From ‘peace president’ to illegal aggression: Israel’s grip on Trump

Just 13 months after his inauguration, having promised to be a peace president, President Donald Trump has plunged the world's economy into chaos after succumbing to pressure from Israel to launch an unprovoked war against Iran, which could spiral into a third world war.

So, why did Trump submit to Israel's pressure? Was it purely financial? Was it Zionist infiltration of his advisers, or has Trump been compromised by his links to the notorious pedophile and Mossad asset Jeffrey Epstein?

• Is Trump for peace?
  

  Is Trump for peace?

  In this episode, we’ll be delving into what’s behind Trump’s volte face on his election promise to be a peace president.

Donald Trump's brazen attack on Iran exposes how Zionist forces have captured American foreign policy, sidelining broader imperial goals in favor of the settler colony’s agenda.

Donald Trump justified the devastating US strikes on Iran by citing advice from key advisers who convinced him an attack was imminent.

In a candid statement captured on video, Trump explained

The situation was very quickly approaching the point of no return, and the United States found it intolerable.

In my opinion, based on what Steve and Jared and Pete and others were telling me, Marco was so involved, that I thought that they were going to attack us.

I thought they would if we didn't do this at the time we did it I think they had in mind to attack us.

Donald J Trump, US President

Trump's advisors form a network deeply embedded in Zionist advocacy, blending Jewish Zionists with further non-Jewish supporters of the settler colonial policy.

Marco Rubio, a non-Jewish Cuban American, has long championed the Zionist entity. As AJC's Jewish political guide reports, he opposes BDS, backed the US Embassy move to occupied al-Quds, and supported anti-BDS legislation; his funding from pro-Zionist donors like Norman Braman highlights this alignment.

I'm a Christian, and I robustly support the state of Israel.

Pete Hegseth, US Secretary of Defence

A Christian Zionist, Hegseth robustly backs Israel. During his confirmation, he declared that his Christian faith drives support for the Zionist regime's defense.

His church ties to reconstructionist principles reinforce this theological Zionism.

An Orthodox Jew and ardent Zionist, Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, shaped Trump's West Asia policy. Raised in a family steeped in Holocaust survival, he authored the Abraham Accords, normalizing ties between the Zionist entity and Arab states. His pro-Zionist stance is evident in unwavering advocacy.

• Normalizing Zionism
  

  Normalizing Zionism

  Jonathan Mendelsohn is a professional lobbyist who, rather than focusing on the well-being of the British public, seems more concerned with furthering Israel

Steve Witkoff, a Jewish real estate mogul, staunchly supports Netanyahu and the Zionist colony. According to his Al Jazeera profile, he negotiated Gaza deals for Trump, ignoring Shabbat to push the agenda.

These figures illustrate Zionist penetration into US power structures.

Max Blumenthal also highlighted Trump's conviction that Iran's Islamic Revolution Guards Corps orchestrated two assassination attempts against him in 2024.

Blumenthal reported that the FBI, in coordination with Israeli intelligence, tied the plot to Iran, despite lacking solid evidence. Trump publicly linked the attempts to Iran, drawing from US intelligence briefings and DOJ charges against alleged IRGC members.

Even without the Epstein allegations dangling like a sword of Damocles over his head, Trump appears as Zionism's plaything.

State capture of the US apparatus of power is in itself an indication that Zionist ambitions go much further than a greater Israel as they push towards becoming an empire.

Netanyahu, for his part, has described his view that the Zionist entity is becoming in many respects a global superpower.

When we become a regional superpower, and in many respects a global superpower, we have the power to push away threats and ensure our future.

Benjamin Netanyahu, Israeli Prime Minister

• Israeli military will need up to 17,000 recruits to fill manpower gap: Officer
  

  Israeli military will need up to 17,000 recruits to fill manpower gap: Officer

  An Israeli militray officer raises the alarm about troop shortage in the regime’s army, saying it will need up to 17,000 recruits to fill the manpower gap.

How the Zionists infiltrated and captured key pillars of US state power

How were the Zionists able to infiltrate and capture key elements of the US apparatus of power?

For 30 years, James Angleton was one of the top men in United States intelligence. When he retired at the end of 1974, he was head of counter espionage at the CIA.

A key architect of the infiltration was James Angleton, who, as CIA counterintelligence chief from 1954 to 1974, forged unbreakable ties between US intelligence and the Zionist entity.

From 1951, he was the CIA liaison with Mossad and Shin Bet.

Meir Amit, Mossad director between 1963 and 1968 who was instrumental in cementing the Mossad-CIA relationship, described Angleton as the biggest Zionist of the lot. He viewed Angleton as a personal friend and a foundational figure in the penetration of the US intelligence system.

Former Shin Bet Chief Amos Manor, who hosted Angleton on his first visit to the colony in 1952, described how he was able to persuade Angleton that the Zionists were not potential communist agents, and after that he was firmly in their camp.

• Zionist takeover: Trump’s war on Iran reveals who really dictates US foreign policy
  

  Zionist takeover: Trump’s war on Iran reveals who really dictates US foreign policy

  US foreign policy, captured by Zionist interests, was laid bare in Trump’s latest aggression against Iran. Decades of infiltration – from Angleton to neoconservatives – reveal a hostile Zionist takeover of America’s foreign policy apparatus.

Jefferson Morley wrote in his biography of Angleton entitled The Ghost, that "Angleton was a leading architect of America's strategic relationship with Israel that endures and dominates the region to this day".

Angleton facilitated the Zionist regime's nuclear arsenal. Huge quantities of highly enriched uranium disappeared from the Zionist-owned NUMEC plant in Pennsylvania, which was run by Zalman Shapiro, a Zionist intelligence asset.

Angleton reportedly hindered efforts to thoroughly investigate the theft and failed to act on US intelligence showing that Dimona was likely producing highly enriched uranium.

Another key moment of Zionist penetration in the US was after 9/11; Mossad agents roamed the Pentagon unchecked, as retired Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson revealed.

I watched Mossad take over the Pentagon in 2002 The Pentagon was infiltrated by Mossad.

They did not need any identification to get through the river entrance to the building.

They went upstairs to Douglas Fife, the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, the third most powerful man in the Defense Department.

Occasionally they went to the second most powerful man, Paul Wolfowitz, the Deputy Secretary of Defense, and they had [the] run of the Pentagon.

Donald Rumsfeld, the Secretary of Defense, said to my boss one time, "Hell, I don't run my building, Mossad does".

Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson, Retired

Leading commentators affirm neoconservatives engineered the 2003 Iraq invasion primarily for the settler colony's benefit.

John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt argued in their seminal essay that the lobby pushed regime change to reorder the Middle East, surrounding Israel with compliant states.

Former CIA officer John Kiriakou highlighted the lopsided US Zionist intelligence pact, the regime receives near total access, yet spies on its apparent allies relentlessly.

We give them 99% of our defense secrets, and he said exactly, they're here to steal the last 1%.

Former CIA officer John Kiriakou

In the 1990s Israelis tapped White House phones during Clinton's era; under Trump, Stingray devices near the White House mimicked cell towers these were traced to Mossad by FBI forensics.

These are not the actions of an ally, but of hostile foreign power.

• Mossad spying on US presidents
  

  Mossad spying on US presidents

  US intelligence officials consider Israel to be one of the most aggressive states in launching surveillance operations on US soil, even targeting the very seat of power.

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