{"id":326000,"date":"2026-04-13T06:20:02","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T06:20:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=326000"},"modified":"2026-04-14T07:09:37","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T07:09:37","slug":"when-is-a-ceasefire-a-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=326000","title":{"rendered":"When Is a Ceasefire a Scam?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Philip Giraldi \u2013 The Unz Review April 12, 2026<\/strong><\/h1>\n

During my most recent appearance<\/a> on Judge Napolitano\u2019s Judging Freedom<\/em> on Wednesday I expressed the view that the ongoing ceasefire between Washington and Tehran was a scam designed to support Israeli interests in the region and to give both Tel Aviv and the White House breathing room to prepare for the next major assault on Iran. I based my judgment on several aspects of the story being circulated by the White House and the tame media. First of all, it is being suggested that the US acceptance of the proposal for a ceasefire put forward by Iran through mediators in Pakistan was arrived at without discussions with Israel. In other words, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had no preview of it nor hand in it.<\/p>\n

This defies all the history of the relationship between the US and Jewish state preceding the agreement, if that is truly what it was. Up until now, Donald Trump, like his predecessor Joe Biden, has been the \u201cmost loyal accomplice\u201d of Israel up to and including that country\u2019s war crimes, never using the considerable leverage the US has to ever contest or block anything Israel does no matter even if it is doing serious collateral damage to the United States or US interests. In that context, one might cite how there have been ceasefires in Lebanon, Syria and with Gaza, all of which had the US as an implementer or guarantor, which Israel immediately violated, just as it is doing right now in all those locations as well as with Iran. When Israel defies what has been agreed upon, Trump says nothing, which suggests that this latest ceasefire was all a clever contrivance by Israel and the US behind the scenes to create a pause in a war that is going badly to permit renewal of fighting possibly as soon as the \u201ctwo weeks\u201d term of the ceasefire expires without anything more substantive to replace it. To my surprise the agreement did not last even twenty-four hours before Israel chose to stage a devastating attack on Lebanon which killed as many as three hundred civilians and destroyed residential neighborhoods. There should be no doubt but that the Israelis staged the attack to disrupt any movement towards a cease fire or peace arrangement with the Persians.<\/p>\n

If anything were needed to confirm that the ceasefire is a fraud beyond that sad story of Israel\u2019s immediate resumption of its bombing of civilians in Lebanon it would come with Thursday\u2019s revelation that Trump was sending Vice President JD Vance as his head negotiator to Pakistan to continue what is being touted as part of the process for ending the war. Vance, who reportedly opposed the war in the first place, could prove to be a good choice but the consensus thinking is that he will do only what Trump wants and no more than that. Vance is joined by Donald Trump\u2019s two personal negotiators Mike Witkoff and son-in-law Jared Kushner, both of whom were spectacularly unsuccessful at negotiations both regarding Russia\/Ukraine and most particularly with Iran, where they served as distractions to lull the Iranians into complacency while Trump and Netanyahu were preparing their surprise attacks. Both are Witkoff and Kushner are inevitably Jewish, ardent Zionists who are closely tied to Israel, and best known as real estate developers. Kushner is likely most interested in developing a resort named after Trump on the Mediterranean Gaza coast along the lines of the French Riviera which he will personally greatly profit from. That it would be built on the rubble covering tens of thousands of dead Gazans does not seem to faze him in the least. Trump\u2019s handing the two men this assignment in spite of their demonstrated incompetence is an indication that the new negotiation is intended to fail.<\/p>\n

Even if Donald Trump is sincere in his peacemaking, which I doubt, and willing to hold Netanyahu at arm\u2019s length to avoid queering the pitch, it is hard to believe that the US president will persevere if he finds himself between a rock and a hard place given his widely observed short memory span and inability to reconcile opposing points of view effectively. He has become so desperate in defending the indefensible, meaning himself, the Israel Lobby and his presidency, that he is now lashing out at the very people who might have been able to make an honest case for his unfortunately misguided war against Iran.<\/p>\n

On his Thursday Truth Social<\/em> Trump ranted how<\/a> he understood what was creating resistance to his Iran policy<\/a>. He wrote \u201cI know why Tucker Carlson, Megyn Kelly, Candace Owens, and Alex Jones have all been fighting me for years, especially by the fact that they think it is wonderful for Iran, the Number One State Sponsor of Terror, to have a Nuclear Weapon. Because they have one thing in common, Low IQs. They\u2019re stupid people, they know it, their families know it, and everyone else knows it, too! Look at their past, look at their record. They don\u2019t have what it takes, and they never did!\u201d He described how Carlson and Kelly, two former Fox News<\/em> hosts, have \u201call been thrown off Television, lost their Shows, and aren\u2019t even invited on TV because nobody cares about them.\u201d They are \u201cNUT JOBS, TROUBLEMAKERS,\u201d who \u201cwill say anything necessary\u201d for some \u201cfree\u201d and cheap publicity.\u201d<\/p>\n

Criticism from those figures is the \u201copposite of MAGA\u201d the president concluded with a whine, before insulting them personally. Carlson, Trump noted, \u201ccouldn\u2019t even finish College,\u201d calling him a \u201cbroken man when he got fired from Fox.\u201d Interestingly, Carlson graduated from the highly regarded Trinity College in Connecticut in 1991 giving him more upscale academic qualifications than the president has. Trump concluded characteristically that the \u201cso-called \u2018pundits\u2019 are LOSERS, and they always will be.\u201d<\/p>\n

So, to no one\u2019s surprise, Trump is cutting himself off from true conservatives whose approval could benefit his standing with the public, which, per opinion polls, is increasingly frustrated by his belligerency on behalf of Israel. Israel\u2019s immediate response consisting of a major attack on Lebanon to disrupt the ongoing ceasefire talks between the US and Iran is a clear sign that Netanyahu and company will not let any end to the war develop. I rather suspect that Israel and its Lobby are together putting very intense pressure on the White House to terminate any genuine impulse by the president to call off an escapable conflict that has proven politically disastrous. And I would not be surprised if more devastating moves might be under consideration by Netanyahu, to include some form of a false flag attack that would be directed against US troops in the Middle East but contrived in such a way as permit Israel to be able to put the blame on Iran, forcing the US to stay in the war until Israel determines that Iran is destroyed and says \u201cit\u2019s over!\u201d Israel is very good at false flags, note how they distorted and used the October 7th<\/sup> Gaza incident to genocide the Palestinians. Israel\u2019s total reliance on lies and deception in lieu of a genuine foreign policy also reminds one of how Israel had prior knowledge of 9\/11 and let it happen to draw the US into a war against Islam which it greatly desired. Netanyahu was greatly pleased, commenting how \u201chis\u201d war was now also America\u2019s. Extending that model to Iran if Trump starts to develop cold feet will be a piece of cake, as the expression goes, or perhaps a bit of bagel in this case.<\/p>\n

So that\u2019s how it goes. We have a megalomaniacal president who is manifestly insane and psychotic attacking anyone who rejects his plan to exterminate a country and \u201cculture\u201d of ninety million people that has not in any way threatened the United States as a favor to an apartheid state called Israel. It takes some stretch of one\u2019s imagination to look at Donald Trump\u2019s America and try to figure out how the Founders 250 years ago failed. They had intended to establish a new Enlightenment-based nation as the world\u2019s first constitutional republic with checks and balances that would prevent too much aggregation of power. Now all one can hope for is a little enlightenment in the White House currently, but as a brain dead Trump has become a war president based on his \u201cfeelings\u201d who is owned by Israel and its Jewish billionaire donors, any such positive outcome is unlikely. God only knows what will be coming next!<\/p>\n

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 <\/em>https:\/\/councilforthenationalinterest.org<\/a> <\/strong>address is P.O. Box 2157, Purcellville VA 20134 and its email is <\/em>inform@cnionline.org<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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