{"id":40534,"date":"2025-11-16T08:56:32","date_gmt":"2025-11-16T13:56:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/?p=40534"},"modified":"2025-11-17T07:55:17","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T12:55:17","slug":"it-had-to-happen-especially-when-there-are-brazen-traitors-committing-naked-treason-in-high-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/?p=40534","title":{"rendered":"<h2><b><span style=\"color: #003366;\">&#8220;It had to happen, especially when there are brazen traitors recklessly committing naked treason in high office.&#8221;<\/span><\/b><\/h2>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-40568\" src=\"http:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/DNSgn_-WsAA8DJI-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/DNSgn_-WsAA8DJI-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/DNSgn_-WsAA8DJI-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/DNSgn_-WsAA8DJI-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/DNSgn_-WsAA8DJI-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/DNSgn_-WsAA8DJI.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>EPIC &amp; UNPARALLELED<br \/>\nGOP CIVIL WAR!<\/strong><br \/>\nAmerica First vs. MAGA (really MIGA)<\/h1>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/?p=40534\">SOTN<\/a> Editor&#8217;s Note: Memo to President Trump: Don&#8217;t mess with the following &#8220;America First&#8221; stalwarts &#8230; &#8230; &#8230; <strong>and if you do, you do so at your own political peril<\/strong>.<\/h3>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">Thomas Massie<\/h1>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">Marjorie Taylor Greene<\/h1>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">Steve Bannon<\/h1>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">Tucker Carlson<\/h1>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">Candace Owens<\/h1>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">Nick Fuentes<\/h1>\n<h4>*While this <em>Alt Media<\/em> platform does not necessarily agree with all of the positions promulgated by these six valorous political pundits, they each have completely shattered Overton&#8217;s window and for that alone they should be highly commended.<\/h4>\n<p>Let&#8217;s be very clear: although this &#8220;EPIC &amp; UNPARALLELED GOP CIVIL WAR&#8221; has been raging since Inauguration Day 2025, it officially commenced with the assassination of MAGA MAIN MAN Charlie Kirk.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s because every single [TRUTH-SEEKING] Christian conservative knew in their bones that the hit was ordered by the Zionist State of Israel, carried out by Mossad, and completely covered up by the collusive Trump administration.\u00a0 That alone makes President Trump an integral co-conspirator in the ongoing criminal cover-up of that despicably savage killing of one of his most courageous VIP supporters.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>What&#8217;s the critical point?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>When half of the MAGA Movement knows in their heart of hearts that the POTUS himself collaborated in such an egregious assassination conspiracy (albeit indirectly), particularly\u00a0 where it concerned the brutal and brazen murder of such a brave conservative Christian stalwart, it&#8217;s only a matter of time before they vengefully unplug from Trump&#8217;s MIGA Movement and swiftly gravitate to the rapidly burgeoning &#8220;America First&#8221; movement.<\/p>\n<p>Now watch the following video to understand what this MAGA civil war is really all about:<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/?p=40554\">Tucker and MTG on the 5 Pillars of MAGA and the<br \/>\nSnakes in Washington Trying to Tear Them Down<\/a><\/strong><\/h2>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>KEY POINTS:<\/strong> There is perhaps no better example of a world leader ever being so inextricably wedged between the proverbial rock and a hard place as President Donald J. Trump currently is in 2025 and beyond.\u00a0 Regardless of his extremely hapless predicament, much of his own making, he has only one honorable way out of this colossal Khazarian clusterfuck.\u00a0 He needs to divorce himself permanently from Bibi &#8220;The Butcher&#8221; Netanyahu&#8221; post-haste.\u00a0 It&#8217;s simply unbecoming to the extreme (and untenable) for a POTUS when he is universally known as <em><strong>Bibi&#8217;s bitch<\/strong><\/em>.\u00a0 Yes, such a radical and precarious move would seal his highly unfortunate fate, but at least he will not treasonously take the American Republic down on the orders of the USA-hating <strong>Khazarian Cabal<\/strong>.\u00a0 And, he can redeem himself by exposing whatever he can of the Khazarian-coordinated Zionist plot and cultural marxist agenda to forever collapse these once United States of America.<\/h3>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/?p=40534\">State of the Nation<\/a><br \/>\nNovember 16, 2025<\/p>\n<p>N.B. The following commentary captures the core issue of this mushrooming civil war throughout the Republican Party today.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-40550\" src=\"http:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Screenshot-2025-11-16-at-8.53.10-AM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"503\" height=\"289\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Screenshot-2025-11-16-at-8.53.10-AM.png 503w, https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Screenshot-2025-11-16-at-8.53.10-AM-300x172.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 503px) 100vw, 503px\" \/><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><em>By\u00a0<\/em><strong><em>Tarik Cyril Amar<\/em><\/strong><em>, a historian from Germany working at Ko\u00e7 University, Istanbul, on Russia, Ukraine, and Eastern Europe, the history of World War II, the cultural Cold War, and the politics of memory<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"media \"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-40563\" src=\"http:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Screenshot-2025-11-16-at-9.27.43-AM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"541\" height=\"307\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Screenshot-2025-11-16-at-9.27.43-AM.png 541w, https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Screenshot-2025-11-16-at-9.27.43-AM-300x170.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 541px) 100vw, 541px\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"media__footer media__footer_bottom \">\n<h5 class=\"media__title media__title_arcticle\"><span data-role=\"title\">Steve Bannon, media personality and political strategist, speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) at the Gaylord National Resort Hotel And Convention Center on February 20, 2025 in Oxon Hill, Maryland.\u00a0<\/span><span data-role=\"copyright-symbol\">\u00a9\u00a0<\/span><span data-role=\"copyright\">\u00a0Andrew Harnik\/Getty Images<\/span><\/h5>\n<\/div>\n<p>Steve Bannon \u2013 stubborn, irrepressible, and very smart right\/far-right public intellectual and once ally, chief strategist, and bestie of US President Donald Trump \u2013 is back in the news. And in a way that speaks to much more than the ups and downs, ins and outs of US elite careers.<\/p>\n<p>Because the hill he is fighting on this time is resistance to the US waging another all-around devastating war in the Middle East in the service of Israel and its powerful lobby in America.<\/p>\n<p>Bannon, make no mistake, is not taking a de facto \u2013 if still all too limited \u2013 stand against Israel because of its apartheid, genocide, and wars of aggression. He ought to, obviously, especially as a man flaunting his Christian belief. (From one sort-of-Roman-Catholic\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/steve-bannon-60-minutes-pope-francis-catholic-church-663021\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">to another, Steve<\/a>: Our Lord Jesus Christ really didn\u2019t like the child killers, and I am pretty sure he would have found the lingerie-camouflage cross-dressers with machine guns rather off-putting, too.)<\/p>\n<p>But then, if Bannon were to advance principled moral objections here, he would not be Steve Bannon, a very conservative American, who will probably never shake off deeply ingrained mental habits of cynicism and supremacism. Indeed, he has made sure to stress that he remains a\u00a0<em>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=tFM6L6TopsM\">big supporter\u201d<\/a><\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>\u201cdefender of Israel.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Yet,\u00a0from Trump\u2019s perspective \u2013 and that of the Israeli influence agents surrounding him \u2013 Bannon\u2019s line of attack is, given American political culture, more politically dangerous than a genuinely moral stance. Because Bannon is positioning American national interest against following Israel\u2019s lead. Declaring that Israel pursues an\u00a0<em>\u201cIsrael First\u201d<\/em>\u00a0policy \u2013 you bet: about as egotistically as Berlin\u2019s\u00a0<em>\u201cGermany First\u201d<\/em>\u00a0trip between 1933 and 1945 \u2013 Bannon has dared state the obvious: Israel\u2019s interests are not identical with those of the US, and therefore, a genuine\u00a0<em>\u201cAmerica First\u201d<\/em>\u00a0policy must not obey Israel.<\/p>\n<p>Hence, stay out of the war against Iran. Or to be precise, get out of it. Especially since, as Bannon argues not implausibly, with the ongoing Ukraine War, the Gaza Genocide (which he of course fails to name as such), and now the Israeli assault on Iran,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=tFM6L6TopsM\">we are not really drifting toward World War III but already in its early stages<\/a>. And, let\u2019s face it, if there\u2019s a World War III Bannon would support, that would be the one targeting China. One more reason why he believes the US should decrease \u2013 not increase \u2013 its engagement in the Middle East (and Europe, too): so that it can better\u00a0<em>\u201cpivot to Asia.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Whether you agree with Bannon on China (I don\u2019t) and World War III or believe that we are\u00a0<em>\u201cmerely\u201d<\/em>\u00a0teetering on the threshold to a third global conflagration, Bannon is, of course, right that Washington must, in its own national interest, finally stop obeying Israel.<\/p>\n<p>In terms of domestic politics in the US, Bannon\u2019s sally signals, as he himself argues and the Financial Times recognizes,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/3431e349-94d3-4250-a21d-a91f635af2b4\">a lethally dangerous split among Trump\u2019s domestically indispensable MAGA\u00a0<\/a>base.\u00a0For Bannon, the whole Trump agenda, as he sees it, of ending\u00a0<em>\u201cforever wars,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0mass deportations, and recasting global trade to benefit the US and its manufacturing sector in particular, is in danger if the wars do not, in fact, finally end.<\/p>\n<p>The trigger for this perfect storm brewing inside MAGA\u00a0is the perfect mess Trump and his team have made over the attack on Iran: Despite their clumsy mixed messaging \u2013 really, contradictory lying and boasting \u2013 Israel\u2019s unprovoked war of aggression against Iran can, obviously, only be waged because of massive American support. Despite initial implausible denials, by now Trump has gone so far as to utter what is, in effect, a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/news\/world\/trump-urges-tehran-evacuation-as-iran-israel-conflict-enters-fifth-day\/ar-AA1GRsKr?ocid=BingNewsSerp\">bizarre and criminal threat against the 9-million city of Tehran<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In reality, this has always, from before it even started, been a combined US-Israeli attack, and it makes no difference to this fact that Israel always wants even more, including \u2013 as Axios, a network with remarkably easy access to Israeli sources, has reported \u2013\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/619345-israel-asked-us-to-join\/\">open US help in attacking the key Iranian nuclear installations at Fordow<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Never mind, by the way, that deliberately striking a nuclear facility is as criminal as it gets. It constitutes a clear breach of the Geneva Conventions, as the former head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Mohamed ElBaradei\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ElBaradei\/status\/1933590704661447089\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">has recently had to publicly school German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul<\/a>\u00a0about.\u00a0The latter is clearly just as ignorant of his job\u2019s basics as his legendarily inept predecessor Annalena Baerbock used to be.<\/p>\n<p>Yet, as Bannon\u2019s intervention shows, the key role the US plays in the assault on Iran has caused noteworthy ripple effects inside America and in particular inside the movement now known as MAGA. Originally the abbreviation was an extremely successful 2016 Trump campaign slogan \u2013 inspired by a forerunner used by Ronald Reagan in 1980 \u2013 meaning\u00a0<em>\u2018Make America Great Again\u2019.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>But as a movement, MAGA has a much longer history. Its influences and ancestors include, for instance, nativism, isolationism, the original America First, and the more recent Tea Party. That\u2019s why it is important to understand that MAGA overlaps with but is not identical with Trumpism, as often assumed. In reality, MAGA is part of an older, powerful tradition that Trump has tapped into with great success. But he is not guaranteed to always be in control of it, as the term\u00a0<em>\u2018Trumpism\u2019<\/em>\u00a0may misleadingly imply.<\/p>\n<p>Take for instance the perhaps greatest cleavage running through contemporary Trumpism 2.0: that between\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/66855f9b-5eed-4d14-a5a0-a08f139ec132\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a right-wing populist orientation still aiming at, for want of better terms, ordinary Americans, and a techno-elitist wing<\/a>\u00a0busy with fantasies of openly establishing an AI-based rule of the richest. Things clearly remain volatile.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/610346-h1b-visa-musk-bannon\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">For wasn\u2019t it only yesterday that the would-be tech lords, represented by former\u00a0<em>\u201cfirst buddy\u201d<\/em>\u00a0Elon Musk, seemed to have defeated the populist tribunes of the Steve Bannon type?<\/a>\u00a0And yet, now Musk, the\u00a0<em>\u201cman-child\u201d<\/em>\u00a0is out (if not necessarily forever) and Bannon, the old battle axe, is making headlines again.<\/p>\n<p>Warning of the\u00a0<em>\u201cfog of war\u201d<\/em>\u00a0\u2013 read that as code either for just ordinary information unreliability or for deliberate Israeli and Western disinformation \u2013 and\u00a0<em>\u201cunintended consequences,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0Bannon has been explicit: The US must not be\u00a0<em>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Stevebannon_sk\/status\/1933652388000526434\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">sucked into another major war on the Eurasian land mass, particularly the Middle East.<\/a>\u201d<\/em>\u00a0And yet, he added, America is already an\u00a0<em>\u201cactive combatant\u201d<\/em>\u00a0by providing air defense to Israel.<\/p>\n<p>For Bannon, at least in his current iteration, none of this is new. As he has also recently charged, the fundamental reason why American troops are in Iraq and thus in harm\u2019s way is that the US government and its media, including both Republicans and Democrats,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/world\/steve-bannon-blames-fox-news-lies-for-us-troops-in-middle-east-bald-faced-lies\/ar-AA1GGn9M?ocid=BingNewsSerp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">have\u00a0<em>\u201clied to us,\u201d<\/em><\/a>\u00a0i.e., the American people, for decades. It has not been, as Bannon stressed, simply incompetence or mistakes, but the\u00a0<em>\u201cbald-faced lies\u201d<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>\u201cspin of the neocons.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>That is of course a reference to the fact that the US and its Western accomplices started their 2003 unprovoked war of aggression against Iraq with a massive, Gleiwitz-level deception by deliberately trying to deceive the world about non-existent Iraqi weapons of mass destruction. And that, according to Bannon, was along with the financial crisis of 2008 the original sin that triggered\u00a0<em>\u201cthis movement,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0clearly here meaning what we now know as MAGA.<\/p>\n<p>Bannon\u2019s history may be a little off as far as facts are concerned. The roots of contemporary American right-wing populism include a tradition of isolationism, but they are certainly not identical with a revolt against the Iraq War, insane and criminal as the latter was.<\/p>\n<p>But veracity and accuracy aren\u2019t the point here. Instead what matters is how precisely Bannon is trying to rewrite history, namely by claiming opposition to neocon\u00a0<em>\u201cforever wars,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0specifically in the Middle East (transparent code for on behalf of Israel) as not only a core value of MAGA, but as a key element of its origin story.<\/p>\n<p>As for Israel\u2019s assault on Iran, Bannon was scathing. Rhetorically exploiting the silly pretense that Israel was\u00a0<em>\u201cgoing it alone\u201d<\/em>\u00a0when starting the attack \u2013 which Bannon is certainly intelligent and realistic enough to know is nonsense \u2013 he called on Israel to stick to doing just that. Yet instead, he scoffed, the\u00a0<em>\u201cgoing-it-alone lasted six hours\u201d<\/em>\u00a0and Israel is doing everything it can to drag Americans ever deeper into another massive war.<\/p>\n<p>Importantly, Bannon is not alone. As he pointed out, conservative media heavyweight Tucker Carlson has made the same point. In fact, Carlson has been even more explicit. Using his X account with over 16 million followers\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/TuckerCarlson\/status\/1933620743406801038\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">to claim that the key divide of US politics is between\u00a0<em>\u201cthose who casually encourage violence, and those who seek to prevent it<\/em><\/a>\u00a0\u2013 between warmongers and peacemakers,\u201d Carlson started naming\u00a0<em>\u201cthe warmongers,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0including\u00a0<em>\u201canyone who\u2019s calling Donald Trump today to demand air strikes and other direct US military involvement in a war with Iran,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0such as\u00a0<em>\u201cSean Hannity, Mark Levin, Rupert Murdoch, Ike Perlmutter and Miriam Adelson.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Carlson added that\u00a0<em>\u201cat some point they will all have to answer for this, but you should know their names now.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0And what names they are: Of the five, three, i.e., 60 percent \u2013 Levin, Perlmutter, and Adelson \u2013 are as most Americans would know or guess, Jewish. Murdoch and Hannity, in the minority, are not.<\/p>\n<p>But all of the five are staunch Zionists,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/influencers-24\/pro-israel-christians\/article-822539\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hannity having been acknowledged by the Jerusalem Post as one of\u00a0<em>\u201c10 Pro-Israeli Christians,\u201d<\/em><\/a>\u00a0i.e. a Christian Zionist. And that was in October 2024, a full year into Israel\u2019s ongoing genocide of the Palestinians. Mark Levin, an influential and extremely rightwing media personality, got his\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/fox-news-mark-levin-honored-at-friends-of-zion-museum-594841\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>\u201cFriends of Zion Museum \u2018Defender Award\u2019 for his steadfast support of the State of Israel and the Jewish people\u201d<\/em><\/a>\u00a0in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>Murdoch, the Western publishing oligarch with massive political influence, used a rambling \u2013 but who\u2019s going to edit him, right? \u2013 2009 Jerusalem Post article\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/opinion\/op-ed-contributors\/i-am-not-jewish-but\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">to admit he feels very flattered by frequently being misidentified as Jewish<\/a>\u00a0and to explain that the\u00a0<em>\u201cfree world\u201d<\/em>\u00a0\u2013 old-timers\u2019 speak for\u00a0<em>\u201crules-based value West\u201d<\/em>\u00a0\u2013 must support Israel to the hilt.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Isaac_Perlmutter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">According to Wikipedia<\/a>,\u00a0Ike Perlmutter is\u00a0<em>\u201can Israeli-American billionaire businessman and financier\u201d<\/em>\u00a0\u2013 although ironically enough born in Mandate Palestine \u2013 who\u00a0<em>\u201cthrough a variety of sometimes unorthodox business deals\u201d<\/em>\u00a0has been\u00a0<em>\u201can influential investor in a number of corporations.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0He also used to run Marvel Entertainment. Yes,\u00a0<em>that<\/em>\u00a0Marvel, the superhero story company now absorbed by Disney and perhaps the single most effective vehicle of contemporary US propaganda.<\/p>\n<p>And multi-billionaire Miriam Adelson is of course not only the widow of Sheldon Adelson, the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2020-10-15\/adelsons-become-trump-s-biggest-donors-with-75-million-to-pac\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>\u201ccasino mogul\u201d<\/em><\/a>\u00a0and arch Zionist, but also a fanatical Zionist in her own right. Both Adelsons have been among Donald Trump\u2019s most generous supporters. During his 2016 presidential campaign they were already among his\u00a0<em>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2020-10-15\/adelsons-become-trump-s-biggest-donors-with-75-million-to-pac\">top donors<\/a>.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0In 2020 \u2013 when he lost \u2013 they made the single biggest individual contribution,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2020-10-15\/adelsons-become-trump-s-biggest-donors-with-75-million-to-pac\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a whopping $75 million<\/a>. In 2024, Miriam Adelson dialed it up to eleven with\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/2024-presidential-race\/donald-trump\/contributors?id=N00023864\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">$106 million<\/a>. Only Elon Musk ($276 million) and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/c9eed9g3vlyo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">rich heir extraordinaire Timothy Mellon<\/a>\u00a0($150 million)\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/2024-presidential-race\/donald-trump\/contributors?id=N00023864\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">gave even more<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And then there is the influential MAGA icon and Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/RepMTG\/status\/1934375883332046933\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">In a long post on X<\/a>, she fired a broadside against\u00a0<em>any<\/em>\u00a0further US involvement in wars abroad:\u00a0<em>\u201cWe are $36+ TRILLION in debt and have mountains of our own problems. We have giant planks sticking out of our own eyes while we complain about splinters in other\u2019s eyes. Every country involved and all over the world can be happy, successful, and rich if we all work together and seek peace and prosperity.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>MTG, as she is often called, has also preemptively and rightly rejected any accusation of\u00a0<em>\u201cantisemitism\u201d<\/em>\u00a0and even of isolationism:\u00a0<em>\u201cTaking this position is NOT antisemitic. It\u2019s rational, sane, and loving toward all people. Taking this position of peace and prosperity for all is not isolationism, it leads to GREAT trade deals and GREAT economies that help ALL PEOPLE.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Worst of all, from Trump\u2019s and Israel\u2019s perspective, she has in effect reminded her 4.8 million followers, as well as many others who will read about her post in the traditional media, of Trump\u2019s own campaign promise to end and not start wars, because no more wars is\u00a0<em>\u201cwhat many Americans voted for in 2024.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Clearly, there are influential representatives of MAGA who are not only willing to openly challenge the perversely self-damaging hold that Washington allows Israel to have over its foreign policy, but are also beginning to be explicit about the fact that Israel\u2019s lobby in the US \u2013 whether Jewish or not \u2013 is putting another country first, at enormous cost to Americans.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, there are reasons to fear that this right-wing criticism of\u00a0<em>\u2018Israel First\u2019<\/em>\u00a0will not prevail. Trump may very well be so beholden to and afraid of the Israel lobby that he will make the single worst mistake of his life and get even deeper into the war against Iran.<\/p>\n<p>But then the question is: What will happen next? There is a brave left-wing opposition to Israel in America \u2013 full disclosure: my sort of people \u2013\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/world\/american-sympathy-for-israel-reaches-all-time-low-in-new-poll\/ar-AA1GBdpw?ocid=BingNewsSerp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">and there also is clear polling evidence that Israel\u2019s grip on American society as a whole is finally slipping<\/a>, especially among the young. Now add a right-wing, MAGA-based opposition and another great US fiasco in the Middle East backfiring on America\u2019s home front. Israel may get its wish once again, but in the not-so-long run it should be very careful what it wishes for. And that, as grim as the news is, is a tiny speck of hope on a very dark horizon.<\/p>\n<p>____<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/619472-maga-against-israel-lobby\/\">https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/619472-maga-against-israel-lobby\/<\/a><\/p>\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-40534","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\/40534","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=40534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40534\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}