Dear Editor,
America is in trouble. Our government is infiltrated at all levels by Israel First people. Both houses of Congress and both parties are aligned with Israel’s lobby, AIPAC. U.S. congressmen are assigned AIPAC “watchers” to make sure each Rep votes for everything Israel wants although not in America’s interest. AIPAC “primaries” congressmen who buck Israel. President Trump appointed a near 100% Israel First cabinet and diplomatic corps like Christian Zionists Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth, and Israel Ambassador, Mike Huckabee. There is also Israel First U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham loudly prioritizing Israel over S. Carolina.
With funding and military support for decades diverted to sustain Israel, funding for Americans’ needs is deprioritized because decades of budget-busting Middle East wars are fought at Israel’s command even though America is not threatened. (The Ukraine War is a different unnecessary war related to NATO expansion and America’s Russophobia.) Now America faces potential insolvency because across the world, U.S. treasuries are being unloaded right as Trump prepares to request a supplemental $50 billion for Iran. The petrodollar reserve currency that allowed unlimited war spending is being replaced by the gold standard.
After a long line of previous U.S. presidents wisely rejected attacking Iran, Trump recklessly ignored U.S. intelligence and military warnings of disastrous consequences and was duped by Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu (Bibi) and Israel First advisers to join Israel on February 28 for a war based on shifting comments and the unfounded, recycled rationale from the failed Iraq war of “imminent” nukes (the old WMD scare lie).
Trump miscalculated Iran’s ability to strike back. He was tricked by Bibi into a “War Plan” that assumed that a quick decapitation of Iran’s leadership would cause a popular uprising and regime change. Within three days, this plan failed, leaving Trump to begin seeking a face-saving exit strategy while leaving a trail of confusing and contradicting statements like: Iran struck the school with Tomahawk missiles (really?) and “The war will be over soon, but it could last a long time.” This is a man without a plan.
Trump called President Putin to ask for advice and help in ending the war even though Putin told him that Trump was the aggressor and that Russia sides with Iran. Trump is also asking allies and his arch-enemy China, to help unblock the Strait of Hormuz. It seems China (well supplied with oil and able to cross Hormuz), will instead capitalize on this unique moment of U.S. vulnerability to surround Taiwan. European countries also declined helping, citing that they were not consulted and it is “not their war.”
Iran did not want this war. Iran gave Trump a second chance to negotiate after Trump undiplomaticially assassinated Iran’s first negotiating team and surprise-attacked Iran both times. Iran, who did not threaten the U.S. according to Trump’s own Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, is convinced they need to punish the U.S. enough that it will not be attacked every few months as Israel regularly attacks Gaza. Iran also wants U.S. bases out of the Gulf.
Hegseth, (recruited from Fox News) a Christian Zionist with a Jerusalem cross menacingly tattoed on his chest, incompetently leads our military and is profoundly harming our security. Trump should immediately fire his bully Secretary Hegseth and also his real estate businessmen, so-called “diplomats”—Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff for getting us into a war that is spiraling out of control.
Trump has pushed the world into unprecedented instability. Even while taking immense destruction from Iran in Haifa and Tel Aviv, Israel pushes into Southern Lebanon, driving one million people from their homes in its quest to build a “Greater Israel” to fulfill the map arm patch worn by every Israel fighter.
Iran has been preparing for this war for years and has not yet used its hypersonic missiles that evade missile defense systems which are being borrowed and rapidly running out leaving some allies unprotected. While events play out, Americans will suffer the increasingly disastrous economic, military, diplomatic, energy and food security consequences of our Israel First government. Fasten your seatbelts! Iran now has Trump over a barrel of volatile oil that could explode the world economy.
-Cynthia Munley
Salem
