{"id":329630,"date":"2026-08-03T08:00:42","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T08:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=329630"},"modified":"2026-08-05T07:34:38","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T07:34:38","slug":"the-dumbest-psyops-of-all-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=329630","title":{"rendered":"The Dumbest Psyops of All Time?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Mike Whitney \u2013 The Unz Review Aug 2, 2026<\/strong><\/h1>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Don\u2019t fall for the fake Fox\/GOP outrage. Two weeks ago the House passed a bill that greenlighted the transfer of Spanish territory to Morocco. Every Republican except me voted for it, but now THEY are acting shocked at the invasion.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/a7ROEAtoOD\">https:\/\/t.co\/a7ROEAtoOD<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/886sJycfeL\">https:\/\/t.co\/886sJycfeL<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/dK5vqMA2Vu\">pic.twitter.com\/dK5vqMA2Vu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Thomas Massie (@RepThomasMassie) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/RepThomasMassie\/status\/2083564415392108788?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 1, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Moroccan migrant invasion of Spain might be the most extravagant fake news story of all time. According to the official narrative, the roughly 60,000 mostly military-aged men swarmed the Spanish city of Ceuta on July 31 with the intention finding work and \u2018making a better life for themselves\u201d. The obvious truth, however, is that the entire incident was a poorly choreographed slapstick aimed at eroding support for the left-wing Spanish government and its outspoken anti-Zionist president Pedro Sanchez. The puppetmasters behind this pitiable vaudeville are the usual suspects Bibi Netanyahu and \u201clittle\u201d Marco Rubio (who aligned with Morocco\u2019s malleable leaders) to manufacture a phony crisis that would \u2018teach Spain a lesson\u2019. As you may recall, Sanchez has been sharply critical of Bibi\u2019s ongoing massacre in Gaza and has stubbornly refused to let Trump use Spain\u2019s military bases to transport munitions and bombers to Israel. In response, Netanyahu publicly threatened Sanchez just weeks ago in a thuggish presentation that is still available on X.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">He threatened Spain a couple of months ago.<\/p>\n<p>Looks like he delivered.. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/OYgX3nFXDo\">pic.twitter.com\/OYgX3nFXDo<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Abier (@abierkhatib) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/abierkhatib\/status\/2083023508620165416?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 31, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Okay, so there is no love lost between Bibi and Sanchez, that\u2019s obvious. It\u2019s also clear is that Netanyahu\u2019s mouthpieces on X loathe the Spanish president equally and are using the so-called \u201ccrisis\u201d to rake him over the coals and claim that Spain is getting what it deserves for its \u201clax\u201d immigration policies and insufficient border enforcement. Here\u2019s a sample of what you\u2019ll see on X from the pro Israel crowd:<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Spain, is there a problem with the immigrants you ordered? <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/spain?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#spain<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/immigrants?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#immigrants<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/ceuta?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#ceuta<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/EPO6uWUmF9\">pic.twitter.com\/EPO6uWUmF9<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jewish Jess (@jessisajew) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/jessisajew\/status\/2083145003199541456?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 31, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s no doubt that if there was an Academy Award for condescension and sarcasm, Jess would win that prize hands-down. The question is whether anyone is going to trust the opinion of someone who comes across as so spiteful and arrogant.<\/p>\n<p>By the way, you may have seen the truckloads of young men driven to the outskirts of the city under the supervision of the Moroccan police and then offloaded onto the nearby streets. How could that possibly take place without the explicit knowledge and cooperation of the government? Take a look:<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Footage from yesterday&#8217;s migration surge toward Ceuta shows truck unloading young men near the Spanish border, with Morocco&#8217;s Royal Gendarmerie standing by. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/4gAn1uAlTx\">pic.twitter.com\/4gAn1uAlTx<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Open Source Intel (@Osint613) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Osint613\/status\/2083092443935785296?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 31, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It couldn\u2019t, which is why we should be skeptical that this just another psyops-hoax concocted by the intelligence mandarins whose only objective is to give the Spanish government a black eye.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s another useful 1-minute summary from Mario Nawfal\u2019s X site:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">If you needed any more proof that the US and Israel are terrorists, take a look at this\u2026..That is a clip of thousands and thousands of Moroccans illegally invading a Spanish enclave on the Northern tip of Morocco. And if you are wondering what the US or Israel has to do with this: As usual, everything\u2026\u2026<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Spain is the only country that has publicly declared their unwillingness to help the US and Israel commit their genocide in Palestine. So, in the last year, Israel has been openly threatening Spain and saying they will have to face consequences for not supporting Israel. And assholes from the US like Marco Rubio have been saying it for the last few months that Morocco should send migrants to Spain, that Morocco should invade Spain\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/i\/status\/2083518102831259729\">@ MarioNawfal<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s more from a well-informed observer who doesn\u2019t pull his punches:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">\u201c\u2026Spain is being punished for recognizing Palestine in 2024, for putting a full weapons embargo on Israel, for accusing Israel of genocide at the UN, for restricting their air space during the Iran War\u2026<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Bibi threatens Spain with \u201ctrain accidents and sudden power outages\u201d\u2026.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">anyone who stands up against Israel \u201cwill pay an immediate price\u201d\u2026<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Morrocco declared its independence 50 years ago while Spain has owned these cities for 400 years\u2026.<br \/>\nWhy aren\u2019t we talking about the 700,000 Jewish settlers who are illegally occupying the land in the West Bank and Gaza?<br \/>\n(The author also wonders if these cities have been chosen as a final destination for destitute Palestinians scraping by in Gaza?)<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheRISEofROD\/status\/2083349021138055304\/video\/1\">The Rise of Rod<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Oddly enough, even the paper of record, the New York Times, appears to corroborate the same damning story. Here\u2019s a blurb from the Saturday edition:<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/NYT-blurb.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wpa-warning wpa-image-missing-alt aligncenter size-full wp-image-329631\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/NYT-blurb.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"490\" height=\"680\" data-warning=\"Missing alt text\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/NYT-blurb.jpg 490w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/NYT-blurb-480x666.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) 490px, 100vw\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Most of the quality analysis on X draws the same conclusions, although some veer into the more intriguing geopolitical aspects. It\u2019s worth mentioning that this particular psyops is not simply intended to denigrate Tel Aviv\u2019s enemies in Madrid. It\u2019s also part of an Israeli-US \u201cregional strategy that uses \u201cmigration as a lever of diplomacy\u201d in order to weaken Washington\u2019s adversaries while strengthening its allies. In other words, there a deeper undercurrent to the events that are presently unfolding in North Africa. Check out this brief but illuminating clip from Ynet News:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Spain\u2019s refusal to allow the United States access to its\u2026.military bases\u2026, and Prime Minister Pedro S\u00e1nchez\u2019s confrontational posture toward the Trump administration have collectively generated \u2026.a genuine crack in Spain\u2019s strategic armor over Ceuta and Melilla. Into that crack, Morocco\u2019s most consequential new partner, Israel, is uniquely positioned to press\u2026.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>In March 2026, Michael Rubin of the American Enterprise Institute\u2026. called on the Trump administration to formally recognize Ceuta and Melilla as occupied Moroccan territory, branding Spain \u201ca colonial power running colonies across the Strait of Gibraltar.\u201d<\/strong> Days later, Representative Mario D\u00edaz-Balart, chairman of the House Subcommittee on National Security and one of Marco Rubio\u2019s closest congressional confidants, declared publicly that <strong>the enclaves \u201care not in the geographic territory of Spain\u201d but rather in Moroccan territory, <\/strong>and that their fate should be \u201cestablished, negotiated, and discussed between friends and allies.\u201d This was not the fringe speaking. <strong>This was the architecture of a coordinated strategic repositioning\u2026.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>The Abraham Accords transformed Morocco from a quiet interlocutor with Israel into a formal military partner. <\/strong>In January 2026, Israel and Morocco signed a joint military work plan for the year during the third meeting of their Joint Military Committee in Tel Aviv, which the IDF described as deepening cooperation with a \u201ckey partner for regional stability.\u201d\u2026 <strong>This bilateral architecture gives Israel something it has rarely possessed in North African politics: direct strategic stake in Rabat\u2019s regional success.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">That stake has an obvious application to Ceuta and Melilla. <strong>The Trump administration\u2019s Abrahamic coalition, built around shared opposition to Iran and common economic incentives, has created an operational triangular relationship between Washington, Jerusalem, and Rabat. Israel\u2019s voice in that triangle carries disproportionate weight. <\/strong>When Israeli officials signal alignment with a partner\u2019s strategic interests, that signal registers powerfully in a White House that has placed Abraham Accords expansion at the center of its foreign policy vision. <strong>Morocco\u2019s territorial claim over the enclaves is not simply a bilateral dispute with Spain; it is increasingly a litmus test for whether the Trump administration will reward its most cooperative partners over its most obstinate NATO members\u2026.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>The Abraham Accords created a framework for reconfiguring Middle Eastern and North African alliances <\/strong>in ways that serve American and Israeli interests simultaneously. Helping Morocco recover Ceuta and Melilla would serve that framework and punish a NATO member that has repeatedly chosen obstruction over partnership at the alliance\u2019s most critical juncture. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ynetnews.com\/opinions-analysis\/article\/bki11ns9tzx\">Abraham Accords reach the Strait: how Israel can help Morocco reclaim its North,<\/a> Ynet Global<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/YNet-Abraham-Accord.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wpa-warning wpa-image-missing-alt aligncenter size-full wp-image-329632\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/YNet-Abraham-Accord.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"658\" height=\"680\" data-warning=\"Missing alt text\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/YNet-Abraham-Accord.jpg 658w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/YNet-Abraham-Accord-480x496.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) 658px, 100vw\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>So now you can better understand the \u2018big picture\u2019 which is not just a silly psyops aimed at making Pedro Sanchez look bad. No. This is an expansion of the Greater Israel project which not only includes the nations between the Nile to the Euphrates but a broader and more comprehensive restructuring of the existing order so that Israel reigns supreme across the Middle East and beyond. The war in Iran has not dampened those ambitions at all.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">If we&#8217;re being honest about what&#8217;s going on in Spain: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/lSiUjg3kmy\">pic.twitter.com\/lSiUjg3kmy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Forbidden HQ \uf407 (@WearForbidden) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/WearForbidden\/status\/2083254892802593073?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 31, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Note:<\/strong> Ceuta is recognized as Spanish sovereign territory by Spain, the European Union, the United Nations, and the large majority of countries around the world. It is an autonomous city, fully integrated into the Spanish state. It has been under continuous Spanish control since the late 16th\/17th century. When Morocco gained independence in 1956, Ceuta and the other plazas de soberan\u00eda (including Melilla) remained Spanish.<\/p>\n<p>Here is the now infamous tweet by Yair Netanyahu encouraging Arab Islamists to liberate Ceuta and Melilla. Keep in mind, this tweet was published in May 2019, but we are expected to believe that yesterday\u2019s events were purely spontaneous!<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/MoroccoSpain-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wpa-warning wpa-image-missing-alt aligncenter size-full wp-image-329633\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/MoroccoSpain-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" data-warning=\"Missing alt text\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/MoroccoSpain-3.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/MoroccoSpain-3-480x319.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) 800px, 100vw\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unz.com\/mwhitney\/the-dumbest-psyops-of-all-time\/\">Source\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Whitney explains how events in the Spanish enclave of Ceuta weren\u2019t just a psyop, but a psyop intended to further the Greater Israel project<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121,"featured_media":329635,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[19,61,97],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-329630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-Behind_The_News","category-Commentary","category-european-migrant-crisis"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/121"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=329630"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":329644,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329630\/revisions\/329644"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/329635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=329630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=329630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=329630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}