Unz Review: Philip Giraldi on the putative Trump-Netanyahu split

Netanyahu also said that Israel wants to carry out “Trump’s plan” for Gaza to include the permanent removal of the Palestinian population to create a US managed seafront resort over the ruins of the strip. Per Netanyahu, the Israelis have now included the creation of “Trump Gaza” as one of the redline conditions to permit an end of the war against Hamas. …

And: The current outrage is as orchestrated as was the earlier silence. Israel’s extremist Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich explained why Israel would be maintaining a balancing act between outright killing all the Palestinian and keeping western support by allowing absolutely minimum food to enter Gaza: “We need our friends in the world to continue to provide us with an international umbrella of protection against the Security Council and the Hague Tribunal, and for us to continue to fight, God willing, until victory.” He also has said that his plan for the West Bank and Gaza includes giving the Palestinians the choice between subjugation, emigration, and death. Smotrich has repeatedly advocated for lethal force to be used against Palestinian children lest they grow up to be terrorists.

Making Palestine go away.

It has been another exciting week in a world at war where the word “diplomacy” has no meaning and would probably be defined by America’s head of Homeland Security Kristi Noem as a doctrine in which you shoot someone first before he or she can shoot you. In my article last week I discussed the reports that there has been a serious rift between President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, exemplified by Trump’s unwillingness to talk to the Israeli leader followed by his failure to visit Israel on his recent Middle East trip. Sources attributed the break to Trump’s perception that he was being “manipulated” by the Israeli, which was completely plausible though something that should have been recognized and warned against by Trump’s foreign policy advisers when he first ascended to the presidency in 2017. Israel always manipulates opinion on the United States through its lobby’s control of the media and corruption of the politicians.

I opined that the reports of the disenchantment with “America’s best friend” were credible possibly linked to spying involving National Security Adviser Mike Waltz, though I also observed that many of my contacts were skeptical, warning that the whole thing might be a set-up possibly engineered by Trump’s Zionist roving negotiator Steve Witkoff and specifically designed to benefit Israel. That means that the US was feigning a “breakup” with Netanyahu to enable it to reach an agreement with all the leading Arab countries of the Middle East in order to confirm Israel’s security while Netanyahu is completely wiping the Palestinians off the face of the earth. Trump has in fact said that his policies and the Mideast trip were “very good for Israel.”

In a follow up to my article I advised during an interview with Judge Andrew Napolitano that it pays to be skeptical as Trump has done absolutely nothing to change Israel’s behavior, quite the contrary, even though he had an opportunity to support Palestinian statehood in the context of UN membership and also to demand an end to the genocide taking place in Gaza. The truth behind whether there was in fact a serious rupture in the personal relationship of the two leaders should be measured in light of the presence or absence of consequences when Israel pursues policies damaging to US interests.

Indeed, Netanyahu has personally confirmed that all is well with the United States. He said at a press conference last Wednesday that President Trump had assured him that the US and his administration were completely committed to Israel despite the series of media reports that have said there’s a problem between the two leaders. “Let me give you some details that perhaps haven’t been made public. A few days ago — I think around 10 days ago, maybe a little more — I spoke on the phone with President Trump. And he said to me, literally: ‘Bibi, I want you to know — I have absolute commitment to you. I have absolute commitment to the State of Israel.’”

Netanyahu also spoke with Vice President JD Vance, who, along with Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, had also avoided a visit to Israel. “[Vance] said to me… ‘Listen, don’t pay attention to all these fake news spins about this rupture between us… He said: It’s all spin. This isn’t the truth, you know it’s not true, and I’m telling you, from our side, it’s not true.” Netanyahu also said that Israel wants to carry out “Trump’s plan” for Gaza to include the permanent removal of the Palestinian population to create a US managed seafront resort over the ruins of the strip. Per Netanyahu, the Israelis have now included the creation of “Trump Gaza” as one of the redline conditions to permit an end of the war against Hamas.

The Israeli and Middle Eastern media have been reporting extensively and critically on the genocide and the various players involved in dealing with the Netanyahu agenda. A recent piece discussed the 29 mostly European Union (EU) countries led by the UK, France and Canada that have now called on Israel to moderate its behavior or face both sanctions and a suspension of the EU Israel trade arrangements, which greatly benefit the Jewish state. The EU declared that Israel’s announcement of letting some aid in was “wholly inadequate. If Israel does not cease the renewed military offensive and lift its restrictions on humanitarian aid, we will take further concrete actions in response” the leaders’ statement said. Netanyahu responded to the threat by declaring absurdly that “You’re on the wrong side of humanity and you’re on the wrong side of history.” But as the saying goes, unfortunately, talk is cheap, either from Netanyahu or from Israel’s newly minted critics. Diplomatic announcements and threatened sanctions mean always dancing around the awful truth. Israel is committing some of the worst war crimes humanity has ever witnessed and the Europeans and the Americans give every impression that they will certainly back off, deferring to Israel and persisting in doing absolutely nothing that will bring the suffering to an end.

The European gesture in particular is an attempt to make up somewhat for its support for 19 months of genocide. The completely contemptible Prime Minister of the UK Keir Starmer, confronted by a British public that has swung strongly anti-Israeli, has made a big show about taking action against Israel and the Israelis cooperated with him by playing their part, expressing outrage over the temerity of anyone telling them how to deal with their neighbors. Indeed, there was some corroboration from informed Israeli sources that the threats and responses from the two sides were little more than a bit of Kabuki. A senior Israeli official even explained to the media why European leaders have bothered to shift positions after 19 months of silence about the murderous Gaza genocide, to instead feign instant outrage. It was all coordinated with Israel in advance. He said that “The past 24 hours were all part of a planned ambush we knew about. This was a coordinated sequence of moves ahead of the EU meeting in Brussels – and thanks to joint efforts by our ambassadors and the foreign minister, we managed to moderate the outcome.”

The current outrage is as orchestrated as was the earlier silence. Israel’s extremist Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich explained why Israel would be maintaining a balancing act between outright killing all the Palestinian and keeping western support by allowing absolutely minimum food to enter Gaza: “We need our friends in the world to continue to provide us with an international umbrella of protection against the Security Council and the Hague Tribunal, and for us to continue to fight, God willing, until victory.” He also has said that his plan for the West Bank and Gaza includes giving the Palestinians the choice between subjugation, emigration, and death. Smotrich has repeatedly advocated for lethal force to be used against Palestinian children lest they grow up to be terrorists. On Wednesday the Israeli army doubled down on that message and to show how little it cares to coddle meddling foreigners when it fired on 31 European diplomats representing 29 countries who were visiting the Palestinian settlement Jenin on the West Bank in what was presumed to be in 100% Palestinian administered territory.

The fact is that no one in the European and American governments really cares about the Palestinians or their extermination. The only concern by the rulers is how their posturing looks to the rest of the world and to the voters in their own countries. Israel lies so enthusiastically in making its case and providing false evidence to back up its behavior that there is a tendency to be suspicious of anything it does. Last week’s assassination of two Israeli embassy staff members in Washington DC by a man who just happened to yell “Free Palestine!” was good news for the Jewish state in that it creates sympathy for a country that has featured as bad news for well over a year. It is already being whispered in intelligence circles that it was a “false flag” attack contrived by Mossad to create a favorable news cycle as Israel secretly cranks up for an imminent attack on Iran. Iran phobia features regularly in the Israeli media to include a recent Israeli claim that Iran is hiding its nuclear enrichment facilities, which is true but designed the keep the Israelis from blowing them up. The “favorable news cycle” has included Jewish Congressman Randy Fine of Florida calling for the use of nuclear weapons to destroy Gaza and kill its remaining inhabitants just like “Japan at the end of World War 2.”

And to make sure Iran gets to feel the sharp point of the sword, presidential emissary Witkoff has now declared that the nuclear monitoring arrangement being negotiated with Iran must include zero enrichment of uranium, something that was not on the table when the talks started, so they will go nowhere guaranteed. Per Witkoff “We cannot allow even one percent of an enrichment capability. Enrichment enables weaponization.” Where did that demand come from? From a secretly nuclear armed Israel by way of treasonous Israel Firster Senators Lindsey Graham and Tom Cotton, no doubt. And if one follows that line of thinking, one can assume that Donald Trump is also on board, standing in line to pull out Netanyahu’s chair and bowing to him and then raising his mighty clenched fist before sending in the Yanks to finish the destruction of Persia. And if Iran responds effectively with force, Israel also has around 200 nukes that it will no doubt not hesitate to use as part of its “Samson Option” war plan. And Trump will undoubtedly say something like “Hey, what a big beautiful explosion! Nothing wrong with that! We used similar weapons to end the First World War!”

 

 

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  1. Harald
    Harald says:

    PS to https://www.theoccidentalobserver.net/2025/05/26/the-trump-administrations-attempt-to-end-discrimination-against-white-men/#comment-387384

    “Typically countries without Jews did not really publish anti-semitic postcards.” That sounds downright too logical, however it is interpreted. The Jewish author (true profession “financial expert”) Aizenberg gives a lecture about his book with the shocking postcards. Last video of the playlist:

    https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLt754bwyTzVOW742v1YV3dWSQuupVoGvX

    If the Jews had been able to censor motifs on postcards like the media, “public opinion” and the Internet do today, they would not have had to look into this ugly mirror image that the evil, ungrateful world throws back at them. How can the world’s transgression be prevented in the future?

    It is obvious and a pure question of logic that millions of people have been fundamentally mistaken in their overall impression of the Jews, i.e. have been subject to a collective error, if not delusion. This can only be counteracted by permanent Holocaust education and, of course, by prohibitions on associating Jews in any way with detrimental and dishonorable actions.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jew_with_a_coin

    Nowadays, says Mr. Aizenberg, only Muslims do this, although “there are no Jews in the Muslim world”. (He is probably quite unintentionally forgetting the “state” of Israel in the middle of the Arab world and moreover on Palestinian soil. Not to mention all the bombs sent by Jewish-American “neocons”).

    Now that a large part of the Jews live “gathered” in Israel, their “inherently well-meaning” actions can obviously no longer be disguised as skillfully as before, but instead come to the surface right before the eyes of the world.

    Aizenberg interprets the postcard with the woman as a spider (min. 38.30) as Jewish simply because of the large nose and the coins. Yet the rhyme only speaks of a wife. In minute 39.10 (Jewish family on the bridge), Mr. Aizenberg is so outraged that he lets out a soft, short-breathed panting noise. He then has to quickly suck a sip of water down his dry throat with a straw.

    At minute 55.40, an old lady asks a crucial question: “I’m just wondering why the Jews were chosen (as the world’s main scapegoat)?” Expert Aizenberg must now quickly put his thoughts in order so as not to appear ignorant and all that has been said before to be implausible or even highly questionable.

    “The main reason for the world’s hatred of Jews is that Jews murdered Jesus,” is his quick-witted answer. Moreover, “the Germans have an obsession” with Jews, just like the world has with Israel.” Not very convincing, exhaustive, satisfying, but rather a cheap evasive maneuver.

    “These 14 million people are the most important thing,” but this is not the fault of the Jews (or their media) themselves, but the fault of the non-Jews. In any case, the lady had to add that Jesus was a Jew, perhaps she is Jewish herself and was ordered as a somewhat clumsy questioner.

    This is followed by a younger, self-declared Gentile woman who seriously claims that hatred of Jews existed before Christianity. But Aizenberg does not want to dwell on this, as historians consider Jesus to be the starting point that led to the “Holocaust”. Moreover, according to Aizenberg, 98 percent of Jews today do not believe that their identity is chosenness.

    Then you (and you personally) could finally put aside your “Jewishness”, Mr. Aizenberg, but the exact opposite is happening. Even the simultaneous translation into deaf language probably does not contain a really convincing explanation. In any case, Aizenberg considers “Europeans to be easily manipulated”, which then reveals even more than he intended.

    Overall, he concludes, America is on the right track, because the way blacks and gays are talked about nowadays is very different from the way they were talked about in the 1980s. And Jews are historically in the “best position ever” in America.

    Have you ever heard a Jew ask: “Why are we so hated, just us, and especially us?” Jews have an almost infallible conviction of their rightness, which is probably due to their religious doctrine of being “God’s chosen people”.

    If they complain about the anti-Semitic conspiracy theory that says they are behind all the mischief in world politics, why don’t they modestly stay out of international affairs and withdraw into themselves?

    Then they would remove any ground for such accusations? Jews have been involved in politics for hundreds of years, now more than ever, so that the House of Representatives is, like a “caricature”, just an extension of the Knesset.

    In the fourth video of the playlist, a Jewish professor reveals the “real lies” in his “presentation” (certainly not through his own lies!). The Nazis claimed that Cordell Hull’s wife was Jewish (min. 47:29), which makes the audience laugh.

    Herf seems to think his audience is so uninformed that they don’t even study Wikipedia: “At the age of 45, in 1917, Hull married a widow, Rose Frances (Witz) Whitney (1875–1954), of an Austrian Jewish family of Staunton, Virginia.”

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cordell_Hull#Personal_life_and_death

    Nor does Hitler’s statement, which he presents, say anything about an imminent mass murder of Jews. It only says that the Jews behind Roosevelt are luring the world into a war against Germany, that Germany has recognized the danger of the Jews, and that other states will follow his example as “anti-Semitic states” in the wake of the war.

    About halfway through the lecture, Herf then moves on to his actual concern, because, as he himself says, national socialism in Europe is finally defeated and dead. But not its “absurd” ideas, which have also poisoned the Muslim world, especially in Islamism and Iran. Nazism, according to Herf, has its roots in Christianity, and Islamism in Islam.

    But there are Muslims who look honestly in the mirror [in contrast to Jews?], according to Herf. These forces of individualism, liberalism, diversity, democracy and tolerance must therefore be strengthened and increased.

    Herf’s “lecture” is from 2014, but his arrogance, the complete absence of any self-doubt, which the Jews call chutzpah, has almost certainly not changed one iota, because it is an integral part of their “character trait”.

    I can’t wait to hear and see what Jewish “scholar” Ann Millin’s assessment of “Femals in the Fatherland” (second video of the playlist) will be – it promises to be at least as funny. But funny is certainly an inappropriately anti-Semitic statement.

    Is it still permissible by Jewish standards to say “amusing”, or is this completely out of the question in the broader context of the “Holocaust”? As the world has finally been enlightened, women are not only mentally equal to men, but superior due to their intellectual prudence, how true only when it comes to Jewish women!

  2. Anon
    Anon says:

    Unz.c*m/aanglin/trump-is-very-emotional-about-the-ukraine/

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    I hate women and like to share that message of hate with the world.
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    That’s an R-Selected trait. African males also possess very little Altruism towards females. Reproduction among genetically advanced races is about males with good genes marrying females with good genes in order to create quality offspring that can strengthen and advance the collective race, a system that currently very strongly exists among the Orthodox/Hasidic/Haredi Jewish people.

    But regarding America’s President Netanyahu, my speculation has been that Netanyahu wanted to temporarily reduce American involvement in Ukraine so that it could focus all its resources on defeating the Arabs surrounding Israel. And Netanyahu wanted Europe to instead make up for a temporary reduction of American aid to Ukraine. Netanyahu has already achieved a lot of his goals, such as the successful conquering of Palestine, Syria, and Lebanon, but still has to completely defeat Yemen, followed by Iran. So, my conjecture has been that Netanyahu does indeed want to completely destroy Russia, but he wants Yemen and Iran to first be taken care of. So, the White House is doing just that, and has been progressing at a “respectable” rate.

    So, Netanyahu never gave up on Ukraine, and Europe has agreed to Netanyahu’s demand and has been increasing its contributions to the war with billions of dollars of weapons deliveries, soldier deliveries, and training of Ukrainian soldiers. Russia is going to be constantly bombed from East Europe for at least the next fifty years, until Russia finally collapses from economic and demographic decline.

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