Philip Giraldi – The Unz Review March 8, 2026
The completely unprovoked attack on Iran initiated by the United States and Israel has, after a little more than a week of military action, opened a new depth of geopolitical insanity. As suspected, the attack was all about protecting Israel while also minimizing the damage to US military, intelligence and diplomatic facilities in the Persian Gulf region. In that it has been less than a great success in that there has been reportedly considerable damage done by Iranian missiles and drones in both the Jewish State and at American bases. Iran has also suffered substantially and the US bomb that killed 165 schoolgirls continues to fuel huge demonstrations and rage that is feeding a willingness to resist the United States among the Shia communities both inside Iran and in adjacent states and regions, expanding the conflict.
The combined Israel-US onslaught was intended to destroy Iranian military capabilities, most particularly its fictional nuclear and missile programs, and to bring about regime change after killing its Supreme Leader. As the attack took place, President Donald Trump announced by way of his Truth Social platform, that “We are going to destroy their missiles and raze their missile industry to the ground. It will be totally — again — obliterated. We’re going to annihilate their navy.” On Saturday March 7th Trump elaborated, tweeting how “Today Iran will be hit very hard! Under serious consideration for complete destruction and certain death, because of Iran’s bad behavior, are areas and groups of people that were not considered for targeting up until this moment in time.”
Trump also expressed himself in a post on Truth Social how Americans will die against Iran, elaborating that “the lives of courageous American heroes may be lost” in what the Pentagon dubbed “Operation Epic Fury… We may have casualties.” As Trump’s entire family has avoided military service, the ultimate price for his warmaking will consist of using other American families’ sons and daughters as cannon fodder and he may be preparing for a political backlash by demonstrating now how much he cares about the average Americans who will be impacted by his policies. Of course, he clearly does not care unless your name is Adelson or Netanyahu.
That the war is taking place at all is due to Israel’s absolute control over America’s political class, a reality that Netanyahu and his predecessors in office have not been exactly shy about admitting. The US is a hapless giant that has been corrupted by Jewish billionaire money from within, totally committed to the expansion of greater Israel no matter how many have to die in the process. Do the Israelis care what happens to the American people? No. It is only necessary to take a look at the planned or actual killing of Americans by Israel starting with the Lavon Affair in 1954 which planned to bomb US Embassy offices in Egypt. Then there came the attack on the USS Liberty in international waters in 1967, an attempt to sink the navy ship and kill all its crew, which was covered-up by President Lyndon B Johnson and his Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara. More recently, a number of American citizens have been killed with impunity by Israelis. One might mention prominent peace activist Rachel Corrie in 2003 who was deliberately run over by an Israeli army bulldozer.
To cite how this works in practice and to demonstrate how the United States uniquely favors Israel, one might cite the recent February 18th killing of the nineteen year old Philadelphia native Nasrallah Abu Siyam, who was shot in the West Bank village of Mukhmas, when rampaging settlers attacked Palestinian farmers. Nasrallah was trying to stop the settlers from stealing livestock when he was shot and it took hours to transport him to a hospital due to “security” checkpoints and Jews-only roads established by the Israeli government. Israeli settlements, built on land stolen in the Palestinian territories, have been expanding at a rapid pace and the rampaging settlers are routinely protected by the army and police. Settler attacks soared to over 1,800 incidents last year, according to a United Nations report. Attacks have included violence, property damage, arson, killing of livestock and theft.
In a normal country, the US Embassy or Consulate would pressure the local government investigate and seek to have the killers arrested, tried and brought to justice, but that does not take place in Israel where the attitude is “we’ll let the Israelis handle it.” Sure. Nine US citizens have been murdered in Israel in the past several years, but no one has been criminally charged in the killings while the United States has declined to open any independent investigations. The death toll includes New Jersey-born Amer Rabee, 14, who was shot by soldiers on April 6th, 2025, amid unproven allegations that he had thrown stones. Also there was Saifullah Kamal Musallet, a 20-year-old resident of Tampa, Florida, who was beaten to death by Israeli settlers in July; and Khamis Ayyad, 44, who died of smoke inhalation in August after settlers set fire to houses in his village. Tawfic Abdel Jabbar and Mohammad Ahmed Mohammad Khdour, both 17, were shot and killed in separate incidents in February 2024 while in September of that year, a soldier fatally shot in the head Aysenur Ezgi Eygi, 26, of Seattle, during a protest against illegal settlements. And then there was Omar Assad, 78, who was walking in his village before being seized by soldiers for no reason, handcuffed and gagged, with his hands bound behind his back, and then left alone on his stomach at a cold construction site. He died from a stress-induced heart attack in January 2022.
There is also the high-profile killing of journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, who lived in New Jersey as a child, in May 2022. Israeli authorities determined that the gunfire from soldiers was likely accidental, despite investigations by media and the UN concluding she was deliberately targeted and killed lest she report on Israeli war crimes. Beyond Abu Akleh, Israel is responsible for two-thirds of all journalists killed in the line of duty worldwide.
Interestingly, in the case of the teenager Nasrallah and the other recent deaths, more than 30 US senators have signed a letter demanding that the Trump administration open an independent investigation. “For all nine of these killings, no one has yet been held accountable by the Netanyahu government, nor has the US government upheld its duty to protect Americans and secure justice and accountability for their deaths,” the letter from the Congressmen says. “It is unclear to us how many more Americans must die in the West Bank in order for this administration, and other administrations, to take serious, credible steps to secure accountability and ensure an end to the ongoing killings of Americans without consequence.”
The State Department responded that it extends condolences to the family and expects “a full, thorough and transparent investigation into the circumstances surrounding the death,” indicating that it would rely on Israeli authorities to investigate, which means that nothing will be done. The unwillingness to represent the interests of actual American citizens is due to the fact that all recent US Ambassadors to Israel have themselves been ardent Zionists, with the worst of the lot being the current incumbent Mike Huckabee who has cordially met with Israel’s leading spy against the US Jonathan Pollard and has endorsed a Greater Israel which will stretch from the Nile River to the Euphrates. The indigenous population will of course be removed, just as the Gazans, Palestinians on the West Bank and the inhabitants of South Lebanon are being currently disposed of with the assistance of Donald Trump and company. Huckabee, in an interview with Tucker Carlson, said that it “would be fine if they took it all” [Greater Israel] for the Jewish state, as it was a “land given by God to the Jewish people.” This was not a casual remark but a moment of unscripted candor, a world-changing admission of a supremacist belief system favoring the Jewish state that had long operated in the shadows of US foreign policy.
US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, a fervent Christian Zionist, even foresees great benefit coming from a Biblically predicted Armageddon global conflict beginning in the Middle East which will lead to “End Times” after which the faithful will be wafted up to heaven in the so-called “Rapture.” If one wonders just what has happened to US foreign and national security policy Hegseth and Huckabee are good places to start.
The point is that Israel is beyond brutal in its treatment of anyone who is not a Jew yet Donald Trump and company appear to think that that is just fine. Last week I saw a video on Facebook which was sickening. It showed a Christian woman walking her dogs in Jerusalem and being assailed by a mob of screaming hysterical Orthodox Jewish students who attacked her, and the dogs, for no other reasons beyond the fact that she existed. To be sure, I am an animal lover, but the attackers were so far outside the realm of conventional morality that one has to despise what they represent. Their on-display manifestation of what they regard as their Yahweh-given exceptionalism should be revolting to most others who do not share their so-called faith. The truly disgusting part is that the woman and her dogs was not exactly an extreme example of the interaction that Christians are now experiencing in Jerusalem with their presumed Jewish overlords. Churches are regularly vandalized and Christians are blocked from attending services while also being spat upon, cursed and otherwise harassed in the streets. There are reports that “Spitting on Christians is a Jewish custom!”
Unfortunately the Christian Zionist belief system has successfully dominated American evangelicalism and Israeli policy. This ideology asserts a “divine right” to conquer, pillage, and commit genocide, positioning itself above all man-made laws and international norms. It is, by its very definition, an ethnic and theological supremacist doctrine that dehumanizes all neighboring peoples as obstacles to a divine plan. As I’ve noted previously, this philosophy “is rooted in ethnic supremacism” and claims that “God gave modern day Israel the right to kill anyone they want, to steal any land they want.” This is not seen as a symbolic promise but a literal deed to real estate, with the millions of current occupants to be “subordinated, expelled, or dealt with by whatever means history requires.” Such a worldview reduces the US Constitution, international law and the UN Charter to be mere inconveniences. Mike Huckabee has argued that “the United Nations charter doesn’t count because God said so.” And his boss Donald Trump has declared that as President of the United States “I can do whatever I want!” which includes permitting genocide and land theft. With such beliefs in place, it is no wonder that many Americans are increasingly coming to appreciate that what is going on in our nation is leading us towards disaster!
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 https://councilforthenationalinterest.org address is P.O. Box 2157, Purcellville VA 20134 and its email is inform@cnionline.org
Christian Zionist = Moronic, ignorant, gullible fool.
As a jew Philip Giraldi you should know that the Jews are the main rulling ones in USA, even though they have a little amount of human-jews in USA. But a net over the whole world with their like, the ZentralBanks, endless money, etc.; Even under this minority, Trump had to agree and help Netanjahu…
https://www.unz.com/runz/amerikanische-prawda-holocaustleugnung/
in english or german
If the US and Israel continue to attack Iran’s oil facilities, then Iran destroys oil facilities in the Gulf, the broke US, UK and EU won’t have the funds to redevelop those oil fields. The only people with the funds to clean up and rebuild and so partly-own the oil produced will be China and Russia. If that happens I think they’ll remove oil from stock market trading to negotiate independent deals to different nations to stabilise prices and production levels, to view energy as a vital commodity. The markets serve mostly the middlemen, those who trade it. Cut them out and the money spent on oil futures (did anyone price in today’s Iran war a year ago?) can be better spent domestically.
You will find the globalist puppet governments of the UK, the EU, Canada and the rest of the West only coming out with carefully-worded neutral statements, and with no clear denunciations of the joint US-Israeli crimes against Iran. They were also virtually silent about the US-Israeli genocide in Gaza. They are despicable fakes, but in the rest of the world more free of the debt-rigging and controls by the Western corporatocracy, this war is clearly showing them how to resist and break free of the Zio bankster and US military controls.
As a Canadian, until Covid, I was naively pro-American, but now I can more clearly see how ruthlessly they control Canadian interests and politics. It is equally a grave mistake to turn to China for any relief as, in fact it is as avaricious and exploitive as the American Empire.
Just as the citizenry in any nation ought to be armed and organized to protect their interests from the overreach of their own exploitive governments, and to overthrow them when necessary, so also any nation which wants to be free of foreign ownership controls, ought these days to be arming themselves with the weapons of asymmetrical warfare, through satellite networking, and the manufacturing of drones and missiles which make any kind of military largess completely vulnerable and obsolete. It is only by the complete disclosure and transparency of the truth .with respect to our interests, and the means of protecting them that we can have any measure of freedom. The Jews and the true Messiah of Christ have given us a clear picture of the true nature of God and his will for us, while the American Revolution has shown the world how to rise up against the injustice of foreign exploiters,. However, both the Jewish and American powers have betrayed that divine and universal mission for their own self-aggrandisements, dominance over others, and greed.
@Malcolm
“Christian Zionist = Moronic, ignorant, gullible fool.”
Add to that:
a treasonous Judas who betrays Jesus himself (*) as well as truer christians who are spat on daily in Israel with worse things to come soon:
https://x.com/sprinterpress/status/2030974043801710785?s=43
(*) “Christian” Zionists love and worship Jews even knowing that Jews in their Talmud teach, one jew to other jew, that Jesus is in hell in a cauldron of boiling excrement!
What a despicable behavior.
Btw, Jews see them as useful idiots but actually despise them, and will kick them in the ass once their usefulness ends.
keep it short fred
thanks
@Malcolm (continuation)
I highly respect and admire Christianity in its true form.
If all people followed its teachings and precepts this world would be a much better place.
Truly, it would be another world, or as Jesus said “my kingdom is not of this world”.
But “Christian” Zionists deserve contempt. In fact the very concoction of “Christian” with antithetical “Zionist” is absurd, perhaps even blasphemous.
But I don’t think
@Malcolm (more continuation)
But I don’t think they are conscious of all these things.
Perhaps they are, as you say, only fools..
So, the Americunt cucks to Mordor shitting all over Iran, and everywhere else really, has done harm to America’s international standing, huh? International standing…of the morally and fiscally bankrupt jewed-screwed-and-tattooed Jewnited States? Any “international” who gives standing to the ol Jew-S-A anything above, say, eruptive hemorrhoids or a pig pissing directly into your mouth or getting set on fire, would be in immediate need of institutionalization.
7 March https://www.youtube.com/shorts/rXnGwd0TDpE “We Are Not Winning this war in Iran”
comments/ ” So sad and so evil to maliciously kill for his own amusement. This is the Epst. Files War!!!”/
” What gets me is that the Pentagon is going along with this when they know it’s clearly illegal. What the f**k !”/”You are 100% correct . We are not on top of this. Been watching news from around the world. The lies from this admin (zionide regime/gj) is horrendous.”
The walking carcas drumpf did not go to Congress for the Caracas- nor – for- this- Tehran . excursion /whats the US waiting for / don’t wait till November this year/ drumpf c.s. rigged the 2024 elelection & will via EO block the midterm / kick his diablo pedo ass out Now….MC Military Coup
@ Heinrich / “drumpf had to agree and help Netanjahu…” Classic mistake about drumpf / most in the USA ( and elsewhere) don’t know – or don’t want to know/ that’s even worse- that drumpf Is one of them….they apparently never heard of mossads motto ” thru deception we wage war”?
((( https://old.bitchute.com/video/LxtxCwG5uXiU/ drumpf (aka trump with roots in Germany…his family found in j. genealogy data base 9.47 > 12.43 jewishgen.org donald j. trump
1 July 2015 https://www.jns.org/donald-trump-says-he-is-no-apprentice-when-it-comes-to-israel/#.VdDqQrJVhBc= “The only candidate that’s going to give real support to Israel is me,” said the 69-year-old Trump. “The rest of them are all talk, no action. They’re politicians. I’ve been loyal to Israel from the day I was born. My father, Fred Trump, was loyal to Israel before me. The only one that’s going to give Israel the kind of support it needs is Donald Trump.”
His imv sympathetic niece – a psychologist – Mary Trump never talks about that / nor do interviewers her bring that fundamental issue up…
19 August 2015 https://mindcontrolblackassassins.com/2015/08/19/donald-trump-the-devils-run-for-the-white-house/ background info on drumpf & his dad Fred with it explains a lot of his lifelong connection to the slc sweet little country on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean…
1989 Trump The Game https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TeECRcXVOvc ” Featuring a young Donald Trump. A board game released in 1989 by Milton Bradley. Hype did not meet expectations, only 800,000 units sold out of an estimated 2 million.” since then drumpf clearly took a nose job……)))
10 March https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jkCx-3eJfI Keith Edwards/ draft granddaughter drumpf & his son Barron
10 March https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkAa4paqkxY “Chris Mowrey filling in for Adam Mockler with MeidasTouch Network on drumpfs granddaughter Kai Trump facing major backlash after vid showing her shopping at an extremely expensive grocery store/ accompanied by taxpayer funded Secret Service agents/ during rising economic pressure/ escalating war in Iran & growing frustration of Americans struggling with rising costs.”
comments/”Can’t her parents afford secret service with all the corrupt money they accumulated?”/”This is A Crime Family we’re dealing with”/”Draft her! She and Barron are of age to die for their country. Billionaires/ get your kids ready for the dance!! This will not be a rich man’s war/ poor man’s battle. If they are of age/ send them!”
But the tableau de la troupe is changing somethimg happened to a synagogue buddy of (grand)daddy
10 March https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGma3e1iSXo 🎯’Currency Archive (AG) 5 Countries Banned Netanyahu’s Plane — The Global Order Is Collapsing in Real Time
Five sovereign nations just banned a sitting PM from their skies/ the world will never be the same..
Currency Archive on unprecedented geopolitical events in modern history: the moment five Nordic countries simultaneously declared they would arrest Netanyahu if he enters their territory or airspace. This is not politics as usual. This is the visible/ public collapse of the international order that has governed global trade/ diplomacy & capital for the last eighty years.’
10 March https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWoc12rA1o8 “Iran Just Forced the USS Lincoln into a 1,000KM Retreat: The End of U.S. Dominance in the Gulf?
Tensions in the Middle East have intensified after Iran claimed it forced the USS Abraham Lincoln carrier strike group to withdraw more than 1,000 kilometers from waters near the Strait of Hormuz following drone and missile threats.
According to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC)/ the U.S. aircraft carrier was targeted during rising hostilities in the region/ prompting them to reposition farther away from Iran’s coastline
comments /”Canadian satellites captured the ship steaming away” / ” AI is all over the place/ its also wrong. 200-500 miles is the normal stand off range for a US carrier. It constantly moves up & back within that range. Moving targets* are harder to find/ track/ target & attack.” (< Beijing supplies its Beidou navigation system via its own sattelites to Tehran outwitting the GPS used by the US …
wiki p BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS; Chinese: 北斗卫星导航系统; pinyin: běidǒu wèixīng dǎoháng xìtǒng is a satellite-based radio navigation system owned and operated by the China National Space Administration / gj)
* Exactly/ " moving targets"/ the hypersonic missiles of Teheran are- unlike former missiles with a preprogrammed track – can change their track/ not to the amusement of the kosher selfchosen shitbags (the iron con dome boys & girls) viewing their computer screens as sitting ducks & the inhabtants of Tel Aviv etc. / their dance in the sky gives the always attacking idf headaches/ to say the least….
Anyway every body anywhere
h.a.n.d. have a nice day 😎
CIA O
10 March https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cykXWLgGmwk 🎯Iran Rejects U.S. Ceasefire* on Live TV — Ritter & Macgregor: “Iran is Winning This War!”/ US – Iran Watch
10 March https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7m8-en1usA ‘War Won’t Stop’: Iranian Forces Bombard US Navy’s 5th Fleet HQ; 1-Ton Warhead Missile ‘Hits’ Israel / TOI
10 March https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2W33CZBfHQU China Just Gave Iran the One Weapon That Makes the Entire U.S. Navy Useless — Pentagon Has No Answer
China just transferred the YJ-21 hypersonic anti-ship ballistic missile to Iran. The “carrier killer” weapon travels at Mach 10/ maneuvers during descent & is designed to destroy aircraft carriers. The Pentagon has reportedly admitted: “We have no operational countermeasure.”
Full breakdown of what China transferred/ how it changes naval warfare forever 🎯why American carriers are now retreating from the Persian Gulf region/ 8.21: ❗️” A retreating carrier is an admission that the area it is retreating from is no longr safe for US operations/ the Pesrsian Golf is no longer safe for US carriers/ the navy just admitted it with ship movements rather than words ❗️”
Other US carriers on their way to the Gulf area were notified by the HQ not to steam to the Persian Gulf…9.11: ” The navy is suddenly confronting the possibility that its entire force structure of 11 carriers representing 150 billion dollars in construction costs & decades of strategic investment may be obsolete against peer adversaries….”
“The House Armed Services received a classified briefing 18 hours ago/ members emerged without commenting to media / unusual for politicians who typically exploit every opportunity for public statements/ their silence suggests they heard something that cannot be spun positively something that changed assumptions they have held for their entire carreers…
Defense contractors are already responding/ Lockheed Martin stock dropped 4% / an unusual volume before any public anouncement….Raytheon experienced similar movements / the markets is pricing the posibility the weapons systems these companies produce may no longer provide the protection they were designed to deliver….
In Beijing the Chinese Foreign ministry issued a statement that was remarkably for what it did’nt say/ no denial of the transfer/ no claim the reports were inaccurate…simply a statement that Chinese military corporation with sovereign nations is not subject to US approval…& that the era of American unilateral dominance is ending,” >>>15.55: ” The weapon that makes carriers useless is now in Iranian hands”
((( 3 May 2025 https://www.news.com.au/technology/innovation/military/deadly-new-chinese-missile-could-destroy-entire-us-fleet-in-20-minutes/news-story/3b91043978e4f3c42de83ae3a5cb1b3d
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/2020/06/25/china-develops-first-strike-capability-with-electromagnetic-pulse/ article nearly 6 years ago
3 September 2025 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mG9Y_w1koIg China Showed Off at Military Parade: Powerful Nukes, Lasers/ ‘Robot Wolves’ /underwater drones & other cutting-edge tech/ Xi Jinping shoulder to shoulder with Putin & Kim Jong Un for the first time ever*/ NY Post )))
9 March 2026 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-Io94GbbcM Jim Caveizel Breaks Down Revealing What Happened To Kids On Epstein Island / Young Skin Secrets )))
*11 March https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/videos/international/watch-out-iran-threatens-trump-withelimination-as-hormuz-clash-intensifies/videoshow/129416364.cms “Security chief Larijani told drumpf directly on X: “Watch out for yourself lest you be eliminated.”/ not Washington, would decide when the war ends.
Anyway every body anywhere
h.a.n.d. have a nice day 😎
CIA O