Something I Don’t Understand – Do You?

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President Trump’s approach to peace and liberty, as a subset of MAGA objectives, seems to be a net positive for his supporters, so far. He and his cabinet are working to defibrillate and jump start America’s broken and unhealthy body in hopes of strengthening and enriching the nation. He wants to build back its working class, and re-acquire and even exceed its former level of excellence in economic productivity, science, technology and character.

Trump exercises two kind of power. He heads the vast executive branch – de facto larger and more powerful than the other two federal branches, and all the states combined. Sadly, this is not by constitutional design but through elite oligarchic evolution, and 112 years of Federal Reserve Bank subsidy of the state and its profit seeking interests, through currency debasement and fraud.

His other power is motivational. Like a coach hoping to motivate his national team, he combines the idea that he cares about “we the people” as he inspires us crudely and creatively with pep talks at the end of a losing third quarter.

As observers and analysts attempt to get a handle on where Trump is actually taking the country, the Constitutionalists among us can’t shake a persistent tic of concern that for all the talk of peace, and putting the interests of Americans first, Trump has a blind spot that we do not share.

Leftists, elitists and TDS sufferers never united around hopes for peace, and they understand free trade exactly the same way Trump does. Correctly, they see him as the disruptor of systems they adored and causes they championed. They are enraged that leftist ideals and elitist objectives didn’t pay popular dividends. Trump broke the Democrat Party through exposure, just as he broke the Republican Party through intimidation.

But both of these formerly powerful political parties share Trump’s blindness. Two of the three federal branches are stumbling backward – and calling it progress – because of the State of Israel’s subversion of the US Constitution. A small example of this is Trump’s recent executive order, that violates the 1^st Amendment but echoes a similar Congressional theme.

Many point to Trump’s largest supporter, billionaire Miriam Adelson, and her $100 million donation to the 2024 Trump campaign. A typical donor’s return on investment in a winning Presidential, Senatorial or Congressional campaign is 76,000%. A donated dollar returns $760. Adelson’s $100 million will return $76 billion worth of taxpayer funded support for her agenda. Her agenda starts with the Israeli takeover of the entire West Bank, and US sanctions lifted on Israeli companies and individuals engaged in clearing the West Bank of Palestinians. As a bonus, a new mandated US phraseology of Judea and Samaria for Israel has been implemented, and public Palestinian sympathy is outlawed.

Pro-Israel donations to US senators and representatives are even more impressive. The top twenty recipients in 2023-2024 alone raked in nearly $40 million. We can conservatively assume that the 90% of senators and representatives who accept pro-Israel donations are collecting at least $100 million a year from pro-Israeli donors, annually. That buys another $76 billion for Israel.

AIPAC’s own numbers agree – it spent $100 million in the latest election season. AIPAC is the largest Israeli lobby, but there are many others. Beyond this, there is the Zionist Organization of America Coalition, whose lobbying and fundraising are aimed at shaping US foreign policy.

Clearly American tax dollars are important to these lobbyists, and it has been well worth the investment. Speaking of investment, while Americans are aware and tend to embrace the $3.3 billion given to Israel annually, many don’t know how much their state and local governments invest in the Israeli government. Through the Israel Bonds program, billions have been raised for the government of Israel, and significantly, $3.7 billion in the last sixteen months. This is how that works.

None of this addresses individual donations. Millions of dollars are donated to Israeli charities like this one, aimed at breaking Israel’s cycle of poverty, or these.

Don’t forget US business investment in Israel, like this example.

Overall, Israel’s fundraising in the United States encompasses political lobbying and condition-free military aid, private lobbying, sale of government bonds to state and local governments, charitable donations, and business investment. Much of the business investment is partially subsidized by the US taxpayer, either directly or indirectly, as seen in Amazon Web Service’s long connection with US government and intelligence services. US government political support extends to international buttressing of Israel’s positions and actions, whenever they are questioned or criticized, to the extent of justifying genocide.

Pro-Israeli messaging also flows from mainstream and Hollywood media, but in a decentralized marketplace of ideas, this seems to be a less effective method for a small country, 7,000 miles from the American heartland, to exercise its agenda. On the other hand, seemingly pro-American thinktanks like the Heritage Foundation and the Vandenburg Coalition produce agendas in support of an expansionist Zionist entity that can and are shaping our foreign policy.

Here’s what I don’t understand. Israel’s complex and integrated influence operations on the governments at all levels in the United States continue to post a fantastic return on investment. Billions and billions of US dollars flow to Israel annually. No objective analyst could state the case differently.

So why aren’t these billions and billions and even more billions bringing peace to Israel? Why isn’t the cash flow bringing prosperity to Israel? Why isn’t it improving tourism and quality of life in Israel? Why does the IDF fail to win their spectacularly funded wars? Why does Israel need to pass laws to prevent its own citizens from questioning the events leading up to and including October 7, 2023? Why isn’t Socialism Israeli-style making life better for anyone in the region, or for the Americans that support it?

Doubling down on something that is evidently not enhancing greater peace or liberty, and investing in continued constitutional abasement can’t be good for US security. Embracing the kind of foreign entanglements that Jefferson warned against has hastened the very ruin of the United States that brought forth the election of Donald Trump twice in the past decade. Perhaps the key to correcting this path can be found in Jefferson’s own words on the day he assumed the Presidency over two centuries ago. Jefferson said:

...it is proper that you should understand what I deem the essential principles of our government, and consequently those which ought to shape its administration. I will compress them within the narrowest compass they will bear, stating the general principle, but not all its limitations. Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever state or persuasion, religious or political; peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations — entangling alliances with none;

The entangling alliance with Israel is expensive in terms of peace and commerce, not only for the US and Israel, but for the world. Yet the real tragedy is the complete and willful lack of honesty that surrounds it.