Trump Didn’t Humiliate Israel—He Took Orders

Once again, the global media has delivered its usual dose of synthetic narrative, and this time it’s a particularly noxious variant: we are told that Donald Trump—yes, the same man who spent four years playing the obsequious jester to AIPAC’s throne—has somehow forced Israel into a humiliating retreat and made Netanyahu apologize to Qatar like a naughty schoolboy. This is the kind of geopolitical fan fiction that only a Western journalist could write with a straight face.

Cited from The Guardian, Oct 10, 2025: “Trump has finally imposed his will on Israel.”
BBC report: “The Trump-brokered deal represents a significant shift in US-Israel relations.”
NDTV: “Netanyahu’s personal apology to Qatar, reportedly while Trump held the phone, shows the new pecking order.”

This is nonsense, and not just nonsense—but obvious, weaponized nonsense. The United States has always held the theoretical power to end Israel’s war on Gaza with a single phone call. But Washington hasn’t. Why would it? Everyone who matters in Washington is bought or blackmailed into compliance with the Israeli agenda. The idea that Trump—who has spent his career bowing to Zionist billionaires and cheerleading for Greater Israel—has now turned around and forced Netanyahu into some kind of “humiliating climbdown” is an insult to basic intelligence.

What we are actually witnessing is a family dispute within the Israeli elite. There has been a fracture within the Israeli right, and this explains everything. On one side, the crazies: hardline ideologues who want the complete annihilation of Gaza, expansion on every border, and will gladly drag the United States into a multi-front war to get it. On the other, the realists: equally ruthless, equally expansionist, but marginally more patient. They understand that optics still matter, at least when you rely on U.S. aid and the crumbling fig leaf of “Western values.”

Netanyahu threw in with the crazies. That made him a liability. And so, he had to be cut down—not by the United States per se, but by the faction within Israel that still understands how to play the game. Trump, ever the opportunistic puppet, was simply given his script and told to perform it. The phone call to Qatar? Theatre. The “humiliation”? Stagecraft.

So this was not America asserting control over Israel. It was one faction of the Israeli elite using America, as it always has, to discipline another faction. That’s it. Everything else—statements, reports, even the so-called “pullbacks” of Israeli troops from Gaza—is pure propaganda.

Let’s run through a few indisputable points that the media deliberately ignores:

The genocide in Gaza was never unauthorized. The U.S. armed and funded it, and diplomatically shielded it. If Trump—or Biden, or anyone in Washington—had dared stop the mass killing, they could have. They didn’t. See above.
Trump’s peace plan is a lie. Remember when Trump proposed turning Gaza into a “luxury resort city” with Tony Blair as colonial governor? That wasn’t satire. The plans to forcibly “relocate” Palestinians—code for ethnic cleansing—are still on the table. A few hostage releases are just PR to make the genocide more palatable.
Israel doesn’t “negotiate” anything. Every ceasefire it has ever agreed to, it has broken. The entire idea that this current “peace plan” is real is laughable. Within hours of the so-called deal, IDF jets were bombing Rafah again.
No Western journalist is in Gaza. All reporting is based on IDF press releases, literally. We are told that Israeli forces are “withdrawing.” Withdrawing to where? The air? There are no verifiable facts, only official lies.
Starmer and Macron’s involvement is absurd fiction. The British Labour leader offers “substantive aid” only now—after ten months of enforced famine. Macron is a dead man walking politically. Their inclusion in the story is Western self-congratulation at its most grotesque.
The Western press continues its dehumanization campaign. Israeli hostages are “hostages.” Palestinian civilians are “detainees.” Massacres of civilians are “strikes on Hamas targets.” There is not even the pretense of even-handedness anymore.

So what does all this mean? It means the genocide in Gaza will resume—perhaps with a few more stage-managed “pauses” to appease Western audiences. It means that Israel is not being constrained, but is passing under a faction that knows to be more subtle. It means that Trump’s “victory” is not a break from the old U.S.-Israel relationship, but its natural continuation: one in which America is a glove, and Israel the hand inside it.

The media will continue spinning fairy tales for the benefit of their owners, but the facts are simple. This “deal” was never a negotiation between equals. It was never a turning point. It was an internal purge dressed up as diplomacy.

Trump got to play savior. Netanyahu got to be publicly chastised. And the bulldozers in Gaza will start up again tomorrow, right on schedule.

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2 comments

So cynical so young

Do facts support your narrative, or is the narrative a-priori?

Let us first consider your claim that because the IDF restricts the presence of self-identified journalists in an active war zone [where they could serve Hamas as human shields], there is no objective way to verify IDF withdrawals.

–sometimes Gazan civilians upload footage showing the presence–or absence–of IDF troops. These may be cross-referenced with geolocation tools (like Bellingcat’s methods) to confirm authenticity.

–satellite imagery from independent sources like UNOSAT, Maxar, Planet Labs are released to the public, showing troop movements. Look for before-and-after comparisons.

–UN agencies, Red Cross, and NGOs like Medecins sans Frontieres may report on conditions that reflect IDF repositioning.

Now let us examine your implicit assumption that Israel should not be allowed to strike terrorist leaders, especially when they are shielded by Quatar of two faces. True, this is an intervention on the part of the IDF. But for the US to forcefully prevent this, that would also be an intervention.

According to Rothbard’s neo-libertarian theory, all organized forceful interventions by the west are bad, while enemies of the west (including communists, fascists, and terrorists) are presumed otherwise and escape his focused criticism. Rothbard’s proposed agencies of organized defensive/retaliatory force somehow would not be governments and their interventions not true interventions so long as the de-facto governments do not assert territorial estate monopoly.

Even if such an assumption were true, your accusation is tautological. If Trump tells Bibi to apologize for killing terrorists, he is doing so at the bidding of Israel. But if instead Trump gives Bibi a pass, he is still doing so at the bidding of Israel. You see, Israel has two faces, one slightly less evil than the other. We should give terrorists a pass, especially when they are shielded by Quatar (which is not two-faced).

What is “genocide”? The systematic destruction of a racial, political, or cultural group. War is the continuation of politics by other means. Terrorism is war stripped of uniforms–politics waged through fear when power lacks legitimacy.

For example, Nazism was a political group inspired by a particular culture (pagan myths combined with occult mysticism) and race. Therefore, according to Rothbard, the US was wrong to intervention against Hitler.

While terrorism by military Jihadists is also based on tribalism (so there maybe infighting between Arab and Persian terrorists, akin to a family squabble). They want to create a political Islam or caliphate (which is political). Their culture is based on a strict interpretation of Islam’s holy books (which is cultural). Let us examine the bloody history of its strict followers. According to a study by the Foundation pour l’innovation politique, between 1979-2024), there were 66,872 terrorist attacks resulting in at least 249,941 deaths worldwide. “Tears of Jihad” estimates up to 270 million deaths over 1400 years were caused by militant Jihadist wars of conquest, forced conversions, and slave raids. But that should be excused, because it wasn’t done by western governments.

In 1948, the population of Gaza was estimated at 80,000. Today in 2025, the Gazan population is estimated at 2.1 million population. While the Jewish population of Europe circa 1933 was ~9.5 million, and after WW2 ~3.5 million, ~2.0 to 2.2 million were living in the Soviet Union.

amiright1 says:

11 October, 2025 at 1:21 pm

So cynical so young

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Kevin Scott Bjornson says:

11 October, 2025 at 6:38 pm

Do facts support your narrative, or is the narrative a-priori?

Let us first consider your claim that because the IDF restricts the presence of self-identified journalists in an active war zone [where they could serve Hamas as human shields], there is no objective way to verify IDF withdrawals.

–sometimes Gazan civilians upload footage showing the presence–or absence–of IDF troops. These may be cross-referenced with geolocation tools (like Bellingcat’s methods) to confirm authenticity.

–satellite imagery from independent sources like UNOSAT, Maxar, Planet Labs are released to the public, showing troop movements. Look for before-and-after comparisons.

–UN agencies, Red Cross, and NGOs like Medecins sans Frontieres may report on conditions that reflect IDF repositioning.

Now let us examine your implicit assumption that Israel should not be allowed to strike terrorist leaders, especially when they are shielded by Quatar of two faces. True, this is an intervention on the part of the IDF. But for the US to forcefully prevent this, that would also be an intervention.

According to Rothbard’s neo-libertarian theory, all organized forceful interventions by the west are bad, while enemies of the west (including communists, fascists, and terrorists) are presumed otherwise and escape his focused criticism. Rothbard’s proposed agencies of organized defensive/retaliatory force somehow would not be governments and their interventions not true interventions so long as the de-facto governments do not assert territorial estate monopoly.

Even if such an assumption were true, your accusation is tautological. If Trump tells Bibi to apologize for killing terrorists, he is doing so at the bidding of Israel. But if instead Trump gives Bibi a pass, he is still doing so at the bidding of Israel. You see, Israel has two faces, one slightly less evil than the other. We should give terrorists a pass, especially when they are shielded by Quatar (which is not two-faced).

What is “genocide”? The systematic destruction of a racial, political, or cultural group. War is the continuation of politics by other means. Terrorism is war stripped of uniforms–politics waged through fear when power lacks legitimacy.

For example, Nazism was a political group inspired by a particular culture (pagan myths combined with occult mysticism) and race. Therefore, according to Rothbard, the US was wrong to intervention against Hitler.

While terrorism by military Jihadists is also based on tribalism (so there maybe infighting between Arab and Persian terrorists, akin to a family squabble). They want to create a political Islam or caliphate (which is political). Their culture is based on a strict interpretation of Islam’s holy books (which is cultural). Let us examine the bloody history of its strict followers. According to a study by the Foundation pour l’innovation politique, between 1979-2024), there were 66,872 terrorist attacks resulting in at least 249,941 deaths worldwide. “Tears of Jihad” estimates up to 270 million deaths over 1400 years were caused by militant Jihadist wars of conquest, forced conversions, and slave raids. But that should be excused, because it wasn’t done by western governments.

In 1948, the population of Gaza was estimated at 80,000. Today in 2025, the Gazan population is estimated at 2.1 million population. While the Jewish population of Europe circa 1933 was ~9.5 million, and after WW2 ~3.5 million, ~2.0 to 2.2 million were living in the Soviet Union.

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