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UPDATED (4/24): Team Netanyahu/Trump Sinks Iran Talks; Kushner Beefs Up Rap-Sheet

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NEW ESSAY IS “Team Netanyahu/Trump Sinks Iran Talks; Kushner Beefs Up Rap-Sheet.” Read it now on The Unz Review and on LewRockwell.com.

It is now available on IlanaMercer.com: https://www.ilanamercer.com/2026/04/team-netanyahutrump-sinks-iran-talks-kushner-beefs-up-rap-sheet/

Excerpt:

We have a “good negotiating team, the best,” blathered Trump, with respect to the individuals he dispatched to the Pakistani capital of Islamabad, April 10, to dictate the terms of surrender to the Islamic Republic of Iran.

Team Trump was led by Israel firsters and Israeli assets like Jared Kushner, Steve Witkoaff (sic), and Vice President JD Vance, whose eyeliner only enhances the “degeneracy of manners and morals” he embodies and represents.

I’ll make this very simple. Against the Islamic Republic, victim of the US-Israel’s untrammeled criminality, the president’s men have committed the most egregious crime, the crime of aggression, categorized as such in international customary law—and in all systems of law, codified and uncodified.

By violating Iran’s territorial sovereignty and denying that country’s riparian rights in the waterways that abut its territory—by strafing Iranian cities, targeting life-sustaining infrastructure and industries; hospitals, healers and first responders.; historic sites and schools; wantonly murdering thousands of Iranian people, assassinating esteemed political and scientific leaders—Trump has demonstrated that he has assimilated Israel’s military doctrines. The president of the United States of America has Israelized the US Military and is ‘going Amalek’ on the Jewish State’s designated enemies.

The “accumulated evil,” another legal term invoked in international customary law with respect to the “supreme crime” of unprovoked aggression—this rot is evident in all Trump’s dealings and deeds. It is etched on his decaying Dorian Gray like countenance and is manifest in what is disgorged from the American president’s mouth.

By extension, it was quite clear what tone Trump’s team of choice would set for any and all “negotiation” proceedings with Iran.

Once the talks in Islamabad predictably collapsed, it transpired that Vance had likely been holding all information in reserve for Bibi Netanyahu’s edifications and approval.

Confirmed Netanyahu: “I spoke yesterday with Vice President J.D. Vance. He called me from his plane on his way back from Islamabad. He reported to me in detail, as this administration does every day, about the development of the negotiations.”

One wonders why Iran’s foreign minister, Seyed Abbas Araghchi, would sit down at the negotiating table with this coterie. After all, “in a phone call with his German counterpart, … Araghchi had proclaimed that Iran entered the failed April 10/12 talks in Islamabad with full distrust because of the US repeated breaches and betrayals of diplomacy.”

Foreign Minister Araghchi is certainly a class act. Team Trump/Netanyahu are class enemies. To wit, during the farcical negotiations, the US sneakily attempted to breach the Strait of Hurmuz, over which Iran has natural, riparian property rights. Simultaneously, the Washington Post ran an article by Marc Thiessen, a mediocre neoconservative, calling for the assassination of the Iranian negotiators if they refuse to submit.

Was it, then, prudent for Iran’s finest to grace with their presence such proven bad-faith actors? More important still, why trust Israel’s proxies—the detritus of humanity, human waste by any other name—with your life, Mr. Araghchi? Had not Mr. Araghchi’s predecessor, former Iranian foreign minister Kamal Kharazi and his wife, been murdered in “a targeted United States-Israeli strike on their Tehran home”? Indeed. So, too, is the supreme leader’s successor, Mojtaba Hosseini Khamenei, said to be languishing after wounds inflicted on him by this merged criminal cabal.

Just how duplicitous and vicious a people are we and our Israeli overlords?

A man is only as good as his word. Knowing that America’s word is shit, the Pakistan Air Force is purported to have “deployed an aerial shield” to escort the Iranian delegation, led by Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf,” safely into Pakistani airspace. On departure, their Pakistani hosts scrambled “advanced fighter jets” to protect the Iranians (to whom they had given a rock-star welcome).

True, one negotiates with foes, not with friends. Known, too, is the bravery and self-sacrifice of the Iranians and their leaders. Hours before his murder by Murder Inc., the equally impressive late Ayatollah Ali Khamenei had stated that, as long as 90 million Iranians are without bomb-sheltering bunkers, so too will he, their spiritual leader, remain above ground, outside the shelter. He did. He died.

Iranians and their leaders seem to have so much more love and loyalty in them than their oppressors. But this does not mean you sacrifice your finest to Israel’s American idolaters. Trump and team are capable of surprising calculated, calibrated evil. Jared Kushner, in particular.

Behind Kushner’s sylphlike appearance is a boa constrictor anticipating its next meal. …

… Parenthetically, I’ll say that I’m sick of Gaza being reduced to no more than an ‘open-air concentration camp.’ Legally, this is true. But Gaza before the Holocaust was quite beautiful, certainly unique. It was a quaint community with a character and a history, some of it ancient. All of it well reflected in its public spaces. Gaza had nothing of the vulgar gilt of a Trump tower. To compare Gaza of yore to the Gaza dreamt up in the Kushner consortium’s Master Slave Plan for the Strip is like comparing a centuries-old church with the heavily adorned Trump White House and White House ballroom. …

…READ THE REST. “Team Netanyahu/Trump Sinks Iran Talks; Kushner Beefs Up Rap-Sheet” is on The Unz Review and on LewRockwell.com. 

And on IlanaMercer.com: https://www.ilanamercer.com/2026/04/team-netanyahutrump-sinks-iran-talks-kushner-beefs-up-rap-sheet/

UPDATE (4/23):  Genius Resistance Rap (via Dimitri Lascaris’ Reason2Resist).

 AI LEGO Strait Outta Iran

https://x.com/drew_ponder/status/2045183966848934021

UPDATE 4/24:  
Did I call it or not? Resistance Rap by young Iranian geniuses.

Lego Melania Trump: “I was Never on #Epstein’s Island. Full White House Speech.”

IRAN IS THE ‘IT’ COUNTRY. TOTALLY.
@AntiwarNews @dimitrilascaris #Lego #Iran @ExplosiveMediaa

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

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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 & VIDEO: Introducing Mossad Farsi, The Motto And The Methods (Comment HERE!)

Criminal Injustice, Donald Trump, Foreign Policy, GAZA, Iran, Israel, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Middle East, Morality, Neoconservatism, Palestinians, Propaganda, Terrorism, War

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NEW ESSAY is “Introducing Mossad Farsi, The [Hebrew] Motto And The Methods.” It is currently featured on The Unz Review, home to dissidents from day one. Now on IlanaMercer.com

https://www.ilanamercer.com/2026/01/introducing-mossad-farsi-the-hebrew-motto-and-the-methods-video/

Those involved in these foreign-policy drives honestly believe that to be American or Israeli is the existential Gold Standard. Lowly humanity is a pilgrim en route to the Promised Land, whether they know it or not —sometimes by hook or crook. Ultimately, the lives of all the Others being roused to revolt are just not worth much until they “arrive.” ~ilana

(It’s useful to have someone who has a facility with higher Hebrew, especially when the Hebrew motto is hidden or embedded in graphics.)

Excerpt:

“… According to the twinned belief-systems of Jewish supremacy and American exceptionalism; all ‘good,’ ‘happy’ human beings are either those who are like Americans or like Israelis, or en route to becoming clones of the one or the other.

Those involved in these foreign-policy drives honestly believe that to be American or Israeli is the existential Gold Standard. Lowly humanity is a pilgrim en route to the Promised Land, whether they know it or not —sometimes by hook or crook. Ultimately, the lives of all the Others being roused to revolt are just not worth much until they “arrive.”

As to their deep involvement in inciting regime-change riots in Iran: News tidbits to that effect have come to us directly via the Israelis themselves.

By now you know that Israel is “amoral,” it acts outside the laws of both man and God. By now you know that bursts of pride accompany Israeli barbarity. As is often the case, Israelis and their media openly report their crimes. And they are especially proud to be inciting regime-change in Iran. On the ground.

Take the X account titled “Mossad Farsi.” So nauseatingly audacious in content is it, that I doubted its authenticity.

In sickeningly sugared tweets, “Official Mossad in Farsi” and its bots (the programmed, online Artificial Intelligence responders or Israel’s paid lickspittles) profess the love Israelis have for the largely pro-Palestinian Iranians.

These are the same Israelis, still mid-murder in Gaza and the West bank, who were posting and celebrating imagery of murdered Palestinians with the flesh hanging on their bones in ribbons. That amoral Israel is now “loving on” the Iranians, a people who have generally resisted for Palestine.

Filled with love, “Mossad Farsi” has been loud and proud about its role in attempting to break the Islamic Republic. Here is the Mossad Farsi tweet that got world attention. Dated December 29,  it reads as follows: “Let’s come out to the streets together. The time has come. We are with you. Not just from afar and verbally, we are with you in the field as well.” …

Speaking in unison, Israeli media—Channel 14,  i24, Israel Hayom, and others, no doubt—confirmed the authenticity and impetus of this account. In identically scripted messages, all outlets announced that a “Mossad X account in Farsi urges Iranians to protest as unrest sweeps the country.”

The criminal Svengali Bibi tips the nose toward Iran (allegedly), in a December 29 meeting at Mar-a-Lago, and Trump runs. “Fetch,” says Netanyahu to a pack of dreadful American curs, and they fetch. …

… READ THE COMPLETE ESSAY. “Introducing Mossad Farsi, The Motto And The Methods.” It is features on The Unz Review. And now on IlanaMercer.com

https://www.ilanamercer.com/2026/01/introducing-mossad-farsi-the-hebrew-motto-and-the-methods-video/

UPDATED (January 24, 2026): “Introducing Mossad Farsi, The [Hebrew] Motto And The Methods”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASIYTLBZodk 

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

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“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 Leader—as 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