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It seems that among the first orders of business at the beginning of each new Congress is to pass legislation protecting, promoting or pandering to Israel. And it doesn’t matter one iota which party controls Congress. Well, it happened once again.
One of the newly installed 119th Congress’s very first orders of business was to pass legislation attempting to protect Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Israel’s former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant from arrest by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for the crime of genocide.
I’ll let former CIA officer Philip Giraldi take it from here:
Donald Trump has been correct in understanding that Americans are tired of war in places that they cannot find on a map. In fact, Trump might well have obtained his margin of victory over Biden through voters who were attracted by his verbal rejection of the “stupid wars” that have proliferated in the past twenty-five years. But now that he has won, Trump is unrestrained and his darker side has been unleashed. His nominees for cabinet posts are nearly all aggressively Zionist and pro-Israel while also combative regarding both Russia and China. Trump himself has muddied the waters in the past several weeks by calling for resuming control of the Panama Canal to counter claimed gouging on tolls and Chinese engagement in its operations, has threatened “hell to pay” on the Gazans if they do not release the Israeli hostages by inauguration day, has called for annexing Greenland to improve US security, has not rejected recent Biden troop increases in Syria, has called for renaming the Gulf of Mexico, has proposed that Canada become the 51st state, and is reported to be discussing with the Israelis an attack on Iran. He and his spokesmen have also warned Russia that the US will provide more arms to Ukraine if Vladimir Putin does not agree to negotiations to end the Ukraine war “in one day” after Donald Trump is in office, though the president-to-be is now conceding that it might take longer. Trump has also repeatedly self-identified as the “most pro-Israel” candidate for public office, similar to the claims made by country club Catholic Joe Biden that he is a Zionist, as being close to Israel and American Jews currently serves as a sine qua non for those who are active in American politics.
The new GOP dominance of both the House and Senate means that the Congress will be on board to provide backup for the new Administration and it will also mean doubling down on the near total current submission to Israel and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The new Republican dominated 119th Congress’s House of Representatives as one of its first official acts, one which has nothing to do with the United States, has just passed a bill by a 243 to 140 vote, with 45 Democrats joining the majority of Republicans. Representative Thomas Massie was the only member of the GOP caucus having sufficient integrity to refuse to vote in favor of the bill. [Emphasis added]
“The Illegitimate Court Counteraction Act” sanctions the International Criminal Court (ICC) over its attempt to serve arrest warrants on Benjamin Netanyahu and former Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant for the crime of genocide. Travel to the US by members of the court will be banned and their personal property will be subject to confiscation. Any court officials attempting to arrest or investigate Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are covered by the Act. The bill is now likely to pass through the Senate before being signed by Trump. Representative Brian Mast of Florida, the Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee and co-sponsor of the legislation, commented that “America is passing this law because a kangaroo court is seeking to arrest the prime minister of our great ally.” Mast, a legless Israeli army veteran who sometimes wears his IDF uniform to Congressional sessions, accused the court of antisemitism. He added that “This bill sends an incredibly important message across the globe… Do not get in the way of America or our allies trying to bring our people home. You will be given no quarter, and again, you will certainly not be welcome on American soil.” One assumes that there will be additional legislation to carry out the deportation of pro-Palestinian protesters, as Trump has several times promised, as well as further steps to criminalize all criticism of the Jewish state, making Israel yet again the big winner in the recent election. [Emphasis added]
In his missive, Giraldi added:
Trump’s call for a dramatic change of direction among the deeply entrenched political class in our country in order to avoid repeating the calamitous Afghanistan experience in the Middle East, Eastern Europe and over Taiwan is sound. But unfortunately, the MAGA remedy might well be as bad or even worse than the mess left behind by the Biden gaggle of policy makers, starting with the worst Secretary of State within living memory in the person of Israel’s latest lawyer Antony Blinken. Indeed, the utter failure of the past four years suggests looking ahead that the real danger that confronts Americans is that the often ignorant cabinet-level placeholders who proliferated under Biden appear to be largely duplicated under the incoming regime of President-elect Donald Trump.
Indeed.
From this column of December 5, 2024:
I have already warned readers about Trump’s appointments of the uber-Zionist warmongers Marco Rubio as Secretary of State, Kristi Noem as Secretary of Homeland Security, Mike Waltz as National Security Advisor, Pete Hegseth as Secretary of Defense, Elise Stefanik as U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. and uber-Christian Zionist Mike Huckabee as U.S. Ambassador to Israel.
Now we can add uber-Zionists Sebastian Gorka and Pam Bondi to this ignoble list. Judge Andrew Napolitano said that “to a man” Trump’s senior executive leadership picks are 60% Jewish and 100% Zionists. Trump is being true to his campaign promise to “make Israel great again.”
The Bondi appointment as America’s attorney general is especially noteworthy. Trump’s first selection for this position was Florida Congressman Matt Gaetz. But after being announced as America’s next attorney general, the Zionist news media and political lobbyists pounced into action. You see, Gaetz is one of the very few members of Congress who is not on the Israel lobby payroll. The result: It only took a matter of days for Gaetz to be forced to withdraw his name from the nomination.
Enter Pam Bondi.
Bondi is a rabid, pro-Zionist zealot. She is also a radical anti-Bill of Rights zealot—especially the First Amendment. Bondi (along with Department of Homeland Security nominee Kristi Noem) has every intention of stomping out the freedom of speech in the U.S.—especially that speech which denounces the ongoing genocide against the Palestinians in Gaza, the West Bank and Lebanon and which supports Palestinian statehood.
In his interview with Max Blumenthal, Judge Nap and Max had this exchange regarding Bondi:
Napolitano: Aaron {Maté} and I have discussed at length the assaults on free speech by the Biden Administration, by members of Congress, like Elise Stefanic, as an example, who's slated to become Trump's Ambassador to the UN. I think you'll agree with me that this is about to get worse.
Here is Pam Bondi, the designated to-be Attorney General of the United States, suggesting that demonstrators on college campuses should be deported at worst or interrogated by FBI agents at best.
Bondi video: Whether they're here as Americans or if they're here on student visas, and they're out there saying, “I support Hamas,” you and I have seen that on all of these television shows. Frankly, they need to be taken out of our country, or the FBI needs to be interviewing them right away when they're saying, “I support Hamas,” “I am Hamas.” That's not saying, “I support all these poor Palestinians who are trapped in Gaza {Such cold condescension}.” That's not what they're saying. So, I think their student visas need to be revoked. I think we need to reinstate President Trump's travel ban immediately. There's a lot of things that can be done to stop this. The anti-Semitism that is rampant throughout this country now. And it's truly, truly heartbreaking to see what's happening to all of our Jewish friends in this country.
I would like to ask Ms. Bondi what exactly is “truly, truly heartbreaking what's happening to all of our Jewish friends in this country”? Are Jews in America being starved to death with blockades that deny them food and medicine? Are Jewish hospitals, schools and synagogues in America being bombed to smithereens by the nation’s military? Are Jewish children in America being shot dead in the head by army snipers? Are Jewish homes in America being bulldozed to the ground? Are tens of thousands of innocent Jewish men, women, children and babies being slaughtered like animals because of their race?
Napolitano: So, this woman who's about to become the head of the Justice Department, and indirectly the head of the FBI, believes that, the First Amendment notwithstanding, the government can evaluate the content of speech and decide which political speech is worthy of praise, which is worthy of interrogation, and which is worthy of kicking people out of the country. Worse than anything Joe Biden's DOJ ever imagined.
Blumenthal: Well, the Biden DOJ has helped set the stage for this. But let's look at how Pam Bondi came into the position as Trump's Attorney General nominee.
It was the downfall of Matt Gaetz, one of the few members of Congress who has not taken Israel Lobby money, who actually voted against one of the major aid supplementals to Israel, along with other members of the Freedom Caucus, mainly because it also was linked to Ukraine aid. But he did it. Matt Gaetz went down mainly because of this bizarre background he has and this saga that involved apparently sexual blackmail.
And Pam Bondi comes in. She's welcomed by CNN. It appears Senate Democrats will let her slide through. She's been a longtime corporate lobbyist for GM, Amazon, Uber and even Gulf monarchies. She's a corporate tool, and so that's why she'll sail through.
But also, in the last hours of Matt Gaetz as AG nominee, the American Jewish Committee and Anti-Defamation League condemned him as an antisemite. And Pam Bondi appears; someone with a very clear record working under Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, who said he'll be the most pro-Israel governor in America, of shilling for Israel and advancing Israel's objectives politically and legally inside the United States on behalf of Tel Aviv, crushing the First Amendment and the rights of students and other Americans to organize against this genocide.
And what I think we're going to see happen, and this is an agenda that's been spelled out in the Heritage Foundation's Project Esther, which was actually largely written by Christian Right activists, Christian Zionists, is to seek terrorism designations for groups like Students for Justice in Palestine, American Muslims for Palestine, the groups leading the demonstrations in the streets, and then to begin to actually prosecute them and de-bank their activists going to places like PayPal, Venmo and ordering them basically to block transactions of anyone who's leading Palestine solidarity activity. I mean this is all spelled out. And Bondi seems to be the perfect person to advance this authoritarian, anti-freedom, unamerican agenda on behalf of Netanyahu and the Israeli apartheid regime.
You can mark it down that Trump’s Executive Order issued on his inauguration day protecting free speech will NOT apply to those who have the courage to tell the truth about Netanyahu and the Zionist State of Israel.
Napolitano: Is there anybody in Trump's cabinet that's not an ardent Zionist?
Blumenthal: I mean yeah; it's MIGA; it’s make Israel great again.
As an aside, you really should watch Max Blumenthal’s courageous confrontation of former Secretary of State Antony Blinken over the Israeli genocide in Gaza during Blinken’s final press conference. Max is a warrior!
Plus, Trump’s Middle East envoy, a fellow billionaire real estate developer and golfing buddy Steve Witkoff, is even more radical in his uber Zionism than Trump—if that’s possible.
And based on Trump’s brief press conference in the Oval Office after his inauguration, there is absolutely no doubt in my mind that Trump and Witkoff plan to completely ethnically cleanse the Palestinians from Gaza and build expensive resorts and other commercial and private real estate ventures on the shores of the Mediterranean Sea in Gaza. The slaughter and genocide in Gaza is nothing more than a rich man’s financial wet dream for making huge profits off the death and destruction of an entire people.
I haven’t had an opportunity to examine all of Trump’s initial Executive Orders, but I’m sure there will be several that I will applaud. I also expect Trump to toss political crumbs to his conservative base on select domestic issues.
However, foreign policy is owned by the War Party/Deep State/Zionist Israel, regardless of who sits in the White House. Donald Trump may not be a fan of Netanyahu personally, but he remains the most uber of Zionists.
For that matter, with few exceptions—especially on the Republican side of the aisle—the entire U.S. Congress is composed of uber Zionists. Looking at the new Congress’s first order of business, you can better understand why Congress gave Netanyahu 58 standing ovations during a 54-minute speech.
Israel owns them.
And by looking at Trump’s appointments to his new administration, it is obvious that Israel owns Trump too.
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