FIRST things first: this investigative journalist and Islamic Jihadi expert is never too proud to admit: mea culpa! Effectively, when the truth smacks upside the head, well, as adults often tell youngsters when caught laying the blame at another’s feet for their misdeeds: “own it.”
ADMITTEDLY, six ways to Sunday, Trump enjoys full support at this end. Now, between commie/anti-American Harris and the DemonRats, incontestably, he is the uneqivocal MAGA choice. But in no way, shape, or form does said backing equate to turning deaf, dumb, and blind to the gravest error, bar none, when it involves cozying up to Qatari/Saudi Arabia Jihadi dictators – Sunni counterparts to Iran’s Shia bloodthirsty, theocratic killers.
INDEED, as is known: “the enemy of my enemy is my friend” is an apropos truism when it comes to the centuries-long hegemonic struggle between Sunni/Shia Islam. Intrinsically, they always lock- arms when their murderous plots are designed against America, “the Big Satan”, as well as Israel, “the Little Satan.” No amount of Allah-washing will change this deadly/diabolical fact. Full stop.
MOREOVER, apologists are reliably keen to excuse the inexcusable – most of whom understand less than a thimble’s worth about Islam, let alone the Koranic dictates that drive the unquenchable bloodlust coursing through the Islamic world……https://adinakutnicki.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/islam_and_blood.pdf. Alas, par for the deadly course, they are jumping aboard the expected bugaboo: the so-called necessity of Al Udeid Airport, southwest of Doha, as a mandatory price to pay with stone-cold Islamic Jihadis! Know this: utter, unmitigated, hogwash.
AS a matter of fact, since 1991, this forward base for the U.S. (and others) is a mega coup for Qatari interests, and not the other way around. Effectively, Qatar and the rest of the theocratic regimes would cease to exist, but for the aforementioned protection racket. Tragic, but true. Thus, the urgent question vis-a-vis American interests, as well as Israel’s, yes, the only true and reliable friend in the region, becomes: what the hell is going on with Trump & Co. to extend them even more shield and cover? Wait and see.
Mark Levin Fumes Over Trump’s Chummy Tour of the Arab World, Citing 9/11: ‘These Are Terrorists’
Fox News host Mark Levin is NOT pleased with President Donald Trump’s current diplomatic tour of Saudi Arabia and Qatar, which, given his history of reflexive pro-Trump rhetoric, is notable.
Trump spoke to the Saudi Royal family and other very important global business leaders during a remarkably convivial economic investment confab on Tuesday that ended on the same note as most of his political rallies: with The Village People blaring the gay disco anthem YMCA. Trump later flew to Doha, Qatar, for more meetings aimed at securing Middle Eastern investment in the American economy, despite serious concerns about human rights abuses on the part of the would-be investors.
But, without mentioning President Trump by name, Levin was remarkably critical of the commander-in-chief, taking to social media to blast Saudi Arabia for playing a “significant role on the 9/11 slaughter of our people.” He also condemned Qatar for having “protected the leader of the 9/11 attack from the FBI, before he was able to launch his war on America that killed our people.”
Levin posted on X:
Saudi Arabia played a significant role on the 9/11 slaughter of our people. I didn’t hear their Crown Prince even apologize once yesterday for what they did to us. And I know the 9/11 families are reeling from this.
And Qatar protected the leader of the 9/11 attack from the FBI, before he was able to launch his war on America that killed our people. The debate about whether the plane is a legal gift is beside the point. Qatar is a terrorist regime that has murdered Americans.
I cannot let bygones be bygones and those Americans who suffered the consequences of what these monarchies did cannot either. I can’t stop thinking about all the innocent people who went to work that day, and were on those planes, and all the firefighters and police officers who died horrible deaths.
As for Iran, if they get a nuclear weapon that’s on our generation. And our country will suffer the horrible consequences. These are terrorists. They don’t think like us and they don’t love life like us. We must have the guts and wisdom to protect ourselves.
In a separate post, Levin praised Trump, but not without dinging him for using “lines used by the Soros-Koch isolationist crowd about neocons and interventionists” in his speech to the Saudis. Levin linked to a Jewish Insider article about the speech and noted via X:
Isolationism or globalism? Or both?
Actually, POTUS’s speech included some of the lines used by the Soros-Koch isolationist crowd about neocons and interventionists, but the irony is that it was given in the context of a globalist outreach effort to make economic and military deals with and between Middle East monarchies/dictatorships and the biggest of America’s globalists/internationalists/corporatists. We don’t know the details but if they’re great deals for we, the people, that’s wonderful. I truly believe the President is THE best at making GREAT deals. Nonetheless, this looks like globalism wrapped in isolationist language.
ADDITIONALLY, a second notable voice chimes in, the executive editor of Commentary Magazine.
The Qatar Lobby Is Exactly What the Israel Lobby Never Was
By Abe Greenwald
When visiting several struggling U.S.-allied countries, I’ve been approached by well-meaning, pro-Israel officials and foreign-policy thinkers who ask me some version of the question: “How do we get an ‘Israel lobby’ of our own?” And each time, I’ve explained: You don’t. Because the Israel lobby isn’t what you think it is. First, the supposed money and power of the Israel lobby is wildly exaggerated by anti-Semites. Second, the American connection to Israel is unique. Its roots are deep and complicated.
The affinity between the two nations goes back to the Founding of the U.S., our self-conception as a New Jerusalem, and our destiny as a beacon of God-given liberty. That feeling has grown and spread and been bolstered by the many bilateral ties and shared interests between the U.S. and the modern State of Israel. Pro-Israel organizations and networks in the U.S. aren’t buying political favors; they’re strengthening the longstanding and wide-ranging organic links between America and the Jewish state. That’s impossible for another country to recreate.
It turns out, what these people really wanted to know was how to create their own version of a Qatar lobby. An explosive and insightful article by Frannie Block and Jay Solomon at the Free Press reveals that Qatar has done exactly what Israel has long been accused of doing. It’s paid nearly $100 billion to purchase American power and permission, and it has ingrained itself in American media, energy, real estate, education, foreign policy, and more. As a result, it’s getting its way.
To say there’s no organic connection between the U.S. and Qatar doesn’t suffice. We’re a democratic republic, they’re a dynastic kingdom. We believe in liberty, they’re theocratic slaveowners. We strive to maintain global security, they menace our allies, finance Islamist terrorism all over the Muslim world, and provide terrorists safe haven inside Qatar. To be sure, it’s been costly to smooth over all this dissonance and get Washington to look the other way. Which is why, according to the piece, “Qatar spent three times more in the U.S. than Israel did on lobbyists, public-relations advisers, and other foreign agents in 2021.” That’s just one year. In total, it’s worked. We’ve been bought by the enemy.
Anti-Semitic paranoiacs claim that the Israel lobby has shut down criticism of Israel in the U.S. Meanwhile members of Congress talk about “evil” Israel pulling the strings of American policymakers, and seas of protesters flow through the streets calling for Israel’s destruction.
Qatar, on the other hand, has successfully tamped down unwanted criticism. It bought off one of its most vocal critics, Republican adviser Elliott Broidy, for more than $150 million. Think about what the Qataris have spent on people you’ve heard of. And Qatar has purchased the acquiescence of many others, Republicans and Democrats, with investment contracts and campaign donations. The article reveals that after one university professor denounced Qatari terrorist support, he received a reprimand from a “very senior” Pentagon official who told him that such criticism “endangers” the Al Udeid Air Base, a massive U.S. military facility built in and paid for by Qatar. Yet Al Udeid itself endangers American security. As Block and Solomon report, “maintaining the air base in Qatar comes with a significant string attached: The Gulf monarchy has said it would oppose military strikes on Iran from its soil.” So Qatar has a say in critical U.S. military policy.
There’s so much more. From grade schools (over $1million paid to the New York Department of Education in three years) to the presidency (the airplane, the resort deal, and beyond), Qatar has bribed its way into vital American institutions. One result is this: When you see students, media personalities, politicians denouncing the nefarious Israel lobby, you’re watching what the Qatar lobby has paid for. And if you’re parroting those voices, it’s purchased you as well.
Abe Greenwald is the executive editor of COMMENTARY.
INEXORABLY, now that we have heard from two inestimable, well-known figures who are equally outraged at Trump’s mind-numbing prostration/cowing/bowing/scraping before the worst of the worst, the below deep-dive into Qatar (by extension, Saudi Arabia’s full-throated participation in 9/11/01, alongside Qatar/Iran/Iraq, et al.) was commissioned years ago by the highest qualified counter-terrorism colleagues, who, understandably, must remain anonymous.
ONCE imbibed and thoroughly digested, well, no one (Trump apologists, most pointedly) should dare to be shocked….shocked…..when a succession of “sleeper cells” (identified herein in 2012 and onward) across America explode on command. As always, forewarned is forearmed.
