The Zionist Attention Corral

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Correction: I originally stated the Zionist Congress was in 1869. It as held in 1897.

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For valid reasons, Americans are becoming increasingly aware of the corruption of their government by Zionists and the Zionist lobby. The concern that their government does not represent them, but rather the Zionist element within both the US and the Israeli governments, is squarely based upon evidence and, for the overwhelming part, is not born of antisemitism.

Zionism is a racist nationalist political movement, not a religious movement. It is purely for political reasons that the World Jewish Congress (WJC) declares Zionism to be synonymous with Judaism. It is this baseless claim that supposedly justifies accusing anyone who opposes Zionism of being antisemitic.

The idea that Zionism is a core feature of Jewish identity is nonsense. Many Jews resoundingly reject Zionism. Anti-Zionism is not, by any definition, a form of antisemitism. Regardless of the WJC’s groundless assertions.

Illustrating the absurdity of maintaining that Zionism and Jewish identity are synonymous, the WJC openly concedes that Zionism’s primary objective was defined at the First Zionist Congress, or Basel Congress, in 1897.

That objective is:

To secure for the Jewish people a publicly recognized, legally assured homeland in Palestine.

The creation and expansion of a Jewish nation state “in Palestine” is an overtly ethno-nationalist political ambition.

Underlining the separation between the Zionist state project, Judaism, and the Jewish people, the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s (IHRA’s) working definition of antisemitism clearly determines that “holding Jews collectively responsible for actions of the state of Israel” is antisemitic. Reciprocally, therefore, claiming that the state of Israel embodies the will of Jews is equally antisemitic, according to the IHRA definition.

In the UK—from the legal perspective—anti-Zionism is definitely not antisemitism. Professor David Miller has won his employment tribunal and defeated the subsequent appeal by his employer. Miller’s tribunal finding has established in UK law that anti-Zionism is a protected philisophical belief for the purposes of the 2010 Equality Act.

There are, of course, antisemitic anti-Zionists, but anti-Zionism is not antisemitic. Opposition to the political ideology of Zionism and revulsion at the horrors inflicted by the Israeli state and its international partners in pursuit of the political ideology of Zionism is not to blame all Jews. For example, the Israeli state, heavily influenced by Zionism, has committed genocide against the Palestinians in Gaza. This observation does not imply that Jews, as a whole people, are collectively responsible for this abhorrent war crime.

From a rational perspective, genocide is obviously incomprehensible. To perpetrate a genocide, even if ordered, requires a deeply unfathomable, heinous malevolence. Burning children alive in their beds, blowing infants’ brains out, sniping pregnant women (and their unborn children), beating the elderly to death with rifle butts, and using anal rape as part of your torture regimen—then writing songs about your exploits and celebrating your depravity as if it were a virtue—are not the actions of morally defensible human beings: Jewish or otherwise.

As discussed in my recent piece for Unlimited Hangout, aside from the obscene brutality—recorded, filmed, and shown around the world—just from a statistical or even an official report perspective, the Israeli government’s genocide of the Palestinians in Gaza is blatantly obvious.

I wrote:

The Israeli government’s direct military actions, forced displacement, and blockades, combined with the total destruction of Gaza’s health care system, its water supply, and infrastructure, mean it is utterly ridiculous to describe Israel’s mass culling of the Palestinians as anything other than genocide. The International Criminal Court’s (ICC’s) issued warrant for the arrest of Benjamin Netanyahu, on suspicion of committing the crime of genocide, is valid. Though it probably won’t amount to anything.

Genocide is not war; it is terrorism. It is also a war crime and a crime against humanity. Genocide is not an act of self-preservation, and if your hate is so all-consuming that you revel in the mass slaughter of children, your mind and your soul are broken. Nothing ever justifies genocide, regardless of what you have suffered, what wrongs you attribute to your enemy, or what ideology you hold. Adherence to Zionism certainly does not legitimise genocide.

Following the October 7th, 2023, Hamas attack on Southern Israel—which the evidence suggests was an Israeli Let It Happen On Purpose (LIHOP) false flag attack—to the period ending September 2025, thanks to America’s Zionist-influenced political establishment, US taxpayers were forced to hand Israel’s genocidal military approximately $22 billion in direct military aid.

Now that Gaza has been flattened, the stomach-churning suggestion of the Trump administration and others is to build a so-called Middle East “miracle city” in Gaza, literally on the crushed bones of murdered Palestinian families. When his team decided to post a vulgar AI generated “Trump Gaza” video, the international backlash was considerable.

The proposed New Gaza isn’t remotely in Palestinian interests. Indeed, when Trump announced the New Gaza project, he suggested displacing the entire Palestinian population from Gaza to make way for AI data centres, natural gas platforms, gleaming casinos, and beachfront condos.

For its part, Hamas, which supposedly serves and protects the Palestinian people, appears more than willing to go along with the construction of New Gaza. One would expect Hamas to strongly oppose the plan. Instead, it is seemingly working hard to facilitate it. But Hamas has often served as a proxy for the US and Israeli governments, so perhaps that isn’t surprising.

Trump’s hamfist after condemnation of his crass “Trump Gaza” video.

If the Hamas attack was an Israeli LIHOP false flag, one of Israel’s evident objectives was to start a war with Iran. Following the attack, many Israeli government officials—such as Israeli President Isaac Hertzog and the ambassador-designate to Canada, Iddo Moed—sought to immediately pin the blame on Iran. For example, Israel’s ambassador to the US, Michael Hertzog—Isaac’s brother—said:

We suspect Iranian hands behind the scenes. As you know, Hamas and Iran are closely tied. [. . .] They are tied in what they call the Axis of Resistance—of course, resistance to the existence of the State of Israel. [. . .] So, as far as we are concerned, this is an Iranian-led coalition, and we suspect that Iran is involved.

In truth, the degree to which Hamas and the Iranian government are “closely tied” is debatable. At times, Hamas has actively opposed Iranian interests and the relationship has frequently been fraught.

Despite admitting that he had no evidence to support anything he said, White House spokesman John Kirby also said Iran was complicit in the Hamas attack. The purpose of this strand of the propaganda in the early aftermath of the Hamas attack was pretty clear.

The idea of using false flag attacks as a fake casus belli for a US-Israeli war with Iran isn’t new. Speaking at a Washington symposium in 2012, Patrick Clawson, a director of research at the Washington Institute of Near East Policy (WINEP), suggested that false flag attacks could be used to start the desired war.

He said:

[If] the Iranians aren’t going to compromise, it would be best if someone else started the war. [. . .] One can combine other means of pressure with sanctions. [. . .] We are in the game of using covert means against the Iranians. We could get nastier.

Though WINEP claims to be funded exclusively by American citizens and touts itself as an independent think-tank, the evidence clearly indicates it is a cutout for the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC). Originally named the American Zionist Committee for Public Affairs (AZCPA), AIPAC finances the political campaigns of more than eighty per cent of representatives on both the Republican and Democrat sides of the US House of Representatives.

Nearly every US senator is beholden to AIPAC. To some greater or lesser extent, support for the Israeli government and its war machine—which AIPAC demands—has practically been a precondition for political office in the US for at least the last half-century.

When US politicians deviate from the AIPAC script, as Thomas Massie did—for instance, by opposing the Trump administration’s Operation Epic Fury attack on Iran and criticising US aid to Israel—invariably their political days are numbered. In what was widely reported to be the most expensive primary campaign in US history, the whole Republican party turned against Massie, and he was unseated in Kentucky by Ed Gallrein thanks to the financial support Gallrein received from AIPAC. Massie’s political defeat was subsequently reported as Trump imposing his authority over the Republican Party, but the authority displayed was exercised by AIPAC.

In the US, wealthy Zionists like Miriam Adelson, widow of Sheldon Adelson (1933 – 2021), can and do shape US foreign policy. Having donated an estimated $200+ million to the Trump campaign and various Trump causes, it is clear that money buys influence on Capitol Hill. Trump is just one, along with a succession of US presidents, to have demonstrated how Zionism and the Zionist lobby direct US political decision-making.

Speaking in the Knesset (Israeli parliament) last year, Trump said the Adelsons influenced his decision to formally recognise Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. He recounted how the Adelsons would phone him to provide guidance, saying the Adelsons “were very responsible for so much, including getting me thinking about the Golan Heights”. Understandably, many Americans recognise how immensely wealthy Zionists manipulate US government policy in pursuit of Zionist objectives and the Israeli government’s plans.

With such extensive influence over US policymakers, it is common for critics to highlight Israeli Zionism as the driving force behind US foreign policy in particular. Current and recent US interventions in the Middle East appear to serve a Zionist agenda. Closer inspection, however, reveals that Zionism is just an adjunct to a much larger and truly global project that benefits to an even greater degree from US military action in the region.

Viewing it as yet another example of the Israeli state and the Zionist lobby effectively controlling the US government, many Americans have objected to the Trump administration’s insertion of Section 219 into the 2027 annual budget renewal of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). Sec. 219 (formerly Sec. 224) establishes the “United States-Israel Defense Technology Cooperation Initiative.” The initiative is heavily backed by AIPAC.

Noting the effect of Sec. 219, the Director of the Democratizing Foreign Policy program at the Quincy Institute, Ben Freeman, wrote:

Section [219] lays the groundwork for bilateral research and development, co-production of weapons, joint ventures, licensing agreements, and seemingly every manner of U.S.-Israeli military-industrial complex cooperation.[. . .] [T]his provision would greatly expand coordination to seemingly every area of defense tech, including AI, quantum, autonomous systems, directed energy, cyber, biotech, and many more. It also proposes “network integration” and “data fusion.” In other words, the U.S. military’s data could soon be the Israeli military’s data. [. . .] It would fuse the U.S. and Israeli defense sectors in multiple areas vital to the battlefields of the future, like autonomous systems and cyber.[. . .] The result could well be a U.S. political system even more susceptible to the whims of an Israeli government that seemingly has no qualms about drawing the U.S. into military conflicts in the Middle East.

Currently, Sec. 219 of the 2027 NDAA renewal is continuing to progress through the legislative stages after it was overwhelmingly approved and endorsed by the House Armed Services Committee—the majority of committee members are backed by AIPAC. When, in late June, Massie and others co-sponsored amendments to remove Sec. 219, Congress blocked any debate or vote on it.

Sec. 219’s likely success serves as further evidence of Israeli Zionist influence. Journalist and author James Corbett rightly observed that the “Frankenstein’s monster” of “USrael” is now close to controlling the “largest military power in the history of the world.”

Corbett also recognised that the American population is becoming disillusioned with the Israeli government’s and the Zionists’ constant interference in US politics. He wrote that the Israeli-Zionist lobby is “trying to hardwire this USrael relationship into law before sentiment completely turns against Israel.” He added that “the lobbyists’ move to merge the US and Israeli military establishment is an act of desperation, not an act of strength.” The evidence strongly supports Corbett’s observations.

In May 2026, following a notable slump in US public support for Israel, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanhayu blamed social media and online disinformation, not revulsion at his government’s war crimes, for shifting American opinions against Israel. This coincided with a massive increase in funding for Israeli state propaganda operations—known in Israel as “hasbara”. Evidently, the estimated $730 million Israeli propaganda budget was soon put to use.

An investigation by Time Magazine revealed that the French advertising giant Havas, which has a history of working with the Israeli government, subcontracted a $1.5 million per month Israeli government contract to an advertising agency called ‘Clock Tower X’. A subsequent PR operation was undertaken to generate “at least 50 million digital impressions per month”, ostensibly to bolster Israel’s image with American social media users.

Reportedly, a key part of Clock Tower X’s influence campaign was to set up “websites, such as PaxPoint.org and FactSignal.org, that were designed less for human readers than for [training] AI systems.” The goal was to inject pro-Israeli propaganda into “OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Anthropic’s Claude, and Google’s Gemini” algorythms. Consequently, it appears that social media users looking to AI to provide them with “facts” and “trusted information” received Israeli government propaganda.

In an article published on February 28, 2026—the day the US Operation Epic Fury began—Missy Ryan, an American journalist associated with the AIPAC cut-out WINEP, writing for The Atlantic about US-Israeli relations, said that “the dynamics surrounding the two countries’ relationship are changing fast.” Ryan acknowledged that the Israeli government was aware of its dwindling public support in the US.

Ryan noted, however, that Israel was trying to “wean itself off” US military aid and that Netanyahu was working to convince Trump to “shift the military burden”. This “shift”, suggested Ryan, was away from Israeli dependency on direct US military aid to “partnership”. Hence, the creation of USrael.

Ryan wrote:

Netanyahu’s proposal was not rooted in the evolving politics in the United States but the emergence of Israel as an economic dynamo. [. . .] Israel’s booming high-tech and defense industries are closely intertwined with those in the United States, and the country is now an important global arms exporter. Netanyahu hasn’t provided much detail about what a new U.S.-Israel partnership would entail, except that it would involve joint or parallel investment in advanced weapons or cybertech.

As the so-called “war” with Iran has devolved into a practical stalemate, the Trump administration and its partners have made various attempts to negotiate a peace deal. Currently, the process is at an impasse. Not everyone, however, wants peace.

It seems that the hasbara conducted in the US wasn’t simply intended to polish Israel’s public image. In a sprawling interview with Joe Rogan, US VP J.D. Vance complained that “some people within [Israel’s] system [. . .] are manipulating and trying to change American public opinion to keep the war [with Iran] going on indefinitely.” Vance referenced the influence operations, running across US social media platforms, orchestrated by Clock Tower X.

According to Time, when US government officials investigated the social media patterns emanating from the Clock Tower X influence network, they consistently found them undermining the US government’s attempt to negotiate ceasefire arrangements. Instead, the campaign appeared to focus on prolonging the conflict, seemingly contrary to US diplomatic efforts.

USrael is being formed as the Israeli government wants to simultaneously reduce its reliance on US military aid by increasing its domestic military capability, arms manufacturing capacity, and weapons development programs. With this in mind, consider how Benjamin Netanyahu sold the idea of USrael:

The time has now arrived for us [the Israeli state] to move from aid recipient to partner [with the US state]. We are beginning preparations to align our defence frameworks for the threats of the future.

Yet, as accurately highlighted by Ben Freeman, Sec. 219 “greatly expand[s] coordination to seemingly every area of defense tech, including AI, quantum, autonomous systems, directed energy, cyber, biotech, and many more, [and] fuse[s] the U.S. and Israeli defense sectors in multiple areas vital to the battlefields of the future, like autonomous systems and cyber.”

On the one hand, we have the fusion of US and Israeli defence sectors to create a military USrael monster. Standard geopolitical realism would suggest the US government would dominate such an arrangement. On the other hand, we have an increasingly confident and more independent Israeli defence sector moving further away from dependency on the US.

So how do we resolve this apparent contradiction?

There are two main reasons why the Israeli state is now able to contemplate weaning itself off US direct military aid. There is the remarkable, relative economic success it has enjoyed over the last few decades and the decreasing financial cost of arms manufacturing globally, including in Israel. Both of these contributory factors have combined in Israel largely thanks to the close partnerships the Israeli state has with the clique of Silicon Valley oligarchs (SV-oligarchs) that currently control the Trump administration.

Though American citizens are acutely aware of Zionist influence, they appear to be far less concerned about the control exerted by the SV-oligarchs over their government. Adelson, and other Zionist influencers, invested heavily to put their man Trump in the Oval Office, but their contribution was eclipsed by the so-called “tech bros” (SV-oligarchs). For instance, Elon Musk alone gave an estimated $277 million to the Trump campaign, and strings were definitely attached.

The SV-oligarchs are transnational capitalist oligarchs with an obviously defined agenda that is not Zionist. Such oligarchs do not tie themselves to any nation-states or national movements; they use them. The state of Israel is evidently valuable to them as another foothold in the Middle East, but their global project empowers them and their oligarch partners above all others. No matter what causes they claim to support.

Though the SV-oligarchs overwhelmingly self-identify as Zionists, or as Christian Zionists, their evident focus is on worldwide digital transformation. Their alleged devotion to Zionism and the State of Israel palpably runs a dim and distant second to their other ambitions.

The SV-oligarchs have been instrumental in accelerating the development of Israel’s “Silicon Wadi” region. The progress has driven the startup nation of Israel to become the “third-largest generative AI venture capital ecosystem globally, following the United States and China.”

Israel’s new high-tech economy is the product of public-private partnership. The Israeli government provides subsidies, tax breaks, favourable planning and regulatory leeway to encourage private sector foreign direct investment in Silicon Wadi’s technological R&D and innovation hubs. SV-oligarch’s companies, such as Palantir, Oracle, OpenAI, and Anduril, have taken advantage of this Israeli enabling environment.

Silicon Wadi is also home to many startup technology companies established by former operatives of the Israeli signals intelligence (SIGINT) Unit 8200—the Unit 8200 alumni. They have co-developed technology, especially “AI, quantum, autonomous systems, directed energy, [and] cyber” weaponry alongside the SV-oligarchs’ companies and other US technology giants—such as Microsoft. The US corporations have become so deeply entwined with the Israeli signal’s SIGINT community that they are now practically indistinguishable.

The SV-oligarchs have also used and are using the conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East to develop their defence tech. Their representatives openly declare that they use war as the “absolute bleeding edge” for their weapons development. The SV-oligarchs want war to continue for their own financial and strategic gains. If Clock Tower X was attempting to prolong the conflict with Iran, it was working in support of SV-oligarch aims.

The SV-oligarchs are among those who are reshaping kinetic warfare, weaponising cyber- and outer space, and developing advanced weaponry and manufacturing processes to significantly reduce the financial costs of war. Thus contributing to the global trend of making war more affordable for a greater number of actors.

Beneficiaries of the rapidly changing economics of high-tech arms manufacturing include Israeli defence contractors, such as Elbit, who, rather than relying on US imports, can now manufacture key systems and components in Israel. At the same time, the favourable investment environment is attracting yet more SV-oligarch investors and their defence companies to Israel.

Israel is not aligning its security more closely with the US; in fact, it is doing the opposite. Though it continues to largely share the US government’s geopolitical perspective, the independent future planned by the Israeli state is more reliant on its partnership with the SV-oligarchs’ tech firms than on its international relations with the US political state.

The SV-oligarchs wish to construct their own smart city Network Empire. Their interests coalesce with those of other factions within the global oligarchy who back the United Nation’s plan to establish genuine global governance through an international network of city-states set within the regional “poles”—or unions—of a Multipolar World Order (MWO).

As I have explored extensively for Unlimited Hangout, the SV-oligarchs are effectively partners within an international public-private partnership whose interests overlap:

What we’re looking at is the merging of: (1) the oligarchs behind the UN, (2) the oligarchy’s [Silicon Valley] wing, (3) the Bank for International Settlements, (4) aligned international think tanks, (5) the global corporate network (represented by the WEF, the SPIEF, the ASEAN Private Markets Council (APMC), and so on), and (6) governments everywhere.

All of these entities desperately want the world to accept a new polity. [. . .] In short, they covet a Network Empire within a Multipolar World Order (MWO).

The MWO is a regional balance-of-power system in which no superpower dominates either militarily or economically. Formation of the MWO necessitates the regionalisation of supply chains, the dilution of any national economic advantage that comes from issuing a dominant reserve currency, the fragmentation and regionalisation of global markets, and the redistribution of military power to a wider array of actors. The disaggregation of hegemony is desired to move the MWO project forward.

As discussed in my latest piece for Unlimited Hangout (due to be published soon), Gaza, flattened by the Zionist Israeli government’s genocidal crusade against the Palestinians, is destined to become the “AI-powered” smart city hub at the confluence of the India–Middle East–Europe Economic Corridor (IMEC) and China’s One Belt One Road project—known in the West as the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI).

The SV-oligarchs and their partners are also hoping—perhaps overambitiously—to soon extend their smart city-state project to Iran. It remains to be seen whether the proposed $300 billion Reconstruction and Development Fund for Iran will enable SV-oligarchs to seize Iranian territory, but that is the idea.

Irrespective of any Zionist project, a much larger global initiative is underway, and the genocidal destruction of Gaza, and the subsequent war with Iran, observably advance that plan. The SV-oligarchs, and their partners, intend to use smart city-based Technocracy to control the behaviour of captured populations. Smart city-states in Israel—providing Governance as a Service (GaaS) to their customers—won’t benefit the Israeli people any more than a digital gulag in Gaza will benefit the Palestinians. The proposed private sector governance system in Gaza, in Israel, in the US, Europe, or anywhere else, is technocratic, not Zionist.

Notably, solidifying USrael greatly benefits the Network Empire ambitions of the clique of SV-oligarchs who not only paid to put Trump in the White House but also openly celebrate their consequent control of the US government. Sec. 219 is hardwiring SV-oligarch influence into law so that SV-oligarchs and their private sector partners can continue to exploit USrael for their own purposes. If it passes, they will no longer have to concern themselves with US public sentiment or US-Israeli international relations. USrael is an international enabling environment for the transnational private sector and SV-oligarchs in particular.

That the US mainstream media has become increasingly critical of the Israeli government is not the result of it suddenly discovering its moral backbone. Its efforts are clearly intended to stoke US public anger towards Israel and, specifically, Zionist political influence in the US. Though the American people are right to question the Zionist corruption of their political system, such criticism ultimately serves as a diversion away from the global network that is digitally transforming the planet.

This narrative shift coincides with Israel’s aspiration to gain independence from US financial support. It essentially provides an impetus for Israel’s planned move away from US military aid towards a US-Israeli defence partnership. Despite the fact that this is also what the ultra-Zionists holding Netanyahu’s coalition government together want, a USrael partnership suits the SV-oligarchs’ objectives first and foremost.

The SV-oligarchs wear their Zionist pretensions on their sleeves because it deflects scrutiny to a political ideology they evidently care nothing about and obscures what they are actually doing. USrael is forming to protect the financial and strategic interests of a global parasite class.

Zionist manipulation is the coral that currently holds the attention of the US public and sections of the American political establishment. Meanwhile, the SV-oligarchs and their partners are getting on with their business, and virtually no one is paying any attention at all.

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AI Transparency: I do not use AI to research or write any of my work. I use an AI grammar tool to check the first draft of the completed article for grammatical and spelling errors.

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