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NEW (4/2/026): Trump Goes Amalek on Iran: Israelization of The US Military; Gazafication of Iran & Lebanon

America, Ancient History, Argument, Bush, Donald Trump, Ethics, Foreign Policy, GAZA, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Law, Middle East, Military, Propaganda, War

NEW ESSAY IS “Trump Goes Amalek on Iran: Israelization of The US Military; Gazafication of Iran & Lebanon.” It can currently be read on The Unz Review, home to dissidents from day one, and on LewRockwell.com, antiwar, anti-state, pro-market.

In it you’ll encounter Oafs Wittkoaff and Kushner, sons Odai and Qusai, Big Daddy Beelzebub and his favorite, serial-killer state, even an ugly war-gaming American makes an appearance. Never forget though that in reality, the Axis of Resistance is battling The Axis of Epstein for us all.

To Israel’s unbridled barbarism, America has responded by joining in. Trump has naturalized the idea of conquest, ethnic cleansing; genocide and mass murder. ~ilana

The Axis of Epstein wants to destroy the Axis of Resistance. ~ilana 

Excerpts:

Decent, moral people will root for Iran to hold the line against a Satanic confederacy, Israel in the lead, seeking the fragmentation and Gazafication of Iran and Lebanon.

To that end, President Donald Trump had convened “hucksters and shysters” to head his diplomatic corps to the Middle East and beyond, Iran included. In the commission of the greatest Sins known to Man, the “populist” president had recruited billionaires to his White House, who also happen to be Israel-first fixers and assets. Like their boss, both Trump’s point “men” are regarded as “Israeli assets,” as “one Gulf diplomat with knowledge of the talks” told The Guardian, on March 17.

This, the president, to whom Bibi Netanyahu’s word is law, did with a purpose, the outcome of which is in evidence:

The final and full Israelization of the American military, and the attempted Gazafication of Iran and Lebanon. The “Gaza doctrine applied to a new front,” concludes Jonathan Whittall, a humanitarian and fellow South African. “And the American state is in compliance, providing firepower and striving to finally and fully Israelize the American military.”

The crime of aggression is “the supreme international crime” in international customary law. Why so? Because “it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole.” The aggression is not only “a crime against the state that is attacked,” but it is “a crime against individuals who are killed or harmed as a result of war.”

Think “accumulated evil” when you look at Trump, a “second-rate gangster who strove to be Bibi Netanyahu” and has finally and fully arrived.

Without half trying, Trump has made us all confederates in Israel’s crimes. The Israel-US criminal regimes are in contravention of the laws of war, and the Charter of the United Nations—Articles Two and 51, in particular—by which “armed force” shall not be deployed against “the sovereignty, territorial integrity or political independence of another State.”

For reasons obvious, the twinned Trump-Netanyahu regimes are also an affront to God’s law, the Ten Commandments—according to which you must not covet or murder—and the natural justice, subsumed within which is the libertarian law. The latter pivots on the universal injunction against unprovoked aggression, not on the “national interest fiat standard.” 

Most of all, this obtains “regardless of a declaration of war”! In other words, the murderous parliamentary procedures and protocols of Israel or the US do not usurp eternal codes of morality and ethics. Codified or uncodified, all laws that govern the comity between the community of nations and uphold individual rights have been trashed by the US-Israel coalition of evil.

By rights, Iran then is not only expected to defend its people—but to defend them against any “State [that] allows its territory, which it has placed at the disposal of another State, to be used by that other State [USA] for perpetrating an act of aggression against a third State [Iran].” By the letter of the law, Iran is fighting fair when it targets the Persian Gulf states, from which attacks on the Iranian people are staged.

These eternal universal laws have been sundered by two rogue, nuclear powers, whose nuclear proliferation is undeclared and unsupervised. Obscenely, the US and Israel have justified their attack on a third state [Iran] that has no nukes and has not initiated war in centuries, by invoking nuclear control and non-proliferation, comments Craig Mokhiber.

This is enough to make one gag.

Trump’s team of choice gave tone to all negotiation proceedings. The Three Amigos—Trump and his Israel-first fixers—have recruited America into their unbridled barbarism. In progress is a system of plunder developed by this coterie. Don’t, however, let the sweep of destruction they leave in their wake fool you. Trump and his loyalists are amassing fortunes. So too are sons Odai and Qusai making money hand over fist.

The one oaf sent abroad to “represent,” Steve Witkoff, is an old pal of the president. A real estate developer and investor, the man knows less than nothing about most things, the world of stocks and bonds excepted.

As we know, Trump is economical with the truth. Like him, Witkoaff has told lies right and left. About the long-suffering, patient, genial Iranian negotiators—a class act if ever there was one—he piled up a heap of lies to a receptive media: …

…  Predictions, classifications, derivations, etiologies: Man has always performed these mental operations. However, the war gaming going on under the guise of military scholarship is both repulsive and dangerous, given the “place of massive impunity” that has been carved out for Netanyahu and his complicit countrymen. As I see it, the gaiety someone like Robert Pape affects, while huffily flogging his war-on-Iran predictions, comes under the “Ugly American” category. …

The use of tactical nuclear weapons must be decried with the lash of logic, not logistics, and in clear moral language. Protest, rather than prattle to show how much you know or how predictive your war gaming is. …

Protest and pray. In Iran, the Axis of Epstein, whose combined age is 327 years, is trying to destroy a civilization 6000 to 8000 years old. Pray they fail. …

… READ THE REST. NEW ESSAY IS “Trump Goes Amalek on Iran: Israelization of The US Military; Gazafication of Iran & Lebanon.” Read it now on The Unz Review and on LewRockwell.com.

UPDATED (3/28): PROGRESSIVE METAL VERSION of the great “BOOM BOOM TEL AVIV” anthem. Really well done. Bravo NadaNita.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnVW8sHMDEU&t=5s 

UPDATE: 4/2/026: A note I wrote on #LinkedIn, whose algorithms are deceptive:

Since the #Genocide in #Gaza commenced; the only “connections” offered up to me have been pro-Israel. Today’s offering among many other such “candidates”: director of a Zionist outfit, and someone at the Israel-adoring Blaze.

This is what LinkedIn’s AI Idiocracy comes up with, given this work?

https://www.ilanamercer.com/category/gaza/

LinkedIn might be construed to be preventing persons inclined to my views from being employed by myself. Not enabling, but preventing.

Quiz: What are the terms used in law and economics for organizations that misrepresent their mission statement? LinkedIn’s is: “… create economic opportunity for every member of the global workforce. … by building a platform that helps professionals build skills, connect, and discover opportunities…”

https://www.ilanamercer.com/category/gaza/

Remembering Qasem Soleimani, Revolutionary Guards General Whose 2020 Murder Joe Kent Praises

America, Argument, Donald Trump, Foreign Policy, Iran, Iraq, Logic, Middle East, Military, Morality

LATEST ESSAY is “Remembering Qasem Soleimani, Revolutionary Guards General Whose 2020 Murder Joe Kent Praises.” Read it at The Unz Review, home to radical dissidents from day one, and LewRockwell.com

Now on IlanaMercer.com.

‘In your first administration, you understood better than any modern President how to decisively apply military power without getting us drawn into never-ending wars. You demonstrated this by killing Qasam Solamani and by defeating ISIS. ~National Counterterrorism Center Director Joseph Kent (2026)

If we accept U.S. state aggression based on erroneous prior-restraint reasoning—then aggress we can ad absurdum. ~ilana (2020)

EXCERPT:

… The debate is only ever over whether the U.S. government should or shouldn’t act on its divine rights as transnational judge, jury and executioner, never over what’s right and what’s wrong.

Stateside, the only inquiry permissible is a cost-benefit calculus. Will the assassination of Soleimani, a military official of a sovereign state, and an avid and effective slayer of Islamic State terrorists—pay strategic dividends for America in the long run?

This is crass pragmatism bereft of principle. It’s on display everywhere, surfacing on BBC News, where a female analyst, an American, was deploying the childish “bad man” meme to outline America’s Disneyfied foreign policy.

This angels-and-demons production always starts with the prototypical evil dictator who was alleged to be messing with his noble people, until the avenging, angelic empire sent a drone to the rescue.

Again, even Tucker, whose antiwar credentials in recent years have been impeccable, had conceded that this Soleimani guy probably needed killing, which is the same thing Iraqis old enough to remember America’s destruction of Iraq, circa 2003, would say about President George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Don Rumsfeld and Ms. Rice.

So, who’s right? Or, is blind patriotism predicated on accepting that it is up to the U.S. government and its ruling elites to determine who lives and who dies around the world?

“Soleimani deserved to die,” an atavistic bit of jingoism made by Republicans and Democrats alike on Fox News and on CNN—it holds true only if you believe that the U.S. government is the keeper of the flame of an immutably just, universal code of law, which it is deputized to uphold, wherever it takes-up residence.

Such a chauvinistic impulse is true only if you believe that the U.S. government’s might gives it the right to be universal judge, jury and executioner, deciding who may live and who must die the world over. ….”

…THE REST: Remembering Qasem Soleimani, Revolutionary Guards General Whose 2020 Murder Joe Kent Praises” is at The Unz Review and LewRockwell.com.

Now on IlanaMercer.com.

* Image screen pic credit: www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/youth-members-of-the-scouting-movement-walk-with-a-large-news-photo/1892454629?adppopup=true

ESSAY (UPDATES 3/21): Why Iran Should Go Heavy On Israel, And Spare The US & Gulf States + VIDEO

America, Argument, COVID-19, Democrats, Donald Trump, Ethics, Foreign Policy, GAZA, Iran, Israel, libertarianism, Middle East, Military, Propaganda, The West, War

NEW ESSAY is “Why Iran Should Go Heavy On Israel, And Spare The US & Gulf States + VIDEO.” It is a leading feature on The Unz Review, home to those who’ve been dissident writers and thinkers from day one.

Excerpt:

I’m thinking that Iran should have—could still—go heavy on Israel, but not on their neighbors. And not on the US. The reasons I say this are as follows:

First the US: Iran cant’s significantly hurt the United States of America. It’s obvious.

Our Epstein Elites, running their mouths and running the war, are impervious to morality, decency; to fairness, and to the costs of their unending, insatiable aggression. (The crime of aggression is considered the supreme crime in international law. The natural law and libertarian law are agreed.)

Over time, the US Epstein Elites have accrued wealth and power so obscene, so ill-gotten that they are able to have a say over the livelihoods and lives of their subjects, stateside and the world over. Wars and catastrophic events serve as ruses through which power is centralized. Of note is the consolidation of power and wealth that COVID afforded these elites. (More about the precedent-setting violations of individual rights in my book about Deep Tech, Deep Pharma and the Aberrant Economy.) Covid and genocide. Genocide was Trump’s gateway crime.

Yes, we are subjects of the Israeli-American Epstein Elites. And nothing will sway the Orange Entity, his formal accomplices stateside, nor his unofficial accomplices, Trump’s Jewish-Israeli billionaire handlers. Nothing. Nonchalantly, Bibi’s bitch told America that he anticipates losing American men in his war of choice on Iran (for Israel). The price is worth it, he suggested.

In the service of Israel, American lives are Trump’s to dispatch. These are Goyim, as Epstein and friends refer to non-Jews. So what does Trump care if the shiksas mourn the Goyim. (Shiksa is a non-Jewish girl or woman. It’s the female for Goy, and it is as offensive.)

The same goes for the Democrats. I don’t have to tell you that Genocide Joe and all his Democrats—from AOC to Pelosi—smoothed the way in normalizing genocide in Gaza, “because Israel.”

As ugly as this reality is; The US Epstein Elites, our overlords, are too big, too evil, too resolute to be subject to influence or pain. They’re untouchable, impervious. They’re not subject to the ordinary schedules of reinforcement and punishment to which even Europe’s and England’s Epstein Elites have reacted. There was residual shame expressed in resignations and attempted suicides that took place across The Pond.

America’s Epstein Class has no shame. It thrives, in power, independent of the influence of ordinary folks like you and me. We appear incapable of dislodging the Class that rules us.

So, Iran is wasting time and scarce resources in trying to punish Little Satan (America). Am I biased? Of course. Naturally, I don’t want Iranians to punish our hapless soldiers, my countrymen, even though the patient Iranians are well within their right to so do.

I come now to the Gulf States, which Iran is pummeling—and not only US installations, but facilities and installations across the region:

I say this with weary contempt: When it comes to the elites of the Persian Gulf countries; it’s literally the case of, “Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing.” Yes, Qatar, UAE, Bahrain and Kuwait, etc., they host US forces and all the support structure of war. But they are puppet states, vassals. They are in thrall to the Anglo-American-Israeli axis. Intractably so.  … ”

… READ THE REST. “Why Iran Should Go Heavy On Israel, And Spare The US & Gulf States + VIDEO.” It is a leading feature on The Unz Review

VIDEO: “Why Iran Should Go Heavy On Israel, And Spare The US & Gulf States

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDfDVBTy5s0

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(UPDATES 3/15):

Thank you to the three men whom Elon allows to see my post:

https://x.com/Mo_Resourcez/status/2033234973453340833

Coming out: Melania Trump too is a narcissistic megalomaniac. Who knew? A match made in hell. Watch:

https://x.com/IlanaMercer/status/2033236509508370735

Sodom and Gomorrah. Genocide and genocidal war turns the demons on. GenocideDonald. Watch:

https://x.com/IlanaMercer/status/2031824555300569515

The Middle East’s ancient Christian community is dying by Israel, hand-in-glove with America. Read: 

https://x.com/IlanaMercer/status/2031822930330747004

The white smoke over Tel-Aviv: What does it mean? Watch:

https://x.com/BranPuffin/status/2031441852436807718

US murdering Iranians to make them (allegedly) more like Israelis. Here are Israel’s religiously devout charedi, ultra orthodox, after a Purim Party, presumably … drunk. Check:

https://x.com/IlanaMercer/status/2030726645167108459

US killing Iranians (ostensibly) to make Iran and Iranians look like this:
Purim in Jerusalem, the holy city:

https://x.com/IlanaMercer/status/2030723811713458396

UPDATE: 3/21: Looting, trashing Lebanon. Hmm. Where have we seen this before?

Sadly, IDF, a citizens’ army, have a get-out-of-jail card READY.

The narrative among American conservatives is “Shame, they are brainwashed.”
Wrong! Israel has a robust, and privately owned media. It caters to PUBLIC DEMAND.

Israel is one of the most WiFi-ed societies in the world. It’s a high-tech society; every Israeli has access to corrective feedback, to information.

Beware. Infantilize and disease innate evil—and you’ll get A LOT MORE OF IT. Coming to your shores.

https://www.facebook.com/fatunetwork/videos/a-group-of-israeli-soldiers-recorded-themselves-looting-homes-in-lebanon-as-they/882137588192250/

UPDATED (1/11/026): VIDEO & ESSAY: Genocide Was Trump’s Gateway Crime. Why The Surprise Over His Vanquishing Of Venezuela?

America, Argument, Colonialism, Democrats, Donald Trump, Law, Logic, Middle East, Military, Morality, Natural Law, Neoconservatism, Palestinians, Populism, Propaganda, Pseudo-history, Psychology & Pop-Psychology, Republicans, War

“Trump is a second-rate gangster and he hates it. He wants to be Bibi.” ~ilana

“Surely, you don’t need mommy to tell you that murder is more than a secondary personality trait? It defines who a person is. It tends to crowd out all other positive attributes. If that’s not obvious, think of Oscar Wilde’s simple guidelines for cretins: ‘Murder is always a mistake. One should never do anything that one cannot talk about after dinner.'” ~ilana

NEW essay is “Genocide Was Trump’s Gateway Crime. Why The Surprise Over His Vanquishing Of Venezuela?“. It is now featured on the Unz Review, home of true dissidents from day one, and on LewRockwell.com, anti-war, anti-state, pro-markets .

Now on ILANAMERCER.COM

https://www.ilanamercer.com/2026/01/genocide-was-trumps-gateway-crime-why-the-surprise-over-his-vanquishing-of-venezuela/

Some choice excerpts (not contiguous): 

“The fuss and feathers over Trump’s foreign policy is silly, childish. It attests to what happens to the minds of men when they view the very public mass murder of The Other—committed by their Leaderas unrelated to their own moral integrity and future welfare: the brain goes to mush. Or perhaps it was the size of a lentil to begin with.

In the mind of the minimally moral, minimally compos mentis American—”America First” and genocide ought to be two mutually exclusive categories. 

Here’s a useful clue: If your politician of choice, going into an election, supports genocide or is silent about genocide; he’s not your friend. You ought to be smart enough, in possession of the very basic moral faculties—having reached a rudimentary development of conscience—to make that minuscule determination.

Has mommy not taught you that murder is wrong and that no mass murderer and congenital thief is your friend? Alas, the decay of the American Mind is such that Trump’s fans are apoplectic—and one or two has texted me in tears: “America First, Ilana; what-oh-what has happened to it?” …

….   That his phlegmatic followers now whinge and whine over Trump’s lackluster America-First focus is really quite puzzling, if not contemptible. It’s like complaining—not that serial killer Ted Bundy killed a lot; but that he was unpatriotic for driving around in a Volkswagen Beetle.

“Ever heard of a Chevy Tahoe, Ted? Boohoo, Bundy, why did you go to work in a Volkswagen, you traitor? Buy America, not German.

Bundy and Trump, Joe Biden and Bibi Netanyahu, and their minions, are murderers all. Murder is what defines them; it’s their defining feature. Except that the last three delegated mass murder to the mercenaries of a military. Bundy did the deeds himself.

Surely, you don’t need mommy to tell you that murder is more than a secondary personality trait? It defines who a person is. It tends to crowd out all other positive attributes. If that’s not obvious, think of Oscar Wilde’s simple guidelines for cretins: “Murder is always a mistake. One should never do anything that one cannot talk about after dinner.” …

…  “Genocide for Israel” is Trump’s de facto Middle East foreign policy.

Impoverished heroic Houthis of Yemen Trump has murdered beginning in 2018: The House of Trump in partnership with the House of Saud. Iranians Trump has helped murder. Somalis and Nigerians Trump has been murdering. Sailors in vessels, on the Caribbean and Eastern Pacific, no due process required: them, too, Trump has murdered. All this with nary a meaningful check on executive power from the dullards serving in the world’s “greatest” deliberative bodies, the US Congress and Senate.

And now Venezuelans, ordinary men and women, scan the skies nervously for the telltale metallic shimmer, wondering whether they are being simply surveilled from above, or targeted by Hellfire missiles. …

… Genocide, the crime of all crimes, was Trump’s gateway crime. Once you’ve crossed over to genocide, the world (and its people) is your oyster. …

… And his fans expected Trump to compartmentalize the killer-within and keep to his America-First promise? Are they dense? …

As to Venezuela: Trump knows nothing about the anti-imperial spirit of the Bolívar Revolution still animating Latin America. …  …  Trump’s handlers, only marginally smarter than he, tell him to say stuff that makes him seem in-the-know. So, Trump stammers about The Monroe Doctrine and the imperative to make errant Latin America submit to America (much like Arabia bows to Bibi).

Trump’s Other Handlers have yet to hand Trump his marching orders. But they’re happy. On Israel’s ILTV …”

…READ IT ALL NOW. “Genocide Was Trump’s Gateway Crime. Why The Surprise Over His Vanquishing Of Venezuela?“. It is now featured on the Unz Review, and on LewRockwell.com, anti-war, anti-state, pro-markets .

Now on ILANAMERCER.COM

I will update this post with a note on how you can–and really should—help a besieged dissident scribe (who is getting older and more tired).

*Screen picture on essay courtesy of antiwar.com

UPDATED (1/11): “Venezuela: Trump Is A Second-Rate Gangster, And He Hates It. He Wants To Be Bibi Netanyahu”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZ5NTiDCCEk

UPDATE 1/7: 

Do the right thing in support of much-besieged work which adheres to Christian duties flouted by your leaders.  And, do so publicly. Anon is fine. Here is an example of the kind of weasel letters I get (after each piece)—have got for decades—which, as nice as it is, does no good. Preaching to the choir is worse than useless:

——– Original Message ——–
Subject: Why the National Interest Standard is Fake & Gayhttps://www.ilanamercer.com/2025/12/why-the-national-interest-standard-feels-fake-gay-solidarity-with-palestine-is-libertarian/
Date: 2025-12-17 08:21
From: kathleen lips
To: ilana@ilanamercer.com

Ilana — This column is brilliant. Thank you for your courage and for saying so many things that many of us think but are afraid to utter in public.

You are a hero to millions of us.

— David

Here is how men and women WITH a backbone can stand up:

Comment (anon if you like) on the blog (not to me). Each blog post corresponds to an essay. For example:

https://barelyablog.com/why-the-national-interest-standard-is-fake-gay-solidarity-with-palestine-is-libertarian/#comments

At Ron Unz anon is fine:

https://www.unz.com/imercer/genocide-was-trumps-gateway-crime-why-the-surprise-over-his-vanquishing-of-venezuela/#respond

Do a book Review of last book (another is due please God in April):

https://www.amazon.com/dp/0974103926