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\"\"<\/a>The Anti-Israel Right Joins the Pro-Iran Left<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/h5>\n

Lee Smith<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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MAGA influencers replace the mainstream media as vehicles for traditional information campaigns targeting Israel\u2014and Trump<\/strong><\/h4>\n<\/div>\n

President Donald Trump sits down with podcaster Theo Von, August 20, 2024 \/\u00a0 YouTube<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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Donald Trump says he is going to fight to end antisemitism and the left-wing delegitimization and hatred of Israel that has plagued college campuses since Oct. 7, which led to the murder last week of two Israeli embassy employees. Standing in the way of his efforts to rid America of a violent and deadly scourge are the radical left, Democrats, federal courts, and university presidents who are determined to protect pro-Palestinian terrorists from his deportation campaign.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Everyone wants Trump to lose. This includes certain self-proclaimed MAGA influencers, who are obsessed with the idea of Israel as a uniquely evil force in world history and American Jews as a malignant fifth column. The influencers are joined by Trump officials trying to reorient the president\u2019s Middle East policy and negate the successes of his first term. Both camps now find themselves on the same side as the globalist institutions they say they despise: the United Nations and other world bodies that threaten national sovereignty, America\u2019s as well as Israel\u2019s.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Since Oct. 7, the United Nations has used its monopoly on aid distribution to bring Israel\u2019s military campaign to a halt and save Hamas. The international body has also been the leading voice in what Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu described as the \u201cblood libels against Israel,\u201d baselessly accusing the IDF of genocide and creating a climate that led to the murder of the two embassy employees. On May 20, the day before the attack, the United Nations\u2019 under-secretary-general for humanitarian affairs Tom Fletcher said, \u201cThere are 14,000 babies that will die in the next 48 hours unless we can reach them.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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But there is no famine\u2014only an ongoing series of reports, many produced by the same organization, warning of famine since almost immediately after Oct. 7, without ever having produced one starvation victim. It\u2019s a blood libel meant to incite antisemitic violence, and it\u2019s also a pro-Hamas propaganda campaign. Call it the famine hoax. It began even before Israel entered Gaza, and was designed to reshape the rules of war in ways that would ensure Hamas\u2019 survival.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Trump was elected to hold the line and make America great again, not to implement the failed policies of his predecessors while allowing lunatics to mainstream conspiracy theories and incite hatred.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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On Oct. 16, 2023, nine days after 1,200 were killed and hundreds taken hostage, the World Health Organization warned of a \u201ccatastrophe\u201d in Gaza, claiming that there were only 24 hours of water, electricity, and fuel left. \u201cYou cannot use aid, or food and water, as an instrument of war for any political or military ends,\u201d said Marwan Jilani, director general of the Palestine Red Crescent Society. \u201cThere is an urgent need to alleviate the suffering of Palestinian civilians in Gaza,\u201d said Egypt\u2019s foreign minister. But back then, Israel hadn\u2019t invaded Gaza yet. Egypt controlled the Rafah crossing\u2014and was fully capable of getting food into Gaza. But it didn\u2019t. Needless to say, no international tribunals threatened Cairo with war crimes charges, nor did Palestinian activists accuse the Egyptians of genocide.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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In late December 2023, the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification\u00a0issued<\/a>\u00a0a famine warning and claimed that at least a quarter of people in Gaza were experiencing famine-level forms of deprivation. In mid-March 2024, the Biden White House\u2019s USAID administrator Samantha Power said that Gaza was at a \u201cserious risk of famine,\u201d meaning that the famine predicted four months previously had not materialized. She called to \u201cdramatically surge\u201d humanitarian aid \u201cas conditions continue to deteriorate.\u201d Again, there was no famine.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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That didn\u2019t stop top Biden administration officials from using words like\u00a0famine<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0starvation<\/em>, any more than Israel\u2019s record-low urban warfare casualty rates have prevented celebrity activists like Mark Ruffalo from repeatedly claiming that Israel was committing \u201cgenocide.\u201d It seems Biden\u2019s vice president didn\u2019t understand the difference between a famine and a report forecasting a possible famine. \u201cPeople in Gaza are starving,\u201d said Kamala Harris. \u201cThe conditions are inhumane, and our common humanity compels us to act,\u201d she\u00a0continued<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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In reality, of course, the people who were being starved in Gaza for the past two years were Israeli hostages who were fed a quarter of a pita per day while their captors gorged themselves on stolen food aid. After the Palestinians put their captives on parade, Trump expressed revulsion. \u201cIt looked like many years ago, the Holocaust survivors,\u201d said the president, \u201cand I don\u2019t know how much longer we can take that when I watch that.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Famine<\/em>,\u00a0starvation<\/em>, and\u00a0genocide<\/em>\u00a0are simply keywords in an information campaign whose goal is to generate enough outrage among the public and policymakers to ensure Hamas\u2019 survival through Western aid packages, and thereby to ensure that Israel loses its war in Gaza. For instance, a few weeks ago, Iran regime lobbyist Trita Parsi posted a picture of what he claimed was a young Gazan girl who had died of starvation. In fact, it was a photo of a child who was being treated at a UAE hospital for a rare disease that left her emaciated. The veracity of the picture was irrelevant. The point was to advance the famine op.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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It was with Parsi, vice president of the Quincy Institute, a think tank started by George Soros and Charles Koch, that the Gaza famine hoax jumped the rails from the left to the right. Quincy\u2019s Republican and Democrat donors share the view that Israel is the destabilizing force in the Middle East and thus that an Iranian bomb will bring balance to the world\u2019s most volatile region. Despite the president\u2019s warnings to keep Koch associates out of the administration\u2014the Koch network opposed Trump\u2019s candidacy for the Republican nomination in 2016, 2020, and 2024\u2014Trump officials continue to tap them for senior-level positions. An article from Quincy\u2019s in-house\u00a0publication<\/a>\u00a0reinforced Parsi\u2019s claims of famine, quoting Cindy McCain, the director of the World Food Program, and widow of the late Arizona senator and dedicated Trump foe John McCain. She said in May 2024 that there was a \u201cfull-blown famine\u201d in northern Gaza and that it was \u201cmoving its way south.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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Parsi\u2019s tweet was relayed by Darryl Cooper, a social media influencer and revisionist historian of National Socialism credentialed by top-shelf MAGA podcasters Tucker Carlson and Joe Rogan. \u201cGaza Holodomor,\u201d Cooper\u00a0posted<\/a>\u00a0over Parsi\u2019s tweet, referring to Stalin\u2019s forced starvation of millions of Ukrainians. Podcaster Theo Von then posted a video on X, claiming there is a \u201cgenocide\u201d in Gaza and that the United States is \u201ccomplicit.\u201d His post went viral, as millions absorbed the accusation from an entertainer who recently opened for Trump when he spoke to U.S. troops based in Qatar. Quincy\u2019s X account\u00a0tweeted<\/a>\u00a0approvingly of Von\u2019s charges, as did influencer Candace Owens. \u201cWell done, Theo,\u201d she posted over Von\u2019s tweet. \u201cGod will have his vengeance on those that defend what is happening in Gaza.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Maybe nominally pro-Trump influencers didn\u2019t know they were advancing a fake narrative initiated by the same U.N. agency that covered up the origins of COVID-19 and facilitated lockdowns and mask and vaccine mandates here at home. Maybe they didn\u2019t know that the famine op was managed by the former head of USAID, an agency since closed down by Elon Musk that, under Samantha Power\u2019s tenure, sent billions of U.S. taxpayer dollars to fund globalist causes. Or maybe it didn\u2019t matter they\u2019d taken sides with the same cohort that had threatened to starve, impoverish, and imprison Americans if they didn\u2019t take the COVID-19 vaccine. Targeting Jews was in fact more important to them than any part of Trump\u2019s agenda.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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And the top item on Trump\u2019s Middle East agenda is Iran\u2019s nuclear weapons program. Trump has made the stakes clear: Iran can\u2019t have a bomb. It can give up its nuclear program peacefully, or, he says, there will \u201cbe bombing the likes of which they have never seen before.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Admittedly, it\u2019s often hard to hear what Trump is saying because there are multiple players running information operations to drown out the message. There\u2019s Iran and its domestic allies, like Parsi; there are anti-Bibi Israeli officials and activists determined to bring down the government no matter the cost; there are Arab allies, like Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates that fear they have the most to lose if they\u2019re caught in the middle of a U.S.-Iran confrontation; and there\u2019s Qatar, a sometime U.S. ally whose media celebrated the murder of the two Israeli embassy employees.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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But most significant among these foes are those who are ostensibly in Trump\u2019s own camp.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cIt\u2019s clear that now is the worst possible time for the United States to participate in a military strike on Iran,\u201d Carlson\u00a0tweeted<\/a>\u00a0in April. \u201cWe can\u2019t afford it. Thousands of Americans would die. We\u2019d lose the war that follows. Nothing would be more destructive to our country. And yet we\u2019re closer than ever, thanks to unrelenting pressure from neocons.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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In the paranoid version of world events concocted by Carlson and his guests, it is the \u201cneocons\u201d who drive the United States to war in the Middle East, motivated in turn by Netanyahu\u2019s insatiably expansionist ambitions. And now, says Carlson, the neocons are at it again with Trump. It is true that America has repeatedly become embroiled in Middle Eastern wars over the past four decades, among many others: the bombing of the U.S. Embassy in Beirut in 1983; the First Gulf War against Iraq in 1990 following Saddam Hussein\u2019s invasion of Kuwait; the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003 and its subsequent attempts to remake that sectarian tinderbox as an American-style democracy; the Libya operation in 2011; and the U.S. support of Syrian Kurdish forces aligned with Iran that began in 2014. Yet none of these operations ever had anything remotely to do with defending Israel or forwarding Israeli aims in the region, which have been focused for the past three decades on fighting Palestinian terror as well as opposing Hezbollah in Lebanon and the Iranian nuclear threat.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The idea that Netanyahu and Israel are the cause of America\u2019s Middle Eastern wars is a paranoid fantasy. Accordingly, Carlson\u2019s template for Trump\u2019s foreign policy seems cribbed from the most destructive conspiracy theory in U.S. history: Russiagate. The left said Trump was controlled by the Russians; Carlson says no, it\u2019s the Jews.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The second-term anti-Trump operation is a domestic variation on Russiagate, and it operates in much the same way\u2014with anonymous administration officials leaking stories to the same media organizations and many of the same reporters who spread that Russiagate hoax. For example, a recent CNN story carries Natasha Bertrand\u2019s byline. She was a leading Russiagate media operative who broke news of the letter signed by 51 former U.S. spies claiming that Hunter Biden\u2019s laptop was Russian disinformation. CNN juiced Russiagate when, in January 2017, it reported the existence of the dossier alleging Trump\u2019s ties to Russia. Stories leaked to Bertrand and CNN are by their nature weaponized to damage Trump policy.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Everyone wants Trump to lose. This includes certain self-proclaimed MAGA influencers, who are obsessed with the idea of Israel as a uniquely evil force in world history and American Jews as a malignant fifth column.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Bertrand\u2019s May story, sourced to U.S. officials, reported that \u201cthe U.S. has obtained new intelligence suggesting that Israel is making preparations to strike Iranian nuclear facilities.\u201d The point of leaking intelligence on Israel is, first, to make Jerusalem anxious by implying a wide and growing divide between Trump and Israel and to throw sand into the gears of the U.S.-Israel relationship and create distrust. More nefariously, they\u2019re attempting to box in the president himself; if he then does what he says he\u2019ll do, that will be evidence that the conspiracy theorists are correct and that the White House is in fact controlled by \u201cneocons,\u201d making Trump look like a stooge. If Trump changes course, they\u2019ll applaud him for being far-seeing and independent-minded\u2014i.e., adopting the worldview of the bipartisan U.S. foreign policy establishment, from Bush 43 to Barack Obama, that prioritizes the peace process and a \u201cgrand bargain\u201d with Iran.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Early in May,\u00a0The<\/em>\u00a0Washington Post<\/em>, the central Russiagate clearinghouse,\u00a0reported<\/a>\u00a0that Michael Waltz was moved out of his job as national security advisor because he \u201cupset Trump after an Oval Office visit in early February by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, during which the national security adviser appeared to share the Israeli leader\u2019s conviction that the time was ripe to strike Iran.\u201d Further, Waltz \u201cappeared to have engaged in intense coordination with Netanyahu about military options against Iran ahead of an Oval Office meeting between the Israeli leader and Trump.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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So what if he did? The job of the national security advisor is to coordinate the president\u2019s policies within the U.S. government and with foreign allies. Insofar as Trump has threatened to bomb Iran if it doesn\u2019t abandon its nuclear program, Waltz would have simply been doing his job. The purpose of the story is revealed in the use, twice, of the word\u00a0appeared<\/em>\u2014which means that the sources didn\u2019t see or hear anything directly. The story was fed to the\u00a0Post<\/em>\u00a0to dirty Waltz as a \u201cdual loyalist\u201d and to reframe the president\u2019s relationship with Netanyahu as negative and inherently oppositional.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Meanwhile, the reality of the U.S.-Israel relationship has become increasingly difficult to ascertain beneath all the noise\u2014fulfilling at least one aim of the op, which is to obscure and negate what Trump announces as policy. In an April 22 post on Truth Social, Trump\u00a0wrote<\/a>, \u201cI\u2019ve just spoken to Prime Minister of Israel, Bibi @Netanyahu, relative to numerous subjects including Trade, Iran, etc. The call went very well\u2014We are on the same side of every issue.\u201d But not if you read MAGA social media accounts or the anti-Trump media administration officials use to undermine Trump policy.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Last week, one unnamed U.S. official\u00a0told<\/a>\u00a0Axios that Vice President J.D. Vance decided against traveling to Israel for fear of suggesting that the\u00a0White House endorsed Israel\u2019s campaign in Gaza, again implying a large and widening divide. But according to a recent\u00a0statement<\/a>\u00a0from Netanyahu\u2019s office, \u201cPresident Trump expressed support for the objectives set by Prime Minister Netanyahu: to secure the release of all our hostages, to eliminate Hamas, and to advance the Trump Plan\u201d\u2014which is, transferring all Palestinians out of Gaza.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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So who is telling the truth about what Trump believes about the Middle East\u2014longtime enemies like the Koch network, Cindy McCain, and CNN, or President Donald Trump himself? The question seems absurd. Yet Trump\u2019s insistence on giving power to people in his administration who coordinate messaging with his enemies in the media and political establishment makes it hard to know.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Maybe Tucker Carlson is right to warn that war with Iran would be the equivalent of World War III. Sure, the Israelis have destroyed Iran\u2019s air defenses and degraded its deterrence capabilities in their campaigns against Hamas and Hezbollah, but maybe it won\u2019t be easy to bomb Iran\u2019s nuclear facilities. Sure, Trump was elected to fix the U.S. military and return its focus to war-fighting from climate change activism and the trans agenda. But if he\u2019s controlled by neocons, as Carlson says, then he can\u2019t fix those problems, because the bigger problem is the Jews.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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And yet Donald Trump said that the problem was the swamp. He said that the ruling establishment had betrayed Americans by shipping off our manufacturing base to China and impoverishing the middle class. He said Americans are poorer today because the corporate bosses paid the political elites to flood the country with cheap foreign labor. He said we can\u2019t win wars anymore because our military leadership is lousy. He said Europe keeps taking advantage of us and no president has been willing to call them to account\u2014we pay billions to defend them, and in exchange, they keep us out of their markets. We pay to protect Europe, so their kids get good cheap college education from some of the best universities in the world, while our kids have to take on debt by age 19 to go to college, and even then all the places are taken by rich foreigners who spy on our research labs, burn American flags, and chant death to the Jews.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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You can put it on a podcast, but it\u2019s the same energy that motivated town criers throughout the Middle Ages: Our harvest is spoiled, our wells are empty, and who is to blame? But American lives were upended not by metaphysical evil or even natural catastrophe. Specific people and institutions made deliberate choices that degraded our public life, from Russiagate and the plot against Trump to COVID-19 and the erosion of political norms and the rule of law, all culminating with the installation of a half-demented president sustained by a corrupt political class determined to break the will of the American public in order to maintain its own privileges and profits. Trump was elected to hold the line and give Americans a chance to get back on their feet and make America great again, not to implement the failed policies of his predecessors while allowing lunatics to mainstream conspiracy theories and incite hatred.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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This is MAGA\u2019s second chance, owing to a miracle in a field in Pennsylvania. Forfeiting our blessing to test fate seems unwise.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Lee Smith is the author of\u00a0Disappearing the President: Trump, Truth Social, and the Fight for the Republic<\/a>\u00a0(2024).<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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