months with Israel being attacked and held to ransom by the terrorist Palestinian forces. Without your great nation’s financial and military backing we would be defenceless. …..
As we now have virtually all Arab nations faithfully supporting the Abraham Accords for peace in the Middle East given to us by Mr. Trump and his son-in-law Mr. Kushner in 2020. They are supporting us with the joint efforts of your government in rooting out the terrorist and anti-Semitic elements working against the growth and prosperity of our great nation, and for all of the people in the Middle East. The terrorist elements in both Gaza and the West Bank have been virtually eradicated by our brave IDF forces and US logistics. The Assad regime in Syria has been vanquished with Russia agreeing to abandon the nation in exchange for a parcel of the Ukraine. Our forces together with those of your nation are now liberating the people of Syria from the remaining oppressive elements, and bringing peace and prosperity just as we have done in Iraqi and with Palestinian people.
The state of Israel is now in a position to open its doors to all oppressed Jews in the world as their true homeland, with vast opportunities and holdings open to them in this our promised land. It was less than 100 years ago that over 6 million Jewish people perished in the Nazi death camps, arising from an ethnic-based jealousy and hatred over our own unity and brilliant successes and survival in Europe, the US and around the world. On the pretense that they were the supermen, or the “Übermenschen” of the world, and that Jewish people were subhuman, or “Untermensch”, since 1948 the entire world has seen how the tables have been turned. It is the Germans and all non Jews who are now Untermensch. Can anyone deny that based on our vast holdings in your nation, and our control of the money supply, the government, and the media, that we are not the chosen people of God ? ….. Is there anyone in this audience who will deny this? If so, will you please stand up and identify yourself.
As you know anti-Semitism is on the rise, and we have to take steps through the ADL and our Mossad agents in the CIA, and at large in most other US institutions, to eliminate it, just like we have done against the anti-Semites in the occupied territories. …. You know my friends, that it is absolutely insane for Palestinians to be against us, simply because they are more Semitic in their genealogy than 90% of the Jews in Israel. We simply can’t understand it. However, no matter who we are and where we really came from, they are not the people of the Torah and the Talmud, and even the Christian Bible has given us a deed to all of the land I am showing in this map of the Middle East. All of the area in blue belongs to Israel – including the Suez canal and parts of Egypt, Gaza, the West Bank, Lebanon, most of Syria right up to and including the rich farm lands of the Euphrates, and most of Iraq and Saudi Arabia. Is is all ours. As for all of those oil and gas fields we have promised Mr. Trump, Mr. Starmer and Mr. Xi, to hold and control them, sharing the resources of those nations with your people in perpetuity. Even the Arabs who worship Allah have come to accept our rightful place in God’s special Abrahamic plan, and for us to rule them and lead them and all nations of the world into a new age of cooperation and prosperity, which can only come about with the growth of Israel.
Thank you, thank you.
[Standing 10-minute applause]
I wish Trump would go to illegal israel and meet with the monkey as I don’t want the monkey in my country or his dirty laundry.
It is very disturbing to watch these Christian Fundies who go to church on Sunday and then spend the week watching one tranny stick his dick up another trannies arse, incredibly dumb and pumping come, but it’s OK, Pornhub is owned by a Rabbi so it must be kosher
King of USRAEL is Satanjagu ! not Biden nor Trump .
your stupid yankee ancestors already followed the jew
piper to 1.+2. worldwar . now the jew propaganda since
over 100 years about evil germans, evil nazis has totaly
decomposed your brains + society that any rebellion
against the jew power comes too late . the hail comes
from the jews ? HA HA HA HA HA HA HA ! you stupid
yankees earned what you got ! same with british + france !
Video in which Pornhub’s rabbi owner explains that he wants to normalize porn in the US.
https://x.com/HarryLotusEater/status/1844304425134997862?mx=2
Yeah they can seem less than human!!.
However pretending Trump is not a crypto jew is a serious error.
Actually Trump is looking more jewish in the last few years….by the time he finishes his term it will be even more evident he is a jew.
His objective may be to ignite ww3 and keep a close eye on how things evolve and the parallels with the lead up to ww2.If Trump is to be used as the scapegoat….if necessary they’ll cut him loose in a heartbeat.
(Note….The latest version of The Railway Children has just been screened in NZ.
Guess what…they’ve “Orwelled it” by updating “the message”.
Although set in the 1940s….they have included an Afro-American in the cast who is subjected to racism by obligatory racist whites…..etc etc etc.
Note there were virtually no blacks in England at the time….but the Jewish producers found a clever way to introduce the subject
If Christians in Europe don’t wake up….Christianity will be in big trouble…..the jews will attempt to provide the replacement…….it has been said jews are destroyers…..they’re going to attempt to pit Muslims vs Christianity.
marco sierra well said
loved it
ZOGUK must be ‘green with envy’…
so I’m just surprised that Hi’th Woy’al Whine’ness hasn’t put out the Red Carpet….
YET!!!
Their work is far from over because people still fail to see how BANKERS,,,i.e. money printers, pit us against each other (people we have no quarrel with) as a process to control and depopulate us into oblivion.
Each time the Netanyahu’s visit they bring their laundry and have their Amerikan slaves do it.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/netanyahus-said-to-bring-suitcases-of-laundry-when-staying-as-white-house-guests/
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife, Sara, on multiple occasions brought with them from Israel suitcases of clothes to be laundered and dry cleaned while staying at the White House guesthouse, the Washington Post reported Wednesday.
Some very good commentary by many above who understand that Jewry is an aggressive malignant cancer and nothing but a wicked force for slavery, degradation, and destruction.
That photo at the top of that shameful collection of lickspittle stooges and shit-stains, traitors all. Every one of those agents of treachery and treason in Cuntgress who stood and applauded that festering rabid demon should be chased through the streets and executed. Jewry has utterly destroyed this cuntry, as well as the Jew-K, Jewrope, and everywhere and anywhere else that toxic evil has touched.
The average Americunt has been so thoroughly dumbed-down and programmed by the media, the edjewcation system, and Book of Bullshit thumping preachers, all controlled or constructed by the Jew, that they act as willing agents for their own destruction in a most bizarre and suicidal expression of Stockholm Syndrome. Of course, even Stockholm has been overrun with nigger and mongrel dune coon orc invaders shipped in, in combination with having been terminally infected with the virus of liberalism, those assaults also engineered by the Jew. Yet, the average Americunt or Nordick imbecile will drone on with their drooling insanity of “I support Israel” because they have been too f*cking stupid and lazy to see the obvious.