The resignation letter of Joe Kent as The Director of The National Counter Terrorism Center, outlined that he could no longer serve because there had been no intelligence pointing to Iran as an "imminent threat" which Trump had claimed was his rationale for his war actions. The event has created a political stir. Kent’s rationale was bizarrely laced with anti zionism and antisemitism, exacerbating the current existing anti Israeli and antisemitic mood in America and throughout the world.
Within a week Kent was making appearances with the leading two anti semites in a MAGA splinter movement, Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens. The latter is not some fringe group it is a powerful sector within MAGA. Carlson is a frontrunner for 2028 Republican Presidential nomination. They are coupling antisemitism with a deeply unpopular war. So once again the problem was a world wide conspiracy of Jews - It’s always the Jews.
Scapegoating “The Hebrews” is a time worn successful strategy. This even though it glosses over the fact that there are stark differences among The Jews who, today, represent 0.02 of the world’s population. Conflating American Jews with Israelis, for starters, is simplistic to say the least.The populations are culturally different and in both countries face vast differences politically. Their religious make up is monumentally different. Of the fifteen million Jews roughly less than half are in America and the rest are in Israel. American Jews too, are deeply splintered tending to analyze the situation in terms of the human devastation wreaked while the Israelis view this war as an existential threat to their existence. On both sides of the world, however, they are those who still hope for a two state solution while others are determined to neutralize those whose central constitutional tenet is to kill all Jews. For "progressive" Jews it is hard to stomach the tragedy being visited on populations.
In America both Stephen Miller “Trumps brain”, who daily spews out fascist tropes and Chuck Schumer the leading opposing Democrat in the Legislature, are Jewish. Much like President Trump, Bibi Netanyahu’s approval rate is about forty percent in Israel while 68 percent of Jewish Americans give Netanyahu “negative” marks. Two of Trump’s most prominent benefactors are Jewish, Larry Ellison and Miriam Adelson as are Democrat top donors like George Soros and Michael Bloomberg. Presumably they all met in tunnels to hatch the plot.
TRUMP ENSNARED BY JEWSH CONSPIRACY?
Joseph Kent who is a MAGA extremist deluxe weaponized antisemitism via Bibi Netanyahu, the Jew, who is apparently the only person on earth who can tell Donald Trump what to do. Peace loving Trump who has been bombing boats, instigating coups in Venezuela, threatening to colonize by force if necessary, Greenland and Cuba and having already bombed Iran, needed only one final visit from the Prime Minister of Israel to trigger him to go to war. Trump incidentally maintains that he has ended 8 wars which to put at its kindest is an exaggeration.
Thus it is Israel and the American Jews with their lobby, AIPAC, (American, Israeli Public Affairs Committee) that are really responsible for America’s involvement. One might have thought that the Epstein files, Trump’s own newly found imperial aspirations would have had more than something to do with his decision making or whatever financial motives that there have been alleged. Those could be airplanes or crypto dealings that have been attributed to him and his family, including the chief negotiator with Iran, son in law, Jared Kushner. The latter incidentally according to the conspiracy mongers is the manipulator behind American war mongering. It appears move obvious that he is far more steeped in his Property Development Company than politics per se. Also there was Pete Hegsheth, Rupert Murdoch and Mohammed Bin Salmon.....
Now Kent’s boss in the Counter Terrorism world is Tulsi Gabbard an alleged Russian asset that has always been dead against a war with Iran. Ms. Gabbard was fiercely cross examined in the Senate by Jon Ospovat, a Jew, to take responsibility for the fact that she provided Trump with Intelligence that Iran did not prove an "imminent threat" to anyone. She demurred and hummed and ha’d explaining that Trump was the decider. Explicit in Ospovat’s line of questioning was that Trump lied in his decision to go to a “needless” war, by ignoring the intelligence that Iran was not an “Imminent threat”. Incidentally Governor Pritzker of Illinois, a Jew and a leading contender for the Democratic nomination for Presidency has condemned the illegal war proclamation pointing out that was not what Trump ran on.
KENT HIS LETTER AND THE MAGA SPLIT
Joe Kent is really on the far end of the MAGA spectrum believing in the conspiracy that the Israelis killed Charlie Kirk. (This is such patent nonsense on its face because the late Kirk was an admirer of Israel and claimed that it was a visit to Israel that inspired him to form his highly successful “Turning Point”).
So Kent in his parting letter to Trump and not his immediate supervisor Secretary Gabbard began,”It is clear that we started this war due to pressure from Israel and its powerful lobby,………..(and) high-ranking Israeli officials and influential members of the American media”. Kent went onto pointing out that it was the latter that had spread information about Iran’s imminent threat to subvert Trump’s “America First”. For what it’s worth Trump has stated that he was the initiator of this war and Netanyahu has “verified” that Trump is the boss and when he calls it off its over. Kent further submitted that his wife was killed in Iraq which was a “war manufactured by Israel”. This is such misinformation although it lets, George W Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Wolpowitz and all the neocons off the hook.
Trump was quick to disassociate himself, “He, (Kent), was weak on Security and it’s a good thing that he is out”. It may not come as a surprise to some but Joseph Kent is being investigated by the FBI for revealing classified information. According to reports this began before he announced his resignation. Such appears to be the unhappy fate of anyone who opposes Trump.
HOW DO MATTERS STACK UP NOW
MAGA is split and anti semitism a key part of the narrative. Podcasters, Tucker Carson, Candace Owens and Megyn Kelly didn’t need Kent to persuade them of the “evil” of the semites. They are pro Kent boots and all while MAGA podcasters Mark Levin, Ben Shapiro and LorrI Loomer are Jewish and strongly pro Israel. Thus far Trump supports the latter especially Loomer who has almost direct access to the President. Mark Levin, in turn has been praised by Trump. The Christian Evangelical wing of MAGA are still supportive of Israel and anything Trump may decide is necessary,
The center piece of the whole administration campaign against the Ivy League Universities is that they allowed anti semitism to run unabated on their campuses. Incidentally anti zionism and anti semitism has been rampant in the “liberal” universities and has recently been addressed with litigation by the LC Brandeis Center for Human Rights. A highly rated Documentary "October 8" focussed on the campus uprisings.
So for the moment the official Trump Administration line is aggressively against antisemitism and pro Israel. The big battle will start in the November Midterm Primaries and get really colossal for the 2028 Presidential Primaries of the Republican Party. Already there is an out and out young antisemite who is a contender for the Party’s nomination for the Florida Governorship.
Israel has steadily lost unconditional support from the Democratic Party. The process has been relatively slow and really dates to back to when Netanyahu snubbed President Obama and at the Republicans' invitation attacked him and his Iranian nuclear deal at a joint session of Congress. Ironically if Trump hadn’t pulled out of the Obama multinational accord with Iran on it’s nuclear facilities there might not be a war today. The younger generation are focussed more on the conditions in Gaza and are buying into the narrative of the “oppressor and oppressed”. AIPAC’s money is a no - no with almost zero pull in the Democratic Party, in spite of Kent's assertion.
In general America is in sync with a world wide trend veering to overt anti semitism mostly claiming not to be the latter rather being anti zionist. However this distinction is more often than not blurred. There have been massive rallies,violence and deaths starting on October 8, 2024. The documentary entitled "October 8" has been produced which details the convulsive explosion of anti - Israel and antisemitism just the day after the slaughter of civilians.
OCTOBER 7 AND THE AFTERMATH
October 7 heralded the most bestial savage barbaric attack on Israeli citizens by Hamas, one of Iran’s three major proxies, the others being Hezbollah in Lebanon and the Houthis in Yemen. Like Iran the latter are all have constitutionally the destruction of Israel and all Jews. The proxies’ fighters are all embedded in the population and while in the past Israel held back this time they were determined resulting in the most pathetic scenes captured on TV. Israel was accused of genocide but they are convinced that Hamas must be disarmed and Hezbollah crushed, not to mention the nuclear threat posed by Iran.
Two sides of the coin were now on display Israel was determined to eradicate the existential threat to its existence and the humanitarian plight of the Palestinians caught in the middle. Just in case there isn't enough going on, "The Settlers" attacking Palestinians on the West Bank is causing justifiable opprobrium. It is a fair conclusion that Israel are losing the public relations war as the internet generally is supporting South Africa prosecuting them at the International Court of Justice for genocide and crimes against humanity.
A BIT OF HISTORY
In 1948 the United Nations divided the British Mandated territory of Palestine between the Jews and Palestinians. Immediately Israel was attacked by Arab nations all of which they are no longer at war with. Post 1948 can be almost divided between before Netanyahu and after him. Before several attempts were made to fulfill the UNO mandate of partition all of which were kiboshed by the heads of the Palestinian Liberation Organization, (PLO).
After the assassination of Israeli peacemaker Yitchak Rabin in 1995 Netanyahu’s influence grew and grew. In fact Rabin’s widow accused him of creating the environment that led to her husband’a death. In the interlude prior to the reign of Netanyahu, Ariel Sharon's effort at coexistence was to unilaterally hand over the Gaza territory to the Palestinians, (2005). It was believed that the Palestine Liberation Organization would take over administration and coalesce it with the West Bank. The PLO lost the election to Hamas and the rest is history.
There were the Peace Talks in 2008 where Ehud Olmert came excruciatingly close to a resolution. But in the end PLO Mahmoud Abbas rejected the generous deal with East Jerusalem as capitol and almost complete Israeli withdrawal from the West bank.
With the Arab nations no longer attempting to annihilate Israel and the PLO neutralized on the West Bank, Iran took over the mantle with its proxies.
HOW COME TRUMP?
Trump injected himself into the region by axing the multinational nuclear deal with Iran in 2018. In 2020 he assassinated a key Iranian military figure. He also declared himself on the side of Israel by accepting Jerusalem as the capitol of Israel and moving the US Embassy there.
In 2026, according to Trump, Iran were near to creating a nuclear weapon. Negotiations were entered into with the Iranians which Trump broke off. His stated reason was an “imminent nuclear threat” and that is where we came in. Joseph Kent maintained that was not true and it was the Jews that conned Trump into war. It’s always the Jews. One fact for sure is that the conduct of the war is in Trump’s purview. If this escalates out of control Trump is to blame but there is very little doubt who he will accuse.
AT THE END OF THE DAY
As the late Chief Rabbi Sacks sagely opined, "What starts with the Jews never ends with the Jews".