{"id":31000,"date":"2025-08-22T13:57:45","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T17:57:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/?p=31000"},"modified":"2025-08-22T14:01:33","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T18:01:33","slug":"more-ghastly-decisions-by-the-trump-administration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/?p=31000","title":{"rendered":"<h1>More Ghastly Decisions by the Trump Administration<\/h1>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h3><em>Children wounded in Gaza blocked from medical treatment in US<\/em><\/h3>\n<p>Philip Giraldi<br \/>\nThe Unz Review<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"page-thumb\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unz.com\/pgiraldi\/more-ghastly-decisions-by-the-trump-administration\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-page-thumbsize size-page-thumbsize wp-post-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.unz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Loomer-600x353.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"353\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"contents-holder\" class=\"entry\">\n<section class=\"open\">\n<div class=\"section-holder\">\n<p id=\"p_1_1\" class=\"container\"><span class=\"contents\">It must be Good News Week judging by the stories generated by the Trump regime and its supporting cast of neocons, with good old best friend and ally Israel up to its usual tricks and Ukraine, Russia and the Europeans vying to see who can flatter and cajole the mentally challenged American president most effectively. With much of the focus on Ukraine and the visit of Vladimir Putin to Alaska, Israel was free to continue to slaughter Palestinians as part of the plan to create an \u201cEretz\u201d or Greater Israel running from the Euphrates to the Nile and also incorporating much of Lebanon and Syria. The process involves the removal of the indigenous population to be replaced by Jewish settlers. The latest plan for Gaza is to ship those inhabitants who are not summarily executed to some shithole like Sudan where they will be allowed to expire without any press coverage. Bezalel Smotrich, an Israeli settler-extremist who Minister of Finance summed it up this way: \u201cWe conquer, cleanse, and stay\u2026 On the way, we annihilate everything that still remains.\u2026.We\u2019re breaking Gaza apart, leaving it as a pile of rubble, total unprecedented destruction.\u201d Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gloated how his policies over twenty-five years in government have now enabled him to guarantee that there will never be any such entity as a Palestinian state sharing space with the Chosen people of Zion. That is accomplished by killing or deporting all the remaining Palestinians, which Bibi, who\u00a0<a title=\"https:\/\/news.antiwar.com\/2025\/08\/12\/netanyahu-says-hes-very-much-attached-to-the-vision-of-greater-israel\/\" href=\"https:\/\/news.antiwar.com\/2025\/08\/12\/netanyahu-says-hes-very-much-attached-to-the-vision-of-greater-israel\/\">embraces a greater Israel<\/a>, refers to as giving them a \u201cchoice.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"p_1_2\" class=\"container\"><span class=\"contents\">Donald J. Trump on @realDonaldTrump, appears to agree with those assessments, focusing on fewer that fifty hostages and ignoring the scores of unarmed Palestinians seeking food who are slaughtered each day. On August 19<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0in a radio interview with total Zionist stooge Mark Levin Trump, who dodged the draft during America\u2019s Vietnam war, praised Netanyahu saying \u201cHe\u2019s a good man. He\u2019s in there fighting\u2026He\u2019s a war hero, because we worked together. He\u2019s a war hero. I guess I am too.\u201d He tweeted characteristically and hubristically, and also inaccurately, boasting how \u201cWe will only see the return of the remaining hostages when Hamas is confronted and destroyed!!! The sooner this takes place, the better the chances of success will be. Remember\u00a0<strong>I was the one<\/strong>\u00a0who negotiated and got hundreds of hostages freed and released into Israel (and America!).\u00a0<strong>I was the one<\/strong>\u00a0who ended 6 wars, in just 6 months.\u00a0<strong>I was the one<\/strong>\u00a0who OBLITERATED Iran\u2019s Nuclear facilities. Play to WIN or don\u2019t play at all! Thank you for your attention to this matter. President DJT.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"p_1_3\" class=\"container\"><span class=\"contents\">And the United States knows how to express its gratitude for all that Israel and America\u2019s Zionists have done to support a White House that Netanyahu regards correctly as the most friendly towards the Jewish state ever, even outdoing the crawling on his belly servitude exhibited by Genocide Joe Biden. The Department of Homeland Security\u00a0<a title=\"https:\/\/www.jns.org\/homeland-security-releases-110m-in-security-funds-for-religious-groups\/?utm_campaign=Daily%20Syndicate%20Emails&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz--8WoukeX5Obf-5ASb4EINcJnur1hSQ36eq6xCXrsm6Lja17yabXZ4sLMHyWZ1H1BwYs8YzmcGZT9VOZcsbZOhRo-A8Ss_5_9jjZGk2-pW3Hlaa4NQ&amp;_hsmi=115646210&amp;utm_content=115646210&amp;utm_source=hs_email\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jns.org\/homeland-security-releases-110m-in-security-funds-for-religious-groups\/?utm_campaign=Daily%20Syndicate%20Emails&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz--8WoukeX5Obf-5ASb4EINcJnur1hSQ36eq6xCXrsm6Lja17yabXZ4sLMHyWZ1H1BwYs8YzmcGZT9VOZcsbZOhRo-A8Ss_5_9jjZGk2-pW3Hlaa4NQ&amp;_hsmi=115646210&amp;utm_content=115646210&amp;utm_source=hs_email\">has just released<\/a>\u00a0$110 million dollars in funding to Jewish and other religious organizations and groups to provide security for their facilities and members. Most of the money has gone to Jewish institutions and it follows on $100 million that went to 500 Jewish groups only in June. The beneficiaries include some entities that were instrumental in raising the $1 billion plus that went to elect Trump to guarantee the almost complete corruption of America\u2019s political system. The billion also guaranteed that many billions more would go in a steady flow to Israel, together with weapons and political cover to permit the carrying out of genocide. So if it seems to the average American that Jewish groups just might be able to afford to pay for their own security, one should not necessarily be surprised to notice that there is a backlash developing which is conveniently being labeled as \u201cantisemitism\u201d by the government and the Chosen themselves to suppress any popular uprising by criminalizing any and all free speech that is critical of Israel.<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"p_1_4\" class=\"container\"><span class=\"contents\">America\u2019s thanks to Israel also apparently extends to letting lawbreaking senior Israeli government officials flee to Israel, which routinely does not extradite Jews who have committed crimes in foreign countries. The recent case of one Tom Artiom Alexandrovich, a senior Israeli government cyber expert, illustrates how the judicial system can operate to benefit Israelis, a precedent established when Israeli \u201cmovers\u201d spies were arrested in the wake of 9\/11 for apparent complicity in the terrorist act but were soon released by the federal government after being questioned.<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"p_1_5\" class=\"container\"><span class=\"contents\">Tom Alexandrovich, a senior department head in Israel\u2019s National Cyber Directorate, was\u00a0<a title=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2025\/8\/19\/how-was-an-alleged-israeli-child-sex-predator-allowed-to-leave-the-us?fbclid=IwY2xjawMShkJleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBicmlkETF0c2hvMFJKNXdSUXFNYlB6AR5rhQUbAv9N1uYk-vnbIuByai_o_ldzjVtTzKu54-NDPlhuxl9cs-Bl6ISWNg_aem_UDkUvAyMBQdQB-nzSTWmVw\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2025\/8\/19\/how-was-an-alleged-israeli-child-sex-predator-allowed-to-leave-the-us?fbclid=IwY2xjawMShkJleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBicmlkETF0c2hvMFJKNXdSUXFNYlB6AR5rhQUbAv9N1uYk-vnbIuByai_o_ldzjVtTzKu54-NDPlhuxl9cs-Bl6ISWNg_aem_UDkUvAyMBQdQB-nzSTWmVw\">taken into custody<\/a>\u00a0in Las Vegas two weeks ago along with seven others as part of a wide-ranging police operation targeting suspected online sexual predators. Alexandrovich was reportedly in Las Vegas to meet with counterpart NSA and FBI officials. As an electronic spying expert Tom should have known better than to use his cellphone to hook up with a 15-year-old. Tom then hurried to meet his date via Uber, which left another electronic trail. He was then caught by police in what was a sting operation and arrested on sex with minors pedophilia charges on August 6<sup>th<\/sup>. He is now back in Israel and is not expected to show up for his court date on August 27<sup>th<\/sup>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"p_1_6\" class=\"container\"><span class=\"contents\">Tom allegedly used computer technology to lure the child, who suffered from mental disabilities, for sexual purposes, according to the arrest records. The alleged crime is a felony that carries up to 10 years in jail in the case of a conviction. Police said he was booked into Henderson Detention Center and later released on $10,000 bail awaiting trial after appearing before a judge. Interestingly, Alexandrovich, though obviously a major flight risk, was given his passport back, allowing him to flee the country, and there is considerable suspicion that the pressure to do so came from the Department of Justice in Washington in response to Israeli government demands. And the involvement of Sigal Chattah, an Israeli-born American attorney and politician who is currently serving as the interim United States Attorney for the District of Nevada and was appointed by Donald Trump certainly begs for a more serious inquiry into what took place. Inevitably, Washington\u2019s possible role in Alexandrovich\u2019s release has been denied by Attorney General Pam Bondi and head of the FBI Kash Patel, both of whom are well established liars.<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"p_1_7\" class=\"container\"><span class=\"contents\">But the most horrific story to come out of last week is the\u00a0<a title=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/articles\/us-suspends-visas-gazans-far-210008640.html\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/articles\/us-suspends-visas-gazans-far-210008640.html\">fate of a number of Gazan children<\/a>\u00a0who were badly injured or wounded by the Israelis and who had the good fortune to fall into the hands of a US-based charity called HEAL PALESTINE that was able to get them out of the Strip for medical treatment in the United States and elsewhere. The children were in need of major surgery and other complicated treatment and were accompanied by at least one of their parents in most cases as they were unable to function independently. A number of other countries in addition to the US have accepted the injured Gazan children for intensive care without there being any problems or issues with the families involved, it must be noted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"p_1_8\" class=\"container\"><span class=\"contents\">Inevitably, the Zionist cheering section discovered the arrival of the sixty or so children in the US and immediately declared them to be \u201cterrorists\u201d a view that was clearly shared by the US State Department, which blocked the issuance of any more visas and is now engaged in a \u201cfull and thorough investigation\u201d into how the travel was approved and arranged in the first place. Rabid and radical Trump ultra-loyalist and far-right Zionist activist Laura Loomer, who is both physically hideous and of course Jewish, is now claiming credit for the prompt State Department decision to freeze visitor visas for Gazans. Loomer is a so-called \u201cinfluencer\u201d who has a large following that is deeply loyal to MAGA and Trump. While she is not actually a government employee,\u00a0<a title=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/articles\/laura-loomer-congratulates-herself-personally-091315550.html\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/articles\/laura-loomer-congratulates-herself-personally-091315550.html\">Loomer\u2019s lobbying<\/a>\u00a0has reportedly influenced a number of the Trump administration\u2019s policy and personnel decisions. She has been\u00a0<a title=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/articles\/body-count-every-trump-administration-194802824.html\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/articles\/body-count-every-trump-administration-194802824.html\">credited<\/a>\u00a0with the removal of at least 16 staffers, including six on Trump\u2019s National Security Council as well as National Security Advisor Mike Waltz and Deputy National Security Adviser Alex Wong. President Donald Trump has described Loomer as \u201ca fantastic woman, a true patriot,\u201d yet another indication that the president is delusional and possibly demented while also unable to separate right from wrong.<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"p_1_9\" class=\"container\"><span class=\"contents\">Loomer took action against the Gazan children when she reposted a video showing injured children being brought to the United States for medical care. \u201cI have obtained video footage of Palestinians who claim to be refugees from Gaza coming into the United States via San Francisco and Houston, Texas this month,\u201d\u00a0<a title=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LauraLoomer\/status\/1956447870175121475\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LauraLoomer\/status\/1956447870175121475\">Loomer\u2019s post<\/a>\u00a0on X claimed, calling the arrival of the children a \u201cnational security threat.\u201d She asked \u201cWhy are any Islamic invaders coming into the US under the Trump admin? Who signed off on these visas? They should be fired.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"p_1_10\" class=\"container\"><span class=\"contents\">Loomer, who reportedly has full access to the White House and to President Donald Trump and to Secretary of State Marco Rubio, both of whom go to her for advice, took credit for the State Department\u2019s reversal. She\u00a0<a title=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LauraLoomer\/status\/1956870486773977141\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LauraLoomer\/status\/1956870486773977141\">wrote<\/a>\u00a0\u201cToday, I saved so many American citizens from being killed by pro-HAMAS jihadis. God only knows how many lives I personally saved today by blowing the whistle on rogue actors at State Department giving visas to Gazan families. It\u2019s amazing how fast we can get results from the Trump administration.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"p_1_11\" class=\"container\"><span class=\"contents\">It has been\u00a0<a title=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Haleaziz\/status\/1956861264338309424\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Haleaziz\/status\/1956861264338309424\">reported<\/a>\u00a0that, in this case, Loomer spoke directly with Rubio about what she described as \u201cthe threat of Islamic invasion via the humanitarian visa program.\u201d Speaking on Sunday\u2019s\u00a0<a title=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=hnioczzb78Q&amp;t=14s\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=hnioczzb78Q&amp;t=14s\"><em>Face the Nation<\/em><\/a>, Rubio defended his decision, claiming that \u201cnumerous\u201d congressional offices had shown him evidence that groups \u201cbragging about\u201d acquiring the medical visas to the United States have \u201cstrong links to terrorist groups like Hamas.\u201d He explained how \u201cWe are not going to be in partnership with groups that are friendly with Hamas. There was just a small number of them issued to children, but they come with adults accompanying them obviously. And we are going to pause this program and re-evaluate how those visas are being vetted and and what relationship, if any, has there been by these organizations to the to the process of acquiring those visas. We\u2019re not going to be in partnership with groups that have links or sympathies towards Hamas.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"p_1_12\" class=\"container\"><span class=\"contents\">Australian journalist Caitlin Johnston, as is so often the case, nails the reality of the Federal Government\u2019s policies as they play out on the ground,\u00a0<a title=\"https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com.au\/2025\/08\/20\/the-us-treats-israeli-pedophiles-nicer-than-wounded-palestinian-kids\/\" href=\"https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com.au\/2025\/08\/20\/the-us-treats-israeli-pedophiles-nicer-than-wounded-palestinian-kids\/\">writing succinctly that<\/a>\u00a0\u201cThings are so fucked up that the only way to get wounded Palestinian children in and out of the United States for medical treatment these days would be to disguise them as Israeli pedophiles.\u201d Indeed, Rubio\u2019s assessment comes from a man who has been standing by and watching those very Gazan children being slaughtered and maimed by a totalitarian country that he and his boss have opted to support unconditionally no matter what atrocities it commits. This is not the America I and many others grew up in and I wonder what rocks he and Trump were hiding under when the humanitarian virtues of life in the United States were actually on display.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31000\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}