Len Kinder
Max Blumenthal explains Zionist Motives
PARTIAL TRANSCRIPT BELOW
I heard the video above last night and I’m showing much of the transcript below. I’ve seen interesting evidence elsewhere that Kirk’s death was possibly faked, which is my hope. If so, it may mean that the Trump Admin has the upper hand after all, despite this video indicating that Israel probably does. If the Zionists are calling the shots, then it seems likely that the U.S. will be in a war with Iran in time to elect more Zionists to Congress in next year’s midterm elections. Trump’s increasing authoritarianism makes me less hopeful. If anyone finds that Kirk is still alive, let us know.
BIBI’S OBSESSION WITH KIRK
Let’s start with what has happened in the United States, the assassination of Charlie Kirk and the way that the Israeli government, specifically, particularly Benjamin Netanyahu, was reacting to that. What is his obsession with the case of Charlie Kirk? Yeah, I’ve lost count of the number of videos that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has released and the interviews that he has conducted specifically about Charlie Kirk since he was killed on September 10th. But Netanyahu immediately weighed in with prayers about Charlie Kirk just minutes after he was killed. It was eerie. The body was still warm and Netanyahu was beginning to claim Charlie Kirk’s legacy. I’ve been writing about Charlie Kirk for 10 years now. He was not just one of the most important conservative youth activists, he was also one of the most critical Gentile {i.e. non-Jewish} assets that the self-proclaimed Jewish state controlled inside the United States. And he had started to move away from the Israeli line and even to entertain the possibility of publicly calling for Netanyahu to resign, because he privately despised Netanyahu in the months before his death {because of Gaza genocide etc}. He was under enormous pressure from Zionist activists who are close to Netanyahu, the millionaires and billionaires that Netanyahu presides over inside the United States. He was under enormous pressure to kind of fall back to stop providing a platform to Israel critics at his TPUSA events like Tucker Carlson or Marjory Taylor Green. And Charlie was resisting. He was complaining about all of this Israel lobbying he was being subjected to. He wondered, why can’t he care most about his own country, instead of Israel.
So Netanyahu seeks to bury that history and to make Charlie Kirk out to be the hero of Israel after his killing. And he starts conducting interviews on Fox about how much Charlie loved Israel. Then he introduces a video on Twitter X, Netanyahu personally speaking to a camera about a letter Charlie had written him based on an invitation Netanyahu extended to Charlie Kirk two weeks before his death to visit Israel on a propaganda trip which would have ostensibly been paid for by Israel. Netanyahu didn’t say whether Charlie accepted his invitation. The reason Netanyahu is doing this, just to answer your original question, is because Israel requires American Christians, mostly conservative men, to fight the war of Armageddon that Netanyahu wants against Iran, just as it required the U.S. to fight the war Israel wanted against Iraq. And so they need to keep the MAGA base on their side. And Charlie Kirk would have been the perfect symbol for that. And then The Grayzone comes in and screws everything up because I had been talking to friends I knew of about this transformation Charlie Kirk was experiencing in private. And my article about that and how he personally detested Netanyahu was one of the most viral pieces we have ever published at The Grayzone. We broke the story by exposing the secret summit that one of Netanyahu’s top billionaire cutouts in the United States, Bill Ackman, had convened in the Hamptons where, basically, Charlie Kirk was supposed to oversee an influencer summit where influencers were going to be paid to generate millions of clicks and impressions for Israel and everyone was to be invited on a propaganda tour to Israel. This was not supposed to be known. And what the summit devolved into was described to me by one attendee as a disaster, when Bill Ackman, the billionaire donor close to Netanyahu, started challenging and pressuring Charlie about his views on Israel. And then another Zionist influencer, this young British lawyer who is one of the biggest Zionist thugs in London trying to get every protester arrested, her name is Natasha Hausdorff, started screaming at Charlie. And when this got out there, Candace Owens, an associate and longtime friend of Charlie Kirk, subsequent to the publication of my article about that influencer summit, goes live and provides more details about the summit. And from there, the entire Zionist world of bigwigs and donors and operatives who are close to Netanyahu in the United States goes into full meltdown mode and launches this all-out campaign to destroy Candace Owen’s reputation. They’re falsely claiming that The Grayzone’s funded by Iran. They’re trying everything they can to discredit this reporting.
And then finally, Netanyahu does another video where he comes out and announces on his own official channel, on Twitter X and other social media networks that he did not kill Charlie Kirk. I never accused him of killing Charlie Kirk. I said there was no evidence that Israel killed Charlie. But he felt the need to proclaim that Israel didn’t kill Charlie Kirk and he begins denouncing everyone who has reported that Charlie Kirk actually didn’t like him. So Netanyahu is in full panic mode. And again the reason why Netanyahu and this Zionist network in the U.S. is panicking is because they are losing their last base of support, which is actually their most critical base of support, what Israel lobbyists referred to as Israel’s safety belt in the Bible belt. And it’s that base that they require of Christian mostly young white men, who will go and fight Israel’s wars on their behalf against Iran and its allies.
WEAK CASE AGAINST ROBINSON
I would totally be content to accept that this young man {accused of shooting Charlie Kirk} had maybe started suffering from some kind of mental illness or had developed attraction to a trans-lover and was offended by Charlie Kirk’s commentary about trans-people and sought to kill him for that. I’d be fine accepting that, but, based on the evidence that the public has, if I were his lawyer, I would potentially plead not guilty, because there’s enough of a case for him to establish reasonable doubt, if he had like a fair judge and jury. The government needs to come up with more evidence. It needs to present it to the public and there needs to be a credible investigation here before it can put all of these odd theories to bed. And again, a lot of these theories which I have not accepted, focus also on Israel as Benjamin Netanyahu has acknowledged. Yeah, Max, when it comes to this support to Israel in the United States, it seems as you’ve mentioned, there’s so much concern of the people, the young people in the United States, that they’re not anymore supporting Israel, because of what’s going on in Gaza, what’s going on in the Middle East. But how is this movement going to be considered by Israelis as the last chance of Israel to have influence in the United States? How important is this movement for Israel?
TPUSA IS CRITICAL TO ZIONISM
Well, it’s critical. It’s critical to Netanyahu as well, because of where Israel is going politically. This is what my book Goliath, which I published in 2013, was about. It was about the consolidation of Israel, Israeli politics and Israeli society as right-wing messianic, essentially fascist. And I think my book painted a picture of a society {Israel} that was primed for genocide. And then I went to Gaza the following year to cover Israel’s war on Gaza in 2014, Operation Protective Edge. And what I saw was sort of a pilot program for a coming genocide. So what’s happening now has been in the works for a long time. And the government that came in with Netanyahu, these messianic fascist figures, like Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich, I used to see them like in the Knesset for an interview. I would see them walking around and they were on the move and everyone kind of disregarded them as these obscure figures, but I could see that they had a long-term agenda and they really had their finger on the pulse of Jewish Israeli society. So, Israel is transformed. Netanyahu is sort of holding together the government and in a way he sort of exists at the center of where Israeli society is. But then you have American society which is moving away from that, particularly among Democrats and even among Jewish Americans who are not who don’t live within these kinds of closed Jewish communities (like you see in New Jersey and Long Island) who just kind of have assimilated into American culture. They have no appetite for supporting the kind of politics that Netanyahu represents. So Netanyahu’s only base among the American public is exclusively within the Bible belt among Christian evangelicals who voted for Trump. But they themselves are moving away too, starting with the interventions of Tucker Carlson and Marjory Taylor Green, to learn that there are Christians in Palestine, that there is a Christian church in Gaza City which has been under attack, which has existed there since the 8th century, and this has been transformative for them. So Netanyahu sees he’s losing his last base and all he’s left with is the 1%, the influencers who are just Jewish Zionists, who are losing their own ability to communicate with the conservative grassroots. I’m talking about Ben Shapiro whose Daily Wire company has been collapsing. They canceled their credit cards last year. They’re leaving their office space in Nashville. Mark Levin at Fox News is just an artificial construction of the Murdoch family. He doesn’t have an actual base. These are Netanyahu’s voices in the US. And then he has his billionaires, the Bill Ackmans, the Ron Lauders.
And so what they’re trying to do is take TPUSA, which Charlie Kirk controlled, and what they’ve been trying to do for years, is take this political empire that has an annual budget, that’s larger than the municipal budget of many small American cities, and use it as a host body for their agenda to prevent the conservative grassroots exodus from Israel, to prevent the conservative grassroots from turning on Zionism. And then all of a sudden, Charlie Kirk realizes his own grassroots base that he commands at TPUSA is in full revolt. Some of them are disgusted by the genocide in Gaza. But what really upsets them the most is they start to see that their own government is under the control of a foreign entity and that Netanyahu seems to even control Donald Trump. And so Charlie Kirk has to bridge the divide between all these billionaire Zionist donors who built him up and helped create his political empire and the grassroots. And the contradiction can no longer be squared. I’ll have a new report up at The Grayzone. In the days before his death, Charlie Kirk was having to carry out these Zoom calls with Netanyahu’s cutouts in the US, top Zionist influencers and donors, almost every day. And they were breathing down his neck, and they were really worried about his upcoming speaking tour and what he was going to say. And they were basically telling him what to say. Some people on the call were: e.g. the venture capitalist, Shawn Maguire, who’s very close to Elon Musk and owns a house in Israel, works at Sequoia Capital; another one was Joshua Hammer from Newsweek, who’s one of Netanyahu’s key voices in the media; another person was Bill Ackman, who I mentioned before were on these Zoom calls, and a Rabbi named Pesach Wolicki from I believe Virginia in the United States, who runs all of these influencer programs to send Christian youth on propaganda tours of Israel. And they were telling Charlie Kirk what to say until like 24 hours before he was killed. And according to their own accounts, Charlie was arguing back. So what they face is a political tsunami in the United States and they have no way of holding it back.
RIGHT WING CENSORSHIP
And that’s why in the wake of Kirk’s death and in the days before his death, some of these Zionist moneymen have started a full-on takeover campaign of the US media, which we can talk about. It’s like a full-court press in the United States. Netanyahu had been waging a seven-front war in the region and now the United States has become the eighth front and they want to prevent anyone from being able to express themselves anywhere in the digital online ecosystem by just buying it all. Actually Pam Bondi was talking about it. She said that there is a difference between hate speech and free speech. They’re using the case of the assassination and what has happened in the aftermath of the assassination in order to somehow control the media in the United States. What is hate speech? And now in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s death, the political right, but really Trump incorporated, has shown its own hand and wants to institute, according to Attorney General Pam Bondi, hate speech laws to crack down on their own political enemies, which represents the left, which includes historically oppressed groups. And they’re going to do it to protect the 1%, including one of the most privileged groups in the United States, American Jews. So most recently the National Endowment for the Humanities which is a wing of the US government which has funded the arts, the rightwing of the Republican party has always tried to defund it. The Trump administration is funding it and they’re now allocating the largest grant in the history of the NEH to something called the Tikvah Fund, which is an Israel lobby organization, which counts among its board members and fellows Bari Weiss, one of the premier voices of the Zionist 1% in the US, and Brett Stevens, who is the in-house Israel pro-Netanyahu propagandist at the New York Times. And these are wealthy people who don’t need grants or support. It’s just a way of paying back all of the ultra-Zionist donors. This will only actually fuel more anti-Jewish sentiment among the conservative grassroots. The Zionist media are going to, at the same time, impose censorship on those who that group considers their opponents, supporters of Palestine, Muslims, the anti-war movement, and direct action protesters. Donald Trump has just classified Antifa as a terrorist organization in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s killing. But the important thing to know here is that Antifa,
while not being a formal organization, is also heavily infiltrated by law enforcement. Any cop or FBI agent can just put on a mask and join their protests and get in their Discord chats. And that means that by classifying Antifa as a terrorist organization, what Trump has done is created the perfect terror factory for generating government plots to turn up the temperature and turn up the fear and then manufacture consent for more repression. This is precisely what the FBI did during the George W. Bush and Obama era, when over 90% of all terror plots in the United States that were stopped by the FBI, were actually hatched and manufactured by the FBI itself. They were all controlled plots.
BIBI’S MILLIONAIRES BUYING U.S. MEDIA
Look up Netanyahu’s millionaires. This term kind of started with a 2007 article in Israeli media, where they uncovered a list Netanyahu had personally drawn up of 50 millionaires and billionaires inside the United States that would support his campaigns. Israeli media has updated that list and one of those billionaires in Netanyahu’s back pocket currently is Larry Ellison whose Oracle data company was launched with support from the CIA, now one of the CIA’s top contractors building data centers across the US to fuel the so-called AI revolution. Larry Ellison is a fanatical Zionist who hosted Netanyahu on his own Hawaiian island, called Ellison Island. His son, David Ellison, is also an ultra Zionist who’s been heavily involved in coordinating with the Israeli government on anti-boycott Israel activity. And Larry Ellison is now at the forefront of a campaign to buy Tik Tok, to suppress Palestine content, which criticizes Israel, to censor influencers who are critical of Israel, who are getting millions, if not billions of impressions, and to create a Zionist media monopoly in the United States. Larry Ellison’s son, David, is subsequently working to buy CBS News, which will then install Bari Weiss, the top media voice of pro-Netanyahu Zionism in the US, as editor. They’ve already brought in someone named David Weissman to be the ombudsman, who is an Israel, a veteran Israel lobbyist. And Larry Ellison has announced his intention to buy CNN, which is already basically a propaganda arm of Israel, but through its international bureau, they’ve done some critical coverage by reporting on what’s actually happening in Gaza. They are desperate to crack down on any information getting to the part of the American public that is not already educated and red-pilled on this issue about the genocide that has been perpetrated in Gaza. They recognize that Israel is facing a PR disaster that is only going to get worse in the coming weeks and months with possibly the United European Football Association banning Israel, which would be a real and very powerful blow against Israeli PR and lead to more boycotts in the world of international sports. So, they’re just trying to lock it down with a media monopoly.
I should also mention Andreessen Horowitz is a major venture capital firm, founded by Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz. Marc Andreessen is also an arms manufacturer. He wants to pioneer AI drones and he’s partnered with Robert Horowitz who is the son of the late ultra Zionist propagandist David Horowitz, who was one of Charlie Kirk’s original mentors through the so-called David Horowitz Freedom Center. David Horowitz’s main line was the Palestinians are Nazis and they should just be eliminated and ethnically cleansed. And now his son and Zionist arms dealer, Andreessen, are partnering with Larry Ellison to take over Tik Tok.
TUCKER CARLSON AMERICA FIRST
I have a story in the works about a major Zionist donor that Charlie Kirk lost just days before his death, a very significant donor. If you go to TPUSA’s campus or its office complex in Phoenix, there are six buildings there and they contain plaques which are tributes to donors who donated over 1 million. You may have to donate like 2 million now to get a plaque there. But this donor’s plaque will never be on a TPUSA building because he was so outraged by Charlie Kirk giving voice to the anger in the conservative grassroots about the Israeli takeover of the Trump administration. That’s actually a term that I’ve heard people in and around the administration use, takeover. Like they’re not happy about it. Donald Trump isn’t happy about it. He’s just surrendered because he’s weak and afraid. And at the TPUSA Student Action Summit this July in Tampa, Florida, that anger came out into the open with Tucker Carlson not only referring to Jeffrey Epstein as a Mossad agent, but also declaring that if you volunteer to fight for the Israeli military, as Idan Alexander did, and don’t fight for the US military, you should have your passport stripped. Tucker Carlson also mocked one of Netanyahu’s top billionaires in the US, Bill Ackman, calling him a scam artist, questioning how he got his $9 billion of wealth. And this set Bill Ackman off, so a campaign was launched against not just Tucker Carlson, but TPUSA itself. At that same event, anti-Zionist Jewish comedian, Dave Smith, was brought on stage to debate the Newsweek editor I mentioned earlier, Joshua Hammer, on just the very question of Gaza and whether it was a genocide. Debate is not normally allowed at these events. You crush the other side and do what your donors tell you. But Charlie Kirk wasn’t doing that, because he was trying to bridge the divide. So, Bill Ackman launches this campaign trying to keep Charlie Kirk co-opted in bringing influencers in. There are other donors, as I mentioned, who were so furious that they started to pull their money out of TPUSA. On Charlie’s campus tour, every third question was about his support for Israel and was challenging him on that issue. We will know where this goes in the long run, because no one can fill Charlie Kirk’s shoes at TPUSA. He was still an important Gentile asset for Israel, even as he was moving away. So who else can they turn to, to push the Israeli line as this genocide continues with the ethnic cleansing of Gaza City? Nobody that I can see. So, the Israeli PR crisis is only going to accelerate at this point. And I should also say that all these institutions, these social media companies and media outlets that Netanyahu’s cutouts, Zionist billionaires are openly buying just to shut down criticism of Israel, they’re going to become so toxic that very few people will want to watch them. They are not going to become more appealing to younger Americans, even conservatives. It’s just going to be too obvious what they’re doing.
TRUMP ADMIN HYPOCRISY
And in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s killing, the Republican party has revealed their true colors, especially the pro-Trump wing, which was so critical of Biden’s crackdown on speech, of all of the oppressive measures during COVID, where you know national guard would go through cities and tell people to get back in their houses, where online censorship was out of control, you couldn’t question the official mandates without being censored. I was an opponent of it but now the Republican line from Elon Musk on down the pro-Trump line is two wrongs actually do make a right. They censored us; now it’s our turn to use our government powers to censor them and shred the First Amendment. And I think there’s no way the First Amendment survives the next two to four years. And with the First Amendment gone, that means America loses its soft power.
CANDACE OWENS
On a PBD podcast they had Eric Bowling and it seems that he’s one of the board members of Turning Point USA. And here is what they said about Candace Owens. Her credibility is going to go down the tubes because she needs to bring receipts. Bill Ackman brought receipts. You’re on the board of Turning Point. When’s the last time you saw Candace Owens in person? 2015. 2016.
You don’t think she’ll be at the funeral. No, I mean to say she doesn’t speak at the events anymore.
Candace commented on her own podcast. It’s so good for this to happen, because you guys are watching everything that I’m saying and you can watch them lie. Eric Bowling, I just don’t even get this. How can you say that I have not spoken at a Turning Point USA conference in years when I literally went on tour with Turning Point USA on college campuses last year? That’s just incredible. He didn’t know that I went on tour for Turning Point USA last year? You don’t remember that happening?
These guys hate a lot, Like Candace Owens and Tucker Carlson, you and those people who are talking against the rhetoric. What is the case with this board? What do we know about the board of TPUSA, because it’s so important for the future of the movement?
You can be pretty sure that in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s killing, TPUSA will be a very controlled environment for the conservative incorporated influencers, who are basically in it for the money and aren’t actually trying to interrogate and question the officially administered reality, as Candace Owens has been doing since she fell out of favor with them. I mean, they’re
basically calling on every controlled con influencer and everyone from TPUSA’s board, who wants to still get a piece of the pie that Charlie Kirk left for them, to denounce Candace Owens. And it’s really funny that they’re now saying Bill Ackman brought receipts. He wrote a really long tweet exonerating himself about this secret Hampton’s influencer summit where he was literally buying influencers to pump out videos denying genocide in Gaza and go on propaganda tours. Like that was scandalous. And Bill Ackman, a day after Charlie Kirk was killed, on September 11th, said, “I was lucky to join Charlie Kirk for a meal earlier this year.” Okay, you lied. That meal was actually this secret influencer summit that I exposed. I broke that story and by doing so I drove a harpoon into Bill Ackman’s whole network, because we weren’t supposed to know about that. We were supposed to think it was a friendly meal with Charlie Kirk. It actually turned out Charlie Kirk was getting screamed at by Zionist maniacs frothing at the mouth about his shifting views. And someone who was also pressuring him was Bill Ackman. So they’re all just lying to us right now. They’re lying because they want to get things back into order. Get all the Zionist billionaires back at TPUSA and get that money and then start channeling it through all of these small other TPUSA nonprofits, so that that $800 million annual budget continues to pay off the luxury cars that the administrators of TPUSA were buying for themselves. The more I look into this organization, it looks more like what televangelists had done, where they were just basically taking money from people. And so we have to ask questions about the corruption of the board members at TPUSA and why they’re so determined to clamp down on the truth about Charlie Kirk after his death.
TRUMP FEARS BIBI
Is Donald Trump afraid of Netanyahu? If so, is that because of Epstein files or something beyond that? He’s afraid of the Epstein files. So is Bill Ackman. But what Trump is afraid of is Netanyahu’s ruthlessness and clear insanity. I mean, I’m hearing from people who are like peripheral to the Trump administration that they thought Netanyahu coming out on his own and volunteering that he did not kill Charlie Kirk was insane and that he’s losing his mind. But if you look at what Netanyahu is doing regionally, he’s carrying out a regional assassination campaign, killing everyone who gets in his way. They tried to kill the entire Hamas negotiating team inside a US ally {Qatar}. Trump did not like that. But what did Trump do to push back against that? What did Trump do when Israel notified him in advance of the attack? Nothing. There’s nothing Trump will do to get in Netanyahu’s way. And that’s because Donald Trump is afraid of what Netanyahu would do to him. In 2019, three former senior U.S. officials from the Trump administration, confirmed to Politico, that Israel had planted Stingray devices in and around the White House to spy on Donald Trump’s phone communications. Who could get access to the White House to plant stingray devices? It’s not like any Mossad agent can just get in there. It’s someone who has to be let in the White House in the first place. So this is very serious and it would be rational of Donald Trump to be afraid of someone who has that much influence over him, who’s carrying out assassinations inside U.S. allies, whose Mossad intelligence services is weaponizing household devices as bombs, who has incited the assassination of his chief political rival Yitzhak Rabin for signing the Oslo Peace Accords. Also remember that Netanyahu’s first boss in Israeli politics, Yitzhak Shamir, was one of the authors of the assassination of Count Folke Bernadotte, who was the UN special liaison to Palestine in charge of implementing resolution 194 to bring back the Palestinian refugees. So they shot him in Jerusalem as he was getting out of his car. That was part of the Stern Gang, the armed wing of what would become the Likud Party. Shamir was Netanyahu’s mentor. So assassination fueled Netanyahu’s rise to power. And now Netanyahu is the first foreign leader that I’ve ever seen go out on his own on not one, but two, occasions to declare that he has not assassinated a top U.S. conservative leader, or leader in general, who was under pressure from the Israel lobby in the days before his death.
BIBI’S FINAL GOAL, WAR
Max, you mentioned the final goal of Netanyahu is a war with Iran, a full-out war. Yeah, something big between the United States and Iran, not Israel, because they want the United States to fight the war. What is your understanding of the latest comment by the Ministry of Diaspora Affairs? He said that the new axes of evil are Turkey and Syria and Qatar. This is a new sort of mindset forming in the aftermath of what happened in Syria. What’s your take on that? Well, first of all, we need to consider that in the past week, Marco Rubio, the Secretary of State who is in control of more national security cabinet level positions than anyone since Henry Kissinger and is more powerful than the vice president, JD Vance, was summoned to Jerusalem essentially to kiss the wall with a beanie on his head alongside reciprocal Israeli US ambassador Mike Huckabee, the Christian Zionist fanatic. I saw that as a harbinger of doom in the same way that I saw Netanyahu’s last two visits to Washington as part of a campaign to get Donald Trump to sign off on his desire to attack Iran. And so Trump was going to rescue them potentially from a war they couldn’t finish on their own. And so it seems clear to me, given that they basically have Trump by the balls, that sometime before the congressional midterms where the Republicans are expected to lose, Israel will attempt to attack Iran again and instigate another more violent war which will draw the U.S. in more deeply. But we’re also hearing these comments about Turkey and Qatar, because of the fear that they could reestablish some sort of influence inside Syria and also their efforts regionally to push back on Israel politically. And many observers missed this, but Israel actually attacked a de facto Turkish base inside Syria about 10 days ago in Palmira, where Turkey was seeking to professionalize the Syrian military. So, Israel’s recognizing with the new imposed government in Damascus, which was always a Turkish and Qatari card, as they controlled the various al-Qaeda offshoots, that this has given armed capacity to Turkey on the frontiers of Israel along the Golan. And so they’re going to turn up the temperature on Turkey and fight what they call a war between wars inside Syria. We should also pay attention to Egypt, which controls the Rafah crossing, which is the main point of exit where Gaza’s war-torn, starving, genocided refugees are supposed to exit in order to make the so-called Gaza Riviera plan possible, and to make the Judaization of Gaza possible. Egypt militantly opposed this at the recent summit convened by Qatar. The Egyptian military is the last Arab army that is strong in the region, that is actually bringing in some important Chinese technology, that has decent air defenses. So I think potential conflict with Egypt is on the horizon as well, and that we should actually pay attention to the conference that Qatar just held. Israel being banned from the European football association was one of the key items on Qatar’s agenda. So, this is not just a military war, but a political war. There are three of Qatar’s top lobbyists in the U.S. in the Trump administration in key positions. Cash Patel was a lobbyist for Qatar. Pam Bondi was the top lobbyist for Qatar at Ballard Partners and she’s the attorney general. Lee Zeldon at the Environmental Protection Agency was one of the pro-Israel influencers close to Trump that got on the Qatari payroll in 2017 when Saudi Arabia laid siege to Qatar, and Qatar thought, if we groom these pro-Israel figures close to Trump, then maybe Trump will push back on the Saudis. And they were sort of correct about that. So that’s another reason why Qatar threatens Israel, because they do have influence within Washington, that a country like Iran, because of sanctions and because of its historical position, could never have had.
