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ing-deal-might-happen/687554/
The U.S. Had No Choice but Diplomacy=E2=80=94Yet Again

The new pact between the U.S. and Iran seeks to rewind the clock to the day
before the war.
By Nancy A. Youssef
<https://www.theatlantic.com/author/nancy-youssef/>, Russell
Berman <https://www.theatlantic.com/author/russell-berman/>, and Vivian
Salama <https://www.theatlantic.com/author/vivian-salama/>
[image: Boats on the Strait of Hormuz]
Reuters
June 15, 2026, 5:12 PM ET
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Declaring that =E2=80=9Cthe deal is all signed=E2=80=9D with Iran, as Presi=
dent Trump did
<https://x.com/Reuters/status/2066581503551648249?s=3D20> today, is like
shopping for a wedding dress after a good first date: It=E2=80=99s just too=
 soon.

A deal has an element of finality and permanence. A nuclear deal with Iran,
for example, would require specific obligations, concessions, and
verification measures, such as inspections, agreed to by all parties. What
Iran and the United States are moving toward, with a signing ceremony
scheduled for Friday in Geneva, is an agreement that could set the
conditions for a potential deal. In the meantime, the war=E2=80=99s shaky
cease-fire would be extended for 60 days and commercial shipping would once
again transit the Strait of Hormuz unimpeded. (Neither side has released
the agreed-upon text, although U.S. officials said today that Trump, Vice
President Vance, and the speaker of Iran=E2=80=99s Parliament have already
digitally signed on the dotted line.)

If all goes to plan, both sides would then use the breathing room to
address more complicated issues, such as how to manage Iran=E2=80=99s nucle=
ar
program, just as they were doing before February 28, when Trump went to
war. Although the war has weakened Iran=E2=80=99s military, killed members =
of its
leadership, and put pressure on Tehran, the memorandum of understanding is
also an acknowledgment that the U.S. cannot solve the problem of Iran with
either a war or economic pressure. Despite the thousands of strikes, and
the damage done to Iran=E2=80=99s oil-export-driven economy, the U.S. has l=
ittle
choice but to try diplomacy again.

Another mark of how much the U.S. has deviated from its aims at the
conflict=E2=80=99s outset is the fate of the Strait of Hormuz. Its centrali=
ty to
the new memorandum might suggest that Iran=E2=80=99s blockage of the narrow=
 channel
was a reason for the U.S. and Israel to go to war in the first place. Not
so. The strait was open on the day the war started. Iran closed it,
snarling global energy-supply chains, to gain exactly the leverage now
being employed at the negotiating table.

By contrast, none of Trump=E2=80=99s initial goals for the conflict has bee=
n
achieved. The negotiations are designed to address the nuclear program, but
it is not clear whether reducing Iran=E2=80=99s missile batteries and its p=
roxy
militias will be on the agenda for the 60-day talks, or the additional
negotiating increments that will almost certainly follow. =E2=80=9CI worry =
about
results, and I worry about getting to a place that is good for the American
people,=E2=80=9D Vance told us in a brief interview. =E2=80=9CRight now, we=
=E2=80=99re on a pathway
to get to a very good place for our country. I want to keep on working
towards that end.=E2=80=9D

Maybe at the end of that cycle, the U.S. and Iran will have an agreement
worth calling a deal.

The results of the war have been muddy enough that hawks on each side want
to see a convincing victory and believe that such an outcome might still be
within reach.

=E2=80=9CThe Islamic Republic is not a problem that can be negotiated away,=
=E2=80=9D Mark
Dubowitz, the chief executive of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies,
wrote <https://x.com/mdubowitz/status/2066362820950712741?s=3D20> on X
yesterday. He suggested that the United States should support Iranians in
overthrowing the regime, something that Trump signaled he favored at the
start of the war but has since abandoned. =E2=80=9CThe only solution is max=
imum
support for the Iranian people,=E2=80=9D Dubowitz continued. =E2=80=9CGiven=
 the opportunity
and assistance they need, they can cripple=E2=80=94and ultimately end=E2=80=
=94this
terrorist regime.=E2=80=9D

   -


Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, a Trump ally who strongly
supported military action, suggested on X that the U.S. is giving up too
much too quickly just to secure the strait=E2=80=99s reopening, even though=
 its
closure has sent energy prices soaring.

Graham, who rarely criticizes the president directly, said
<https://x.com/LindseyGrahamSC/status/2066294532220580103> that he was
=E2=80=9Cpleased=E2=80=9D that the Strait of Hormuz would reopen but was =
=E2=80=9Csomewhat
concerned that Iran=E2=80=99s view of the agreement seems different than wh=
at the
American negotiating team is claiming.=E2=80=9D He didn=E2=80=99t provide s=
pecifics, and
accounts vary regarding exactly how and when the Strait of Hormuz will
reopen. Graham also reminded Trump that any nuclear deal would need
Congress=E2=80=99s formal sign-off, and he heaped pressure on Vance, a pres=
umed
candidate for president in 2028, to make the case on Capitol Hill.

Other GOP Iran hawks were notably quiet in the hours after Trump=E2=80=99s
triumphant announcement yesterday. Rather than cheering the news, party
leaders, including House Speaker Mike Johnson, celebrated the president=E2=
=80=99s
80th birthday and the Ultimate Fighting Championship event at the White
House. Neither Johnson nor Senate Majority Leader John Thune has said
anything official or substantial about the Iran development since. About a
dozen other Republican backers of the Iran war either declined or did not
respond to requests for interviews or comment=E2=80=94hardly a ringing endo=
rsement
of their president=E2=80=99s negotiating prowess.

Critics of Trump=E2=80=99s Iran policy on the right and the left found some=
 unity
in demanding to see the full text of the memorandum, viewing its secrecy as
a sign that American negotiators had whiffed. =E2=80=9CTrump must release t=
he
details publicly, brief Congress immediately, and end this war for good,=E2=
=80=9D
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said in a statement. U.S. officials,
briefing reporters earlier today, said the text would be released but
didn=E2=80=99t say when.

Meanwhile, Iranian hard-liners (some of whom came to power when other
leaders were killed in the war), as well as members of Iran=E2=80=99s Parli=
ament
and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, argue that Iran was too quick to
surrender the leverage that Tehran gained by closing the strait. They want
guarantees of long-term economic relief, not temporary understandings or
the extension of an already fragile cease-fire, which Trump once described
as =E2=80=9Cshooting in a more moderate manner.=E2=80=9D

Both the regime and hawks in Iran =E2=80=9Cwant to turn this strategic mome=
nt into
a new reality in the region, while gaining economic benefits,=E2=80=9D Vali=
 Nasr, a
professor of international affairs and Middle East studies at Johns Hopkins
University School of Advanced International Studies, told us. The
difference between the hawks and the decision makers is that the decision
makers =E2=80=9Cdon=E2=80=99t want to go back to a hot war=E2=80=9D and wan=
t to prioritize the
regime=E2=80=99s survival.

U.S. officials told reporters that no frozen Iranian assets have yet been
released and that any initial relief would consist of limited, reciprocal
=E2=80=9Csmall gestures=E2=80=9D intended to build trust. But Tehran has re=
asons to be
hopeful. =E2=80=9CWhat you=E2=80=99ll see is that, you know, we are prepare=
d to release
frozen funds, and we are prepared to release sanctions,=E2=80=9D one of the=
 U.S.
officials said. That may serve to only further infuriate the hawks in
Washington.

Around the time that Trump said a deal had been reached, Israel launched
strikes inside Beirut, retaliating against Hezbollah, Iran=E2=80=99s proxy.

Tehran had linked any agreement to a cessation of strikes inside Lebanon.
But U.S. officials have said that an agreement was not conditional on
Israel=E2=80=99s withdrawal from Lebanon and stressed that any cease-fire w=
ould not
be one-sided, and would preserve Israel=E2=80=99s right to respond to Hezbo=
llah
attacks. Israel=E2=80=99s latest strikes likely reinforced Tehran=E2=80=99s=
 belief that
Washington cannot constrain Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who
is not ready for even a temporary arrangement.

=E2=80=9CWe know the near entirety of the Israeli political spectrum is unh=
appy
about what is transpiring,=E2=80=9D H. A. Hellyer, a senior associate fello=
w at the
Royal United Services Institute International, told us. =E2=80=9CI think be=
tween
now and Friday, publicly or privately, we are going to be seeing a lot of
tension between Washington and Tel Aviv about what this deal means for
Lebanon in particular.=E2=80=9D Hellyer suggested that Netanyahu was unlike=
ly to
respond to rhetoric about the need for Israel to stand down, which would
require Washington to look for greater sources of leverage, such as
withholding arms sales and aid. If the Trump administration isn=E2=80=99t w=
illing
to go that far, Tehran may question Trump=E2=80=99s commitment to the preve=
ntion of
Iran=E2=80=99s nuclear development.

Central to the negotiation is enforcement, U.S. officials told reporters,
in which sanctions relief would be tied not to any single action but to
Iranian behavior. The message is =E2=80=9Ceverything is on the table=E2=80=
=9D if Iran
complies=E2=80=94and nothing is if it does not. U.S. officials acknowledged=
 that
cease-fires and transitions from conflict to peace are inherently messy,
and they warned that implementation challenges are likely and could
possibly include violations by hard-line factions inside Iran. But
officials held out hope that successful negotiations, with the support of
others in the region such as Qatar and the United Arab Emirates, could
encourage Tehran to become a more constructive regional actor.

The ultimate test, of course, is whether signing a memorandum can translate
to a durable peace before domestic politics or regional instability scupper
its chances. Trump may be unlikely to restart the war=E2=80=94as he has thr=
eatened
to do if the talks don=E2=80=99t go well=E2=80=94especially given the proxi=
mity of the
midterm elections. But don=E2=80=99t expect U.S. troops to return home anyt=
ime
soon. The U.S. will maintain its current military posture in the region for
now, the U.S. officials said. Any reduction in U.S. forces will depend on
Iran following through on its commitments under an agreement that has not
yet been reached=E2=80=94and that may not be for some time.

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ize:medium"><p style=3D"box-sizing:inherit;max-width:665px;padding-left:0px=
;padding-right:0px;line-height:1.5;margin:0px auto 30px">D<span style=3D"bo=
x-sizing:inherit;letter-spacing:1px;text-transform:lowercase;font-feature-s=
ettings:&quot;smcp&quot;;font-variant:small-caps">eclaring that =E2=80=9Cth=
e deal is all signed=E2=80=9D</span>=C2=A0with Iran, as President Trump=C2=
=A0<a href=3D"https://x.com/Reuters/status/2066581503551648249?s=3D20" styl=
e=3D"box-sizing:inherit;background-color:initial;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-deco=
ration:underline 0.05em" target=3D"_blank">did</a>=C2=A0today, is like shop=
ping for a wedding dress after a good first date: It=E2=80=99s just too soo=
n.</p><p style=3D"box-sizing:inherit;max-width:665px;padding-left:0px;paddi=
ng-right:0px;line-height:1.5;margin:0px auto 30px">A deal has an element of=
 finality and permanence. A nuclear deal with Iran, for example, would requ=
ire specific obligations, concessions, and verification measures, such as i=
nspections, agreed to by all parties. What Iran and the United States are m=
oving toward, with a signing ceremony scheduled for Friday in Geneva, is an=
 agreement that could set the conditions for a potential deal. In the meant=
ime, the war=E2=80=99s shaky cease-fire would be extended for 60 days and c=
ommercial shipping would once again transit the Strait of Hormuz unimpeded.=
 (Neither side has released the agreed-upon text, although U.S. officials s=
aid today that Trump, Vice President Vance, and the speaker of Iran=E2=80=
=99s Parliament have already digitally signed on the dotted line.)</p><p st=
yle=3D"box-sizing:inherit;max-width:665px;padding-left:0px;padding-right:0p=
x;line-height:1.5;margin:0px auto 30px">If all goes to plan, both sides wou=
ld then use the breathing room to address more complicated issues, such as =
how to manage Iran=E2=80=99s nuclear program, just as they were doing befor=
e February 28, when Trump went to war. Although the war has weakened Iran=
=E2=80=99s military, killed members of its leadership, and put pressure on =
Tehran, the memorandum of understanding is also an acknowledgment that the =
U.S. cannot solve the problem of Iran with either a war or economic pressur=
e. Despite the thousands of strikes, and the damage done to Iran=E2=80=99s =
oil-export-driven economy, the U.S. has little choice but to try diplomacy =
again.</p><p style=3D"box-sizing:inherit;max-width:665px;padding-left:0px;p=
adding-right:0px;line-height:1.5;margin:0px auto 30px">Another mark of how =
much the U.S. has deviated from its aims at the conflict=E2=80=99s outset i=
s the fate of the Strait of Hormuz. Its centrality to the new memorandum mi=
ght suggest that Iran=E2=80=99s blockage of the narrow channel was a reason=
 for the U.S. and Israel to go to war in the first place. Not so. The strai=
t was open on the day the war started. Iran closed it, snarling global ener=
gy-supply chains, to gain exactly the leverage now being employed at the ne=
gotiating table.</p><p style=3D"box-sizing:inherit;max-width:665px;padding-=
left:0px;padding-right:0px;line-height:1.5;margin:0px auto 30px">By contras=
t, none of Trump=E2=80=99s initial goals for the conflict has been achieved=
. The negotiations are designed to address the nuclear program, but it is n=
ot clear whether reducing Iran=E2=80=99s missile batteries and its proxy mi=
litias will be on the agenda for the 60-day talks, or the additional negoti=
ating increments that will almost certainly follow. =E2=80=9CI worry about =
results, and I worry about getting to a place that is good for the American=
 people,=E2=80=9D Vance told us in a brief interview. =E2=80=9CRight now, w=
e=E2=80=99re on a pathway to get to a very good place for our country. I wa=
nt to keep on working towards that end.=E2=80=9D</p><p style=3D"box-sizing:=
inherit;max-width:665px;padding-left:0px;padding-right:0px;line-height:1.5;=
margin:0px auto 30px">Maybe at the end of that cycle, the U.S. and Iran wil=
l have an agreement worth calling a deal.</p><p style=3D"box-sizing:inherit=
;max-width:665px;padding-left:0px;padding-right:0px;line-height:1.5;margin:=
0px auto 30px">T<span style=3D"box-sizing:inherit;letter-spacing:1px;text-t=
ransform:lowercase;font-feature-settings:&quot;smcp&quot;;font-variant:smal=
l-caps">he results of the war</span>=C2=A0have been muddy enough that hawks=
 on each side want to see a convincing victory and believe that such an out=
come might still be within reach.</p><p style=3D"box-sizing:inherit;max-wid=
th:665px;padding-left:0px;padding-right:0px;line-height:1.5;margin:0px auto=
 30px">=E2=80=9CThe Islamic Republic is not a problem that can be negotiate=
d away,=E2=80=9D Mark Dubowitz, the chief executive of the Foundation for D=
efense of Democracies,=C2=A0<a href=3D"https://x.com/mdubowitz/status/20663=
62820950712741?s=3D20" style=3D"box-sizing:inherit;background-color:initial=
;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-decoration:underline 0.05em" target=3D"_blank">wrote=
</a>=C2=A0on X yesterday. He suggested that the United States should suppor=
t Iranians in overthrowing the regime, something that Trump signaled he fav=
ored at the start of the war but has since abandoned. =E2=80=9CThe only sol=
ution is maximum support for the Iranian people,=E2=80=9D Dubowitz continue=
d. =E2=80=9CGiven the opportunity and assistance they need, they can crippl=
e=E2=80=94and ultimately end=E2=80=94this terrorist regime.=E2=80=9D</p><di=
v style=3D"box-sizing:inherit;max-width:665px;margin-left:auto;margin-right=
:auto;padding-left:0px;padding-right:0px"><div style=3D"box-sizing:inherit;=
min-height:450px;width:312px;float:right"><ul style=3D"box-sizing:inherit;m=
argin:0px;padding:0px 0px 0px 12px;list-style-type:none;list-style-position=
:inside;line-height:1.5"><li style=3D"box-sizing:inherit;padding-left:0.95e=
m;border-top:0.25px solid rgba(0,0,0,0.15);border-bottom-width:medium;borde=
r-bottom-style:none;border-bottom-color:currentcolor"><div style=3D"box-siz=
ing:inherit;display:flex;padding:28px 0px;width:auto"><div style=3D"box-siz=
ing:inherit"></div><div style=3D"box-sizing:inherit;display:flex;padding:4p=
x 0px 0px 18px"><button aria-label=3D"Save" style=3D"box-sizing:inherit;fon=
t-family:inherit;font-size:22px;line-height:1.15;margin:0px;overflow:visibl=
e;padding:0px;border-width:medium;border-style:none;border-color:currentcol=
or;background-image:none;background-position:initial;background-size:initia=
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g-left:0px;padding-right:0px;line-height:1.5;margin:0px auto 30px">Senator =
Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, a Trump ally who strongly supported milit=
ary action, suggested on X that the U.S. is giving up too much too quickly =
just to secure the strait=E2=80=99s reopening, even though its closure has =
sent energy prices soaring.</p><p style=3D"box-sizing:inherit;max-width:665=
px;padding-left:0px;padding-right:0px;line-height:1.5;margin:0px auto 30px"=
>Graham, who rarely criticizes the president directly,=C2=A0<a href=3D"http=
s://x.com/LindseyGrahamSC/status/2066294532220580103" style=3D"box-sizing:i=
nherit;background-color:initial;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-decoration:underline =
0.05em" target=3D"_blank">said</a>=C2=A0that he was =E2=80=9Cpleased=E2=80=
=9D that the Strait of Hormuz would reopen but was =E2=80=9Csomewhat concer=
ned that Iran=E2=80=99s view of the agreement seems different than what the=
 American negotiating team is claiming.=E2=80=9D He didn=E2=80=99t provide =
specifics, and accounts vary regarding exactly how and when the Strait of H=
ormuz will reopen. Graham also reminded Trump that any nuclear deal would n=
eed Congress=E2=80=99s formal sign-off, and he heaped pressure on Vance, a =
presumed candidate for president in 2028, to make the case on Capitol Hill.=
</p><p style=3D"box-sizing:inherit;max-width:665px;padding-left:0px;padding=
-right:0px;line-height:1.5;margin:0px auto 30px">Other GOP Iran hawks were =
notably quiet in the hours after Trump=E2=80=99s triumphant announcement ye=
sterday. Rather than cheering the news, party leaders, including House Spea=
ker Mike Johnson, celebrated the president=E2=80=99s 80th birthday and the =
Ultimate Fighting Championship event at the White House. Neither Johnson no=
r Senate Majority Leader John Thune has said anything official or substanti=
al about the Iran development since. About a dozen other Republican backers=
 of the Iran war either declined or did not respond to requests for intervi=
ews or comment=E2=80=94hardly a ringing endorsement of their president=E2=
=80=99s negotiating prowess.</p><p style=3D"box-sizing:inherit;max-width:66=
5px;padding-left:0px;padding-right:0px;line-height:1.5;margin:0px auto 30px=
">Critics of Trump=E2=80=99s Iran policy on the right and the left found so=
me unity in demanding to see the full text of the memorandum, viewing its s=
ecrecy as a sign that American negotiators had whiffed. =E2=80=9CTrump must=
 release the details publicly, brief Congress immediately, and end this war=
 for good,=E2=80=9D Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said in a statemen=
t. U.S. officials, briefing reporters earlier today, said the text would be=
 released but didn=E2=80=99t say when.</p><p style=3D"box-sizing:inherit;ma=
x-width:665px;padding-left:0px;padding-right:0px;line-height:1.5;margin:0px=
 auto 30px">Meanwhile, Iranian hard-liners (some of whom came to power when=
 other leaders were killed in the war), as well as members of Iran=E2=80=99=
s Parliament and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, argue that Iran was=
 too quick to surrender the leverage that Tehran gained by closing the stra=
it. They want guarantees of long-term economic relief, not temporary unders=
tandings or the extension of an already fragile cease-fire, which Trump onc=
e described as =E2=80=9Cshooting in a more moderate manner.=E2=80=9D</p><p =
style=3D"box-sizing:inherit;max-width:665px;padding-left:0px;padding-right:=
0px;line-height:1.5;margin:0px auto 30px">Both the regime and hawks in Iran=
 =E2=80=9Cwant to turn this strategic moment into a new reality in the regi=
on, while gaining economic benefits,=E2=80=9D Vali Nasr, a professor of int=
ernational affairs and Middle East studies at Johns Hopkins University Scho=
ol of Advanced International Studies, told us. The difference between the h=
awks and the decision makers is that the decision makers =E2=80=9Cdon=E2=80=
=99t want to go back to a hot war=E2=80=9D and want to prioritize the regim=
e=E2=80=99s survival.</p><p style=3D"box-sizing:inherit;max-width:665px;pad=
ding-left:0px;padding-right:0px;line-height:1.5;margin:0px auto 30px">U.S. =
officials told reporters that no frozen Iranian assets have yet been releas=
ed and that any initial relief would consist of limited, reciprocal =E2=80=
=9Csmall gestures=E2=80=9D intended to build trust. But Tehran has reasons =
to be hopeful. =E2=80=9CWhat you=E2=80=99ll see is that, you know, we are p=
repared to release frozen funds, and we are prepared to release sanctions,=
=E2=80=9D one of the U.S. officials said. That may serve to only further in=
furiate the hawks in Washington.</p><p style=3D"box-sizing:inherit;max-widt=
h:665px;padding-left:0px;padding-right:0px;line-height:1.5;margin:0px auto =
30px">A<span style=3D"box-sizing:inherit;letter-spacing:1px;text-transform:=
lowercase;font-feature-settings:&quot;smcp&quot;;font-variant:small-caps">r=
ound the time that Trump said=C2=A0</span>a deal had been reached, Israel l=
aunched strikes inside Beirut, retaliating against Hezbollah, Iran=E2=80=99=
s proxy.</p><p style=3D"box-sizing:inherit;max-width:665px;padding-left:0px=
;padding-right:0px;line-height:1.5;margin:0px auto 30px">Tehran had linked =
any agreement to a cessation of strikes inside Lebanon. But U.S. officials =
have said that an agreement was not conditional on Israel=E2=80=99s withdra=
wal from Lebanon and stressed that any cease-fire would not be one-sided, a=
nd would preserve Israel=E2=80=99s right to respond to Hezbollah attacks. I=
srael=E2=80=99s latest strikes likely reinforced Tehran=E2=80=99s belief th=
at Washington cannot constrain Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, w=
ho is not ready for even a temporary arrangement.</p><p style=3D"box-sizing=
:inherit;max-width:665px;padding-left:0px;padding-right:0px;line-height:1.5=
;margin:0px auto 30px">=E2=80=9CWe know the near entirety of the Israeli po=
litical spectrum is unhappy about what is transpiring,=E2=80=9D H. A. Helly=
er, a senior associate fellow at the Royal United Services Institute Intern=
ational, told us. =E2=80=9CI think between now and Friday, publicly or priv=
ately, we are going to be seeing a lot of tension between Washington and Te=
l Aviv about what this deal means for Lebanon in particular.=E2=80=9D Helly=
er suggested that Netanyahu was unlikely to respond to rhetoric about the n=
eed for Israel to stand down, which would require Washington to look for gr=
eater sources of leverage, such as withholding arms sales and aid. If the T=
rump administration isn=E2=80=99t willing to go that far, Tehran may questi=
on Trump=E2=80=99s commitment to the prevention of Iran=E2=80=99s nuclear d=
evelopment.</p><p style=3D"box-sizing:inherit;max-width:665px;padding-left:=
0px;padding-right:0px;line-height:1.5;margin:0px auto 30px">Central to the =
negotiation is enforcement, U.S. officials told reporters, in which sanctio=
ns relief would be tied not to any single action but to Iranian behavior. T=
he message is =E2=80=9Ceverything is on the table=E2=80=9D if Iran complies=
=E2=80=94and nothing is if it does not. U.S. officials acknowledged that ce=
ase-fires and transitions from conflict to peace are inherently messy, and =
they warned that implementation challenges are likely and could possibly in=
clude violations by hard-line factions inside Iran. But officials held out =
hope that successful negotiations, with the support of others in the region=
 such as Qatar and the United Arab Emirates, could encourage Tehran to beco=
me a more constructive regional actor.</p><p style=3D"box-sizing:inherit;ma=
x-width:665px;padding-left:0px;padding-right:0px;line-height:1.5;margin:0px=
 auto 30px">The ultimate test, of course, is whether signing a memorandum c=
an translate to a durable peace before domestic politics or regional instab=
ility scupper its chances. Trump may be unlikely to restart the war=E2=80=
=94as he has threatened to do if the talks don=E2=80=99t go well=E2=80=94es=
pecially given the proximity of the midterm elections. But don=E2=80=99t ex=
pect U.S. troops to return home anytime soon. The U.S. will maintain its cu=
rrent military posture in the region for now, the U.S. officials said. Any =
reduction in U.S. forces will depend on Iran following through on its commi=
tments under an agreement that has not yet been reached=E2=80=94and that ma=
y not be for some time.</p></div></div></div></div></div>
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Well, when news broke that Israel had bombed the southern suburb of Beirut
on Sunday afternoon, the Iranians started gearing up for promised
retaliation only to be dissuaded by a Donald Trump bribe.
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is as Close as the US and Iran Will Get to Signing an MOU

Well, when news broke that Israel had bombed the southern suburb of Beirut
on Sunday afternoon, the Iranians started gearing up for promised
retaliation only to be dissuaded by a Donald Trump bribe. Iran and the US
reportedly were closing in on an agreement based on Iran=E2=80=99s 14-point=
 plan
when the Israeli strike in Lebanon threw everything into chaos. Iran
quickly started ramping up for a renewed missile strike on Israel, but
Donald Trump rump reportedly offered Iran financial incentives to not
attack Israel.

Iranian media outlet Mehr reported that a 14-point memorandum of
understanding between the US and Iran calls for the release of $24 billion
in frozen Iranian assets during a 60-day negotiation period, with half of
that =E2=80=94 $12 billion =E2=80=94 required to be made available to Iran =
before
negotiations even begin. The MOU also reportedly includes immediate and
permanent cessation of war on all fronts including Lebanon, a US commitment
not to interfere in Iran=E2=80=99s internal affairs, lifting of the naval b=
lockade
within 30 days, and reopening of the Strait of Hormuz under Iranian
arrangements.

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Trump essentially offer Iran a bribe to not attack Israel. Hedeclared on
Truth Social that the US deal with Iran was =E2=80=9Cnow complete,=E2=80=9D=
 authorizing the
*toll-free* reopening of the Strait of Hormuz and the immediate removal of
the US.naval blockade, instead of waiting 30 days. He also agreed that Iran
could receive the $12 billion as soon as the ceasefire agreement was signed
on Friday.

With that change, *the Supreme National Security Council of Iran confirmed
the achievement of an agreement between the United States and Iran:*

=E2=80=9CThe Islamic Republic of Iran, under the leadership of its martyred=
 leader,
has completed its success over the American-Zionist enemy and, under the
guidance of the Supreme Leader of the system (may God protect him), with
the support of the entire nation and the diligent efforts of Islam=E2=80=99=
s
warriors, after a difficult and intensive several months of negotiations
and based on the resolution of the Supreme National Security Council,
finalized the text of the Memorandum of Understanding regarding
negotiations to end the war (negotiations in Islamabad) between Iran and
the United States on the evening of June 14.

According to the agreements reached, the war and military operations on all
fronts, including Lebanon, will end immediately and forever from tonight,
and the naval blockade against Iran will be immediately and fully lifted.
The signing of this Memorandum of Understanding will be officially carried
out on Friday, June 19. Negotiations for the final agreement will be
postponed until the other party fulfills its obligations in accordance with
the Memorandum of Understanding. The Islamic Republic of Iran highly values
the efforts of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan and the government of
Qatar.=E2=80=9D

But before you start popping champagne corks you must understand that Trump
administration officials =E2=80=94 mostly unnamed =E2=80=94 are painting a =
different
picture of the agreement. For example, asenior U.S. official rejected
Iran=E2=80=99s claim that it would receive $12 billion in frozen assets
unconditionally before the start of the 60-day negotiations, describing the
assertion as =E2=80=9Ca spin,=E2=80=9D Axios reports:

This is completely not true. This is a pay-for-performance deal, and no
frozen funds will be released without the Iranians implementing their
commitments,=E2=80=9D the official said.

The point is simple=E2=80=A6 Major differences remain between the US and Ir=
an
regarding the details of the proposed MOU. Even if those details are
eventually ironed out and a letter signed on Friday with both sides
confirming their mutual agreement to the 14 prinicipals spelled out in the
final MOU, this will mark the start of a negotiations process that will
last at least two months, if not longer. And, at any time in the succeeding
days, a US or Israeli violation of the MOU will likely lead Iran to renew
its attacks on Israeli and/or US military targets.

I discussed this development with four of my regular podcastsers, starting
with Pyotr Kurzin:
[image: CIA Larry Johnson: Trump Just Handed Iran Everything It Wanted]
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I had a surprise panel discussion with Nima and Professor Marandi. The good
Professor and I see things the same way:
[image: Larry Johnson & Mohammad Marandi: BREAKING: US and Iran Reach Deal
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</td><td align=3D"left" width=3D"1024" style=3D"text-align:center"><a href=
=3D"https://substack.com/redirect/f83a81a9-5649-42e5-80b2-7484c0390a62?j=3D=
eyJ1IjoiMXk4MHcifQ.seDb6u63dHJYRLBe0Jqa_jxsZrGdt2smApSnC1GYC_8" style=3D"pa=
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!important;max-width:100%!important;margin:0 auto"></a></td><td style=3D"te=
xt-align:center"></td></tr></tbody></table>This is as Close as the US and I=
ran Will Get to Signing an MOU</div><p style=3D"margin:0 0 20px 0;color:rgb=
(54,55,55);line-height:26px;font-size:16px">Well, when news broke that Isra=
el had bombed the southern suburb of Beirut on Sunday afternoon, the Irania=
ns started gearing up for promised retaliation only to be dissuaded by a Do=
nald Trump bribe. Iran and the US reportedly were closing in on an agreemen=
t based on Iran=E2=80=99s 14-point plan when the Israeli strike in Lebanon =
threw everything into chaos. Iran quickly started ramping up for a renewed =
missile strike on Israel, but Donald Trump rump reportedly offered Iran fin=
ancial incentives to not attack Israel.</p><p style=3D"margin:0 0 20px 0;co=
lor:rgb(54,55,55);line-height:26px;font-size:16px">Iranian media outlet Meh=
r reported that a 14-point memorandum of understanding between the US and I=
ran calls for the release of $24 billion in frozen Iranian assets during a =
60-day negotiation period, with half of that =E2=80=94 $12 billion =E2=80=
=94 required to be made available to Iran before negotiations even begin. T=
he MOU also reportedly includes immediate and permanent cessation of war on=
 all fronts including Lebanon, a US commitment not to interfere in Iran=E2=
=80=99s internal affairs, lifting of the naval blockade within 30 days, and=
 reopening of the Strait of Hormuz under Iranian arrangements.</p><div styl=
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iv></div><p style=3D"margin:0 0 20px 0;color:rgb(54,55,55);line-height:26px=
;font-size:16px"><span>Trump essentially offer Iran a bribe to not attack I=
srael. Hedeclared on Truth Social that the US deal with Iran was =E2=80=9Cn=
ow complete,=E2=80=9D authorizing the </span><em>toll-free</em><span> reope=
ning of the Strait of Hormuz and the immediate removal of the US.naval bloc=
kade, instead of waiting 30 days. He also agreed that Iran could receive th=
e $12 billion as soon as the ceasefire agreement was signed on Friday.</spa=
n></p><p style=3D"margin:0 0 20px 0;color:rgb(54,55,55);line-height:26px;fo=
nt-size:16px"><span>With that change, </span><strong>the Supreme National S=
ecurity Council of Iran confirmed the achievement of an agreement between t=
he United States and Iran:</strong></p><blockquote style=3D"border-left:4px=
 solid #ea82ff;margin:20px 0;padding:0"><p style=3D"margin:0 0 20px 0;color=
:rgb(54,55,55);margin-left:20px;line-height:26px;font-size:16px">=E2=80=9CT=
he Islamic Republic of Iran, under the leadership of its martyred leader, h=
as completed its success over the American-Zionist enemy and, under the gui=
dance of the Supreme Leader of the system (may God protect him), with the s=
upport of the entire nation and the diligent efforts of Islam=E2=80=99s war=
riors, after a difficult and intensive several months of negotiations and b=
ased on the resolution of the Supreme National Security Council, finalized =
the text of the Memorandum of Understanding regarding negotiations to end t=
he war (negotiations in Islamabad) between Iran and the United States on th=
e evening of June 14.</p><p style=3D"margin:0 0 20px 0;color:rgb(54,55,55);=
margin-left:20px;line-height:26px;font-size:16px">According to the agreemen=
ts reached, the war and military operations on all fronts, including Lebano=
n, will end immediately and forever from tonight, and the naval blockade ag=
ainst Iran will be immediately and fully lifted. The signing of this Memora=
ndum of Understanding will be officially carried out on Friday, June 19. Ne=
gotiations for the final agreement will be postponed until the other party =
fulfills its obligations in accordance with the Memorandum of Understanding=
. The Islamic Republic of Iran highly values the efforts of the Islamic Rep=
ublic of Pakistan and the government of Qatar.=E2=80=9D</p></blockquote><p =
style=3D"margin:0 0 20px 0;color:rgb(54,55,55);line-height:26px;font-size:1=
6px">But before you start popping champagne corks you must understand that =
Trump administration officials =E2=80=94 mostly unnamed =E2=80=94 are paint=
ing a different picture of the agreement. For example, asenior U.S. officia=
l rejected Iran=E2=80=99s claim that it would receive $12 billion in frozen=
 assets unconditionally before the start of the 60-day negotiations, descri=
bing the assertion as =E2=80=9Ca spin,=E2=80=9D Axios reports:</p><blockquo=
te style=3D"border-left:4px solid #ea82ff;margin:20px 0;padding:0"><p style=
=3D"margin:0 0 20px 0;color:rgb(54,55,55);margin-left:20px;line-height:26px=
;font-size:16px">This is completely not true. This is a pay-for-performance=
 deal, and no frozen funds will be released without the Iranians implementi=
ng their commitments,=E2=80=9D the official said.</p></blockquote><p style=
=3D"margin:0 0 20px 0;color:rgb(54,55,55);line-height:26px;font-size:16px">=
The point is simple=E2=80=A6 Major differences remain between the US and Ir=
an regarding the details of the proposed MOU. Even if those details are eve=
ntually ironed out and a letter signed on Friday with both sides confirming=
 their mutual agreement to the 14 prinicipals spelled out in the final MOU,=
 this will mark the start of a negotiations process that will last at least=
 two months, if not longer. And, at any time in the succeeding days, a US o=
r Israeli violation of the MOU will likely lead Iran to renew its attacks o=
n Israeli and/or US military targets.</p><p style=3D"margin:0 0 20px 0;colo=
r:rgb(54,55,55);line-height:26px;font-size:16px">I discussed this developme=
nt with four of my regular podcastsers, starting with Pyotr Kurzin:</p><div=
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"100%" border=3D"0" cellspacing=3D"0" cellpadding=3D"0"><tbody><tr><td styl=
e=3D"text-align:center"></td><td align=3D"left" width=3D"480" style=3D"text=
-align:center"><a href=3D"https://substack.com/redirect/7052dba9-a49b-4997-=
9cc6-56e7137ee28a?j=3DeyJ1IjoiMXk4MHcifQ.seDb6u63dHJYRLBe0Jqa_jxsZrGdt2smAp=
SnC1GYC_8" style=3D"padding:0;width:auto;height:auto;border:none;text-decor=
ation:none;display:block;margin:0" target=3D"_blank"><img alt=3D"CIA Larry =
Johnson: Trump Just Handed Iran Everything It Wanted" title=3D"CIA Larry Jo=
hnson: Trump Just Handed Iran Everything It Wanted" width=3D"480" height=3D=
"360" src=3D"https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!MupC!,w_480,c_limit,f_=
auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.=
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360.webp" style=3D"border:none!important;vertical-align:middle;display:bloc=
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;margin:0 auto"></a></td><td style=3D"text-align:center"></td></tr></tbody>=
</table></div><p style=3D"margin:0 0 20px 0;color:rgb(54,55,55);line-height=
:26px;font-size:16px">Next up, Mario:</p><div style=3D"font-size:16px;line-=
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g=3D"0" cellpadding=3D"0"><tbody><tr><td style=3D"text-align:center"></td><=
td align=3D"left" width=3D"480" style=3D"text-align:center"><a href=3D"http=
s://substack.com/redirect/ac5ce650-86a6-4be2-980c-30e548f23d68?j=3DeyJ1Ijoi=
MXk4MHcifQ.seDb6u63dHJYRLBe0Jqa_jxsZrGdt2smApSnC1GYC_8" style=3D"padding:0;=
width:auto;height:auto;border:none;text-decoration:none;display:block;margi=
n:0" target=3D"_blank"><img alt=3D"BREAKING: TRUMP LIFTS IRAN BLOCKADE &amp=
; AGREEMENT " title=3D"BREAKING: TRUMP LIFTS IRAN BLOCKADE &amp; AGREEMENT =
" width=3D"480" height=3D"360" src=3D"https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$=
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enter"></td></tr></tbody></table></div><p style=3D"margin:0 0 20px 0;color:=
rgb(54,55,55);line-height:26px;font-size:16px">I had a surprise panel discu=
ssion with Nima and Professor Marandi. The good Professor and I see things =
the same way:</p><div style=3D"font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:32px =
auto"><table width=3D"100%" border=3D"0" cellspacing=3D"0" cellpadding=3D"0=
"><tbody><tr><td style=3D"text-align:center"></td><td align=3D"left" width=
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border:none;text-decoration:none;display:block;margin:0" target=3D"_blank">=
<img alt=3D"Larry Johnson &amp; Mohammad Marandi: BREAKING: US and Iran Rea=
ch Deal =E2=80=93 Full Details Inside" title=3D"Larry Johnson &amp; Mohamma=
d Marandi: BREAKING: US and Iran Reach Deal =E2=80=93 Full Details Inside" =
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ter"></td></tr></tbody></table></div><p style=3D"margin:0 0 20px 0;color:rg=
b(54,55,55);line-height:26px;font-size:16px">I ended my four hour marathon =
with Sulaiman Ahmed:</p><a href=3D"https://substack.com/redirect/ce4dba44-7=
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*https://larrycjohnson.substack.com/p/the-straight-of-hormuz-is-open-for?ut=
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*Let=E2=80=99s give Donald Trump credit for one thing=E2=80=A6 He kept his =
word and lifted
the US blockade on Iranian ships and Iran is going to town with its oil
tankers moving in and out of the Persian Gulf through the Strait of Hormuz.
The picture above shows ships =E2=80=94 marked red and green =E2=80=94 movi=
ng as of 22:55
hours Eastern time on 15 June 2026.*

*This does not mean that the MOU with Iran, which is supposed to be signed
in Geneva on Friday, will hold, but it is a step in the direction of
de-escalation. So the question we ought to ask is why did Donald Trump
blink and accept the proposal that Iran proffered way back in April?*

*I think there are several reasons, but the principal one is that the US is
running out of oil, which means Trump will not be able to artificially
suppress the price of gasoline. US strategic oil reserves have fallen to
their lowest level since 1983, reports CNN. The decline comes amid
continued drawdowns to mitigate the impact of the conflict with Iran.
Reserves have dropped to 340.3 million barrels, last seen during the Reagan
administration, which was still building the stockpile. US daily
consumption is 20 to 21 million barrels in 2026, which means the reserve
can supply 17 days of gasoline, which falls on July 1st.*

*Donald Trump may be in mental decline, but he still retains enough smarts
to understand that an oil shortage and soaring prices of gasoline in July
is politically untenable.*

*Another factor is that US installations and aircraft in the Persian Gulf
took a helluva beating last week. The US attacks on Iranian installations
in the Strait of Hormuz on June 9 and 10 provoked a fierce Iranian response
that hit targets in Iraq (CIA-bases supporting the Kurds), Kuwait (the Ali
Al Salem airbase, Camp Buehring in northeastern Kuwait, as well as a
makeshift operations center near the civilian port of Shuaiba), the Prince
Saud Airbase adjacent to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, and the Mowaffaq Al Salti
Airbase in Jordan. The attacks were devastating and reportedly employed
some new Chinese missiles supplied to Iran.*

*Then there is the pressure from Gulf Arabs to end the attacks on Iran.
Iran, backed by China, Russia and Pakistan, engaged in intense diplomacy
with Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates (UAE).*

*The UAE, who has been a thorn in the side of Iran and Saudi Arabia and has
been identified as an ally of Israel, sent a delegation to Iran on 9 June.
Reuters reported that the UAE had agreed to release billions of dollars for
Iran =E2=80=94 two regional sources put the figure at $10 billion (includin=
g more
than $3 billion already delivered), while two other sources put it at $20
billion, with the funds agreed in exchange for Iran halting attacks on the
UAE. However, the UAE=E2=80=99s Ministry of Foreign Affairs categorically d=
enied
those reports, stating the allegations were =E2=80=9Centirely false and unf=
ounded=E2=80=9D
and that no frozen Iranian funds had been released, transferred, or
facilitated through the UAE. What is undisputed is that the UAE sent a
high-level delegation to talk to the Iranian government.*

*A high-level Qatari delegation arrived in Tehran on Wednesday, June 10, to
hold talks on bilateral relations, regional developments, and diplomatic
efforts to end the conflict between Iran and the United States. The
delegation arrived at midday and the visit came after Trump accused Iran of
stalling and said Tehran must now =E2=80=9Cpay the price.=E2=80=9D AFP, cit=
ing an informed
diplomat, reported the Qatari negotiating team had traveled to Tehran
following consultations with American officials to help narrow remaining
differences between the two sides.*

*A senior Pakistani source with access to information about Pakistan=E2=80=
=99s role
in mediating the talks between the US and Iran, reported that Pakistan,
with the encouragement of China and Russia, was making progress in its
talks with the Saudis and the Qataris to stop hosting US military bases in
their respective countries. These talks coincided with Saudi Arabia denying
the US the use of its airspace to attack Iranian targets during Project
Freedom.*

*Will the deal be signed on Friday? I remain skeptical simply because of
the enormous Zionist backlash being visited on Donald Trump by angry
Israeli officials and US politicians beholden to AIPAC. However, as I write
this Monday night, the deal appears intact.*

*Why hasn=E2=80=99t Donald Trump released the text of the MOU? Two possible
explanations (and I=E2=80=99ll be interested in what you think is the most
plausible): 1) There are still areas of disagreement between Iran and the
US and they are still trying to work out a compromise, 2) Trump does not
want to provide the details beforehand fearing that the Zionist backlash
could derail the Friday signing ceremony in Geneva. The diplomatic roller
coaster is running full blast=E2=80=A6 It will be a wild ride until Friday.=
*

------------------------------

*The negotiations were the topic of conversation in all of today=E2=80=99s
podcasts. I started the morning, as usual, with Judge Napolitano:*

*I followed up with Nima, discussing Bibi Netanyahu=E2=80=99s role in makin=
g the
MOU possible:*

*I am now part of the new channel, Transition Protocols, which is hosted by
Zulfiqar Ali. We had a lively discussion about the prospects for the
success of the negotiations:*

*Lt. Colonel Karen Kwiatkowski filled in for the vacationing Kyle Anzalone
and did a great job (I love Karen, she=E2=80=99s a seasoned professional):*

*I did a half hour with Mario:*

*Finished the night with Sulaiman:*

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ck.com/p/the-straight-of-hormuz-is-open-for?utm_source=3Dpost-email-title&a=
mp;publication_id=3D1225061&amp;post_id=3D202234552&amp;utm_campaign=3Demai=
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m/p/the-straight-of-hormuz-is-open-for?utm_source=3Dpost-email-title&amp;pu=
blication_id=3D1225061&amp;post_id=3D202234552&amp;utm_campaign=3Demail-pos=
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tm_medium=3Demail</a><br></font></b></div><div style=3D"font-family:georgia=
,serif"><b><font color=3D"#000000"><br></font></b></div><div style=3D"font-=
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in-bottom:0.5em;max-width:100%"><font color=3D"#000000" size=3D"4"><i>The S=
trait of Hormuz is Open for Iranian Business=E2=80=A6 Oil is Moving and Ira=
n is Getting Paid</i></font></h1><div style=3D"margin-bottom:1.45em;max-wid=
th:100%"><a href=3D"https://substack.com/@larrycjohnson" style=3D"text-deco=
ration:none;margin:0px;max-width:100%;display:inline" target=3D"_blank"><b>=
<font color=3D"#000000">Larry C Johnson</font></b></a></div><div style=3D"m=
ax-width:100%"><a href=3D"https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!FoK9!,f_a=
uto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.a=
mazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd97655b1-bc5e-4a72-a6b5-937bdb01f6a3_1024x=
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iv style=3D"max-width:100%"><span style=3D"max-width:100%"><b><font color=
=3D"#000000"><img src=3D"https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!FoK9!,w_14=
56,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-p=
ost-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd97655b1-bc5e-4a72-a6b5-937b=
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le=3D"margin:0.5em 0px 0.5em auto;display:block"></font></b></span></div></=
a><b><font color=3D"#000000">Ship Movement at 22:55 Hours 15 June 2026</fon=
t></b></div><p style=3D"max-width:100%"><b><font color=3D"#000000">Let=E2=
=80=99s give Donald Trump credit for one thing=E2=80=A6 He kept his word an=
d lifted the US blockade on Iranian ships and Iran is going to town with it=
s oil tankers moving in and out of the Persian Gulf through the Strait of H=
ormuz. The picture above shows ships =E2=80=94 marked red and green =E2=80=
=94 moving as of 22:55 hours Eastern time on 15 June 2026.</font></b></p><p=
 style=3D"max-width:100%"><b><font color=3D"#000000">This does not mean tha=
t the MOU with Iran, which is supposed to be signed in Geneva on Friday, wi=
ll hold, but it is a step in the direction of de-escalation. So the questio=
n we ought to ask is why did Donald Trump blink and accept the proposal tha=
t Iran proffered way back in April?</font></b></p><p style=3D"max-width:100=
%"><b><font color=3D"#000000"><span style=3D"max-width:100%">I think there =
are several reasons, but the principal one is that the US is running out of=
 oil, which means Trump will not be able to artificially suppress the price=
 of gasoline. US strategic oil reserves have fallen to their lowest level s=
ince 1983, reports<span>=C2=A0</span></span><span style=3D"max-width:100%">=
CNN</span><span style=3D"max-width:100%">. The decline comes amid continued=
 drawdowns to mitigate the impact of the conflict with<span>=C2=A0</span></=
span><span style=3D"max-width:100%">Iran</span><span style=3D"max-width:100=
%">. Reserves have dropped to<span>=C2=A0</span></span><span style=3D"max-w=
idth:100%">340.3 million barrels</span><span style=3D"max-width:100%">, las=
t seen during the<span>=C2=A0</span></span><span style=3D"max-width:100%">R=
eagan administration</span><span style=3D"max-width:100%">, which was still=
 building the stockpile. US daily consumption is 20 to 21 million barrels i=
n 2026, which means the reserve can supply 17 days of gasoline, which falls=
 on July 1st.</span></font></b></p><p style=3D"max-width:100%"><b><font col=
or=3D"#000000">Donald Trump may be in mental decline, but he still retains =
enough smarts to understand that an oil shortage and soaring prices of gaso=
line in July is politically untenable.</font></b></p><p style=3D"max-width:=
100%"><b><font color=3D"#000000"><span style=3D"max-width:100%">Another fac=
tor is that US installations and aircraft in the Persian Gulf took a helluv=
a beating last week. The US attacks on Iranian installations in the Strait =
of Hormuz on June 9 and 10 provoked a fierce Iranian response that hit targ=
ets in Iraq (CIA-bases supporting the Kurds), Kuwait (the Ali Al Salem airb=
ase,<span>=C2=A0</span></span><span style=3D"max-width:100%">Camp Buehring<=
/span><span style=3D"max-width:100%"><span>=C2=A0</span>in northeastern Kuw=
ait, as well as a makeshift operations center near the civilian port of<spa=
n>=C2=A0</span></span><span style=3D"max-width:100%">Shuaiba</span><span st=
yle=3D"max-width:100%">), the Prince Saud Airbase adjacent to Riyadh, Saudi=
 Arabia, and the Mowaffaq Al Salti Airbase in Jordan. The attacks were deva=
stating and reportedly employed some new Chinese missiles supplied to Iran.=
</span></font></b></p><p style=3D"max-width:100%"><b><font color=3D"#000000=
">Then there is the pressure from Gulf Arabs to end the attacks on Iran. Ir=
an, backed by China, Russia and Pakistan, engaged in intense diplomacy with=
 Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates (UAE).</font></b></p><p s=
tyle=3D"max-width:100%"><b><font color=3D"#000000">The UAE, who has been a =
thorn in the side of Iran and Saudi Arabia and has been identified as an al=
ly of Israel, sent a delegation to Iran on 9 June. Reuters reported that th=
e UAE had agreed to release billions of dollars for Iran =E2=80=94 two regi=
onal sources put the figure at $10 billion (including more than $3 billion =
already delivered), while two other sources put it at $20 billion, with the=
 funds agreed in exchange for Iran halting attacks on the UAE. However, the=
 UAE=E2=80=99s Ministry of Foreign Affairs categorically denied those repor=
ts, stating the allegations were =E2=80=9Centirely false and unfounded=E2=
=80=9D and that no frozen Iranian funds had been released, transferred, or =
facilitated through the UAE. What is undisputed is that the UAE sent a high=
-level delegation to talk to the Iranian government.</font></b></p><p style=
=3D"max-width:100%"><b><font color=3D"#000000"><span style=3D"max-width:100=
%">A high-level Qatari delegation arrived in Tehran on<span>=C2=A0</span></=
span><span style=3D"max-width:100%">Wednesday, June 10</span><span style=3D=
"max-width:100%">, to hold talks on bilateral relations, regional developme=
nts, and diplomatic efforts to end the conflict between Iran and the United=
 States. The delegation arrived at midday and the visit came after Trump ac=
cused Iran of stalling and said Tehran must now =E2=80=9Cpay the price.=E2=
=80=9D AFP, citing an informed diplomat, reported the Qatari negotiating te=
am had traveled to Tehran following consultations with American officials t=
o help narrow remaining differences between the two sides.</span></font></b=
></p><p style=3D"max-width:100%"><b><font color=3D"#000000"><span style=3D"=
max-width:100%">A senior Pakistani source with access to information about =
Pakistan=E2=80=99s role in mediating the talks between the US and Iran, rep=
orted that Pakistan, with the encouragement of China and Russia, was making=
 progress in its talks with the Saudis and the Qataris to stop hosting US m=
ilitary bases in their respective countries. These talks coincided with Sau=
di Arabia denying the US the use of its airspace to attack Iranian targets =
during<span>=C2=A0</span></span><em style=3D"max-width:100%">Project Freedo=
m</em><span style=3D"max-width:100%">.</span></font></b></p><p style=3D"max=
-width:100%"><b><font color=3D"#000000">Will the deal be signed on Friday? =
I remain skeptical simply because of the enormous Zionist backlash being vi=
sited on Donald Trump by angry Israeli officials and US politicians beholde=
n to AIPAC. However, as I write this Monday night, the deal appears intact.=
</font></b></p><p style=3D"max-width:100%"><b><font color=3D"#000000">Why h=
asn=E2=80=99t Donald Trump released the text of the MOU? Two possible expla=
nations (and I=E2=80=99ll be interested in what you think is the most plaus=
ible): 1) There are still areas of disagreement between Iran and the US and=
 they are still trying to work out a compromise, 2) Trump does not want to =
provide the details beforehand fearing that the Zionist backlash could dera=
il the Friday signing ceremony in Geneva. The diplomatic roller coaster is =
running full blast=E2=80=A6 It will be a wild ride until Friday.</font></b>=
</p><p style=3D"max-width:100%"></p><hr style=3D"height:0.5px;border:0px;ma=
x-width:100%"><p></p><p style=3D"max-width:100%"><b><font color=3D"#000000"=
>The negotiations were the topic of conversation in all of today=E2=80=99s =
podcasts. I started the morning, as usual, with Judge Napolitano:</font></b=
></p><div style=3D"max-width:100%"><p></p></div><p style=3D"max-width:100%"=
><b><font color=3D"#000000">I followed up with Nima, discussing Bibi Netany=
ahu=E2=80=99s role in making the MOU possible:</font></b></p><div style=3D"=
max-width:100%"><p></p></div><p style=3D"max-width:100%"><b><font color=3D"=
#000000">I am now part of the new channel, Transition Protocols, which is h=
osted by Zulfiqar Ali. We had a lively discussion about the prospects for t=
he success of the negotiations:</font></b></p><div style=3D"max-width:100%"=
><p></p></div><p style=3D"max-width:100%"><b><font color=3D"#000000">Lt. Co=
lonel Karen Kwiatkowski filled in for the vacationing Kyle Anzalone and did=
 a great job (I love Karen, she=E2=80=99s a seasoned professional):</font><=
/b></p><div style=3D"max-width:100%"><p></p></div><p style=3D"max-width:100=
%"><b><font color=3D"#000000">I did a half hour with Mario:</font></b></p><=
div style=3D"max-width:100%"><p></p></div><p style=3D"max-width:100%"><b><f=
ont color=3D"#000000">Finished the night with Sulaiman:</font></b></p><div =
style=3D"max-width:100%"><p></p></div><p style=3D"max-width:100%"><b><font =
color=3D"#000000"><br></font></b></p><br></div></div>
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Trump: There would be no Israel without me



Donald Trump has claimed that =E2=80=9Cthere would be no Israel=E2=80=9D wi=
thout him,
deepening tensions with Benjamin Netanyahu.

Speaking at the G7 summit alongside Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Than, the
Emir of Qatar, the US president said: =E2=80=9CWithout the United States, t=
here
would be no Israel. Without me, there would be no Israel, because no other
president was willing to do what I did.

=E2=80=9CIsrael would have been blown up a long time ago, had I not gotten
involved.=E2=80=9D

Mr Trump also urged the Israeli president to show restraint in Lebanon,
where frequent strikes have threatened a peace deal with Iran.

He said: =E2=80=9CI=E2=80=99ve had a great relationship with Bibi, but now =
Bibi has to be
more responsible with respect to Lebanon.

=E2=80=9CLebanon used to be a great country. It was a country where you had
professors, doctors, lawyers. The great intellect was in Lebanon. Now it=E2=
=80=99s
just terrible.=E2=80=9D

The remarks are the latest in a series of barbs by Mr Trump towards the
Israeli prime minister, having accused him of having =E2=80=9Cno f---ing ju=
dgment=E2=80=9D
in a phone call on Sunday.

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an style=3D"font-size:36.0pt;font-family:&quot;Georgia&quot;,serif;color:#2=
22222">Trump: There would be no Israel without me<u></u><u></u></span></p><=
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u></u>=C2=A0<u></u></span></p><p style=3D"margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12=
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le=3D"font-size:14.5pt;font-family:&quot;Georgia&quot;,serif;color:#333333"=
>Donald Trump has claimed that =E2=80=9Cthere would be no Israel=E2=80=9D w=
ithout him, deepening tensions with Benjamin Netanyahu.<u></u><u></u></span=
></p><p style=3D"margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0cm;line=
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s:normal;text-align:start;text-decoration-line:none;text-decoration-style:s=
olid;word-spacing:0px"><span style=3D"font-size:14.5pt;font-family:&quot;Ge=
orgia&quot;,serif;color:#333333">Speaking at the G7 summit alongside Sheikh=
 Tamim bin Hamad Al Than, the Emir of Qatar, the US president said: =E2=80=
=9CWithout the United States, there would be no Israel. Without me, there w=
ould be no Israel, because no other president was willing to do what I did.=
<u></u><u></u></span></p><p style=3D"margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;=
margin-left:0cm;line-height:20.25pt;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing:inhe=
rit;font-variant-caps:normal;text-align:start;text-decoration-line:none;tex=
t-decoration-style:solid;word-spacing:0px"><span style=3D"font-size:14.5pt;=
font-family:&quot;Georgia&quot;,serif;color:#333333">=E2=80=9CIsrael would =
have been blown up a long time ago, had I not gotten involved.=E2=80=9D<u><=
/u><u></u></span></p><p style=3D"margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;marg=
in-left:0cm;line-height:20.25pt;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing:inherit;=
font-variant-caps:normal;text-align:start;text-decoration-line:none;text-de=
coration-style:solid;word-spacing:0px"><span style=3D"font-size:14.5pt;font=
-family:&quot;Georgia&quot;,serif;color:#333333">Mr Trump also urged the Is=
raeli president to show restraint in Lebanon, where frequent strikes have t=
hreatened a peace deal with Iran.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p style=3D"margi=
n-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0cm;line-height:20.25pt;vertic=
al-align:baseline;box-sizing:inherit;font-variant-caps:normal;text-align:st=
art;text-decoration-line:none;text-decoration-style:solid;word-spacing:0px"=
><span style=3D"font-size:14.5pt;font-family:&quot;Georgia&quot;,serif;colo=
r:#333333">He said: =E2=80=9CI=E2=80=99ve had a great relationship with Bib=
i, but now Bibi has to be more responsible with respect to Lebanon.<u></u><=
u></u></span></p><p style=3D"margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-l=
eft:0cm;line-height:20.25pt;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing:inherit;font=
-variant-caps:normal;text-align:start;text-decoration-line:none;text-decora=
tion-style:solid;word-spacing:0px"><span style=3D"font-size:14.5pt;font-fam=
ily:&quot;Georgia&quot;,serif;color:#333333">=E2=80=9CLebanon used to be a =
great country. It was a country where you had professors, doctors, lawyers.=
 The great intellect was in Lebanon. Now it=E2=80=99s just terrible.=E2=80=
=9D<u></u><u></u></span></p><p style=3D"margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0=
pt;margin-left:0cm;line-height:20.25pt;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing:i=
nherit;font-variant-caps:normal;text-align:start;text-decoration-line:none;=
text-decoration-style:solid;word-spacing:0px"><span style=3D"font-size:14.5=
pt;font-family:&quot;Georgia&quot;,serif;color:#333333">The remarks are the=
 latest in a series of barbs by Mr Trump towards the Israeli prime minister=
, having accused him of having =E2=80=9Cno f---ing judgment=E2=80=9D in a p=
hone call on Sunday.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class=3D"MsoNormal"><span s=
tyle=3D"font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Optima"><u></u>=C2=A0<u></u></span></p=
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*https://www.counterpunch.org/2026/06/16/the-office-of-director-of-national=
-intelligence-should-not-exist/
<https://www.counterpunch.org/2026/06/16/the-office-of-director-of-national=
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*The Office of Director of National Intelligence Should Not Exist*
*Melvin Goodman* <https://www.counterpunch.org/author/ru8acub/>  6/16/26

*The New York Times posted a long editorial last week to make the case
against choosing Bill Pulte as the acting director of national
intelligence.  That was not a difficult case to make, but it didn=E2=80=99t
question whether we should even have an Office of National Intelligence.
The answer to that particular issue requires an understanding of why the
intelligence failure of 9/11 took place and why the many investigations of
the failure came up with the wrong answers.*

*There have been two major strategic intelligence failures over the past 85
years=E2=80=94Pearl Harbor and 9/11.  In each case, nearly three thousand l=
ives
were lost because of the intelligence failures that accompanied Pearl
Harbor and 9/11.  In both cases, there was sufficient intelligence
available to prevent=E2=80=94or at least mollify=E2=80=94the attacks.  In b=
oth cases, the
intelligence analysis was unimaginative, divided, and diffuse.  The lack of
intelligence sharing was central to the failure at Pearl Harbor, but the
problem of sharing was exaggerated in the case of 9/11.*

*There was one major difference between Pearl Harbor and 9/11.  The
surprise Japanese attack led to a major reform of the national security
community in the form of the 1947 National Security Act, which created the
Central Intelligence Agency, the National Security Council, the Department
of Defense, and the Joint Chiefs of Staff.  Sadly, all of these
institutions have been politicized and weakened in the Trump era.*

*The Intelligence Reform Act of 2004, which followed 9/11, was totally
inadequate to the task of reform, creating an intelligence tsar and
centralizing intelligence analysis.  As a result, the White House and the
Pentagon received enhanced roles in the structure of intelligence, making
future intelligence failures and the politicization of intelligence more
likely.  To make matters worse, the congressional oversight process has
been broken, with little scrutiny of the intelligence community in the wake
of the failures of 9/11 and the Iraq War.*

*Flawed assumptions and a lack of imagination accompanied the failures of
Pearl Harbor and 9/11.  It was simply assumed that the Japanese lacked the
moxie and the wherewithal to attack Pearl Harbor so far from Japanese
waters and that the terrorist community would target vulnerable U.S. assets
abroad and not the United States itself.  For years prior to 9/11, there
was no cataloguing of information on weaponizing aircraft to be used
against civilian targets, despite the intelligence on the Bojinka plot that
outlined such targets as the Pentagon and CIA headquarters.  There was some
concern at the CIA about possible attacks within the United States, but
there was insufficient interest in the policy community.  The President=E2=
=80=99s
Daily Brief never provided a strategic warning to the president.*

*The 9/11 Commission had a broad mandate for investigating the terrorist
attacks, but provided little insight into the systemic problems within the
intelligence community.  It focused on budgeting and funding,
organizational problems, and structural issues within the community.  Less
attention was given to the keys to the failure such as personal failure,
accountability and bureaucratic cowardice.  The members of the Commission
were primarily lawyers with little intelligence experience or insight.
They represented a balanced group of Democrats and Republicans who wanted
to protect the blunders of the Clinton administration and the Bush
administration, respectively.  As a result, their only =E2=80=9Creform=E2=
=80=9D was the
creation of a new management structure under the Director of National
Intelligence.*

*The staff director of the Commission, Philip Zelikow, had extremely close
ties to the Bush administration.  He was politically, personally, and
ideologically involved with many of the key individuals who should have
been investigated.  The lack of interest within the Bush administration
regarding domestic terrorism was insufficiently explored.  Even today, the
Department of Homeland Security is politicizing the sources of domestic
terrorism.*

*The Commission wanted a lean office of national intelligence, with a small
but powerful staff.  Instead, the director of national intelligence has a
huge budget with a large management staff that took too many officials from
key intelligence agencies, thus weakening the overall intelligence
apparatus.  The major task of the office of national intelligence should be
making sure that an independent intelligence community tells truth to
power.  Theoretically, the DNI was supposed to be able to shift resources
as needs changed.  It was naive to think that office would ever have enough
influence to move funds from one agency to another.*

*The centralized framework within the intelligence community weakens the
importance of diversity and competition in the collection and analysis of
intelligence.  Currently, we are operating with a system that is not
sufficiently accountable and responsible.  To make matters worse, we are
led by a president who has no interest in intelligence matters, which
guarantees that the White House will not receive the alternative analysis
and the contrarian views that are needed in dealing with threats to our
security.*

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office-of-director-of-national-intelligence-should-not-exist/</a></font></b=
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ce=3D"georgia, serif"><br></font></b></div><div><h1 style=3D"line-height:1.=
2141em;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0.5em;max-width:100%"><font color=3D"#0=
00000" face=3D"georgia, serif" size=3D"4"><i>The Office of Director of Nati=
onal Intelligence Should Not Exist</i></font></h1><div style=3D"margin-bott=
om:1.45em;max-width:100%"><span style=3D"margin:0px;max-width:100%;display:=
inline"><a href=3D"https://www.counterpunch.org/author/ru8acub/" rel=3D"nof=
ollow" style=3D"text-decoration:none;margin:0px;max-width:100%;display:inli=
ne" target=3D"_blank"><b><font color=3D"#000000" face=3D"georgia, serif">Me=
lvin Goodman</font></b></a>=C2=A0 6/16/26</span></div><p style=3D"max-width=
:100%"><b><font color=3D"#000000" face=3D"georgia, serif">The New York Time=
s posted a long editorial last week to make the case against choosing Bill =
Pulte as the acting director of national intelligence.=C2=A0 That was not a=
 difficult case to make, but it didn=E2=80=99t question whether we should e=
ven have an Office of National Intelligence.=C2=A0 The answer to that parti=
cular issue requires an understanding of why the intelligence failure of 9/=
11 took place and why the many investigations of the failure came up with t=
he wrong answers.</font></b></p><p style=3D"max-width:100%"><b><font color=
=3D"#000000" face=3D"georgia, serif">There have been two major strategic in=
telligence failures over the past 85 years=E2=80=94Pearl Harbor and 9/11.=
=C2=A0 In each case, nearly three thousand lives were lost because of the i=
ntelligence failures that accompanied Pearl Harbor and 9/11.=C2=A0 In both =
cases, there was sufficient intelligence available to prevent=E2=80=94or at=
 least mollify=E2=80=94the attacks.=C2=A0 In both cases, the intelligence a=
nalysis was unimaginative, divided, and diffuse.=C2=A0 The lack of intellig=
ence sharing was central to the failure at Pearl Harbor, but the problem of=
 sharing was exaggerated in the case of 9/11.</font></b></p><p style=3D"max=
-width:100%"><b><font color=3D"#000000" face=3D"georgia, serif">There was o=
ne major difference between Pearl Harbor and 9/11.=C2=A0 The surprise Japan=
ese attack led to a major reform of the national security community in the =
form of the 1947 National Security Act, which created the Central Intellige=
nce Agency, the National Security Council, the Department of Defense, and t=
he Joint Chiefs of Staff.=C2=A0 Sadly, all of these institutions have been =
politicized and weakened in the Trump era.</font></b></p><p style=3D"max-wi=
dth:100%"><b><font color=3D"#000000" face=3D"georgia, serif">The Intelligen=
ce Reform Act of 2004, which followed 9/11, was totally inadequate to the t=
ask of reform, creating an intelligence tsar and centralizing intelligence =
analysis.=C2=A0 As a result, the White House and the Pentagon received enha=
nced roles in the structure of intelligence, making future intelligence fai=
lures and the politicization of intelligence more likely.=C2=A0 To make mat=
ters worse, the congressional oversight process has been broken, with littl=
e scrutiny of the intelligence community in the wake of the failures of 9/1=
1 and the Iraq War.</font></b></p><p style=3D"max-width:100%"><b><font colo=
r=3D"#000000" face=3D"georgia, serif">Flawed assumptions and a lack of imag=
ination accompanied the failures of Pearl Harbor and 9/11.=C2=A0 It was sim=
ply assumed that the Japanese lacked the moxie and the wherewithal to attac=
k Pearl Harbor so far from Japanese waters and that the terrorist community=
 would target vulnerable U.S. assets abroad and not the United States itsel=
f.=C2=A0 For years prior to 9/11, there was no cataloguing of information o=
n weaponizing aircraft to be used against civilian targets, despite the int=
elligence on the Bojinka plot that outlined such targets as the Pentagon an=
d CIA headquarters.=C2=A0 There was some concern at the CIA about possible =
attacks within the United States, but there was insufficient interest in th=
e policy community.=C2=A0 The President=E2=80=99s Daily Brief never provide=
d a strategic warning to the president.</font></b></p><p style=3D"max-width=
:100%"><b><font color=3D"#000000" face=3D"georgia, serif">The 9/11 Commissi=
on had a broad mandate for investigating the terrorist attacks, but provide=
d little insight into the systemic problems within the intelligence communi=
ty.=C2=A0 It focused on budgeting and funding, organizational problems, and=
 structural issues within the community.=C2=A0 Less attention was given to =
the keys to the failure such as personal failure, accountability and bureau=
cratic cowardice.=C2=A0 The members of the Commission were primarily lawyer=
s with little intelligence experience or insight.=C2=A0 They represented a =
balanced group of Democrats and Republicans who wanted to protect the blund=
ers of the Clinton administration and the Bush administration, respectively=
.=C2=A0 As a result, their only =E2=80=9Creform=E2=80=9D was the creation o=
f a new management structure under the Director of National Intelligence.</=
font></b></p><p style=3D"max-width:100%"><b><font color=3D"#000000" face=3D=
"georgia, serif">The staff director of the Commission, Philip Zelikow, had =
extremely close ties to the Bush administration.=C2=A0 He was politically, =
personally, and ideologically involved with many of the key individuals who=
 should have been investigated.=C2=A0 The lack of interest within the Bush =
administration regarding domestic terrorism was insufficiently explored.=C2=
=A0 Even today, the Department of Homeland Security is politicizing the sou=
rces of domestic terrorism.</font></b></p><p style=3D"max-width:100%"><b><f=
ont color=3D"#000000" face=3D"georgia, serif">The Commission wanted a lean =
office of national intelligence, with a small but powerful staff.=C2=A0 Ins=
tead, the director of national intelligence has a huge budget with a large =
management staff that took too many officials from key intelligence agencie=
s, thus weakening the overall intelligence apparatus.=C2=A0 The major task =
of the office of national intelligence should be making sure that an indepe=
ndent intelligence community tells truth to power.=C2=A0 Theoretically, the=
 DNI was supposed to be able to shift resources as needs changed.=C2=A0 It =
was naive to think that office would ever have enough influence to move fun=
ds from one agency to another.</font></b></p><p style=3D"max-width:100%"><b=
><font color=3D"#000000" face=3D"georgia, serif">The centralized framework =
within the intelligence community weakens the importance of diversity and c=
ompetition in the collection and analysis of intelligence.=C2=A0 Currently,=
 we are operating with a system that is not sufficiently accountable and re=
sponsible.=C2=A0 To make matters worse, we are led by a president who has n=
o interest in intelligence matters, which guarantees that the White House w=
ill not receive the alternative analysis and the contrarian views that are =
needed in dealing with threats to our security.</font></b></p></div></div>
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(</span><a href=3D"https://substack.com/redirect/0e0734b2-86f0-457f-8e00-ae=
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ities in exchange for never having to talk to Vice President JD Vance again=
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the Iranians=E2=80=99 earshot for a minimum of 30 years, with his exact loc=
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or:rgb(54,55,55);line-height:26px;font-size:16px">=E2=80=9CAll the bombs we=
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=E2=80=99s voice did,=E2=80=9D Donald J. Trump said. =E2=80=9CI=E2=80=99m t=
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https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/politics-and-diplomacy/article-899553
'Sold their brothers': Israeli right-wing figures brand Witkoff, Kushner as
'losers' over Iran dealChannel 14 commentators criticized Kushner and
Witkoff's involvement in the US deal with Iran, claiming that they're
turning their backs on the country in a time of need.[image: Jared Kushner
and Steve Witkoff, Special Envoy for Peace Missions listen as Vice
President JD Vance speaks during a news conference after meeting with
representatives from Pakistan and Iran, Sunday, April 12, 2026, in
Islamabad, Pakistan.]Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, Special Envoy for
Peace Missions listen as Vice President JD Vance speaks during a news
conference after meeting with representatives from Pakistan and Iran,
Sunday, April 12, 2026, in Islamabad, Pakistan.(photo credit: Jacquelyn
Martin/Pool via REUTERS)ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
<https://www.jpost.com/author/jerusalem-post-staff>JUNE 16, 2026

Israeli media figures and commentators turned sharply
<https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/article-899530> against Jared Kushner and
Steve Witkoff this week, accusing two of US President Donald Trump=E2=80=99=
s
closest Middle East envoys of helping push an Iran
<https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/politics-and-diplomacy/article-899421> d=
eal
that many in Israel view as dangerous and incomplete.

The criticism came amid mounting Israeli concern over the emerging US-Iran
memorandum of understanding, which critics say prioritizes regional calm
and the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz
<https://www.jpost.com/international/article-899526> while leaving Iran=E2=
=80=99s
nuclear program, missile program, and support for regional proxies for
later negotiations.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Monday that Israel would continue to
act to prevent Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons, regardless of the
agreement. Israeli officials also told *Ynet* that Netanyahu had made clear
to Trump that Israel did not view itself as bound by the Lebanon clause in
the agreement and would keep operating against Hezbollah threats.

But while Netanyahu avoided a direct public attack on Trump=E2=80=99s envoy=
s, some
Israeli commentators did not.

*Channel 14*, a right-wing Israeli television channel often described as
Israel=E2=80=99s answer to *Newsmax* because of its strongly conservative,
pro-Netanyahu editorial line and influence among right-wing viewers,
carried some of the sharpest criticism.
[image: A large billboard sign channel 14 posted on a building in
Jerusalem. August 14, 2023.]A large billboard sign channel 14 posted on a
building in Jerusalem. August 14, 2023. (credit: CHAIM GOLDBERG/FLASH90)

*Channel 14* anchor Tal Meir used her Monday morning program to criticize
Kushner and Witkoff, accusing them of turning their backs on Israel =E2=80=
=9Cat the
moment of truth.=E2=80=9D

=E2=80=9CThey got a little confused in this event,=E2=80=9D Meir said, acco=
rding to *Channel
14*. =E2=80=9CYou are part of these people.=E2=80=9D

Meir argued that Israel was defending the Jewish people as a whole,
including Jews living outside the country.

=E2=80=9CWe are here, among other things, to defend you too,=E2=80=9D she s=
aid. =E2=80=9CIn the
end, this is your real home, and we are guarding it for you and for your
future generations. And you turn your backs on us like this? Simply losers.=
=E2=80=9D
Kushner and Witkoff painted as sell-outs

The comments reflected a broader emotional tone in parts of the Israeli
right, where Kushner <https://www.jpost.com/tags/jared-kushner> and Witkoff
are being judged as American negotiators and as Jewish figures with a
perceived obligation toward Israel.

*Channel 14* also reported that Yinon Magal, host of The Patriots, attacked
Kushner and Witkoff on X, writing that Trump had come out of the agreement
looking like a =E2=80=9Closer.=E2=80=9D According to the report, Magal accu=
sed the two
envoys of acting under Qatari pressure and =E2=80=9Cselling their brothers =
in
Israel.=E2=80=9D

The anger toward Kushner and Witkoff has intensified because the two men
had previously been praised in Israel for their role in hostage
negotiations and Trump=E2=80=99s broader Middle East policy. Their current =
role in
the Iran track has now made them targets for Israeli frustration over what
many see as a rushed diplomatic process that does not meet Jerusalem=E2=80=
=99s
security demands.

*Ynet* reported that the memorandum appears to fall short of four demands
Netanyahu had set out only days earlier: removing Iran=E2=80=99s enriched u=
ranium,
dismantling enrichment infrastructure, limiting missile production, and
ending support for terrorist proxies. According to the report, those goals
are currently =E2=80=9Cnot on the horizon.=E2=80=9D
The media believes the US-Iran agreement falls short

The Israeli backlash is also linked to the structure of the agreement
itself. Critics argue that the deal addresses the immediate crisis around
Hormuz while pushing the hardest questions about Iran=E2=80=99s nuclear and
regional military capabilities into a later stage

*Channel 14* cited Israeli security officials warning that the agreement
was based on a fragile structure, signed in American haste, and left the
core of the nuclear threat without a real answer.

For now, the strongest public criticism of Kushner and Witkoff is coming
from Israeli right-wing media rather than from official Israeli government
statements. But the tone marks a significant shift from the praise the two
envoys received in Israel only months ago.

Kushner and Witkoff, once viewed by many Israelis as trusted channels into
Trump=E2=80=99s inner circle, are now becoming symbols of what critics desc=
ribe as
Washington=E2=80=99s willingness to prioritize a regional diplomatic win ov=
er
Israel=E2=80=99s strategic concerns.

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<div dir=3D"ltr"><a href=3D"https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/politics-and-=
diplomacy/article-899553">https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/politics-and-di=
plomacy/article-899553</a><div><h1 class=3D"gmail-article-main-title gmail-=
cb-headline" style=3D"font-weight:500;font-size:40px;margin:0px;font-family=
:__Faustina_3abb4d,__Faustina_Fallback_3abb4d,Faustina,&quot;Times New Roma=
n&quot;,serif;line-height:52px;letter-spacing:0.4px">&#39;Sold their brothe=
rs&#39;: Israeli right-wing figures brand Witkoff, Kushner as &#39;losers&#=
39; over Iran deal</h1><h2 class=3D"gmail-article-main-subtitle" style=3D"f=
ont-weight:400;font-family:__Inter_f367f3,__Inter_Fallback_f367f3,Inter,Hel=
vetica,sans-serif;font-size:20px;line-height:36px;letter-spacing:0.24px;mar=
gin:0px">Channel 14 commentators criticized Kushner and Witkoff&#39;s invol=
vement in the US deal with Iran, claiming that they&#39;re turning their ba=
cks on the country in a time of need.</h2><img alt=3D"Jared Kushner and Ste=
ve Witkoff, Special Envoy for Peace Missions listen as Vice President JD Va=
nce speaks during a news conference after meeting with representatives from=
 Pakistan and Iran, Sunday, April 12, 2026, in Islamabad, Pakistan." title=
=3D"Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, Special Envoy for Peace Missions liste=
n as Vice President JD Vance speaks during a news conference after meeting =
with representatives from Pakistan and Iran, Sunday, April 12, 2026, in Isl=
amabad, Pakistan." width=3D"1280" height=3D"720" class=3D"gmail-img-fluid g=
mail-full-width gmail-cb-thumbnail" src=3D"https://images.jpost.com/image/u=
pload/f_auto,fl_lossy/q_auto/c_fill,g_faces:center,h_720,w_1280/717772" sty=
le=3D"border-style: none; width: 1260px; max-width: 100%; height: auto; col=
or: transparent;">Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, Special Envoy for Peace =
Missions listen as Vice President JD Vance speaks during a news conference =
after meeting with representatives from Pakistan and Iran, Sunday, April 12=
, 2026, in Islamabad, Pakistan.(photo credit:=C2=A0Jacquelyn Martin/Pool vi=
a REUTERS)<span class=3D"gmail-reporters" style=3D"display:block;color:rgb(=
33,33,33);font-size:0.75rem;line-height:1.5"><span class=3D"gmail-reporters=
-preposition" style=3D"color:rgb(127,127,127);margin-right:3px">By</span><s=
pan style=3D"color:rgb(127,127,127)"><a class=3D"gmail-reporter-name-channe=
l" target=3D"_self" href=3D"https://www.jpost.com/author/jerusalem-post-sta=
ff" style=3D"text-decoration:none;color:rgb(127,127,127);background-color:t=
ransparent">JERUSALEM POST STAFF</a></span></span>JUNE 16, 2026<p>Israeli m=
edia figures and commentators=C2=A0<a href=3D"https://www.jpost.com/diaspor=
a/article-899530" style=3D"color:rgb(50,104,145);background-color:transpare=
nt">turned sharply</a>=C2=A0against Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff this we=
ek, accusing two of US President Donald Trump=E2=80=99s closest Middle East=
 envoys of helping push an=C2=A0<a href=3D"https://www.jpost.com/israel-new=
s/politics-and-diplomacy/article-899421" style=3D"color:rgb(50,104,145);bac=
kground-color:transparent">Iran</a>=C2=A0deal that many in Israel view as d=
angerous and incomplete.</p><p>The criticism came amid mounting Israeli con=
cern over the emerging US-Iran memorandum of understanding, which critics s=
ay prioritizes regional calm and the reopening of the=C2=A0<a href=3D"https=
://www.jpost.com/international/article-899526" style=3D"color:rgb(50,104,14=
5);background-color:transparent">Strait of Hormuz</a>=C2=A0while leaving Ir=
an=E2=80=99s nuclear program, missile program, and support for regional pro=
xies for later negotiations.</p><p>Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said M=
onday that Israel would continue to act to prevent Iran from obtaining nucl=
ear weapons, regardless of the agreement. Israeli officials also told=C2=A0=
<em>Ynet</em>=C2=A0that Netanyahu had made clear to Trump that Israel did n=
ot view itself as bound by the Lebanon clause in the agreement and would ke=
ep operating against Hezbollah threats.</p><p class=3D"gmail-article-paragr=
aph-section gmail-article-body-paragraph" style=3D"margin-bottom:1rem">But =
while Netanyahu avoided a direct public attack on Trump=E2=80=99s envoys, s=
ome Israeli commentators did not.</p><p><em>Channel 14</em>, a right-wing I=
sraeli television channel often described as Israel=E2=80=99s answer to=C2=
=A0<em>Newsmax</em>=C2=A0because of its strongly conservative, pro-Netanyah=
u editorial line and influence among right-wing viewers, carried some of th=
e sharpest criticism.</p><img alt=3D"A large billboard sign channel 14 post=
ed on a building in Jerusalem. August 14, 2023." width=3D"822" height=3D"82=
9" src=3D"https://images.jpost.com/image/upload/f_auto,fl_lossy/c_fill,g_fa=
ces:center,h_537,w_822/721704" style=3D"border-style: none; width: 734px; h=
eight: auto; display: block; margin-bottom: 5px; padding: 0px; border-width=
: medium; border-color: currentcolor; border-image: initial; color: transpa=
rent;">A large billboard sign channel 14 posted on a building in Jerusalem.=
 August 14, 2023. (credit: CHAIM GOLDBERG/FLASH90)<p><em>Channel 14</em>=C2=
=A0anchor Tal Meir used her Monday morning program to criticize Kushner and=
 Witkoff, accusing them of turning their backs on Israel =E2=80=9Cat the mo=
ment of truth.=E2=80=9D</p><p>=E2=80=9CThey got a little confused in this e=
vent,=E2=80=9D Meir said, according to=C2=A0<em>Channel 14</em>. =E2=80=9CY=
ou are part of these people.=E2=80=9D</p><p class=3D"gmail-article-paragrap=
h-section gmail-article-body-paragraph" style=3D"margin-bottom:1rem">Meir a=
rgued that Israel was defending the Jewish people as a whole, including Jew=
s living outside the country.</p><p class=3D"gmail-article-paragraph-sectio=
n gmail-article-body-paragraph" style=3D"margin-bottom:1rem">=E2=80=9CWe ar=
e here, among other things, to defend you too,=E2=80=9D she said. =E2=80=9C=
In the end, this is your real home, and we are guarding it for you and for =
your future generations. And you turn your backs on us like this? Simply lo=
sers.=E2=80=9D</p><h3 id=3D"gmail-section-16" class=3D"gmail-article-header=
-section gmail-article-body-paragraph gmail-injected" style=3D"font-weight:=
unset;margin-bottom:1rem"><span style=3D"font-weight:bolder">Kushner and Wi=
tkoff painted as sell-outs</span></h3><p>The comments reflected a broader e=
motional tone in parts of the Israeli right, where=C2=A0<a href=3D"https://=
www.jpost.com/tags/jared-kushner" style=3D"color:rgb(50,104,145);background=
-color:transparent">Kushner</a>=C2=A0and Witkoff are being judged as Americ=
an negotiators and as Jewish figures with a perceived obligation toward Isr=
ael.</p><p><em>Channel 14</em>=C2=A0also reported that Yinon Magal, host of=
 The Patriots, attacked Kushner and Witkoff on X, writing that Trump had co=
me out of the agreement looking like a =E2=80=9Closer.=E2=80=9D According t=
o the report, Magal accused the two envoys of acting under Qatari pressure =
and =E2=80=9Cselling their brothers in Israel.=E2=80=9D</p><p class=3D"gmai=
l-article-paragraph-section gmail-article-body-paragraph" style=3D"margin-b=
ottom:1rem">The anger toward Kushner and Witkoff has intensified because th=
e two men had previously been praised in Israel for their role in hostage n=
egotiations and Trump=E2=80=99s broader Middle East policy. Their current r=
ole in the Iran track has now made them targets for Israeli frustration ove=
r what many see as a rushed diplomatic process that does not meet Jerusalem=
=E2=80=99s security demands.</p><p><em>Ynet</em>=C2=A0reported that the mem=
orandum appears to fall short of four demands Netanyahu had set out only da=
ys earlier: removing Iran=E2=80=99s enriched uranium, dismantling enrichmen=
t infrastructure, limiting missile production, and ending support for terro=
rist proxies. According to the report, those goals are currently =E2=80=9Cn=
ot on the horizon.=E2=80=9D</p><h3 id=3D"gmail-section-22" class=3D"gmail-a=
rticle-header-section gmail-article-body-paragraph gmail-injected" style=3D=
"font-weight:unset;margin-bottom:1rem"><span style=3D"font-weight:bolder">T=
he media believes the US-Iran agreement falls short</span></h3><p class=3D"=
gmail-article-paragraph-section gmail-article-body-paragraph" style=3D"marg=
in-bottom:1rem">The Israeli backlash is also linked to the structure of the=
 agreement itself. Critics argue that the deal addresses the immediate cris=
is around Hormuz while pushing the hardest questions about Iran=E2=80=99s n=
uclear and regional military capabilities into a later stage</p><p><em>Chan=
nel 14</em>=C2=A0cited Israeli security officials warning that the agreemen=
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core of the nuclear threat without a real answer.</p><p class=3D"gmail-arti=
cle-paragraph-section gmail-article-body-paragraph" style=3D"margin-bottom:=
1rem">For now, the strongest public criticism of Kushner and Witkoff is com=
ing from Israeli right-wing media rather than from official Israeli governm=
ent statements. But the tone marks a significant shift from the praise the =
two envoys received in Israel only months ago.</p><p class=3D"gmail-article=
-paragraph-section gmail-article-body-paragraph" style=3D"margin-bottom:1re=
m">Kushner and Witkoff, once viewed by many Israelis as trusted channels in=
to Trump=E2=80=99s inner circle, are now becoming symbols of what critics d=
escribe as Washington=E2=80=99s willingness to prioritize a regional diplom=
atic win over Israel=E2=80=99s strategic concerns.</p></div></div>

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*https://strategic-culture.su/news/2026/06/16/trumps-deal-with-iranians-pos=
sibly-greatest-us-defeat-since-vietnam/
<https://strategic-culture.su/news/2026/06/16/trumps-deal-with-iranians-pos=
sibly-greatest-us-defeat-since-vietnam/>*

*Martin Jay,  6/16/26*

*Trump=E2=80=99s deal with the Iranians is possibly the greatest U.S. defea=
t since
Vietnam*

*But it might not even hold, as there are too many possibilities which
could scupper it in the 60 days where the U.S. is forced to negotiate with
Tehran over its nuclear capabilities.*

*President Donald Trump has possibly signed off on the worst deal for him
and the U.S. in the short history of his country with Iran, underlining how
desperate he was to open the Straits of Hormuz and begin to reinstate world
shipping, in the hope of lowering oil prices. According to reports on
Sunday evening of June 14th, it would seem that he and Iran have agreed
provisionally to a deal which many are already calling a =E2=80=9C60-day
memorandum,=E2=80=9D given its window of opportunity to seize the greater p=
rize of
getting Tehran to agree to scrapping its nuclear program.*

*But even if both sides agree and sign, the moment of relief may be
ephemeral, as there are many obstacles ahead which can derail it at any
time. The question of who is really running America=E2=80=99s foreign polic=
y =E2=80=94
certainly in the Middle East =E2=80=94 might be answered in the coming mont=
hs, as
Trump=E2=80=99s relationship with Benjamin Netanyahu will be pivotal to any
progress, with legions of analysts already pointing out that Bibi will
break the ceasefire shortly after it has been signed. Even more likely
would be a false flag attack designed to fool Trump that the Iranians are
the ones who reneged on the deal and that he is duty-bound to join Israel
in returning to war.*

*For the deal to hold, Israel has to stop fighting Hezbollah in Lebanon,
which is a very tall order given that this battle is the only pretext Bibi
has to both stay in office and avoid corruption charges that could possibly
put him in prison.*

*Yet the real problem with the deal is the lack of trust the Iranians have
with Trump =E2=80=94 and rightly so. They don=E2=80=99t believe the deal ca=
n last, even if
a second stage of it can be signed and they give up their rights to refine
uranium. They have always believed that everything Trump does and says is a
ruse, and that any peace deal signed off within the 60 days would only hold
until the primaries, before Trump is seduced once again into going back to
war. In the shorter term, though, it would appear that Iran has secured an
extraordinary deal which could, if honoured, see them getting $300 billion
USD in compensation for reconstruction and $24 billion USD being returned
to them from seized money which the U.S. held. It=E2=80=99s hard to imagine=
 how
Trump is going to spin this to the American public as a victory, as all the
U.S. gets is lower fuel prices and the possibility of paying even more
money to Iran to give up its nuclear program. Clearly, with the lack of
trust which Iran has, it will ensure that the $324 billion USD is paid
first before they really take the second part of the deal seriously. But
with the Straits of Hormuz open, it will still be a relief to Trump that
the global oil trade can begin to get back to normal, although experts have
said this could take months. Convincing the international insurance brokers
in London that all three parties =E2=80=94 the U.S., Israel, and Iran =E2=
=80=94 are going
to keep the straits open will be hard, and it is expected that Trump=E2=80=
=99s key
associates will be using all of their might to lean on the London-based
industry.*

*But the deal is terrible for America over the longer term, as it backs up
Professor Bob Pope=E2=80=99s analogy that Trump has made Iran the fourth wo=
rld
power. With the straits open and part of U.S. oil sanctions lifted, this is
already axiomatic and clear to see.*

*And no one will see the significance of this more than the GCC elites, who
will now look at Iran as a regional power to which they will have to show
reverence, as being the winner of this latest so-called =E2=80=99Iran war=
=E2=80=99 with the
U.S. and Israel. Before February 28th, Iran did not control the Straits of
Hormuz and was seen as an equal rival militarily with the Gulf states, who
had U.S. bases on their turf. Now Iran will take the money and look forward
to its economy growing, while all along its own missile program will not
only grow but advance. Iran more than ever will beef up its military even
more, knowing that at any moment the West, once again, can indulge itself
with =E2=80=99regime change=E2=80=99 fantasies or U.S. troops parachuting i=
nto Kharg
Island. You know the sort of thing. Trump has literally done everything he
can to boost Iran=E2=80=99s economy, its regional military stranglehold, an=
d its
own regime=E2=80=99s political strength domestically. The deal he is offeri=
ng to
sign with the money that he has put up is a seismic defeat on a scale which
we have never seen before, although it could be compared to pulling out of
Vietnam =E2=80=94 which was both a military failure but also an economic on=
e, as it
drained the U.S. coffers and forced Nixon to decouple the dollar from gold.
Trump hasn=E2=80=99t simply stood down, but fallen to his knees, such is th=
e scale
of the failure to be duped by Israel in the first place and going ahead
with the failed campaign which blew up in his face almost from day one.
What we are now witnessing is a new low in modern U.S. history, as America
turns a new corner in its journey away from its hegemonic leadership of the
post-war years, and Trump will go down in the history books for being the
bumbling buffoon whose ego was a catalyst to that inevitable process which
some are simply calling =E2=80=99the end of empire=E2=80=99.*

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<div dir=3D"ltr"><div class=3D"gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir=
=3D"ltr" class=3D"gmail_attr"><b style=3D"background-color:transparent"><fo=
nt face=3D"georgia, serif"><a href=3D"https://strategic-culture.su/news/202=
6/06/16/trumps-deal-with-iranians-possibly-greatest-us-defeat-since-vietnam=
/" target=3D"_blank">https://strategic-culture.su/news/2026/06/16/trumps-de=
al-with-iranians-possibly-greatest-us-defeat-since-vietnam/</a></font></b><=
/div><div dir=3D"ltr" class=3D"gmail_attr"><b style=3D"background-color:tra=
nsparent"><br></b></div><div class=3D"gmail_attr"><b style=3D"background-co=
lor:transparent">Martin Jay,=C2=A0 6/16/26</b></div><div dir=3D"ltr"><div d=
ir=3D"ltr"><div><b><font face=3D"georgia, serif"><br></font></b></div><div>=
<h1 style=3D"line-height:1.2141em;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0.5em;max-wi=
dth:100%;color:rgb(27,27,27)"><font face=3D"georgia, serif" size=3D"4"><i>T=
rump=E2=80=99s deal with the Iranians is possibly the greatest U.S. defeat =
since Vietnam</i></font></h1><p style=3D"max-width:100%;color:rgb(27,27,27)=
"><em style=3D"max-width:100%"><b><font face=3D"georgia, serif">But it migh=
t not even hold, as there are too many possibilities which could scupper it=
 in the 60 days where the U.S. is forced to negotiate with Tehran over its =
nuclear capabilities.</font></b></em></p><p style=3D"max-width:100%;color:r=
gb(27,27,27)"><b><font face=3D"georgia, serif">President Donald Trump has p=
ossibly signed off on the worst deal for him and the U.S. in the short hist=
ory of his country with Iran, underlining how desperate he was to open the =
Straits of Hormuz and begin to reinstate world shipping, in the hope of low=
ering oil prices. According to reports on Sunday evening of June 14th, it w=
ould seem that he and Iran have agreed provisionally to a deal which many a=
re already calling a =E2=80=9C60-day memorandum,=E2=80=9D given its window =
of opportunity to seize the greater prize of getting Tehran to agree to scr=
apping its nuclear program.</font></b></p><p style=3D"max-width:100%;color:=
rgb(27,27,27)"><b><font face=3D"georgia, serif">But even if both sides agre=
e and sign, the moment of relief may be ephemeral, as there are many obstac=
les ahead which can derail it at any time. The question of who is really ru=
nning America=E2=80=99s foreign policy =E2=80=94 certainly in the Middle Ea=
st =E2=80=94 might be answered in the coming months, as Trump=E2=80=99s rel=
ationship with Benjamin Netanyahu will be pivotal to any progress, with leg=
ions of analysts already pointing out that Bibi will break the ceasefire sh=
ortly after it has been signed. Even more likely would be a false flag atta=
ck designed to fool Trump that the Iranians are the ones who reneged on the=
 deal and that he is duty-bound to join Israel in returning to war.</font><=
/b></p><p style=3D"max-width:100%;color:rgb(27,27,27)"><b><font face=3D"geo=
rgia, serif">For the deal to hold, Israel has to stop fighting Hezbollah in=
 Lebanon, which is a very tall order given that this battle is the only pre=
text Bibi has to both stay in office and avoid corruption charges that coul=
d possibly put him in prison.</font></b></p><p style=3D"max-width:100%;colo=
r:rgb(27,27,27)"><b><font face=3D"georgia, serif">Yet the real problem with=
 the deal is the lack of trust the Iranians have with Trump =E2=80=94 and r=
ightly so. They don=E2=80=99t believe the deal can last, even if a second s=
tage of it can be signed and they give up their rights to refine uranium. T=
hey have always believed that everything Trump does and says is a ruse, and=
 that any peace deal signed off within the 60 days would only hold until th=
e primaries, before Trump is seduced once again into going back to war. In =
the shorter term, though, it would appear that Iran has secured an extraord=
inary deal which could, if honoured, see them getting $300 billion USD in c=
ompensation for reconstruction and $24 billion USD being returned to them f=
rom seized money which the U.S. held. It=E2=80=99s hard to imagine how Trum=
p is going to spin this to the American public as a victory, as all the U.S=
. gets is lower fuel prices and the possibility of paying even more money t=
o Iran to give up its nuclear program. Clearly, with the lack of trust whic=
h Iran has, it will ensure that the $324 billion USD is paid first before t=
hey really take the second part of the deal seriously. But with the Straits=
 of Hormuz open, it will still be a relief to Trump that the global oil tra=
de can begin to get back to normal, although experts have said this could t=
ake months. Convincing the international insurance brokers in London that a=
ll three parties =E2=80=94 the U.S., Israel, and Iran =E2=80=94 are going t=
o keep the straits open will be hard, and it is expected that Trump=E2=80=
=99s key associates will be using all of their might to lean on the London-=
based industry.</font></b></p><p style=3D"max-width:100%;color:rgb(27,27,27=
)"><b><font face=3D"georgia, serif">But the deal is terrible for America ov=
er the longer term, as it backs up Professor Bob Pope=E2=80=99s analogy tha=
t Trump has made Iran the fourth world power. With the straits open and par=
t of U.S. oil sanctions lifted, this is already axiomatic and clear to see.=
</font></b></p><p style=3D"max-width:100%;color:rgb(27,27,27)"><b><font fac=
e=3D"georgia, serif">And no one will see the significance of this more than=
 the GCC elites, who will now look at Iran as a regional power to which the=
y will have to show reverence, as being the winner of this latest so-called=
 =E2=80=99Iran war=E2=80=99 with the U.S. and Israel. Before February 28th,=
 Iran did not control the Straits of Hormuz and was seen as an equal rival =
militarily with the Gulf states, who had U.S. bases on their turf. Now Iran=
 will take the money and look forward to its economy growing, while all alo=
ng its own missile program will not only grow but advance. Iran more than e=
ver will beef up its military even more, knowing that at any moment the Wes=
t, once again, can indulge itself with =E2=80=99regime change=E2=80=99 fant=
asies or U.S. troops parachuting into Kharg Island. You know the sort of th=
ing. Trump has literally done everything he can to boost Iran=E2=80=99s eco=
nomy, its regional military stranglehold, and its own regime=E2=80=99s poli=
tical strength domestically. The deal he is offering to sign with the money=
 that he has put up is a seismic defeat on a scale which we have never seen=
 before, although it could be compared to pulling out of Vietnam =E2=80=94 =
which was both a military failure but also an economic one, as it drained t=
he U.S. coffers and forced Nixon to decouple the dollar from gold. Trump ha=
sn=E2=80=99t simply stood down, but fallen to his knees, such is the scale =
of the failure to be duped by Israel in the first place and going ahead wit=
h the failed campaign which blew up in his face almost from day one. What w=
e are now witnessing is a new low in modern U.S. history, as America turns =
a new corner in its journey away from its hegemonic leadership of the post-=
war years, and Trump will go down in the history books for being the bumbli=
ng buffoon whose ego was a catalyst to that inevitable process which some a=
re simply calling =E2=80=99the end of empire=E2=80=99.</font></b></p></div>=
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*https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20260616-israeli-security-minister-ben-g=
vir-cancels-us-trip-after-visa-difficulties-report/
<https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20260616-israeli-security-minister-ben-g=
vir-cancels-us-trip-after-visa-difficulties-report/>*

6/16/26

*Israeli Security Minister Ben-Gvir cancels US trip after visa
difficulties: Report*
[image: Former Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir. [OHAD
ZWIGENBERG/POOL/AFP via Getty Images]]

*Israel=E2=80=99s National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir has canceled a=
 planned
family trip to the US amid difficulties in obtaining a visa, according
Israeli media on Tuesday.*

*The US Embassy told Ben-Gvir that he would need to appear in person to
provide biometric fingerprints as part of the visa process, Haaretz daily
reported.*

*The requirement was interpreted in Israeli media reports as a sign of
reluctance to grant him a visa.*

*Ben-Gvir has frequently made headlines for his provocative actions, which
have drawn widespread criticism and international condemnation.**=E2=80=99
<https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20260616-ben-gvir-attacks-trump-iran-dea=
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mes New Roman&quot;"><font size=3D"4"><i>Israeli Security Minister Ben-Gvir=
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7);font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;"><b>Israel=E2=80=99s National Se=
curity Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir has canceled a planned family trip to the U=
S amid difficulties in obtaining a visa, according Israeli media on Tuesday=
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imes New Roman&quot;"><b>The US Embassy told Ben-Gvir that he would need to=
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cess, Haaretz daily reported.</b></p><p style=3D"max-width:100%;color:rgb(2=
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terpreted in Israeli media reports as a sign of reluctance to grant him a v=
isa.</b></p><p style=3D"max-width:100%;color:rgb(27,27,27);font-family:&quo=
t;Times New Roman&quot;"><b>Ben-Gvir has frequently made headlines for his =
provocative actions, which have drawn widespread criticism and internationa=
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*=E2=80=9CTrans=E2=80=93Pacific paskudniks.=E2=80=9D **It is too late for w=
arnings: As China builds
a respectful-of-all new order, the policy cliques in Washington tumble
headlong into the Thucydides Trap.*
*Patrick Lawrence* <https://substack.com/@thescrum>  6/16/26
<https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!KpG5!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progre=
ssive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fi=
mages%2F30e8d001-4970-4db5-b9f2-0d111380c1af_2048x1091.jpeg>*No
chocolate cake this time. Xi and Trump at the Great Hall, 14 May. (Daniel
Torok/ The White House.)*

*16 June=E2=80=94I have never quite got over how completely Antony Blinken =
and Jake
Sullivan, who Joe Biden assigned to oversee his foreign policy, blew it
during their first encounter with Chinese counterparts at a hotel in
Anchorage. This was in March 2021, a few months into Biden=E2=80=99s White =
House
years, and all concerned understood the meeting was going to be a big deal
one way or another.*

*It was: Biden=E2=80=99s secretary of state and national security adviser, =
facing
officials representing a nation whose power was about to supersede the
United States=E2=80=99, took it upon themselves to shake their fingers at f=
igures
such as Wang Yi, who is now Beijing=E2=80=99s distinguished foreign ministe=
r, about
democracy, human rights, Hong Kong, press censorship, the Uighurs of
Xinjiang, and who knows what all.*

*The Chinese across the table, foregoing their customary courtesies,
abruptly shut them down. Nothing got done. It made for stunning video
footage as Blinken and Sullivan sat there flabbergasted that another
people=E2=80=94non=E2=80=93Western, of all things=E2=80=94did not succumb t=
o the scoldings of high
officials from =E2=80=9Cthe indispensable nation,=E2=80=9D in Madeleine Alb=
right=E2=80=99s
memorably ridiculous phrase.*

*That wonderful Yiddish word for contemptible clods came immediately to
mind. What a pair of tone-deaf paskudniks, I recall thinking. They read
from scripts written in the mid=E2=80=931950s.*

*No idea what time it was on history=E2=80=99s clock, no idea that the time=
 for
browbeating the Chinese into submission had passed long, long earlier=E2=80=
=94no
idea, to go straight to the point, that the People=E2=80=99s Republic was w=
ell into
the project of building a new world order and that it was about to emerge
as its most influential proponent.*

*How could I not recall the Blinken-and=E2=80=93Sullivan act as I watched P=
resident
Trump give the world a 2026 variation of the very same farce? History
turned when Donald J. Trump arrived in Beijing for a two-day summit with Xi
Jinping last month, as I wrote elsewhere at the time
<https://consortiumnews.com/2026/05/18/patrick-lawrence-history-turned-in-b=
eijing/>.
The Chinese president all but told his stoop-shouldered visitor this.*

*And what was the Trumpster doing? Like the child he is, he went halfway to
ga-ga at the sight of the red carpets, the waving schoolchildren, and the
displays of made-for-tourists pageantry while his planeload of greedy
cronies chicken-scratched for =E2=80=9Cdeals.=E2=80=9D Nothing, once again,=
 got done.*

*I might have expected this, and I suppose I did, of the man who summited
with Xi at Mar-a=E2=80=93Lago in April 2017=E2=80=94a few months into his f=
irst term,
indeed=E2=80=94and figured he had transformed Sino=E2=80=93U.S. relations t=
o America=E2=80=99s
advantage after serving the Chinese leader =E2=80=9Cthe most beautiful piec=
e of
chocolate cake you=E2=80=99ve ever seen.=E2=80=9D*

*You try to find some measure of seriousness when America=E2=80=99s purport=
ed
leaders and the inside-the=E2=80=93Beltway policy cliques who pretend to do
Washington=E2=80=99s thinking look across the Pacific, but there simply is =
none.*

*There is no grasp of the gravity and magnitude of the moment among these
people, and if you can=E2=80=99t see this in China you are a prisoner of th=
at
blinding ideology that besets so many Americans=E2=80=94as Blinken and Sull=
ivan
proved to be, as Trump was his first time around and now proves during his
second. The world is turning=E2=80=94quick as a dervish it seems at times=
=E2=80=94and the
Americans running the nation=E2=80=99s relations with others insist, as the=
y have
for decades now, that it is standing still.*

*=E2=96=A0*

*Foreign Affairs is running a revealing piece in this line in its
July=E2=80=93August edition under the headline, =E2=80=9CThe Fault Lines in=
 China=E2=80=99s Power
<https://www.foreignaffairs.com/china/fault-lines-chinas-power-ratner-danby=
?utm_medium=3Dnewsletters&utm_source=3Dfatoday&utm_campaign=3DThe%20Fault%2=
0Lines%20in%20China%E2%80%99s%20Power&utm_content=3D20260610&utm_term=3DA&u=
tm_id=3DA>.=E2=80=9D
The subhead goes yet straighter to the writer=E2=80=99s point: =E2=80=9CAme=
rica Must
Build=E2=80=94and Use=E2=80=94Leverage Against Beijing.=E2=80=9D*

*Ely Ratner, who served in the Defense Department during the Biden years,
is a China hawk who deplores Beijing=E2=80=99s insolent capacity to withsta=
nd
Washington=E2=80=99s incessant assaults and thinks it is urgent to identify=
 and
exploit all possible ways to inflict maximum damage on the People=E2=80=99s
Republic. =E2=80=9CWashington should target vulnerabilities that its policy
instruments can demonstrably affect,=E2=80=9D Ratner writes.*

*And off we go.*

*Ratner, now a principal at Marathon Initiative, a lost-in-nostalgia think
tank dedicated to =E2=80=9Cpreserving America=E2=80=99s prosperity, securit=
y, and
democratic way of life=E2=80=9D (democratic way of life?), favors all sorts=
 of
things to subvert China=E2=80=99s prosperity and security: Redoubling the B=
iden
era=E2=80=99s export controls on high-technology products (chips and such),
recruiting some kind of coalition to ruin China=E2=80=99s export markets,
restricting its access to U.S. dollars, using maritime sanctions to disrupt
the mainland=E2=80=99s energy imports.*

*And so on down a list of purposely destructive propositions, each more
malign than the previous. Ely Ratner, let=E2=80=99s leave it, is not a nice=
 man. He
is a virulent paranoid. His operating principle derives from Thomas
Schelling, a prominent scholar and longtime Cold Warrior (1921=E2=80=932016=
), whose
well-known mot in these matters was, =E2=80=9CThe power to hurt is bargaini=
ng
power.=E2=80=9D*

*When you read Ratner=E2=80=99s working assumptions you realize easily enou=
gh why
he has it hopelessly wrong. Here is his fundamental premise:*

*Beijing had spent years identifying where it could squeeze Washington
hardest and then built the capabilities to do so, the United States was not
ready to exploit the anxieties that keep China=E2=80=99s leaders up at nigh=
t=E2=80=A6*

*Say whaaa? China has done nothing of the kind. Well aware that its
emergence would mark a world-historical turn in global balances of power,
it has spent the last 46 years=E2=80=94taking my date from the start of the=
 Dengist
reforms in 1980=E2=80=94trying to persuade the United States of the mutuall=
y
beneficial virtues of peaceful co-existence.*

*Did Xi not warn Trump during their mid=E2=80=93May summit to avoid the Thu=
cydides
Trap=E2=80=94an established power=E2=80=99s givenness to go to war when fac=
ed with a rising
power? To put the point figuratively, the Chinese leader was urging the
American not to take seriously what he may read (assuming generously that
Trump reads) in Foreign Affairs.*

*I actually think it is too late for warnings. The trap has sprung on the
Americans. Look at Washington=E2=80=99s obsessive efforts to remilitarize J=
apan and
re-enlist the South Koreans in the new cold war it has all but officially
declared. Read people such as Ely Ratner, and there are woefully many Ely
Ratners mooching corporate nickels in the think tanks.*

*What is Ratner doing if not assigning to the Chinese the late-phase
imperium=E2=80=99s malevolent motives and intentions? In psychiatric terms =
this is
sheer projection.*

*Antony Blinken and Jake Sullivan were so fully dedicated to ideology that
thought was impossible=E2=80=94no need of it, indeed. The latter once expla=
ined
that he drew his foreign policy principles from the black-hats, white-hats
Westerns he watched as an adolescent.*

*Ratner and others like him are paskudniks of a more pernicious kind. They
pretend to be thinking it all through, but it amounts to thoughtlessness
dressed up as thoughtfulness. And their pretensions are the cinder blocks
of which U.S. policy across the Pacific is made.*

*This is why the United States is doing precisely what the policy cliques
fear most: It is losing out. It profligately wastes its brains, its great
effort, and its money building a monstrous war machine while the People=E2=
=80=99s
Republic is building a new, inclusive, respectful-of-all global order. And
as earlier suggested, it seems to me time to recognize that the Chinese
have emerged as leaders of this many-sided undertaking.*

*Is China preparing for war? Of course: It has no choice. But the war it is
bracing to wage is one the United States seems intent on provoking. The
Chinese have no other such plans.*

*I was interested=E2=80=94and amused, too=E2=80=94to note Xi Jinping=E2=80=
=99s official calendar at
the time of Trump=E2=80=99s May 14=E2=80=9315 summit with him. Three days b=
efore the
Trumpster arrived Xi received Emomali Rahmon, Tajikistan=E2=80=99s presiden=
t, on a
state visit. Four days after Trump departed Vladimir Putin arrived for a
two-day summit=E2=80=94the Russian president=E2=80=99s 25th trip to Beijing=
.*

*Wasting little time, Xi flew to Pyongyang last week for two days with Kim
Jong-un, the North Korean leader. It was Xi=E2=80=99s first foreign journey=
 this
year and his first to the North in seven.*

*This is the subtlest sort of diplomacy, in my read=E2=80=94chronology as
statecraft. And it is hard to miss the meaning: The Chinese are busy
building something new, and they must meantime manage relations with the
old, those who are no longer building anything, busy as they are with their
spoiling, their preventing, their provoking, their subverting and
sabotaging, their blocking, their tearing down.*

*--------------*

*Footnote. It is 50 years ago today that South African schoolchildren began
protests in the Southwest Township, near Johannesburg, against the
introduction of Afrikaans as the medium of instruction. The white regime
massacred nearly 200 students that day; hundreds more died across South
Africa in the following months. The Soweto Uprising proved a turning point
in the fight against apartheid. South Africa now marks 16 June a national
holiday.*

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</font></b></div><div><h1 style=3D"line-height:1.2141em;margin-top:0px;marg=
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=A0</i></font></h1><h2 style=3D"line-height:1.27275em;max-width:100%"><font=
 face=3D"georgia, serif" size=3D"2" color=3D"#000000"><i>It is too late for=
 warnings: As China builds a respectful-of-all new order, the policy clique=
s in Washington tumble headlong into the Thucydides Trap.</i></font></h2><d=
iv style=3D"margin-bottom:1.45em;max-width:100%;color:rgb(27,27,27)"><a hre=
f=3D"https://substack.com/@thescrum" style=3D"text-decoration:none;margin:0=
px;color:rgb(27,27,27);max-width:100%;display:inline" target=3D"_blank"><b>=
<font face=3D"georgia, serif">Patrick Lawrence</font></b></a>=C2=A0 6/16/26=
</div><div style=3D"max-width:100%;color:rgb(27,27,27)"><a href=3D"https://=
substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!KpG5!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:ste=
ep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3=
0e8d001-4970-4db5-b9f2-0d111380c1af_2048x1091.jpeg" style=3D"text-decoratio=
n:none;color:rgb(65,110,210);max-width:100%" target=3D"_blank"><div style=
=3D"max-width:100%"><span style=3D"max-width:100%"><b><font face=3D"georgia=
, serif"><img src=3D"https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!KpG5!,w_1456,c=
_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-=
media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F30e8d001-4970-4db5-b9f2-0d111380=
c1af_2048x1091.jpeg" width=3D"412" height=3D"220" alt=3D"" style=3D"margin:=
0.5em 0px 0.5em auto;display:block"></font></b></span></div></a><b><font fa=
ce=3D"georgia, serif"><span style=3D"max-width:100%;margin-top:0.25em;margi=
n-bottom:0.25em"><span style=3D"max-width:100%">No chocolate cake this time=
.</span><span style=3D"max-width:100%"><span>=C2=A0</span>Xi and Trump at t=
he Great Hall, 14 May.</span></span><span style=3D"max-width:100%;margin-to=
p:0.25em;margin-bottom:0.25em"><span>=C2=A0</span>(Daniel Torok/ The White =
House.)</span></font></b></div><p style=3D"max-width:100%;color:rgb(27,27,2=
7)"><b><font face=3D"georgia, serif">16 June=E2=80=94I have never quite got=
 over how completely Antony Blinken and Jake Sullivan, who Joe Biden assign=
ed to oversee his foreign policy, blew it during their first encounter with=
 Chinese counterparts at a hotel in Anchorage. This was in March 2021, a fe=
w months into Biden=E2=80=99s White House years, and all concerned understo=
od the meeting was going to be a big deal one way or another.</font></b></p=
><p style=3D"max-width:100%;color:rgb(27,27,27)"><b><font face=3D"georgia, =
serif">It was: Biden=E2=80=99s secretary of state and national security adv=
iser, facing officials representing a nation whose power was about to super=
sede the United States=E2=80=99, took it upon themselves to shake their fin=
gers at figures such as Wang Yi, who is now Beijing=E2=80=99s distinguished=
 foreign minister, about democracy, human rights, Hong Kong, press censorsh=
ip, the Uighurs of Xinjiang, and who knows what all.</font></b></p><p style=
=3D"max-width:100%;color:rgb(27,27,27)"><b><font face=3D"georgia, serif">Th=
e Chinese across the table, foregoing their customary courtesies, abruptly =
shut them down. Nothing got done. It made for stunning video footage as Bli=
nken and Sullivan sat there flabbergasted that another people=E2=80=94non=
=E2=80=93Western, of all things=E2=80=94did not succumb to the scoldings of=
 high officials from =E2=80=9Cthe indispensable nation,=E2=80=9D in Madelei=
ne Albright=E2=80=99s memorably ridiculous phrase.</font></b></p><p style=
=3D"max-width:100%;color:rgb(27,27,27)"><b><font face=3D"georgia, serif"><s=
pan style=3D"max-width:100%">That wonderful Yiddish word for contemptible c=
lods came immediately to mind. What a pair of tone-deaf<span>=C2=A0</span><=
/span><span style=3D"max-width:100%">paskudniks</span><span style=3D"max-wi=
dth:100%">, I recall thinking. They read from scripts written in the mid=E2=
=80=931950s.</span></font></b></p><p style=3D"max-width:100%;color:rgb(27,2=
7,27)"><b><font face=3D"georgia, serif">No idea what time it was on history=
=E2=80=99s clock, no idea that the time for browbeating the Chinese into su=
bmission had passed long, long earlier=E2=80=94no idea, to go straight to t=
he point, that the People=E2=80=99s Republic was well into the project of b=
uilding a new world order and that it was about to emerge as its most influ=
ential proponent.</font></b></p><p style=3D"max-width:100%;color:rgb(27,27,=
27)"><b><font face=3D"georgia, serif"><span style=3D"max-width:100%">How co=
uld I not recall the Blinken-and=E2=80=93Sullivan act as I watched Presiden=
t Trump give the world a 2026 variation of the very same farce? History tur=
ned when Donald J. Trump arrived in Beijing for a two-day summit with Xi Ji=
nping last month,<span>=C2=A0</span></span><a href=3D"https://consortiumnew=
s.com/2026/05/18/patrick-lawrence-history-turned-in-beijing/" style=3D"text=
-decoration:none;color:rgb(65,110,210);max-width:100%" target=3D"_blank">as=
 I wrote elsewhere at the time</a><span style=3D"max-width:100%">. The Chin=
ese president all but told his stoop-shouldered visitor this.</span></font>=
</b></p><p style=3D"max-width:100%;color:rgb(27,27,27)"><b><font face=3D"ge=
orgia, serif">And what was the Trumpster doing? Like the child he is, he we=
nt halfway to ga-ga at the sight of the red carpets, the waving schoolchild=
ren, and the displays of made-for-tourists pageantry while his planeload of=
 greedy cronies chicken-scratched for =E2=80=9Cdeals.=E2=80=9D Nothing, onc=
e again, got done.</font></b></p><p style=3D"max-width:100%;color:rgb(27,27=
,27)"><b><font face=3D"georgia, serif">I might have expected this, and I su=
ppose I did, of the man who summited with Xi at Mar-a=E2=80=93Lago in April=
 2017=E2=80=94a few months into his first term, indeed=E2=80=94and figured =
he had transformed Sino=E2=80=93U.S. relations to America=E2=80=99s advanta=
ge after serving the Chinese leader =E2=80=9Cthe most beautiful piece of ch=
ocolate cake you=E2=80=99ve ever seen.=E2=80=9D</font></b></p><p style=3D"m=
ax-width:100%;color:rgb(27,27,27)"><b><font face=3D"georgia, serif">You try=
 to find some measure of seriousness when America=E2=80=99s purported leade=
rs and the inside-the=E2=80=93Beltway policy cliques who pretend to do Wash=
ington=E2=80=99s thinking look across the Pacific, but there simply is none=
.</font></b></p><p style=3D"max-width:100%;color:rgb(27,27,27)"><b><font fa=
ce=3D"georgia, serif">There is no grasp of the gravity and magnitude of the=
 moment among these people, and if you can=E2=80=99t see this in China you =
are a prisoner of that blinding ideology that besets so many Americans=E2=
=80=94as Blinken and Sullivan proved to be, as Trump was his first time aro=
und and now proves during his second. The world is turning=E2=80=94quick as=
 a dervish it seems at times=E2=80=94and the Americans running the nation=
=E2=80=99s relations with others insist, as they have for decades now, that=
 it is standing still.</font></b></p><p style=3D"max-width:100%;color:rgb(2=
7,27,27)"><b><font face=3D"georgia, serif">=E2=96=A0</font></b></p><p style=
=3D"max-width:100%;color:rgb(27,27,27)"><b><font face=3D"georgia, serif"><s=
pan style=3D"max-width:100%">Foreign Affairs</span><span style=3D"max-width=
:100%"><span>=C2=A0</span>is running a revealing piece in this line in its =
July=E2=80=93August edition under the headline, =E2=80=9C</span><a href=3D"=
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/china/fault-lines-chinas-power-ratner-danby?=
utm_medium=3Dnewsletters&amp;utm_source=3Dfatoday&amp;utm_campaign=3DThe%20=
Fault%20Lines%20in%20China%E2%80%99s%20Power&amp;utm_content=3D20260610&amp=
;utm_term=3DA&amp;utm_id=3DA" style=3D"text-decoration:none;color:rgb(65,11=
0,210);max-width:100%" target=3D"_blank">The Fault Lines in China=E2=80=99s=
 Power</a><span style=3D"max-width:100%">.=E2=80=9D The subhead goes yet st=
raighter to the writer=E2=80=99s point: =E2=80=9CAmerica Must Build=E2=80=
=94and Use=E2=80=94Leverage Against Beijing.=E2=80=9D</span></font></b></p>=
<p style=3D"max-width:100%;color:rgb(27,27,27)"><b><font face=3D"georgia, s=
erif">Ely Ratner, who served in the Defense Department during the Biden yea=
rs, is a China hawk who deplores Beijing=E2=80=99s insolent capacity to wit=
hstand Washington=E2=80=99s incessant assaults and thinks it is urgent to i=
dentify and exploit all possible ways to inflict maximum damage on the Peop=
le=E2=80=99s Republic. =E2=80=9CWashington should target vulnerabilities th=
at its policy instruments can demonstrably affect,=E2=80=9D Ratner writes.<=
/font></b></p><p style=3D"max-width:100%;color:rgb(27,27,27)"><b><font face=
=3D"georgia, serif">And off we go.</font></b></p><p style=3D"max-width:100%=
;color:rgb(27,27,27)"><b><font face=3D"georgia, serif">Ratner, now a princi=
pal at Marathon Initiative, a lost-in-nostalgia think tank dedicated to =E2=
=80=9Cpreserving America=E2=80=99s prosperity, security, and democratic way=
 of life=E2=80=9D (democratic way of life?), favors all sorts of things to =
subvert China=E2=80=99s prosperity and security: Redoubling the Biden era=
=E2=80=99s export controls on high-technology products (chips and such), re=
cruiting some kind of coalition to ruin China=E2=80=99s export markets, res=
tricting its access to U.S. dollars, using maritime sanctions to disrupt th=
e mainland=E2=80=99s energy imports.</font></b></p><p style=3D"max-width:10=
0%;color:rgb(27,27,27)"><b><font face=3D"georgia, serif"><span style=3D"max=
-width:100%">And so on down a list of purposely destructive propositions, e=
ach more malign than the previous. Ely Ratner, let=E2=80=99s leave it, is n=
ot a nice man. He is a virulent paranoid. His operating principle derives f=
rom Thomas Schelling, a prominent scholar and longtime Cold Warrior (1921=
=E2=80=932016), whose well-known<span>=C2=A0</span></span><span style=3D"ma=
x-width:100%">mot</span><span style=3D"max-width:100%"><span>=C2=A0</span>i=
n these matters was, =E2=80=9CThe power to hurt is bargaining power.=E2=80=
=9D</span></font></b></p><p style=3D"max-width:100%;color:rgb(27,27,27)"><b=
><font face=3D"georgia, serif">When you read Ratner=E2=80=99s working assum=
ptions you realize easily enough why he has it hopelessly wrong. Here is hi=
s fundamental premise:</font></b></p><blockquote style=3D"color:rgba(0,0,0,=
0.65);margin-left:2px;margin-right:6px;padding-left:16px;border-left-width:=
3px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.1);max-width:100=
%"><p style=3D"max-width:100%"><b><font face=3D"georgia, serif">Beijing had=
 spent years identifying where it could squeeze Washington hardest and then=
 built the capabilities to do so, the United States was not ready to exploi=
t the anxieties that keep China=E2=80=99s leaders up at night=E2=80=A6</fon=
t></b></p></blockquote><p style=3D"max-width:100%;color:rgb(27,27,27)"><b><=
font face=3D"georgia, serif">Say whaaa? China has done nothing of the kind.=
 Well aware that its emergence would mark a world-historical turn in global=
 balances of power, it has spent the last 46 years=E2=80=94taking my date f=
rom the start of the Dengist reforms in 1980=E2=80=94trying to persuade the=
 United States of the mutually beneficial virtues of peaceful co-existence.=
</font></b></p><p style=3D"max-width:100%;color:rgb(27,27,27)"><b><font fac=
e=3D"georgia, serif"><span style=3D"max-width:100%">Did Xi not warn Trump d=
uring their mid=E2=80=93May summit to avoid the Thucydides Trap=E2=80=94an =
established power=E2=80=99s givenness to go to war when faced with a rising=
 power? To put the point figuratively, the Chinese leader was urging the Am=
erican not to take seriously what he may read (assuming generously that Tru=
mp reads) in<span>=C2=A0</span></span><span style=3D"max-width:100%">Foreig=
n Affairs</span><span style=3D"max-width:100%">.</span></font></b></p><p st=
yle=3D"max-width:100%;color:rgb(27,27,27)"><b><font face=3D"georgia, serif"=
>I actually think it is too late for warnings. The trap has sprung on the A=
mericans. Look at Washington=E2=80=99s obsessive efforts to remilitarize Ja=
pan and re-enlist the South Koreans in the new cold war it has all but offi=
cially declared. Read people such as Ely Ratner, and there are woefully man=
y Ely Ratners mooching corporate nickels in the think tanks.</font></b></p>=
<p style=3D"max-width:100%;color:rgb(27,27,27)"><b><font face=3D"georgia, s=
erif">What is Ratner doing if not assigning to the Chinese the late-phase i=
mperium=E2=80=99s malevolent motives and intentions? In psychiatric terms t=
his is sheer projection.</font></b></p><p style=3D"max-width:100%;color:rgb=
(27,27,27)"><b><font face=3D"georgia, serif">Antony Blinken and Jake Sulliv=
an were so fully dedicated to ideology that thought was impossible=E2=80=94=
no need of it, indeed. The latter once explained that he drew his foreign p=
olicy principles from the black-hats, white-hats Westerns he watched as an =
adolescent.</font></b></p><p style=3D"max-width:100%;color:rgb(27,27,27)"><=
b><font face=3D"georgia, serif"><span style=3D"max-width:100%">Ratner and o=
thers like him are<span>=C2=A0</span></span><span style=3D"max-width:100%">=
paskudniks</span><span style=3D"max-width:100%"><span>=C2=A0</span>of a mor=
e pernicious kind. They pretend to be thinking it all through, but it amoun=
ts to thoughtlessness dressed up as thoughtfulness. And their pretensions a=
re the cinder blocks of which U.S. policy across the Pacific is made.</span=
></font></b></p><p style=3D"max-width:100%;color:rgb(27,27,27)"><b><font fa=
ce=3D"georgia, serif">This is why the United States is doing precisely what=
 the policy cliques fear most: It is losing out. It profligately wastes its=
 brains, its great effort, and its money building a monstrous war machine w=
hile the People=E2=80=99s Republic is building a new, inclusive, respectful=
-of-all global order. And as earlier suggested, it seems to me time to reco=
gnize that the Chinese have emerged as leaders of this many-sided undertaki=
ng.</font></b></p><p style=3D"max-width:100%;color:rgb(27,27,27)"><b><font =
face=3D"georgia, serif">Is China preparing for war? Of course: It has no ch=
oice. But the war it is bracing to wage is one the United States seems inte=
nt on provoking. The Chinese have no other such plans.</font></b></p><p sty=
le=3D"max-width:100%;color:rgb(27,27,27)"><b><font face=3D"georgia, serif">=
<span style=3D"max-width:100%">I was interested=E2=80=94and amused, too=E2=
=80=94to note Xi Jinping=E2=80=99s official calendar at the time of Trump=
=E2=80=99s May 14=E2=80=9315 summit with him. Three days before the Trumpst=
er arrived Xi received Emomali Rahmon, Tajikistan=E2=80=99s president, on a=
 state visit. Four days after Trump departed Vladimir Putin arrived for a t=
wo-day summit=E2=80=94the Russian president=E2=80=99s 25</span><sup style=
=3D"line-height:1;max-width:100%">th</sup><span style=3D"max-width:100%"><s=
pan>=C2=A0</span>trip to Beijing.</span></font></b></p><p style=3D"max-widt=
h:100%;color:rgb(27,27,27)"><b><font face=3D"georgia, serif">Wasting little=
 time, Xi flew to Pyongyang last week for two days with Kim Jong-un, the No=
rth Korean leader. It was Xi=E2=80=99s first foreign journey this year and =
his first to the North in seven.</font></b></p><p style=3D"max-width:100%;c=
olor:rgb(27,27,27)"><b><font face=3D"georgia, serif">This is the subtlest s=
ort of diplomacy, in my read=E2=80=94chronology as statecraft. And it is ha=
rd to miss the meaning: The Chinese are busy building something new, and th=
ey must meantime manage relations with the old, those who are no longer bui=
lding anything, busy as they are with their spoiling, their preventing, the=
ir provoking, their subverting and sabotaging, their blocking, their tearin=
g down.</font></b></p><p style=3D"max-width:100%;color:rgb(27,27,27)"><font=
 face=3D"georgia, serif"><b>--------------</b></font></p><p style=3D"max-wi=
dth:100%;color:rgb(27,27,27)"><b><font face=3D"georgia, serif"><span style=
=3D"max-width:100%">Footnote.</span><span style=3D"max-width:100%"><span>=
=C2=A0</span>It is 50 years ago today that South African schoolchildren beg=
an protests in the Southwest Township, near Johannesburg, against the intro=
duction of Afrikaans as the medium of instruction. The white regime massacr=
ed nearly 200 students that day; hundreds more died across South Africa in =
the following months. The Soweto Uprising proved a turning point in the fig=
ht against apartheid. South Africa now marks 16 June a national holiday.</s=
pan></font></b></p><p style=3D"max-width:100%;color:rgb(27,27,27)"></p><hr =
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Trump=E2=80=99s
Iran Deal*

*Realpolitik Triumphs =E2=80=94 For Now*

*Leon Hadar   *6/16/26

*The Art of the Deal Meets the Art of the Possible in the Persian Gulf*

*Washington has a habit of dressing up its foreign policy in the language
of moral purpose. Presidents invoke democracy, human rights, and the
rules-based international order as if they were divine mandates rather than
rhetorical conveniences. So there is something almost refreshing =E2=80=94 =
and
certainly clarifying =E2=80=94 about watching the Trump administration conc=
lude a
deal with the Islamic Republic of Iran that is unapologetically
transactional, stripped of Wilsonian pretense, and justified almost
entirely on the grounds of what it delivers for American interests.*

*The agreement announced on June 14 =E2=80=94 confirmed by Pakistani Prime =
Minister
Shehbaz Sharif, who served as mediator =E2=80=94 commits both sides to an i=
mmediate
and permanent end to military operations, with the Strait of Hormuz set to
reopen upon the formal signing in Switzerland. The details remain to be
filled in, with sixty days of follow-on negotiations expected to address
sanctions relief and Iran=E2=80=99s nuclear program.*

*Critics on the left will complain that Trump bombed his way to a
negotiating table he could have reached diplomatically. Critics on the
neoconservative right will complain that he stopped short of regime change.
Both critiques contain a grain of truth. Neither quite captures what
actually happened.*

*What happened, stripped of the spin, is a classic exercise in coercive
diplomacy =E2=80=94 the application of military force not as an end in itse=
lf, but
as a means of altering the strategic calculus of an adversary. U.S. and
Israeli strikes in 2025 targeted Fordow and Isfahan, significantly setting
back Iran=E2=80=99s nuclear program, while the subsequent closure of the St=
rait of
Hormuz disrupted global trade and sent shockwaves through energy markets.
Both sides absorbed costs they could not indefinitely sustain. A deal
became rational.*

*This is realpolitik in its most classical form =E2=80=94 not Kissingerian
elegance, but the rougher American variant that Nixon might have
recognized: leverage applied, concessions extracted, handshakes exchanged,
ideology parked at the door. Whatever one thinks of the means, the logic is
coherent in a way that the Bush-era =E2=80=9Caxis of evil=E2=80=9D framewor=
k never was.
That framework demanded transformation; this one demands compliance.*

*The analogy that comes to mind is not Munich =E2=80=94 the inevitable rhet=
orical
grenade that hawks will lob =E2=80=94 but rather Nixon=E2=80=99s opening to=
 China. That too
was a deal with a regime that Washington had spent decades demonizing. That
too was denounced by ideological purists. And that too reflected a
hardheaded assessment that the alternatives were worse. One need not
celebrate the Islamic Republic to acknowledge that a negotiated settlement
of a conflict that was disrupting one-fifth of the world=E2=80=99s oil supp=
ly,
killing thousands, and straining American alliances across the region is
preferable to its continuation.*

*That said, the realist in me reaches for the appropriate caution. Neither
side has shared the exact terms of the deal, and whether it resolves major
differences over Iran=E2=80=99s nuclear and missile programs, the Strait of=
 Hormuz,
and Israel=E2=80=99s wars with Iranian proxies remains to be seen. The Iran=
ian side
has shown considerable skill over decades at signing agreements, banking
the concessions, and revisiting compliance at moments of convenience. The
Trump administration, for its part, has shown that it prizes announcements
over implementation =E2=80=94 the signing ceremony in Geneva will be theatr=
ical,
whatever the substance.*

*And then there is Israel. Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu has said Israel
is not a party to the negotiated deal, while stating that he and Trump are
in =E2=80=9Cfull agreement=E2=80=9D that Iran must not be permitted to obta=
in nuclear
weapons =E2=80=94 a formulation that manages simultaneously to endorse the =
goal and
distance itself from the method. The Israelis, who wanted a more
comprehensive dismantlement of Iranian power, are reported to view the deal
in its current form as a deep disappointment. This matters. A deal that
leaves Israel feeling strategically exposed creates its own set of
pressures on the durability of any arrangement.*

*The broader regional architecture also remains unsettled. Iran=E2=80=99s n=
etwork
of proxies =E2=80=94 battered by years of Israeli strikes, weakened by the =
fall of
Assad in Damascus, and stressed by the events of the past months =E2=80=94 =
has not
been dissolved by this agreement. The realist knows that power vacuums
invite filling.*

*None of this is reason to condemn the deal. It is reason to be clear-eyed
about what it is and what it is not. It is a ceasefire, not a peace. It is
a memorandum of understanding, not a strategic settlement. It is a
beginning of a negotiation, not the end of one.*

*But sometimes a ceasefire is precisely what the moment requires. The
alternative =E2=80=94 continued fighting, a closed strait, spiraling energy=
 prices,
and the ever-present risk of escalation into something far larger =E2=80=94=
 was not
a serious strategic option for a United States that still has other
theaters to manage, an economy to tend to, and a China challenge that
dwarfs anything Tehran can muster.*

*Trump=E2=80=99s foreign policy critics have long accused him of having no
strategy, only tactics. On Iran, there is something that at least rhymes
with strategy: maximum pressure to compel maximum concessions, then a deal
when one becomes available. Whether the follow-on negotiations produce
durable arrangements on the nuclear question and sanctions relief will
determine whether this goes down as a genuine strategic achievement or
merely a very loud pause.*

*The Washington foreign policy establishment =E2=80=94 wedded to its own fo=
rm of
ideological rigidity, whether neoconservative or liberal internationalist =
=E2=80=94
will struggle to credit this administration with any genuine
accomplishment. That is its own form of motivated reasoning. Realpolitik,
practiced competently, does not require ideological consistency. It
requires a clear view of interests, an accurate assessment of power, and
the flexibility to take a deal when one is on the table.*

*Whether Trump has those qualities in adequate measure is, as always, a
genuinely open question.*

*Sent from my iPhone*

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<div dir=3D"ltr"><div class=3D"gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir=
=3D"ltr"><b><a href=3D"https://leonhadar.substack.com/p/trumps-iran-deal?ut=
m_source=3Dpost-email-title&amp;publication_id=3D315684&amp;post_id=3D20227=
7000&amp;utm_campaign=3Demail-post-title&amp;isFreemail=3Dtrue&amp;r=3D210k=
v&amp;triedRedirect=3Dtrue&amp;utm_medium=3Demail" target=3D"_blank">https:=
//leonhadar.substack.com/p/trumps-iran-deal?utm_source=3Dpost-email-title&a=
mp;publication_id=3D315684&amp;post_id=3D202277000&amp;utm_campaign=3Demail=
-post-title&amp;isFreemail=3Dtrue&amp;r=3D210kv&amp;triedRedirect=3Dtrue&am=
p;utm_medium=3Demail</a><br>Trump=E2=80=99s Iran Deal</b><br><br><font size=
=3D"4" face=3D"georgia, serif"><i><b>Realpolitik Triumphs =E2=80=94 For Now=
</b></i></font><br><br><b>Leon Hadar=C2=A0 =C2=A0</b>6/16/26<br><br><b>The =
Art of the Deal Meets the Art of the Possible in the Persian Gulf</b><br><b=
r><b>Washington has a habit of dressing up its foreign policy in the langua=
ge of moral purpose. Presidents invoke democracy, human rights, and the rul=
es-based international order as if they were divine mandates rather than rh=
etorical conveniences. So there is something almost refreshing =E2=80=94 an=
d certainly clarifying =E2=80=94 about watching the Trump administration co=
nclude a deal with the Islamic Republic of Iran that is unapologetically tr=
ansactional, stripped of Wilsonian pretense, and justified almost entirely =
on the grounds of what it delivers for American interests.</b><br><br><b>Th=
e agreement announced on June 14 =E2=80=94 confirmed by Pakistani Prime Min=
ister Shehbaz Sharif, who served as mediator =E2=80=94 commits both sides t=
o an immediate and permanent end to military operations, with the Strait of=
 Hormuz set to reopen upon the formal signing in Switzerland. The details r=
emain to be filled in, with sixty days of follow-on negotiations expected t=
o address sanctions relief and Iran=E2=80=99s nuclear program.</b><br><br><=
b>Critics on the left will complain that Trump bombed his way to a negotiat=
ing table he could have reached diplomatically. Critics on the neoconservat=
ive right will complain that he stopped short of regime change. Both critiq=
ues contain a grain of truth. Neither quite captures what actually happened=
.</b><br><br><b>What happened, stripped of the spin, is a classic exercise =
in coercive diplomacy =E2=80=94 the application of military force not as an=
 end in itself, but as a means of altering the strategic calculus of an adv=
ersary. U.S. and Israeli strikes in 2025 targeted Fordow and Isfahan, signi=
ficantly setting back Iran=E2=80=99s nuclear program, while the subsequent =
closure of the Strait of Hormuz disrupted global trade and sent shockwaves =
through energy markets. Both sides absorbed costs they could not indefinite=
ly sustain. A deal became rational.</b><br><br><b>This is realpolitik in it=
s most classical form =E2=80=94 not Kissingerian elegance, but the rougher =
American variant that Nixon might have recognized: leverage applied, conces=
sions extracted, handshakes exchanged, ideology parked at the door. Whateve=
r one thinks of the means, the logic is coherent in a way that the Bush-era=
 =E2=80=9Caxis of evil=E2=80=9D framework never was. That framework demande=
d transformation; this one demands compliance.</b><br><br><b>The analogy th=
at comes to mind is not Munich =E2=80=94 the inevitable rhetorical grenade =
that hawks will lob =E2=80=94 but rather Nixon=E2=80=99s opening to China. =
That too was a deal with a regime that Washington had spent decades demoniz=
ing. That too was denounced by ideological purists. And that too reflected =
a hardheaded assessment that the alternatives were worse. One need not cele=
brate the Islamic Republic to acknowledge that a negotiated settlement of a=
 conflict that was disrupting one-fifth of the world=E2=80=99s oil supply, =
killing thousands, and straining American alliances across the region is pr=
eferable to its continuation.</b><br><br><b>That said, the realist in me re=
aches for the appropriate caution. Neither side has shared the exact terms =
of the deal, and whether it resolves major differences over Iran=E2=80=99s =
nuclear and missile programs, the Strait of Hormuz, and Israel=E2=80=99s wa=
rs with Iranian proxies remains to be seen. The Iranian side has shown cons=
iderable skill over decades at signing agreements, banking the concessions,=
 and revisiting compliance at moments of convenience. The Trump administrat=
ion, for its part, has shown that it prizes announcements over implementati=
on =E2=80=94 the signing ceremony in Geneva will be theatrical, whatever th=
e substance.</b><br><br><b>And then there is Israel. Israeli Prime Minister=
 Netanyahu has said Israel is not a party to the negotiated deal, while sta=
ting that he and Trump are in =E2=80=9Cfull agreement=E2=80=9D that Iran mu=
st not be permitted to obtain nuclear weapons =E2=80=94 a formulation that =
manages simultaneously to endorse the goal and distance itself from the met=
hod. The Israelis, who wanted a more comprehensive dismantlement of Iranian=
 power, are reported to view the deal in its current form as a deep disappo=
intment. This matters. A deal that leaves Israel feeling strategically expo=
sed creates its own set of pressures on the durability of any arrangement.<=
/b><br><br><b>The broader regional architecture also remains unsettled. Ira=
n=E2=80=99s network of proxies =E2=80=94 battered by years of Israeli strik=
es, weakened by the fall of Assad in Damascus, and stressed by the events o=
f the past months =E2=80=94 has not been dissolved by this agreement. The r=
ealist knows that power vacuums invite filling.</b><br><br><b>None of this =
is reason to condemn the deal. It is reason to be clear-eyed about what it =
is and what it is not. It is a ceasefire, not a peace. It is a memorandum o=
f understanding, not a strategic settlement. It is a beginning of a negotia=
tion, not the end of one.</b><br><br><b>But sometimes a ceasefire is precis=
ely what the moment requires. The alternative =E2=80=94 continued fighting,=
 a closed strait, spiraling energy prices, and the ever-present risk of esc=
alation into something far larger =E2=80=94 was not a serious strategic opt=
ion for a United States that still has other theaters to manage, an economy=
 to tend to, and a China challenge that dwarfs anything Tehran can muster.<=
/b><br><br><b>Trump=E2=80=99s foreign policy critics have long accused him =
of having no strategy, only tactics. On Iran, there is something that at le=
ast rhymes with strategy: maximum pressure to compel maximum concessions, t=
hen a deal when one becomes available. Whether the follow-on negotiations p=
roduce durable arrangements on the nuclear question and sanctions relief wi=
ll determine whether this goes down as a genuine strategic achievement or m=
erely a very loud pause.</b><br><br><b>The Washington foreign policy establ=
ishment =E2=80=94 wedded to its own form of ideological rigidity, whether n=
eoconservative or liberal internationalist =E2=80=94 will struggle to credi=
t this administration with any genuine accomplishment. That is its own form=
 of motivated reasoning. Realpolitik, practiced competently, does not requi=
re ideological consistency. It requires a clear view of interests, an accur=
ate assessment of power, and the flexibility to take a deal when one is on =
the table.</b><br><br><b>Whether Trump has those qualities in adequate meas=
ure is, as always, a genuinely open question.</b><br><br><b>Sent from my iP=
hone</b></div>
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Israel's former defence minister compares settler ideology to Nazism
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-settler-ideology-nazism#main-content>
Moshe Ya'alon accused Israeli authorities of failing to investigate attacks
against Palestinians and said the religious Zionist movement embraces
'Jewish supremacy ideology'
[image: Israel's former defence minister Moshe Ya'alon gives a press
briefing in Jerusalem on 15 March 2017 (Thomas Coex/AFP)]
Israel's former defence minister Moshe Ya'alon gives a press briefing in
Jerusalem on 15 March 2017 (Thomas Coex/AFP)
By Nadav Rapaport <https://www.middleeasteye.net/users/nadav-rapaport> in T=
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Aviv
Published date: 16 June 2026

Israel <https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/israel>'s former defence
minister has compared settler ideology to Nazism, and accused authorities
of failing to investigate Israelis responsible for killing Palestinian
<https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/palestine> civilians in the
occupied West Bank.

In a wide-ranging interview with the Israeli news site Ynet on Sunday,
Moshe Ya'alon said
<https://www.ynet.co.il/news/article/bjsviy211fe#autoplay> that factions
within the religious Zionist movement, which is closely aligned with
Israeli settlers, hold a "Jewish supremacy ideology".

"What is Jewish supremacy? Eighty years after the Holocaust, it's Mein
Kampf in reverse. The superior race is us," said Ya'alon, who served as
defence under Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu between 2013 to
2016.

Ya'alon, who also recently visited Palestinian communities in the occupied
West Bank amid attacks by the Israeli army and settlers, described what is
happening in the territory as a "disgrace for generations".

"The Israeli government is encouraging Jewish pogromists to dispossess
Arabs of their land through abuse, including shooting at them," Ya'alon
told Ynet, adding that more than 20 Palestinians had been killed in those
attacks.

"Not a single person has been arrested," Ya'alon said, referring to what he
described as a lack of accountability for Israeli settlers and soldiers in
the West Bank.

He added that the Shin Bet security agency and Israeli police were doing
nothing to address the killings.

Ya'alon said that during a visit to the southern Hebron area he witnessed
the conditions Palestinians are facing. He said he spoke with a Palestinian
man who lost his leg after settlers shot him and then prevented him from
receiving medical assistance.

'What is Jewish supremacy? Eighty years after the Holocaust, it's Mein
Kampf in reverse. The superior race is us'

- *Moshe Ya'alon, former defence minister*

Settler attacks against Palestinians have surged since Israel launched its
genocidal war on Gaza in October 2023, with the United Nations Office for
the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) recording an average of
four a day.

The attacks, some of which have been recorded on video, have raised
concerns among opposition figures, including Ya'alon, over both their
security implications and moral consequences.

Left-wing figures have increasingly described Israeli policies in the West
Bank as criminal.

Earlier this month, Nimrod Sheffer, a candidate in the primaries of the
centre-left Democrats party, described a settler attack in the town of
Huwara, near Nablus, as a "terror attack".

Last week, Sheffer vowed to dismantle settler outposts occupied by young
and often violent settlers if elected. In many cases, those outposts serve
as bases for settlers known as the "hilltop youth", who have been linked to
attacks on Palestinians.
Army chief turned critic

Ya=E2=80=99alon spent decades in the Israeli military and is known to have =
taken
part in the 1982 invasion of Lebanon, the violent suppression of the first
and second Palestinian intifadas, and the 2014 war on Gaza.

In 2002, whilst serving as the army's chief of staff, he said: "The
Palestinian threat harbours cancer-like attributes that have to be severed
and fought to the bitter end."

And in 2015, he barred Breaking the Silence =E2=80=93 an NGO of former Isra=
eli
soldiers who document army abuses =E2=80=93 from engaging in activities wit=
h the
military.

But in recent years, the 75-year-old has adopted a more critical tone
towards the current government, accusing it in 2024 of carrying out ethnic
cleansing in Gaza.

Reflecting on his time as army commander in the West Bank, Ya'alon said
that he had acted to prevent the occupation from turning Israelis into
"Judeo-Nazis", as the late Israeli scholar Yeshayahu Leibowitz had once
warned.

"Today, I can=E2=80=99t say he was wrong," Ya'alon said, referring to Leibo=
witz's
claim, adding that he hopes "the next government will reverse this".

Ya'alon said Palestinians are being abused in the West Bank and that he is
"ashamed that members of my own people are doing such things. And it is
being done under government direction."

Asked whether Israel could become an apartheid state, the former army chief
replied: "absolutely," adding that he supports "a settlement with the
Palestinians".

"Otherwise, we will become either an apartheid state or a binational
state," Ya'alon said, after noting that he does not support removing
Israeli settlements from the West Bank.

The former defence minister, who retired from politics in 2021, also
criticised opposition leaders for failing to commit to including a
Palestinian party in a future governing coalition.

"My shared values with Mansour Abbas are greater than those I share with
Smotrich and Ben Gvir," Ya'alon said, referring to the leader of the
Islamist United Arab List party in the Knesset.

Abbas has openly declared his desire to be part of a governing coalition,
in contrast to the historic position of Palestinian parties in Israel.

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0px;line-height:26px">He added that the Shin Bet security agency and Israel=
i police were doing nothing to address the killings.</p><p style=3D"box-siz=
ing:border-box;margin:26px 0px;line-height:26px">Ya&#39;alon said that duri=
ng a visit to the southern Hebron area he witnessed the conditions Palestin=
ians are facing. He said he spoke with a Palestinian man who lost his leg a=
fter settlers shot him and then prevented him from receiving medical assist=
ance.</p><blockquote style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;padding:10px 20px;margi=
n:5px 0px 5px 14px;font-size:17.5px;border:0px;background-color:rgb(249,247=
,245);float:right;width:446px"><p style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;margin:14p=
x 0px;font-weight:600;font-size:30px;line-height:35px;padding:0px;color:rgb=
(42,37,36)">&#39;What is Jewish supremacy? Eighty years after the Holocaust=
, it&#39;s Mein Kampf in reverse. The superior race is us&#39;</p><p style=
=3D"box-sizing:border-box;margin:14px 0px;font-weight:600;font-size:30px;li=
ne-height:35px;padding:0px;color:rgb(42,37,36)">-=C2=A0<em style=3D"box-siz=
ing:border-box">Moshe Ya&#39;alon,=C2=A0former defence minister</em></p></b=
lockquote><p style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;margin:26px 0px;line-height:26p=
x">Settler attacks against Palestinians have surged since Israel launched i=
ts genocidal war on Gaza in October 2023, with the United Nations Office fo=
r the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) recording an average of f=
our a day.</p><p style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;margin:26px 0px;line-height=
:26px">The attacks, some of which have been recorded on video, have raised =
concerns among opposition figures, including Ya&#39;alon, over both their s=
ecurity implications and moral consequences.</p><p style=3D"box-sizing:bord=
er-box;margin:26px 0px;line-height:26px">Left-wing figures have increasingl=
y described Israeli policies in the West Bank as criminal.</p><p style=3D"b=
ox-sizing:border-box;margin:26px 0px;line-height:26px">Earlier this month, =
Nimrod Sheffer, a candidate in the primaries of the centre-left Democrats p=
arty, described a settler attack in the town of Huwara, near Nablus, as a &=
quot;terror attack&quot;.</p><p style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;margin:26px =
0px;line-height:26px">Last week, Sheffer vowed to dismantle settler outpost=
s occupied by young and often violent settlers if elected. In many cases, t=
hose outposts serve as bases for settlers known as the &quot;hilltop youth&=
quot;, who have been linked to attacks on Palestinians.</p><h3 style=3D"box=
-sizing:border-box;line-height:1.1;color:inherit;margin-top:20px;margin-bot=
tom:10px;font-size:30px">Army chief turned critic</h3><p style=3D"box-sizin=
g:border-box;margin:26px 0px;line-height:26px">Ya=E2=80=99alon spent decade=
s in the Israeli military and is known to have taken part in the 1982 invas=
ion of Lebanon, the violent suppression of the first and second Palestinian=
 intifadas, and the 2014 war on Gaza.</p><p style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;=
margin:26px 0px;line-height:26px">In 2002, whilst serving as the army&#39;s=
 chief of staff, he said: &quot;The Palestinian threat harbours cancer-like=
 attributes that have to be severed and fought to the bitter end.&quot;</p>=
<p style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;margin:26px 0px;line-height:26px">And in =
2015, he barred Breaking the Silence =E2=80=93 an NGO of former Israeli sol=
diers who document army abuses =E2=80=93 from engaging in activities with t=
he military.</p><p style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;margin:26px 0px;line-heig=
ht:26px">But in recent years, the 75-year-old has adopted a more critical t=
one towards the current government, accusing it in 2024 of carrying out eth=
nic cleansing in Gaza.</p><p style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;margin:26px 0px=
;line-height:26px">Reflecting on his time as army commander in the West Ban=
k, Ya&#39;alon said that he had acted to prevent the occupation from turnin=
g Israelis into &quot;Judeo-Nazis&quot;, as the late Israeli scholar Yeshay=
ahu Leibowitz had once warned.</p><p style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;margin:=
26px 0px;line-height:26px">&quot;Today, I can=E2=80=99t say he was wrong,&q=
uot; Ya&#39;alon said, referring to Leibowitz&#39;s claim, adding that he h=
opes &quot;the next government will reverse this&quot;.</p><p style=3D"box-=
sizing:border-box;margin:26px 0px;line-height:26px">Ya&#39;alon said Palest=
inians are being abused in the West Bank and that he is &quot;ashamed that =
members of my own people are doing such things. And it is being done under =
government direction.&quot;</p><p style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;margin:26p=
x 0px;line-height:26px">Asked whether Israel could become an apartheid stat=
e, the former army chief replied: &quot;absolutely,&quot; adding that he su=
pports &quot;a settlement with the Palestinians&quot;.</p><p style=3D"box-s=
izing:border-box;margin:26px 0px;line-height:26px">&quot;Otherwise, we will=
 become either an apartheid state or a binational state,&quot; Ya&#39;alon =
said, after noting that he does not support removing Israeli settlements fr=
om the West Bank.</p><p style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;margin:26px 0px;line=
-height:26px">The former defence minister, who retired from politics in 202=
1, also criticised opposition leaders for failing to commit to including a =
Palestinian party in a future governing coalition.</p><p style=3D"box-sizin=
g:border-box;margin:26px 0px;line-height:26px">&quot;My shared values with =
Mansour Abbas are greater than those I share with Smotrich and Ben Gvir,&qu=
ot; Ya&#39;alon said, referring to the leader of the Islamist United Arab L=
ist party in the Knesset.</p><p style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;margin:26px =
0px;line-height:26px">Abbas has openly declared his desire to be part of a =
governing coalition, in contrast to the historic position of Palestinian pa=
rties in Israel.</p></div></div></div></div>

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People around the world see a winner on AI =E2=80=94 and it=E2=80=99s not t=
he US

Respondents in key U.S.-allied countries increasingly see China as the
world=E2=80=99s AI leader, while American optimism about the technology con=
tinues
to erode.
[image: The icons for the smartphone apps DeepSeek and ChatGPT are seen on
a smartphone screen Jan. 28, 2025.]

The icons for the smartphone apps DeepSeek and ChatGPT are seen on a
smartphone screen Jan. 28, 2025. | Andy Wong/AP
By Owen Dahlkamp <https://www.politico.com/staff/owen-dahlkamp>06/15/2026
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China is eclipsing the United States as the perceived artificial
intelligence superpower in much of the world, according to a new global
poll that underscores how Silicon Valley=E2=80=99s lead in the defining tec=
hnology
race is no longer taken for granted.

The survey also calls into question <https://aiglobal.publicfirst.com/> whe=
ther
the United States will continue advancing the AI frontier fast enough to
stay ahead of China, finding that Americans are increasingly worried about
the technology=E2=80=99s consumption of resources, its ability to automate =
jobs and
its potential to sow misinformation online.

The poll, conducted by U.K.-based research firm Public First surveying over
18,000 people across 15 countries, shows that just over half of American
respondents =E2=80=94 as well as majorities of people responding in Japan, =
India
and Vietnam =E2=80=94 still see the U.S. as the dominant AI superpower.

But those in the 11 other countries, including close U.S. allies such as
France, Canada and the United Kingdom, see China as the leader. In Germany,
only 23 percent of people saw the U.S. as dominant.

The polling firm has no connection to Public First Action, a political
group backed by the AI company Anthropic.

China is a major focus
<https://www.politico.com/news/2026/06/07/frontier-ai-cybersecurity-china-r=
ace-00952786>
for
lawmakers in Washington grappling with how much federal oversight AI should
face. Too much regulation, and America may stifle innovation and fall
behind its rival. Too little, and it may wreak havoc on civil society.

=E2=80=9CWe are leading China by a lot,=E2=80=9D President Donald Trump sai=
d Wednesday.
=E2=80=9CWhoever leads that is going to really lead the world, to a large e=
xtent.=E2=80=9D

Former White House AI czar David Sacks has cautioned against overregulation
of the technology, including the idea of creating a clearance process for
cutting-edge models that mirrors the Food and Drug Administration=E2=80=99s
drug-review protocol. =E2=80=9CIf you try to have an FDA for AI and there a=
re some
people who want to go that far, then I think we could lose this AI race to
China,=E2=80=9D he said on Fox Business last week
<https://www.foxbusiness.com/media/ex-white-house-ai-czar-warns-us-could-lo=
se-ai-race-china-washington-overregulates.amp>
=E2=80=94
barely a month after one top White House economic adviser had told the
network
<https://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/07/white-house-ai-oversight-00910837=
>
that
the administration was indeed considering a pre-release safety testing
regime akin to the approval process for pharmaceuticals.

The survey suggests that people not only view the United States as falling
behind China, but that it may also lack the unified public appetite to
charge ahead.

Each year from 2024 to 2026, Public First asked respondents to choose
whether AI would make things better or worse for themselves, society
generally and the next generation. Respondents to this year=E2=80=99s poll =
offered
more pessimistic answers.

In 2024, 39 percent of U.S. survey participants said AI would make things
better for society while 34 percent said it would make things worse. In
2025, this ticked up to 40 percent and 36 percent, respectively. Meanwhile,
this year only 31 percent believed AI would make society better, and 40
percent took the opposite outlook.

Confidence that AI will improve respondents=E2=80=99 personal lives has fal=
len
sharply from a net positive 15 points in 2024 to just 5 points this year.
Prospects for the next generation have deteriorated even further, swinging
from a net positive 10 points to a net negative 4 points.

This trend is most pronounced among American respondents aged 18 to 24.
This group believed that AI was going to improve society by a 4-point
margin in 2025. But a year later, that plummeted, with young Americans
believing AI would be worse for society by a 13-point margin. Young
respondents in the U.K. mirrored these results.

In other countries, including Singapore and India, there is a widespread
and persistent belief that AI will positively impact society.

In the United States, worries about misinformation, deepfakes and job loss
topped the list of Americans=E2=80=99 concerns about the new technology.

Social media companies have been reckoning with a barrage of AI-generated
content
<https://www.wired.com/story/ai-slop-is-changing-the-internet-just-not-how-=
you-might-think/>
that
can be created at unprecedented speeds.

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has described AI as the next leap forward in the
evolution of his platforms. =E2=80=9CSocial media has gone through two eras=
 so far.
First was when all content was from friends, family, and accounts that you
followed directly. The second was when we added all the creator content,=E2=
=80=9D
he said on an October earnings call
<https://s21.q4cdn.com/399680738/files/doc_financials/2025/q3/META-Q3-2025-=
Earnings-Call-Transcript.pdf>.
=E2=80=9CNow, as AI makes it easier to create and remix content, we=E2=80=
=99re going to add
yet another huge corpus of content on top of those.=E2=80=9D
ocal backlash against data centers
<https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/17/data-centers-have-a-political-pro=
blem-and-big-tech-wants-to-fix-it-00693695>,
which boast copious energy consumption and often rely on water-based
cooling systems, has rattled elected officials. In one Missouri town, half
of the city council was voted out
<https://www.politico.com/news/2026/04/13/missouri-city-council-data-center=
-00867259?fbclid=3DIwY2xjawSYUnNleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZAwzNTA2ODU1Mz=
E3MjgAAR49-RQ-Yr_YfoyI8cUeNhiLwiNfSXM0WG833ApllYRiJMKwXqu0iGwsJmhYOw_aem_vX=
YVNBC3wJcUD7NgXR49VA>
after
approving a $6 billion data center. A week after a rezoning plan was
approved to accommodate a data center developer=E2=80=99s project, a counci=
lman in
Indianapolis said his home was shot at
<https://apnews.com/article/indianapolis-shots-fired-councilman-home-gibson=
-45397ce6852ca58634de9d7eb3ec6367>,
and a note reading =E2=80=9CNO DATA CENTERS=E2=80=9D was left on his front =
porch.

In March, Trump issued a =E2=80=9Cratepayer protection pledge=E2=80=9D
<https://www.politico.com/news/2026/03/04/trump-and-ai-leaders-tout-his-bui=
ld-your-own-power-plant-pledge-00812891>
asking
major technology companies to provide or pay for their own electricity
supplies as they rapidly establish computing hubs across the country.
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em 0px 0px;line-height:1;letter-spacing:-0.05rem">People around the world s=
ee a winner on AI =E2=80=94 and it=E2=80=99s not the US</h1><p style=3D"bor=
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05,109,112)">Respondents in key U.S.-allied countries increasingly see Chin=
a as the world=E2=80=99s AI leader, while American optimism about the techn=
ology continues to erode.</p></div></div></div><div style=3D"border:0px sol=
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eepSeek and ChatGPT are seen on a smartphone screen Jan. 28, 2025." src=3D"=
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rgin:1.875rem 0px 0px;font-family:Georgia,Times,serif;font-size:1.125rem;li=
ne-height:1.6">China is eclipsing the United States as the perceived artifi=
cial intelligence superpower in much of the world, according to a new globa=
l poll that underscores how Silicon Valley=E2=80=99s lead in the defining t=
echnology race is no longer taken for granted.</p><p style=3D"border:0px so=
lid rgb(229,231,235);box-sizing:border-box;margin:1.875rem 0px 0px;font-fam=
ily:Georgia,Times,serif;font-size:1.125rem;line-height:1.6">The survey=C2=
=A0<a href=3D"https://aiglobal.publicfirst.com/" aria-label=3D"opens in a n=
ew window" style=3D"border:0px solid rgb(229,231,235);box-sizing:border-box=
;color:rgb(10,124,196);text-decoration:none" target=3D"_blank">also calls i=
nto question</a>=C2=A0whether the United States will continue advancing the=
 AI frontier fast enough to stay ahead of China, finding that Americans are=
 increasingly worried about the technology=E2=80=99s consumption of resourc=
es, its ability to automate jobs and its potential to sow misinformation on=
line.</p><p style=3D"border:0px solid rgb(229,231,235);box-sizing:border-bo=
x;margin:1.875rem 0px 0px;font-family:Georgia,Times,serif;font-size:1.125re=
m;line-height:1.6">The poll, conducted by U.K.-based research firm Public F=
irst surveying over 18,000 people across 15 countries, shows that just over=
 half of American respondents =E2=80=94 as well as majorities of people res=
ponding in Japan, India and Vietnam =E2=80=94 still see the U.S. as the dom=
inant AI superpower.</p></div></div></div></div><div style=3D"border:0px so=
lid rgb(229,231,235);box-sizing:border-box"><div style=3D"border:0px solid =
rgb(229,231,235);box-sizing:border-box;display:flex"></div></div></div><div=
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ft:auto;margin-right:auto;max-width:1350px;column-gap:30px;padding-left:30p=
x;padding-right:30px;text-align:center;display:grid;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-f=
amily:din-2014,&quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-s=
ize:16px"><div style=3D"border:0px solid rgb(229,231,235);box-sizing:border=
-box;margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto;width:300px;max-width:630px;text-al=
ign:left"></div><div style=3D"border:0px solid rgb(229,231,235);box-sizing:=
border-box;margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto;width:630px;max-width:630px;t=
ext-align:left"><p style=3D"border:0px solid rgb(229,231,235);box-sizing:bo=
rder-box;margin:1.875rem 0px 0px;font-family:Georgia,Times,serif;font-size:=
1.125rem;line-height:1.6">But those in the 11 other countries, including cl=
ose U.S. allies such as France, Canada and the United Kingdom, see China as=
 the leader. In Germany, only 23 percent of people saw the U.S. as dominant=
.<br style=3D"border:0px solid rgb(229,231,235);box-sizing:border-box"></p>=
<div style=3D"border:0px solid rgb(229,231,235);box-sizing:border-box"><div=
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p:1.875rem;display:flex"><div style=3D"border:0px solid rgb(229,231,235);bo=
x-sizing:border-box;width:630px"></div></div></div><p style=3D"border:0px s=
olid rgb(229,231,235);box-sizing:border-box;margin:1.875rem 0px 0px;font-fa=
mily:Georgia,Times,serif;font-size:1.125rem;line-height:1.6">The polling fi=
rm has no connection to Public First Action, a political group backed by th=
e AI company Anthropic.</p><p style=3D"border:0px solid rgb(229,231,235);bo=
x-sizing:border-box;margin:1.875rem 0px 0px;font-family:Georgia,Times,serif=
;font-size:1.125rem;line-height:1.6"><a href=3D"https://www.politico.com/ne=
ws/2026/06/07/frontier-ai-cybersecurity-china-race-00952786" style=3D"borde=
r:0px solid rgb(229,231,235);box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(10,124,196);te=
xt-decoration:none" target=3D"_blank">China is a major focus</a>=C2=A0for l=
awmakers in Washington grappling with how much federal oversight AI should =
face. Too much regulation, and America may stifle innovation and fall behin=
d its rival. Too little, and it may wreak havoc on civil society.</p><p sty=
le=3D"border:0px solid rgb(229,231,235);box-sizing:border-box;margin:1.875r=
em 0px 0px;font-family:Georgia,Times,serif;font-size:1.125rem;line-height:1=
.6">=E2=80=9CWe are leading China by a lot,=E2=80=9D President Donald Trump=
 said Wednesday. =E2=80=9CWhoever leads that is going to really lead the wo=
rld, to a large extent.=E2=80=9D</p><p style=3D"border:0px solid rgb(229,23=
1,235);box-sizing:border-box;margin:1.875rem 0px 0px;font-family:Georgia,Ti=
mes,serif;font-size:1.125rem;line-height:1.6">Former White House AI czar Da=
vid Sacks has cautioned against overregulation of the technology, including=
 the idea of creating a clearance process for cutting-edge models that mirr=
ors the Food and Drug Administration=E2=80=99s drug-review protocol. =E2=80=
=9CIf you try to have an FDA for AI and there are some people who want to g=
o that far, then I think we could lose this AI race to China,=E2=80=9D he=
=C2=A0<a href=3D"https://www.foxbusiness.com/media/ex-white-house-ai-czar-w=
arns-us-could-lose-ai-race-china-washington-overregulates.amp" style=3D"bor=
der:0px solid rgb(229,231,235);box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(10,124,196);=
text-decoration:none" target=3D"_blank">said on Fox Business last week</a>=
=C2=A0=E2=80=94 barely a month after=C2=A0<a href=3D"https://www.politico.c=
om/news/2026/05/07/white-house-ai-oversight-00910837" style=3D"border:0px s=
olid rgb(229,231,235);box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(10,124,196);text-deco=
ration:none" target=3D"_blank">one top White House economic adviser had tol=
d the network</a>=C2=A0that the administration was indeed considering a pre=
-release safety testing regime akin to the approval process for pharmaceuti=
cals.</p></div><div style=3D"border:0px solid rgb(229,231,235);box-sizing:b=
order-box"><div style=3D"border:0px solid rgb(229,231,235);box-sizing:borde=
r-box;display:flex"></div></div></div><div style=3D"border:0px solid rgb(22=
9,231,235);box-sizing:border-box;max-width:100%;padding:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0=
);font-family:din-2014,&quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Helvetica,Arial,sans-seri=
f;font-size:16px"></div><div style=3D"border:0px solid rgb(229,231,235);box=
-sizing:border-box;margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto;max-width:1350px;colu=
mn-gap:30px;padding-left:30px;padding-right:30px;text-align:center;display:=
grid;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:din-2014,&quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Helve=
tica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><div style=3D"border:0px solid rgb(22=
9,231,235);box-sizing:border-box;margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto;width:3=
00px;max-width:630px;text-align:left"></div><div style=3D"border:0px solid =
rgb(229,231,235);box-sizing:border-box;margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto;w=
idth:630px;max-width:630px;text-align:left"><p style=3D"border:0px solid rg=
b(229,231,235);box-sizing:border-box;margin:1.875rem 0px 0px;font-family:Ge=
orgia,Times,serif;font-size:1.125rem;line-height:1.6">The survey suggests t=
hat people not only view the United States as falling behind China, but tha=
t it may also lack the unified public appetite to charge ahead.</p><p style=
=3D"border:0px solid rgb(229,231,235);box-sizing:border-box;margin:1.875rem=
 0px 0px;font-family:Georgia,Times,serif;font-size:1.125rem;line-height:1.6=
">Each year from 2024 to 2026, Public First asked respondents to choose whe=
ther AI would make things better or worse for themselves, society generally=
 and the next generation. Respondents to this year=E2=80=99s poll offered m=
ore pessimistic answers.</p><p style=3D"border:0px solid rgb(229,231,235);b=
ox-sizing:border-box;margin:1.875rem 0px 0px;font-family:Georgia,Times,seri=
f;font-size:1.125rem;line-height:1.6">In 2024, 39 percent of U.S. survey pa=
rticipants said AI would make things better for society while 34 percent sa=
id it would make things worse. In 2025, this ticked up to 40 percent and 36=
 percent, respectively. Meanwhile, this year only 31 percent believed AI wo=
uld make society better, and 40 percent took the opposite outlook.</p><p st=
yle=3D"border:0px solid rgb(229,231,235);box-sizing:border-box;margin:1.875=
rem 0px 0px;font-family:Georgia,Times,serif;font-size:1.125rem;line-height:=
1.6">Confidence that AI will improve respondents=E2=80=99 personal lives ha=
s fallen sharply from a net positive 15 points in 2024 to just 5 points thi=
s year. Prospects for the next generation have deteriorated even further, s=
winging from a net positive 10 points to a net negative 4 points.</p><p sty=
le=3D"border:0px solid rgb(229,231,235);box-sizing:border-box;margin:1.875r=
em 0px 0px;font-family:Georgia,Times,serif;font-size:1.125rem;line-height:1=
.6">This trend is most pronounced among American respondents aged 18 to 24.=
 This group believed that AI was going to improve society by a 4-point marg=
in in 2025. But a year later, that plummeted, with young Americans believin=
g AI would be worse for society by a 13-point margin. Young respondents in =
the U.K. mirrored these results.</p><p style=3D"border:0px solid rgb(229,23=
1,235);box-sizing:border-box;margin:1.875rem 0px 0px;font-family:Georgia,Ti=
mes,serif;font-size:1.125rem;line-height:1.6">In other countries, including=
 Singapore and India, there is a widespread and persistent belief that AI w=
ill positively impact society.</p><p style=3D"border:0px solid rgb(229,231,=
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s,serif;font-size:1.125rem;line-height:1.6">In the United States, worries a=
bout misinformation, deepfakes and job loss topped the list of Americans=E2=
=80=99 concerns about the new technology.<br style=3D"border:0px solid rgb(=
229,231,235);box-sizing:border-box"></p><div style=3D"border:0px solid rgb(=
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June 16, 2026
The Forward=E2=80=99s Hit Piece on Thomas Massie and USS Liberty Veterans[i=
mage:
The Forward=E2=80=99s Hit Piece on Thomas Massie and USS Liberty Veterans]
<https://israelpalestinenews.org/the-forwards-hit-piece-on-thomas-massie-an=
d-uss-liberty-veterans/>
Congressman Thomas Massie with USS Liberty survivors and family members on
the Capitol steps after his speech honoring the men. Massie invited Liberty
crew members and Liberty wives, widows, and sons to attend the speech. He
met with them beforehand and then took them all out to lunch
afterwards. (Alison
Weir)

*By Alison Weir*
The Forward, which claims to be <https://forward.com/about-us/> =E2=80=9CAm=
erica=E2=80=99s
leading voice in Jewish journalism,=E2=80=9D has just published a hit piece
<https://forward.com/opinion/830717/remember-the-liberty-has-become-code-fo=
r-israel-is-evil/>
on
Congressman Thomas Massie, American veterans, and those who support them. T=
he
article is entitled: =E2=80=98=E2=80=98Remember the Liberty=E2=80=99 has be=
come code for =E2=80=98Israel Is
Evil,=E2=80=99=E2=80=99=E2=80=99 with the subhead: =E2=80=9CRep. Massie=E2=
=80=99s call for a new investigation of
the tragic 1967 attack on a U.S. ship isn=E2=80=99t about the truth.=E2=80=
=9DIn reality,
the article by Forward columnist Rob Eshman repeats a litany of false
Israeli claims combined with ad hominem attacks on people he dislikes.*Belo=
w
is his text, and the facts he ignores.*

*Eshman*: The first tragedy of the U.S.S. Liberty attack is that it
happened at all.

*Many people would consider the tragedy the 34 fathers, sons, husbands, and
brothers <https://www.honorlibertyvets.org/men.html> who were killed.*

*Eshman*: The second is that Israel=E2=80=99s critics have weaponized it to=
 spread
hate.

*In reality, people are commemorating and honoring the Americans who served
on the Liberty, providing facts on reputedly the most decorated crew since
World War II, who suffered the **highest casualty rate*
<https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CREC-2004-10-11/html/CREC-2004-10-11-p=
t1-PgE1886-3.htm>*
ever
inflicted upon a U.S. naval vessel that remained afloat after an attack.
Massie and others who are talking about the Liberty are doing so because
its story has been hidden for decades.*

*Eshman*: When Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky stood on the House floor on
June 8, the 59th anniversary of the attack, and called for a Congressional
probe into the incident, he wasn=E2=80=99t seriously trying to bring the tr=
uth of
some long-buried historical secret to light.

*This is an attack on Massie=E2=80=99s character rather than a response to =
the
issues he raised. Eshman, whose specialty is **food writing*
<https://forward.com/authors/rob-eshman/>*, cannot know Massie=E2=80=99s pr=
ivate
motivations and offers no evidence for his assertion.*

*Massie=E2=80=99s opening sentence
<https://youtu.be/Mvtx0Fe47Nc?si=3DXNcUB8AoiIA89HFH> made clear his
intention: =E2=80=9Cit=E2=80=99s my great honor, maybe one of the biggest h=
onors of my
li**fetime,
to stand here on the floor and do something that=E2=80=99s 59 years overdue=
 to
recognize the survivors and those who gave their lives on the USS Liberty
59 years ago today when they were viciously attacked by IDF jets and also
after that by torpedo boats. I=E2=80=99m going to tell you a little bit of =
their
story=E2=80=A6*

*Eshman*: Massie, who in 14 years never once brought up the U.S.S. Liberty
on the House floor=E2=80=A6

*The implication is that Massie=E2=80=99s concern cannot be genuine because=
 he had
not previously spoken about the USS Liberty. By that logic, no member of
Congress could ever address a neglected issue for the first time. The
significant fact is not that Massie hadn=E2=80=99t spoken about the Liberty=
 before,
but that he became the first member of Congress to honor the USS Liberty
veterans on the House floor in nearly six decades.*

*Eshman*: =E2=80=A6was using the latest cudgel in the Israel-haters=E2=80=
=99 arsenal to
level one last official blow at a country he loathes.

*This is another unsupported attack on Massie=E2=80=99s character. Eshman p=
rovides
no evidence that Massie =E2=80=9Cloathes=E2=80=9D Israel, nor does he cite =
any statement in
which Massie expresses hatred toward Israelis or Jews. Instead of
addressing Massie=E2=80=99s arguments, Eshman repeatedly attributes malicio=
us
motives to him without proof. Criticism of a foreign government=E2=80=99s a=
ctions
is not the same thing as hatred toward a people or nation.*

*Eshman*: =E2=80=9CI=E2=80=99ve got a call to action for everybody here,=E2=
=80=9D said Massie,
speaking of attack survivors who were in the audience, =E2=80=9CHonor these
individuals. Quit ignoring that they exist. Let=E2=80=99s have an investiga=
tion.
It=E2=80=99s long overdue.=E2=80=9D

Let=E2=80=99s put aside the fact that there have been numerous official
investigations into what exactly happened on June 8, 1967, the second day
of the Six Day War, when Israeli aircraft and torpedo boats attacked the
Liberty off the Sinai Peninsula, killing 34 American service members.

*Eshman, who has no known expertise on the issue, echoes a false Israeli
talking point. The fact is that there has only been one, extremely limited,
U.S. investigation concerning the attack, as stated by the **Department of
the Navy*
<https://ifamericansknew.org/download/Letter-from-US-Dept-of-Navy-re-USS-Li=
berty-attack-investigation.pdf>*.
(Claims by Israel partisans that there were =E2=80=9Cmany investigations=E2=
=80=9D are
demonstrably **false* <https://ifamericansknew.org/us_ints/ul-okeefe.html>
*.)*

*Eshman*: These investigations concluded that the tragedy was a
friendly-fire incident.

*This investigation, actually termed a =E2=80=9CNavy Court of Inquiry,=E2=
=80=9D consisted
of a quick, one-week undertaking whose statement that the Israeli attack
=E2=80=9Cwas a case of mistaken identity=E2=80=9D was questioned from the v=
ery beginning by
the **Navy officer*
<https://ifamericansknew.org/us_ints/ul-staring.html>* reviewing
the report, who **described*
<https://ifamericansknew.org/us_ints/ul-staring2.html>* it as =E2=80=9Ca ha=
sty, a
superficial, an incomplete, and a totally inadequate inquiry.=E2=80=9D Even=
 the
court itself cited the extreme difficulty of =E2=80=9Cinvestigating such a =
major
Naval disaster of international significance in an extremely abbreviated
time frame.=E2=80=9D*

*Its conclusion was later publicly **disavowed*
<https://ifamericansknew.org/us_ints/ul-boston.html>* by its **lead
investigator* <https://ifamericansknew.org/media/boston.mp3?v=3D20260611154=
7>*,
who stated that he and the Admiral conducting the inquiry =E2=80=9Cbelieved=
 with
certainty that this attack, which killed 34 American sailors and injured
172 others, was a deliberate effort to sink an American ship and murder its
entire crew.=E2=80=9D *

*It=E2=80=99s interesting that this information is missing from Eshman=E2=
=80=99s article
even though it was reported by Admiral Thomas Moorer in the **Stars and
Stripes* <https://ifamericansknew.org/us_ints/ul-moorer.html>* newspaper,
the **U.S Naval Institute*
<https://www.usni.org/magazines/proceedings/2003/july/captain-bostons-secre=
t>*,
the **Congressional Record*
<https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CREC-2004-10-11/html/CREC-2004-10-11-p=
t1-PgE1886-3.htm>*,
various **newspapers* <https://bendbulletin.com/category/news/local/>*, **F=
ox
News*
<https://web.archive.org/web/20080415215706/http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,=
2933,100960,00.html>*,
and numerous other places.*

*The Department of Defense issued a **press release*
<https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25879910-28-jun-1967-defense-dept-=
news-release-on-naval-court-of-inquiry-into-attack-on-uss-liberty/>*
about
the attack on June 28** after the Court of Inquiry report had been cleared
for public release. This stated:*

 *=E2=80=9CA Navy Court of Inquiry has determined that USS LIBERTY was in
international waters, properly marked as to her identity and nationality,
and in calm, clear weather when she suffered an unprovoked attack by
Israeli aircraft and motor torpedo boats June 8 in the Eastern
Mediterranean.*

*=E2=80=9CThe Court produced evidence that the Israeli armed forces had amp=
le
opportunity to identify LIBERTY correctly. The Court had insufficient
information before it to make a judgment on the reasons for the decision by
Israeli aircraft and motor torpedo boats to attack.=E2=80=9D*

* It also stated: =E2=80=9CIt was not the responsibility of the Court to ru=
le on
the culpability of the attackers.=E2=80=9D*

*Eshman*:  The Israelis initially mistook the Liberty, an
intelligence-gathering vessel, for an Egyptian warship.

*Israel did not claim to have mistaken the USS Liberty for a =E2=80=9Cwarsh=
ip.=E2=80=9D Its
official explanation was that it was mistaken for the Egyptian vessel **El
Quseir* <https://ifamericansknew.org/download/jag305.pdf>*, a much smaller
transport ship that has been variously described as a horse carrier, cargo
vessel, or coastal transport. *

*In fact, the Defense Department press release on the Court of Inquiry had
specifically stated: =E2=80=9C**LIBERTY was flying her normal size American=
 flag (5
feet by 8 feet) at the masthead. Her name was painted on her stern in
English, and her U. S. Navy distinguishing letters and number on her bow.
(Egyptian naval ships carry their names in the cursive Arabic script.)=E2=
=80=9D*

*=E2=80=9CHer configuration, as shown in the international standard naval
identification book, =E2=80=9CJane=E2=80=99s Fighting Ships,=E2=80=9D and h=
er standard markings
were clearly sufficient for the aircraft to identify her properly as the
non-combatantship LIBERTY.=E2=80=9D*

*A 2003 article in the Naval Institute=E2=80=99s **Proceedings Magazine**
similarly **reported* <https://ifamericansknew.org/us_ints/ul-walsh.html>* =
that
the El Quseir  was =E2=80=9Cone-quarter of the Liberty=E2=80=99s tonnage an=
d just nearly
half her length.=E2=80=9D *

*In addition, Israeli aircraft had flown **multiple reconnaissance passes*
<https://ifamericansknew.org/us_ints/ul-warcrimes.html>* over the Liberty
preceding the attack, and at least one pilot **reported*
<https://ifamericansknew.org/download/DAO-to-White_House-101000Z_Jun_67-SEC=
RET-Liberty_IDd_pre-attack.pdf>*
that
the ship was flying an American flag, as reported by the **Chicago Tribune*
<https://ifamericansknew.org/us_ints/ul-crewdson.html>* and **Israeli media=
*
<https://www.haaretz.com/2007-10-04/ty-article/israeli-communications-said-=
to-prove-iaf-knew-liberty-was-u-s-ship/0000017f-e160-d38f-a57f-e772c2610000=
>
*.*

*Eshman*: After the smoke cleared, [Israel] accepted responsibility,
apologized and paid $12 million in compensation to the victims.

Israel dickered over the amount it would pay for years, finally thirteen
years later it grudgingly paid $6 million for a ship valued at $40 million
<https://ifamericansknew.org/us_ints/ul-staring.html>. (Keep in mind that
Israel had received hundreds of millions of dollars
<https://jewishvirtuallibrary.org/total-u-s-foreign-aid-to-israel-1949-pres=
ent>
from
the US during that time.)

*Eshman*: Of all the explanations, it=E2=80=99s perhaps the least satisfyin=
g but
the most logical.

*In reality, it is the one favored by Israel but unsupported by the facts.
It is odd that Eshman, presumably a US citizen, favors the claims made by a
foreign country over the statements by American eye witnesses on board the
ship =E2=80=93 **crew members* <https://justiceforliberty.org/>* and the **=
commanding
officer*
<https://www.cmohs.org/news-events/video-library/mcgonagle-william-medal-of=
-honor-recipient-uss-liberty/>*
(who
received the Medal of Honor) =E2=80=93 **and*
<https://www.nytimes.com/2001/04/23/world/book-says-israel-intended-1967-at=
tack-on-us-ship.html?eafs_enabled=3Dfalse>
* by **numerous*
<https://www.usni.org/magazines/proceedings/2003/june/former-nsa-officials-=
agree>
 *US officials* <https://alcpress.org/mirrors/gtr5.com/>*.*

*Eshman*: During the Vietnam War, happening at the same time, an estimated
11% to 15% of casualties were from friendly fire.

*Israel=E2=80=99s ruthless attack in which **stretcher bearers were machine=
-gunned*
<https://ifamericansknew.org/us_ints/ul-warcrimes.html>* and **life boats
shot up* <https://ifamericansknew.org/us_ints/ul-warcrimes.html>* was
hardly friendly.*

*Eshman*: Massie=E2=80=99s call for a new investigation would be more belie=
vable if
he then didn=E2=80=99t go on to recite the alternative one-sided narrative =
of the
incident long pushed by some survivors and now taken up with gusto by
Israel haters Candace Owens, Tucker Carlson and others.

*The author attempts to discredit the facts put forward by Massie and
numerous others by associating them with people he labels =E2=80=9CIsrael h=
aters=E2=80=9D
(a phrase often applied to individuals critical of Israel=E2=80=99s actions=
, such
as former President **Jimmy Carter*
<https://www.wizo.org/news/jimmy-carter-farewell-to-an-israel-hater/>*,
super model **Bella Hadid*
<https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/aug/25/bella-hadid-israel-settlers-=
itamar-ben-gvir-palestine>*,
and UN Rapporteur **Francesca Albanese*
<https://www.juedische-allgemeine.de/english/another-term-for-a-notorious-i=
srael-hater/>*).
Yet the concerns raised about the USS Liberty did not originate with
Candace Owens or Tucker Carlson. As demonstrated above, these facts have
been voiced for decades by **survivors of the attack*
<https://ifamericansknew.org/us_ints/ul-warcrimes.html>*, **senior military
officers* <https://ifamericansknew.org/us_ints/ul-commfindings.html>*,
**intelligence
officials* <https://ifamericansknew.org/us_ints/ul-warcrimes.html#_ednref44=
>*,
and **diplomats* <https://ifamericansknew.org/us_ints/ul-akins.html>*. Ad
hominem attacks on contemporary commentators do nothing to address the
underlying evidence or testimony.*

*Eshman*: To [Massie and others] the attack was deliberate: The Israelis
ignored the large American flag the Liberty was flying and began shooting.

*Numerous USS Liberty survivors have consistently **testified*
<https://ifamericansknew.org/us_ints/ul-warcrimes.html>* that the ship was
clearly marked and that large American flags were visible. After the first
one was shot down, they hoisted a second, even larger flag.*

*Eshman*: =E2=80=9CIt was intentional murder by the country of Israel,=E2=
=80=9D said Massie
on the House floor, =E2=80=9Ceither as a false flag operation or because th=
ey
simply didn=E2=80=99t want anybody observing what they were doing that day.=
=E2=80=9D

What Massie and his fellow conspiracy theorists are alleging is a crime,
but none of them has sufficiently proven a motive. Why would Israel attack
the ship of its most important and powerful ally?

*To begin with, **many* <https://youtu.be/mK-twg2gKeQ?si=3D4jfYUArUddnYgIvF=
>
*people* <https://youtu.be/nW02a9xuChM?si=3Dcp5zVIFq7aDUCMDB>* question
calling Israel an ally, given its **history*
<https://israelpalestinenews.org/israeli-spying-on-us-perfecting-24-7-surve=
illance-tech/>*
of
spying on the US, stealing American technology, and doing **harm*
<https://youtu.be/1pLsvoFizzY?si=3DTyOAgZBDJkfoNvk9>* to the US. *

*Eshman*:  Possible *motives*
<https://ifamericansknew.org/us_ints/ul-qa.html> have been proposed over
the years. Some analysts have suggested that the attack was intended to
prevent the Liberty from observing Israeli military operations such as
their intention to attack the Golan Heights while the U.S. was calling for
a ceasefire, to cover up the fact Israeli forces were killing *prisoners of
war*
<https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1995/08/17/israel-reported=
ly-killed-pows-in-67-war/ddf09333-2556-4c4a-b928-6a4614e31ab0/><
In cold blood *in the Sinai*
<https://scholar.lib.vt.edu/VA-news/ROA-Times/issues/1995/rt9508/950817/081=
70030.htm>,
or as a false-flag operation designed to bring the U.S. into Israel=E2=80=
=99s war.
A thorough investigation is necessary to determine the facts, which is what
the survivors and others have long been calling for.[/speaker-vo

*Eshman*: The false flag theory =E2=80=94 the idea that Israel wanted to si=
nk the
Liberty, blame Egypt or the Soviet Union for it and draw America into the
war =E2=80=94 makes no sense.

*This assertion is not evidence. The author merely informs the reader that
he finds the theory implausible. However, history is rife with false flag
attacks of all sorts, including several by Israel, such as the Lavon Affair
<https://ifamericansknew.org/history/honor.html> and 1951 bombings in Egypt
<https://ifamericansknew.org/history/ref-giladi.html>. People interested in
learnling the truth should join Massie=E2=80=99s call for an impartial
investigation and declassification of the many **files that are still
classified.*
<https://original.antiwar.com/Michelle_Kinnucan/2024/12/15/deadly-uss-liber=
ty-attack-records-remain-secret-for-now/>


*Eshman*: The war was all but won by June 8. Moreover, as the historian and
former Israeli ambassador to the United States Michael Oren relates in Six
Days of War, the Israelis actually stopped firing initially when they
suspected the ship was American.

*Instead of citing the American veterans who were on board the ship,
Eshleman=E2=80=99s source is **Michael Oren*
<https://ifamericansknew.org/media/misslib.html>*, who was born and grew up
in the United States where he was active in Zionist youth movements,
emigrated to Israel where he took Israeli citizenship, served in the
Israeli army, participated in Israel=E2=80=99s first invasion of Lebanon, *=
*served*
<https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2006/09/11/the-forgotten-war>* as a
Major in the Reserve during Israel=E2=80=99s 2006 invasion of Lebanon, and =
has been
a senior fellow at an Israeli institute associated with **extreme Jewish
nationalism*
<https://web.archive.org/web/20120102083344/https://fas.org/sgp/eprint/bamf=
ord.html>
*. **Oren has been criticized for **stating*
<https://www.972mag.com/omissions-half-truths-and-lies-review-of-ambassador=
-orens-foreign-policy-piece/>*
political
advocacy as historical fact and **buying into*
<https://jstreet.org/celebrated-historian-shameless-conspiracy-theorist-mic=
hael-orens-absurd-tamimi-investigation/>*
various
conspiracy theories.*

*The claim itself raises obvious questions. If Israeli forces had begun to
suspect that the ship was American, why did the attack continue? Critics
point to the multiple reconnaissance flights reportedly conducted before
the attack, the clear weather conditions, the large American flag flying
from the ship, and the Liberty=E2=80=99s visible hull markings as evidence =
that
ample opportunities existed to identify the vessel before and during the
assault. *

*Eshman*: The Israelis sent helicopters to investigate, but heavy smoke
obscured the ship.

*According to crew members who were on deck and observed the helicopters,
they contained heavily armed combat soldiers who appeared to be planning to
board the ship.*

*Eshman*: Meanwhile, as Israeli torpedo boats closed in, a U.S. Navy
crewman, perhaps not hearing his commander=E2=80=99s orders, opened fire.

The Israelis, now convinced it was an enemy ship, unleashed torpedoes,
killing 25 Americans.

*The phrase =E2=80=9Copened fire=E2=80=9D is misleading because it suggests=
 that the USS
Liberty initiated hostilities. According to the author=E2=80=99s own accoun=
t, the
ship had already been under attack by Israeli aircraft before any crew
member allegedly fired a weapon. Any such fire would therefore have been
defensive in nature. *

*The author=E2=80=99s conclusion is equally difficult to follow. He argues =
that
this alleged return fire =E2=80=9Cconvinced=E2=80=9D the Israelis that the =
Liberty was an
enemy ship, yet Israeli forces had already deemed the vessel hostile enough
to strafe, rocket, napalm, and attack it with cannon fire. The fact that a
ship under attack might return fire does not explain how its identity was
determined, nor does it resolve the broader question of why the attack was
initiated in the first place.*

*Eshman*: Massie left all this out of his narrative.

*Massie was allotted five minutes to speak, which he used to provide facts
and honor the veterans; there was hardly sufficient time to repeat and
counter every fraudulent claim put out by Israel and its persons. *

*Eshman*: He quoted then-Secretary of State Dean Rusk, who said at the
time, =E2=80=9Cthe attack was, quite literally incomprehensible,=E2=80=9D i=
mplying that a
murky conspiracy underlay it all.

But he didn=E2=80=99t include the rest of what Rusk said: That what happene=
d was
=E2=80=9Can act of military recklessness reflecting wanton disregard for hu=
man
life.=E2=80=9D

In other words, Rusk=E2=80=99s full quote doesn=E2=80=99t suggest intention=
, but gross
carelessness, which is a far cry from premeditated murder. It was chaos,
miscommunication, uncertainty, incompetence, fear =E2=80=94 the fog of war.

*The author accuses Massie of omitting part of Rusk=E2=80=99s statement whi=
le
omitting an even more important part himself. In the **same document*
<https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1964-68v19/d256>*, Rusk
wrote that =E2=80=9Cthere is every reason to believe=E2=80=9D that the USS =
Liberty had been
identified, or at least its nationality determined, before the attack. He
emphasized that the ship was flying an American flag, displayed clear
identifying markings, and was operating in broad daylight under excellent
visibility. These remarks are difficult to reconcile with the article=E2=80=
=99s
attempt to portray Rusk as an advocate of the mistaken-identity
explanation.  *

*Eshman*: But to Massie and others, there=E2=80=99s no need to establish a =
coherent
motive for why Israel attacked its harmless friends, because in their minds
that=E2=80=99s just who Israelis are.

*Such speculation about motives and inner thoughts is not a substitute for
addressing the facts being presented.*

*Eshman*: If Massie wants another investigation, fine. But I find it hard
to believe that any investigation that doesn=E2=80=99t find Israel guilty o=
f murder
in the first will ever satisfy him or the people for whom =E2=80=9CRemember=
 the
Liberty=E2=80=9D is shorthand for =E2=80=9CIsrael is evil.=E2=80=9D

*The author once again speculates about the motives and future actions of
people he disagrees with. He offers no evidence that Rep. Massie would
reject the findings of a fair and credible investigation simply because
they failed to support a particular conclusion. More importantly, he
equates the phrase =E2=80=9CRemember the Liberty=E2=80=9D with the belief t=
hat =E2=80=9CIsrael is
evil.=E2=80=9D *

*For many survivors, family members, supporters, and researchers, however,
=E2=80=9CRemember the Liberty=E2=80=9D is simply a call to remember the 34 =
Americans who
were killed, the 174 who were wounded, and the unanswered questions **and
cover up* *surrounding the attack. *

*Seeking truth, accountability, and justice for American servicemen is not
evidence of hostility toward Israel. It is evidence of respect for the men
who served, suffered, and died aboard the USS Liberty.*

For more information go here
<https://ifamericansknew.org/us_ints/ussliberty.html>.
------------------------------

*Alison Weir <https://ifamericansknew.org/about_us/alisonweir.html> is is
the founder and executive director of the nonprofit organization If
Americans Knew, president of the Council for the National Interest, and
author of Against Our Better Judgment: The Hidden History of How the U.S.
Was Used to Create Israel.
<https://www.amazon.com/Against-Our-Better-Judgment-History/dp/149591092X>*

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attend the speech. He met with them beforehand and then took them all out t=
o lunch afterwards.=C2=A0<span class=3D"gmail-image-credit" style=3D"font-s=
ize:0.7rem;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;border:0px;outlin=
e:0px;background:transparent;font-family:open-sans-condensed,sans-serif">(A=
lison Weir)</span><div class=3D"gmail-mdp-speaker-wrapper" style=3D"margin:=
0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;border:0px;outline:0px;background:t=
ransparent;display:flex"><div class=3D"gmail-mdp-speaker-box gmail-mdp-spea=
ker-box gmail-shortcode gmail-speaker-browser-default" style=3D"padding:0px=
;vertical-align:baseline;border:0px;outline:0px;background:transparent"><di=
v class=3D"gmail-mdp-speaker-player" style=3D"margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0=
px;vertical-align:baseline;border:0px;outline:0px;background:transparent;bo=
rder-radius:20px"></div></div></div><p style=3D"margin:0px 0px 1.6em;paddin=
g:0px;vertical-align:baseline;border:0px;outline:0px;background:transparent=
;line-height:1.65"><em style=3D"margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:basel=
ine;border:0px;outline:0px;background:transparent">By Alison Weir</em></p><=
h4 style=3D"font-size:1.33em;margin:1.7em 0px 1em;padding:0px;vertical-alig=
n:baseline;border:0px;outline:0px;background:transparent;letter-spacing:-0.=
25px">The Forward, which=C2=A0<a href=3D"https://forward.com/about-us/" tar=
get=3D"_blank" rel=3D"noopener" style=3D"margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-al=
ign:baseline;background:transparent;text-decoration:none;word-break:break-w=
ord;color:rgb(0,153,204)">claims to be</a>=C2=A0=E2=80=9CAmerica=E2=80=99s =
leading voice in Jewish journalism,=E2=80=9D has just published a=C2=A0<a h=
ref=3D"https://forward.com/opinion/830717/remember-the-liberty-has-become-c=
ode-for-israel-is-evil/" target=3D"_blank" rel=3D"noopener" style=3D"margin=
:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;text-decora=
tion:none;word-break:break-word;color:rgb(0,153,204)">hit piece</a>=C2=A0on=
 Congressman Thomas Massie, American veterans, and those who support them.=
=C2=A0</h4><h4 style=3D"font-size:1.33em;margin:1.7em 0px 1em;padding:0px;v=
ertical-align:baseline;border:0px;outline:0px;background:transparent;letter=
-spacing:-0.25px">The article is entitled: =E2=80=98=E2=80=98Remember the L=
iberty=E2=80=99 has become code for =E2=80=98Israel Is Evil,=E2=80=99=E2=80=
=99=E2=80=99 with the subhead: =E2=80=9CRep. Massie=E2=80=99s call for a ne=
w investigation of the tragic 1967 attack on a U.S. ship isn=E2=80=99t abou=
t the truth.=E2=80=9D</h4><h4 style=3D"font-size:1.33em;margin:1.7em 0px 1e=
m;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;border:0px;outline:0px;background:tra=
nsparent;letter-spacing:-0.25px">In reality, the article by Forward columni=
st Rob Eshman repeats a litany of false Israeli claims combined with ad hom=
inem attacks on people he dislikes.</h4><h4 style=3D"font-size:1.33em;margi=
n:1.7em 0px 1em;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;border:0px;outline:0px;=
background:transparent;letter-spacing:-0.25px"><b style=3D"margin:0px;paddi=
ng:0px;vertical-align:baseline;border:0px;outline:0px;background:transparen=
t">Below is his text, and the facts he ignores.</b></h4><p style=3D"margin:=
0px 0px 1.6em;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;border:0px;outline:0px;ba=
ckground:transparent;line-height:1.65"><em style=3D"margin:0px;padding:0px;=
vertical-align:baseline;border:0px;outline:0px;background:transparent">Eshm=
an</em>: The first tragedy of the U.S.S. Liberty attack is that it happened=
 at all.=C2=A0</p><p style=3D"margin:0px 0px 1.6em;padding:0px;vertical-ali=
gn:baseline;border:0px;outline:0px;background:transparent;line-height:1.65"=
><b style=3D"margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;border:0px;outl=
ine:0px;background:transparent">Many people would consider the tragedy the=
=C2=A0<a href=3D"https://www.honorlibertyvets.org/men.html" target=3D"_blan=
k" rel=3D"noopener" style=3D"margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline=
;background:transparent;text-decoration:none;word-break:break-word;color:rg=
b(0,153,204)">34 fathers, sons, husbands, and brothers</a>=C2=A0who were ki=
lled.</b></p><p style=3D"margin:0px 0px 1.6em;padding:0px;vertical-align:ba=
seline;border:0px;outline:0px;background:transparent;line-height:1.65"><em =
style=3D"margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;border:0px;outline:=
0px;background:transparent">Eshman</em>: The second is that Israel=E2=80=99=
s critics have weaponized it to spread hate.=C2=A0</p><p style=3D"margin:0p=
x 0px 1.6em;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;border:0px;outline:0px;back=
ground:transparent;line-height:1.65"><b style=3D"margin:0px;padding:0px;ver=
tical-align:baseline;border:0px;outline:0px;background:transparent">In real=
ity, people are commemorating and honoring the Americans who served on the =
Liberty, providing facts on reputedly the most decorated crew since World W=
ar II, who suffered the=C2=A0</b><a href=3D"https://www.govinfo.gov/content=
/pkg/CREC-2004-10-11/html/CREC-2004-10-11-pt1-PgE1886-3.htm" target=3D"_bla=
nk" rel=3D"noopener" style=3D"margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baselin=
e;background:transparent;text-decoration:none;word-break:break-word;color:r=
gb(0,153,204)"><b style=3D"margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;b=
order:0px;outline:0px;background:transparent">highest casualty rate</b></a>=
<b style=3D"margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;border:0px;outli=
ne:0px;background:transparent">=C2=A0ever inflicted upon a U.S. naval vesse=
l that remained afloat after an attack. Massie and others who are talking a=
bout the Liberty are doing so because its story has been hidden for decades=
.</b></p><p style=3D"margin:0px 0px 1.6em;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseli=
ne;border:0px;outline:0px;background:transparent;line-height:1.65"><em styl=
e=3D"margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;border:0px;outline:0px;=
background:transparent">Eshman</em>: When Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky st=
ood on the House floor on June 8, the 59th anniversary of the attack, and c=
alled for a Congressional probe into the incident, he wasn=E2=80=99t seriou=
sly trying to bring the truth of some long-buried historical secret to ligh=
t.=C2=A0</p><p style=3D"margin:0px 0px 1.6em;padding:0px;vertical-align:bas=
eline;border:0px;outline:0px;background:transparent;line-height:1.65"><b st=
yle=3D"margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;border:0px;outline:0p=
x;background:transparent">This is an attack on Massie=E2=80=99s character r=
ather than a response to the issues he raised. Eshman, whose specialty is=
=C2=A0</b><a href=3D"https://forward.com/authors/rob-eshman/" target=3D"_bl=
ank" rel=3D"noopener" style=3D"margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseli=
ne;background:transparent;text-decoration:none;word-break:break-word;color:=
rgb(0,153,204)"><b style=3D"margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;=
border:0px;outline:0px;background:transparent">food writing</b></a><b style=
=3D"margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;border:0px;outline:0px;b=
ackground:transparent">, cannot know Massie=E2=80=99s private motivations a=
nd offers no evidence for his assertion.</b></p><p style=3D"margin:0px 0px =
1.6em;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;border:0px;outline:0px;background=
:transparent;line-height:1.65"><b style=3D"margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-=
align:baseline;border:0px;outline:0px;background:transparent">Massie=E2=80=
=99s=C2=A0<a href=3D"https://youtu.be/Mvtx0Fe47Nc?si=3DXNcUB8AoiIA89HFH" ta=
rget=3D"_blank" rel=3D"noopener" style=3D"margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-a=
lign:baseline;background:transparent;text-decoration:none;word-break:break-=
word;color:rgb(0,153,204)">opening sentence</a>=C2=A0made clear his intenti=
on: =E2=80=9Cit=E2=80=99s my great honor, maybe one of the biggest honors o=
f my li</b><b style=3D"margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;borde=
r:0px;outline:0px;background:transparent">fetime, to stand here on the floo=
r and do something that=E2=80=99s 59 years overdue to recognize the survivo=
rs and those who gave their lives on the USS Liberty 59 years ago today whe=
n they were viciously attacked by IDF jets and also after that by torpedo b=
oats. I=E2=80=99m going to tell you a little bit of their story=E2=80=A6</b=
></p><p style=3D"margin:0px 0px 1.6em;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;b=
order:0px;outline:0px;background:transparent;line-height:1.65"><em style=3D=
"margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;border:0px;outline:0px;back=
ground:transparent">Eshman</em>: Massie, who in 14 years never once brought=
 up the U.S.S. Liberty on the House floor=E2=80=A6</p><p style=3D"margin:0p=
x 0px 1.6em;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;border:0px;outline:0px;back=
ground:transparent;line-height:1.65"><b style=3D"margin:0px;padding:0px;ver=
tical-align:baseline;border:0px;outline:0px;background:transparent">The imp=
lication is that Massie=E2=80=99s concern cannot be genuine because he had =
not previously spoken about the USS Liberty. By that logic, no member of Co=
ngress could ever address a neglected issue for the first time. The signifi=
cant fact is not that Massie hadn=E2=80=99t spoken about the Liberty before=
, but that he became the first member of Congress to honor the USS Liberty =
veterans on the House floor in nearly six decades.</b>=C2=A0</p><p style=3D=
"margin:0px 0px 1.6em;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;border:0px;outlin=
e:0px;background:transparent;line-height:1.65"><em style=3D"margin:0px;padd=
ing:0px;vertical-align:baseline;border:0px;outline:0px;background:transpare=
nt">Eshman</em>: =E2=80=A6was using the latest cudgel in the Israel-haters=
=E2=80=99 arsenal to level one last official blow at a country he loathes.=
=C2=A0</p><p style=3D"margin:0px 0px 1.6em;padding:0px;vertical-align:basel=
ine;border:0px;outline:0px;background:transparent;line-height:1.65"><b styl=
e=3D"margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;border:0px;outline:0px;=
background:transparent">This is another unsupported attack on Massie=E2=80=
=99s character. Eshman provides no evidence that Massie =E2=80=9Cloathes=E2=
=80=9D Israel, nor does he cite any statement in which Massie expresses hat=
red toward Israelis or Jews. Instead of addressing Massie=E2=80=99s argumen=
ts, Eshman repeatedly attributes malicious motives to him without proof. Cr=
iticism of a foreign government=E2=80=99s actions is not the same thing as =
hatred toward a people or nation.</b></p><p style=3D"margin:0px 0px 1.6em;p=
adding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;border:0px;outline:0px;background:transp=
arent;line-height:1.65"><em style=3D"margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:=
baseline;border:0px;outline:0px;background:transparent">Eshman</em>: =E2=80=
=9CI=E2=80=99ve got a call to action for everybody here,=E2=80=9D said Mass=
ie, speaking of attack survivors who were in the audience, =E2=80=9CHonor t=
hese individuals. Quit ignoring that they exist. Let=E2=80=99s have an inve=
stigation.=C2=A0 It=E2=80=99s long overdue.=E2=80=9D</p><p style=3D"margin:=
0px 0px 1.6em;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;border:0px;outline:0px;ba=
ckground:transparent;line-height:1.65">Let=E2=80=99s put aside the fact tha=
t there have been numerous official investigations into what exactly happen=
ed on June 8, 1967, the second day of the Six Day War, when Israeli aircraf=
t and torpedo boats attacked the Liberty off the Sinai Peninsula, killing 3=
4 American service members.=C2=A0</p><p style=3D"margin:0px 0px 1.6em;paddi=
ng:0px;vertical-align:baseline;border:0px;outline:0px;background:transparen=
t;line-height:1.65"><b style=3D"margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:basel=
ine;border:0px;outline:0px;background:transparent">Eshman, who has no known=
 expertise on the issue, echoes a false Israeli talking point. The fact is =
that there has only been one, extremely limited, U.S. investigation concern=
ing the attack, as stated by the=C2=A0</b><a href=3D"https://ifamericanskne=
w.org/download/Letter-from-US-Dept-of-Navy-re-USS-Liberty-attack-investigat=
ion.pdf" target=3D"_blank" rel=3D"noopener" style=3D"margin:0px;padding:0px=
;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;text-decoration:none;word-b=
reak:break-word;color:rgb(0,153,204)"><b style=3D"margin:0px;padding:0px;ve=
rtical-align:baseline;border:0px;outline:0px;background:transparent">Depart=
ment of the Navy</b></a><b style=3D"margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:b=
aseline;border:0px;outline:0px;background:transparent">. (Claims by Israel =
partisans that there were =E2=80=9Cmany investigations=E2=80=9D are demonst=
rably=C2=A0</b><a href=3D"https://ifamericansknew.org/us_ints/ul-okeefe.htm=
l" target=3D"_blank" rel=3D"noopener" style=3D"margin:0px;padding:0px;verti=
cal-align:baseline;background:transparent;text-decoration:none;word-break:b=
reak-word;color:rgb(0,153,204)"><b style=3D"margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical=
-align:baseline;border:0px;outline:0px;background:transparent">false</b></a=
><b style=3D"margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;border:0px;outl=
ine:0px;background:transparent">.)</b></p><p style=3D"margin:0px 0px 1.6em;=
padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;border:0px;outline:0px;background:trans=
parent;line-height:1.65"><em style=3D"margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align=
:baseline;border:0px;outline:0px;background:transparent">Eshman</em>: These=
 investigations concluded that the tragedy was a friendly-fire incident.=C2=
=A0</p><p style=3D"margin:0px 0px 1.6em;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline=
;border:0px;outline:0px;background:transparent;line-height:1.65"><b style=
=3D"margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;border:0px;outline:0px;b=
ackground:transparent">This investigation, actually termed a =E2=80=9CNavy =
Court of Inquiry,=E2=80=9D consisted of a quick, one-week undertaking whose=
 statement that the Israeli attack =E2=80=9Cwas a case of mistaken identity=
=E2=80=9D was questioned from the very beginning by the=C2=A0</b><a href=3D=
"https://ifamericansknew.org/us_ints/ul-staring.html" target=3D"_blank" rel=
=3D"noopener" style=3D"margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;backg=
round:transparent;text-decoration:none;word-break:break-word;color:rgb(0,15=
3,204)"><b style=3D"margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;border:0=
px;outline:0px;background:transparent">Navy officer</b></a><b style=3D"marg=
in:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;border:0px;outline:0px;backgroun=
d:transparent">=C2=A0reviewing the report, who=C2=A0</b><a href=3D"https://=
ifamericansknew.org/us_ints/ul-staring2.html" target=3D"_blank" rel=3D"noop=
ener" style=3D"margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:tr=
ansparent;text-decoration:none;word-break:break-word;color:rgb(0,153,204)">=
<b style=3D"margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;border:0px;outli=
ne:0px;background:transparent">described</b></a><b style=3D"margin:0px;padd=
ing:0px;vertical-align:baseline;border:0px;outline:0px;background:transpare=
nt">=C2=A0it as =E2=80=9Ca hasty, a superficial, an incomplete, and a total=
ly inadequate inquiry.=E2=80=9D Even the court itself cited the extreme dif=
ficulty of =E2=80=9Cinvestigating such a major Naval disaster of internatio=
nal significance in an extremely abbreviated time frame.=E2=80=9D</b></p><p=
 style=3D"margin:0px 0px 1.6em;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;border:0=
px;outline:0px;background:transparent;line-height:1.65"><b style=3D"margin:=
0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;border:0px;outline:0px;background:t=
ransparent">Its conclusion was later publicly=C2=A0</b><a href=3D"https://i=
famericansknew.org/us_ints/ul-boston.html" target=3D"_blank" rel=3D"noopene=
r" style=3D"margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:trans=
parent;text-decoration:none;word-break:break-word;color:rgb(0,153,204)"><b =
style=3D"margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;border:0px;outline:=
0px;background:transparent">disavowed</b></a><b style=3D"margin:0px;padding=
:0px;vertical-align:baseline;border:0px;outline:0px;background:transparent"=
>=C2=A0by its=C2=A0</b><a href=3D"https://ifamericansknew.org/media/boston.=
mp3?v=3D202606111547" target=3D"_blank" rel=3D"noopener" style=3D"margin:0p=
x;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;text-decoratio=
n:none;word-break:break-word;color:rgb(0,153,204)"><b style=3D"margin:0px;p=
adding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;border:0px;outline:0px;background:transp=
arent">lead investigator</b></a><b style=3D"margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical=
-align:baseline;border:0px;outline:0px;background:transparent">, who stated=
 that he and the Admiral conducting the inquiry =E2=80=9Cbelieved with cert=
ainty that this attack, which killed 34 American sailors and injured 172 ot=
hers, was a deliberate effort to sink an American ship and murder its entir=
e crew.=E2=80=9D=C2=A0</b></p><p style=3D"margin:0px 0px 1.6em;padding:0px;=
vertical-align:baseline;border:0px;outline:0px;background:transparent;line-=
height:1.65"><b style=3D"margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;bor=
der:0px;outline:0px;background:transparent">It=E2=80=99s interesting that t=
his information is missing from Eshman=E2=80=99s article even though it was=
 reported by Admiral Thomas Moorer in the=C2=A0</b><a href=3D"https://ifame=
ricansknew.org/us_ints/ul-moorer.html" target=3D"_blank" rel=3D"noopener" s=
tyle=3D"margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transpare=
nt;text-decoration:none;word-break:break-word;color:rgb(0,153,204)"><b styl=
e=3D"margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;border:0px;outline:0px;=
background:transparent">Stars and Stripes</b></a><b style=3D"margin:0px;pad=
ding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;border:0px;outline:0px;background:transpar=
ent">=C2=A0newspaper, the=C2=A0</b><a href=3D"https://www.usni.org/magazine=
s/proceedings/2003/july/captain-bostons-secret" target=3D"_blank" rel=3D"no=
opener" style=3D"margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:=
transparent;text-decoration:none;word-break:break-word;color:rgb(0,153,204)=
"><b style=3D"margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;border:0px;out=
line:0px;background:transparent">U.S Naval Institute</b></a><b style=3D"mar=
gin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;border:0px;outline:0px;backgrou=
nd:transparent">, the=C2=A0</b><a href=3D"https://www.govinfo.gov/content/p=
kg/CREC-2004-10-11/html/CREC-2004-10-11-pt1-PgE1886-3.htm" target=3D"_blank=
" rel=3D"noopener" style=3D"margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;=
background:transparent;text-decoration:none;word-break:break-word;color:rgb=
(0,153,204)"><b style=3D"margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;bor=
der:0px;outline:0px;background:transparent">Congressional Record</b></a><b =
style=3D"margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;border:0px;outline:=
0px;background:transparent">, various=C2=A0</b><a href=3D"https://bendbulle=
tin.com/category/news/local/" target=3D"_blank" rel=3D"noopener" style=3D"m=
argin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;text-d=
ecoration:none;word-break:break-word;color:rgb(0,153,204)"><b style=3D"marg=
in:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;border:0px;outline:0px;backgroun=
d:transparent">newspapers</b></a><b style=3D"margin:0px;padding:0px;vertica=
l-align:baseline;border:0px;outline:0px;background:transparent">,=C2=A0</b>=
<a href=3D"https://web.archive.org/web/20080415215706/http://www.foxnews.co=
m/story/0,2933,100960,00.html" target=3D"_blank" rel=3D"noopener" style=3D"=
margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;text-=
decoration:none;word-break:break-word;color:rgb(0,153,204)"><b style=3D"mar=
gin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;border:0px;outline:0px;backgrou=
nd:transparent">Fox News</b></a><b style=3D"margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical=
-align:baseline;border:0px;outline:0px;background:transparent">, and numero=
us other places.</b></p><p style=3D"margin:0px 0px 1.6em;padding:0px;vertic=
al-align:baseline;border:0px;outline:0px;background:transparent;line-height=
:1.65"><b style=3D"margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;border:0p=
x;outline:0px;background:transparent">The Department of Defense issued a=C2=
=A0</b><a href=3D"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25879910-28-jun-1=
967-defense-dept-news-release-on-naval-court-of-inquiry-into-attack-on-uss-=
liberty/" target=3D"_blank" rel=3D"noopener" style=3D"margin:0px;padding:0p=
x;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;text-decoration:none;word-=
break:break-word;color:rgb(0,153,204)"><b style=3D"margin:0px;padding:0px;v=
ertical-align:baseline;border:0px;outline:0px;background:transparent">press=
 release</b></a><b style=3D"margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;=
border:0px;outline:0px;background:transparent">=C2=A0about the attack on Ju=
ne 28</b><b style=3D"margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;border:=
0px;outline:0px;background:transparent">=C2=A0after the Court of Inquiry re=
port had been cleared for public release. This stated:</b></p><p style=3D"m=
argin:0px 0px 1.6em;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;border:0px;outline:=
0px;background:transparent;line-height:1.65"><b style=3D"margin:0px;padding=
:0px;vertical-align:baseline;border:0px;outline:0px;background:transparent"=
>=C2=A0</b><b style=3D"margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;borde=
r:0px;outline:0px;background:transparent">=E2=80=9CA Navy Court of Inquiry =
has determined that USS LIBERTY was in international waters, properly marke=
d as to her identity and nationality, and in calm, clear weather when she s=
uffered an unprovoked attack by Israeli aircraft and motor torpedo boats Ju=
ne 8 in the Eastern Mediterranean.</b></p><p style=3D"margin:0px 0px 1.6em;=
padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;border:0px;outline:0px;background:trans=
parent;line-height:1.65"><b style=3D"margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:=
baseline;border:0px;outline:0px;background:transparent">=E2=80=9CThe Court =
produced evidence that the Israeli armed forces had ample opportunity to id=
entify LIBERTY correctly. The Court had insufficient information before it =
to make a judgment on the reasons for the decision by Israeli aircraft and =
motor torpedo boats to attack.=E2=80=9D</b></p><p style=3D"margin:0px 0px 1=
.6em;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;border:0px;outline:0px;background:=
transparent;line-height:1.65"><b style=3D"margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-a=
lign:baseline;border:0px;outline:0px;background:transparent">=C2=A0It also =
stated: =E2=80=9CIt was not the responsibility of the Court to rule on the =
culpability of the attackers.=E2=80=9D</b></p><p style=3D"margin:0px 0px 1.=
6em;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;border:0px;outline:0px;background:t=
ransparent;line-height:1.65"><em style=3D"margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-a=
lign:baseline;border:0px;outline:0px;background:transparent">Eshman</em>: =
=C2=A0The Israelis initially mistook the Liberty, an intelligence-gathering=
 vessel, for an Egyptian warship.=C2=A0</p><p style=3D"margin:0px 0px 1.6em=
;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;border:0px;outline:0px;background:tran=
sparent;line-height:1.65"><b style=3D"margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align=
:baseline;border:0px;outline:0px;background:transparent">Israel did not cla=
im to have mistaken the USS Liberty for a =E2=80=9Cwarship.=E2=80=9D Its of=
ficial explanation was that it was mistaken for the Egyptian vessel=C2=A0</=
b><a href=3D"https://ifamericansknew.org/download/jag305.pdf" target=3D"_bl=
ank" rel=3D"noopener" style=3D"margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseli=
ne;background:transparent;text-decoration:none;word-break:break-word;color:=
rgb(0,153,204)"><b style=3D"margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;=
border:0px;outline:0px;background:transparent">El Quseir</b></a><b style=3D=
"margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;border:0px;outline:0px;back=
ground:transparent">, a much smaller transport ship that has been variously=
 described as a horse carrier, cargo vessel, or coastal transport.=C2=A0</b=
></p><p style=3D"margin:0px 0px 1.6em;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;b=
order:0px;outline:0px;background:transparent;line-height:1.65"><b style=3D"=
margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;border:0px;outline:0px;backg=
round:transparent">In fact, the Defense Department press release on the Cou=
rt of Inquiry had specifically stated: =E2=80=9C</b><b style=3D"margin:0px;=
padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;border:0px;outline:0px;background:trans=
parent">LIBERTY was flying her normal size American flag (5 feet by 8 feet)=
 at the masthead. Her name was painted on her stern in English, and her U. =
S. Navy distinguishing letters and number on her bow. (Egyptian naval ships=
 carry their names in the cursive Arabic script.)=E2=80=9D</b></p><p style=
=3D"margin:0px 0px 1.6em;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;border:0px;out=
line:0px;background:transparent;line-height:1.65"><b style=3D"margin:0px;pa=
dding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;border:0px;outline:0px;background:transpa=
rent">=E2=80=9CHer configuration, as shown in the international standard na=
val identification book, =E2=80=9CJane=E2=80=99s Fighting Ships,=E2=80=9D a=
nd her standard markings were clearly sufficient for the aircraft to identi=
fy her properly as the non-combatantship LIBERTY.=E2=80=9D</b></p><p style=
=3D"margin:0px 0px 1.6em;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;border:0px;out=
line:0px;background:transparent;line-height:1.65"><b style=3D"margin:0px;pa=
dding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;border:0px;outline:0px;background:transpa=
rent">A 2003 article in the Naval Institute=E2=80=99s=C2=A0</b><b style=3D"=
margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;border:0px;outline:0px;backg=
round:transparent"><i style=3D"margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseli=
ne;border:0px;outline:0px;background:transparent">Proceedings Magazine</i><=
/b><b style=3D"margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;border:0px;ou=
tline:0px;background:transparent">=C2=A0 similarly=C2=A0</b><a href=3D"http=
s://ifamericansknew.org/us_ints/ul-walsh.html" target=3D"_blank" rel=3D"noo=
pener" style=3D"margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:t=
ransparent;text-decoration:none;word-break:break-word;color:rgb(0,153,204)"=
><b style=3D"margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;border:0px;outl=
ine:0px;background:transparent">reported</b></a><b style=3D"margin:0px;padd=
ing:0px;vertical-align:baseline;border:0px;outline:0px;background:transpare=
nt">=C2=A0that the El Quseir=C2=A0 was =E2=80=9Cone-quarter of the Liberty=
=E2=80=99s tonnage and just nearly half her length.=E2=80=9D=C2=A0</b></p><=
p style=3D"margin:0px 0px 1.6em;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;border:=
0px;outline:0px;background:transparent;line-height:1.65"><b style=3D"margin=
:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;border:0px;outline:0px;background:=
transparent">In addition, Israeli aircraft had flown=C2=A0</b><a href=3D"ht=
tps://ifamericansknew.org/us_ints/ul-warcrimes.html" target=3D"_blank" rel=
=3D"noopener" style=3D"margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;backg=
round:transparent;text-decoration:none;word-break:break-word;color:rgb(0,15=
3,204)"><b style=3D"margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;border:0=
px;outline:0px;background:transparent">multiple reconnaissance passes</b></=
a><b style=3D"margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;border:0px;out=
line:0px;background:transparent">=C2=A0over the Liberty preceding the attac=
k, and at least one pilot=C2=A0</b><a href=3D"https://ifamericansknew.org/d=
ownload/DAO-to-White_House-101000Z_Jun_67-SECRET-Liberty_IDd_pre-attack.pdf=
" target=3D"_blank" rel=3D"noopener" style=3D"margin:0px;padding:0px;vertic=
al-align:baseline;background:transparent;text-decoration:none;word-break:br=
eak-word;color:rgb(0,153,204)"><b style=3D"margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-=
align:baseline;border:0px;outline:0px;background:transparent">reported</b><=
/a><b style=3D"margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;border:0px;ou=
tline:0px;background:transparent">=C2=A0that the ship was flying an America=
n flag, as reported by the=C2=A0</b><a href=3D"https://ifamericansknew.org/=
us_ints/ul-crewdson.html" target=3D"_blank" rel=3D"noopener" style=3D"margi=
n:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;text-decor=
ation:none;word-break:break-word;color:rgb(0,153,204)"><b style=3D"margin:0=
px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;border:0px;outline:0px;background:tr=
ansparent">Chicago Tribune</b></a><b style=3D"margin:0px;padding:0px;vertic=
al-align:baseline;border:0px;outline:0px;background:transparent">=C2=A0and=
=C2=A0</b><a href=3D"https://www.haaretz.com/2007-10-04/ty-article/israeli-=
communications-said-to-prove-iaf-knew-liberty-was-u-s-ship/0000017f-e160-d3=
8f-a57f-e772c2610000" target=3D"_blank" rel=3D"noopener" style=3D"margin:0p=
x;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;text-decoratio=
n:none;word-break:break-word;color:rgb(0,153,204)"><b style=3D"margin:0px;p=
adding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;border:0px;outline:0px;background:transp=
arent">Israeli media</b></a><b style=3D"margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-ali=
gn:baseline;border:0px;outline:0px;background:transparent">.</b></p><p styl=
e=3D"margin:0px 0px 1.6em;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;border:0px;ou=
tline:0px;background:transparent;line-height:1.65"><em style=3D"margin:0px;=
padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;border:0px;outline:0px;background:trans=
parent">Eshman</em>: After the smoke cleared, [Israel] accepted responsibil=
ity, apologized and paid $12 million in compensation to the victims.=C2=A0<=
/p><p style=3D"margin:0px 0px 1.6em;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;bor=
der:0px;outline:0px;background:transparent;line-height:1.65"><span style=3D=
"margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;border:0px;outline:0px;back=
ground:transparent;font-weight:700">Israel dickered over the amount it woul=
d pay for years, finally thirteen years later it grudgingly paid $6 million=
 for a ship valued at=C2=A0<a href=3D"https://ifamericansknew.org/us_ints/u=
l-staring.html" target=3D"_blank" rel=3D"noopener" style=3D"margin:0px;padd=
ing:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;text-decoration:none=
;word-break:break-word;color:rgb(0,153,204)">$40 million</a>. (Keep in mind=
 that Israel had received=C2=A0<a href=3D"https://jewishvirtuallibrary.org/=
total-u-s-foreign-aid-to-israel-1949-present" target=3D"_blank" rel=3D"noop=
ener" style=3D"margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:tr=
ansparent;text-decoration:none;word-break:break-word;color:rgb(0,153,204)">=
hundreds of millions of dollars</a>=C2=A0from the US during that time.)=C2=
=A0</span></p><p style=3D"margin:0px 0px 1.6em;padding:0px;vertical-align:b=
aseline;border:0px;outline:0px;background:transparent;line-height:1.65"><em=
 style=3D"margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;border:0px;outline=
:0px;background:transparent">Eshman</em>: Of all the explanations, it=E2=80=
=99s perhaps the least satisfying but the most logical.=C2=A0</p><p style=
=3D"margin:0px 0px 1.6em;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;border:0px;out=
line:0px;background:transparent;line-height:1.65"><b style=3D"margin:0px;pa=
dding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;border:0px;outline:0px;background:transpa=
rent">In reality, it is the one favored by Israel but unsupported by the fa=
cts. It is odd that Eshman, presumably a US citizen, favors the claims made=
 by a foreign country over the statements by American eye witnesses on boar=
d the ship =E2=80=93=C2=A0</b><a href=3D"https://justiceforliberty.org/" ta=
rget=3D"_blank" rel=3D"noopener" style=3D"margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-a=
lign:baseline;background:transparent;text-decoration:none;word-break:break-=
word;color:rgb(0,153,204)"><b style=3D"margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-alig=
n:baseline;border:0px;outline:0px;background:transparent">crew members</b><=
/a><b style=3D"margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;border:0px;ou=
tline:0px;background:transparent">=C2=A0and the=C2=A0</b><a href=3D"https:/=
/www.cmohs.org/news-events/video-library/mcgonagle-william-medal-of-honor-r=
ecipient-uss-liberty/" target=3D"_blank" rel=3D"noopener" style=3D"margin:0=
px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;text-decorati=
on:none;word-break:break-word;color:rgb(0,153,204)"><b style=3D"margin:0px;=
padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;border:0px;outline:0px;background:trans=
parent">commanding officer</b></a><b style=3D"margin:0px;padding:0px;vertic=
al-align:baseline;border:0px;outline:0px;background:transparent">=C2=A0(who=
 received the Medal of Honor) =E2=80=93=C2=A0</b><a href=3D"https://www.nyt=
imes.com/2001/04/23/world/book-says-israel-intended-1967-attack-on-us-ship.=
html?eafs_enabled=3Dfalse" target=3D"_blank" rel=3D"noopener" style=3D"marg=
in:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;text-deco=
ration:none;word-break:break-word;color:rgb(0,153,204)"><b style=3D"margin:=
0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;border:0px;outline:0px;background:t=
ransparent">and</b></a><b style=3D"margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:ba=
seline;border:0px;outline:0px;background:transparent">=C2=A0by=C2=A0</b><a =
href=3D"https://www.usni.org/magazines/proceedings/2003/june/former-nsa-off=
icials-agree" target=3D"_blank" rel=3D"noopener" style=3D"margin:0px;paddin=
g:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;text-decoration:none;w=
ord-break:break-word;color:rgb(0,153,204)"><b style=3D"margin:0px;padding:0=
px;vertical-align:baseline;border:0px;outline:0px;background:transparent">n=
umerous</b></a>=C2=A0<a href=3D"https://alcpress.org/mirrors/gtr5.com/" tar=
get=3D"_blank" rel=3D"noopener" style=3D"margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-al=
ign:baseline;background:transparent;text-decoration:none;word-break:break-w=
ord;color:rgb(0,153,204)"><b style=3D"margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align=
:baseline;border:0px;outline:0px;background:transparent">US officials</b></=
a><b style=3D"margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;border:0px;out=
line:0px;background:transparent">.</b></p><p style=3D"margin:0px 0px 1.6em;=
padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;border:0px;outline:0px;background:trans=
parent;line-height:1.65"><em style=3D"margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align=
:baseline;border:0px;outline:0px;background:transparent">Eshman</em>: Durin=
g the Vietnam War, happening at the same time, an estimated 11% to 15% of c=
asualties were from friendly fire.=C2=A0</p><p style=3D"margin:0px 0px 1.6e=
m;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;border:0px;outline:0px;background:tra=
nsparent;line-height:1.65"><b style=3D"margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-alig=
n:baseline;border:0px;outline:0px;background:transparent">Israel=E2=80=99s =
ruthless attack in which=C2=A0</b><a href=3D"https://ifamericansknew.org/us=
_ints/ul-warcrimes.html" target=3D"_blank" rel=3D"noopener" style=3D"margin=
:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;text-decora=
tion:none;word-break:break-word;color:rgb(0,153,204)"><b style=3D"margin:0p=
x;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;border:0px;outline:0px;background:tra=
nsparent">stretcher bearers were machine-gunned</b></a><b style=3D"margin:0=
px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;border:0px;outline:0px;background:tr=
ansparent">=C2=A0and=C2=A0</b><a href=3D"https://ifamericansknew.org/us_int=
s/ul-warcrimes.html" target=3D"_blank" rel=3D"noopener" style=3D"margin:0px=
;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;text-decoration=
:none;word-break:break-word;color:rgb(0,153,204)"><b style=3D"margin:0px;pa=
dding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;border:0px;outline:0px;background:transpa=
rent">life boats shot up</b></a><b style=3D"margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical=
-align:baseline;border:0px;outline:0px;background:transparent">=C2=A0was ha=
rdly friendly.</b></p><p style=3D"margin:0px 0px 1.6em;padding:0px;vertical=
-align:baseline;border:0px;outline:0px;background:transparent;line-height:1=
.65"><em style=3D"margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;border:0px=
;outline:0px;background:transparent">Eshman</em>: Massie=E2=80=99s call for=
 a new investigation would be more believable if he then didn=E2=80=99t go =
on to recite the alternative one-sided narrative of the incident long pushe=
d by some survivors and now taken up with gusto by Israel haters Candace Ow=
ens, Tucker Carlson and others.=C2=A0</p><p style=3D"margin:0px 0px 1.6em;p=
adding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;border:0px;outline:0px;background:transp=
arent;line-height:1.65"><b style=3D"margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:b=
aseline;border:0px;outline:0px;background:transparent">The author attempts =
to discredit the facts put forward by Massie and numerous others by associa=
ting them with people he labels =E2=80=9CIsrael haters=E2=80=9D (a phrase o=
ften applied to individuals critical of Israel=E2=80=99s actions, such as f=
ormer President=C2=A0</b><a href=3D"https://www.wizo.org/news/jimmy-carter-=
farewell-to-an-israel-hater/" target=3D"_blank" rel=3D"noopener" style=3D"m=
argin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;text-d=
ecoration:none;word-break:break-word;color:rgb(0,153,204)"><b style=3D"marg=
in:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;border:0px;outline:0px;backgroun=
d:transparent">Jimmy Carter</b></a><b style=3D"margin:0px;padding:0px;verti=
cal-align:baseline;border:0px;outline:0px;background:transparent">, super m=
odel=C2=A0</b><a href=3D"https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/aug/25/bell=
a-hadid-israel-settlers-itamar-ben-gvir-palestine" target=3D"_blank" rel=3D=
"noopener" style=3D"margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;backgrou=
nd:transparent;text-decoration:none;word-break:break-word;color:rgb(0,153,2=
04)"><b style=3D"margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;border:0px;=
outline:0px;background:transparent">Bella Hadid</b></a><b style=3D"margin:0=
px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;border:0px;outline:0px;background:tr=
ansparent">, and UN Rapporteur=C2=A0</b><a href=3D"https://www.juedische-al=
lgemeine.de/english/another-term-for-a-notorious-israel-hater/" target=3D"_=
blank" rel=3D"noopener" style=3D"margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:base=
line;background:transparent;text-decoration:none;word-break:break-word;colo=
r:rgb(0,153,204)"><b style=3D"margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baselin=
e;border:0px;outline:0px;background:transparent">Francesca Albanese</b></a>=
<b style=3D"margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;border:0px;outli=
ne:0px;background:transparent">). Yet the concerns raised about the USS Lib=
erty did not originate with Candace Owens or Tucker Carlson. As demonstrate=
d above, these facts have been voiced for decades by=C2=A0</b><a href=3D"ht=
tps://ifamericansknew.org/us_ints/ul-warcrimes.html" target=3D"_blank" rel=
=3D"noopener" style=3D"margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;backg=
round:transparent;text-decoration:none;word-break:break-word;color:rgb(0,15=
3,204)"><b style=3D"margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;border:0=
px;outline:0px;background:transparent">survivors of the attack</b></a><b st=
yle=3D"margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;border:0px;outline:0p=
x;background:transparent">,=C2=A0</b><a href=3D"https://ifamericansknew.org=
/us_ints/ul-commfindings.html" target=3D"_blank" rel=3D"noopener" style=3D"=
margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;text-=
decoration:none;word-break:break-word;color:rgb(0,153,204)"><b style=3D"mar=
gin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;border:0px;outline:0px;backgrou=
nd:transparent">senior military officers</b></a><b style=3D"margin:0px;padd=
ing:0px;vertical-align:baseline;border:0px;outline:0px;background:transpare=
nt">,=C2=A0</b><a href=3D"https://ifamericansknew.org/us_ints/ul-warcrimes.=
html#_ednref44" target=3D"_blank" rel=3D"noopener" style=3D"margin:0px;padd=
ing:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;text-decoration:none=
;word-break:break-word;color:rgb(0,153,204)"><b style=3D"margin:0px;padding=
:0px;vertical-align:baseline;border:0px;outline:0px;background:transparent"=
>intelligence officials</b></a><b style=3D"margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-=
align:baseline;border:0px;outline:0px;background:transparent">, and=C2=A0</=
b><a href=3D"https://ifamericansknew.org/us_ints/ul-akins.html" target=3D"_=
blank" rel=3D"noopener" style=3D"margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:base=
line;background:transparent;text-decoration:none;word-break:break-word;colo=
r:rgb(0,153,204)"><b style=3D"margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baselin=
e;border:0px;outline:0px;background:transparent">diplomats</b></a><b style=
=3D"margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;border:0px;outline:0px;b=
ackground:transparent">. Ad hominem attacks on contemporary commentators do=
 nothing to address the underlying evidence or testimony.</b></p><p style=
=3D"margin:0px 0px 1.6em;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;border:0px;out=
line:0px;background:transparent;line-height:1.65"><em style=3D"margin:0px;p=
adding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;border:0px;outline:0px;background:transp=
arent">Eshman</em>: To [Massie and others] the attack was deliberate: The I=
sraelis ignored the large American flag the Liberty was flying and began sh=
ooting.=C2=A0</p><p style=3D"margin:0px 0px 1.6em;padding:0px;vertical-alig=
n:baseline;border:0px;outline:0px;background:transparent;line-height:1.65">=
<b style=3D"margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;border:0px;outli=
ne:0px;background:transparent">Numerous USS Liberty survivors have consiste=
ntly=C2=A0</b><a href=3D"https://ifamericansknew.org/us_ints/ul-warcrimes.h=
tml" target=3D"_blank" rel=3D"noopener" style=3D"margin:0px;padding:0px;ver=
tical-align:baseline;background:transparent;text-decoration:none;word-break=
:break-word;color:rgb(0,153,204)"><b style=3D"margin:0px;padding:0px;vertic=
al-align:baseline;border:0px;outline:0px;background:transparent">testified<=
/b></a><b style=3D"margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;border:0p=
x;outline:0px;background:transparent">=C2=A0that the ship was clearly marke=
d and that large American flags were visible. After the first one was shot =
down, they hoisted a second, even larger flag.</b></p><p style=3D"margin:0p=
x 0px 1.6em;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;border:0px;outline:0px;back=
ground:transparent;line-height:1.65"><em style=3D"margin:0px;padding:0px;ve=
rtical-align:baseline;border:0px;outline:0px;background:transparent">Eshman=
</em>: =E2=80=9CIt was intentional murder by the country of Israel,=E2=80=
=9D said Massie on the House floor, =E2=80=9Ceither as a false flag operati=
on or because they simply didn=E2=80=99t want anybody observing what they w=
ere doing that day.=E2=80=9D=C2=A0</p><p style=3D"margin:0px 0px 1.6em;padd=
ing:0px;vertical-align:baseline;border:0px;outline:0px;background:transpare=
nt;line-height:1.65">What Massie and his fellow conspiracy theorists are al=
leging is a crime, but none of them has sufficiently proven a motive. Why w=
ould Israel attack the ship of its most important and powerful ally?</p><p =
style=3D"margin:0px 0px 1.6em;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;border:0p=
x;outline:0px;background:transparent;line-height:1.65"><b style=3D"margin:0=
px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;border:0px;outline:0px;background:tr=
ansparent">To begin with,=C2=A0</b><a href=3D"https://youtu.be/mK-twg2gKeQ?=
si=3D4jfYUArUddnYgIvF" target=3D"_blank" rel=3D"noopener" style=3D"margin:0=
px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;text-decorati=
on:none;word-break:break-word;color:rgb(0,153,204)"><b style=3D"margin:0px;=
padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;border:0px;outline:0px;background:trans=
parent">many</b></a>=C2=A0<a href=3D"https://youtu.be/nW02a9xuChM?si=3Dcp5z=
VIFq7aDUCMDB" target=3D"_blank" rel=3D"noopener" style=3D"margin:0px;paddin=
g:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;text-decoration:none;w=
ord-break:break-word;color:rgb(0,153,204)"><b style=3D"margin:0px;padding:0=
px;vertical-align:baseline;border:0px;outline:0px;background:transparent">p=
eople</b></a><b style=3D"margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;bor=
der:0px;outline:0px;background:transparent">=C2=A0question calling Israel a=
n ally, given its=C2=A0</b><a href=3D"https://israelpalestinenews.org/israe=
li-spying-on-us-perfecting-24-7-surveillance-tech/" style=3D"margin:0px;pad=
ding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;text-decoration:non=
e;word-break:break-word;color:rgb(0,153,204)"><b style=3D"margin:0px;paddin=
g:0px;vertical-align:baseline;border:0px;outline:0px;background:transparent=
">history</b></a><b style=3D"margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline=
;border:0px;outline:0px;background:transparent">=C2=A0of spying on the US, =
stealing American technology, and doing=C2=A0</b><a href=3D"https://youtu.b=
e/1pLsvoFizzY?si=3DTyOAgZBDJkfoNvk9" target=3D"_blank" rel=3D"noopener" sty=
le=3D"margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent=
;text-decoration:none;word-break:break-word;color:rgb(0,153,204)"><b style=
=3D"margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;border:0px;outline:0px;b=
ackground:transparent">harm</b></a><b style=3D"margin:0px;padding:0px;verti=
cal-align:baseline;border:0px;outline:0px;background:transparent">=C2=A0to =
the US.=C2=A0</b></p><p style=3D"margin:0px 0px 1.6em;padding:0px;vertical-=
align:baseline;border:0px;outline:0px;background:transparent;line-height:1.=
65"><em style=3D"margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;border:0px;=
outline:0px;background:transparent">Eshman</em>:=C2=A0 Possible=C2=A0<a hre=
f=3D"https://ifamericansknew.org/us_ints/ul-qa.html" target=3D"_blank" rel=
=3D"noopener" style=3D"margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;backg=
round:transparent;text-decoration:none;word-break:break-word;color:rgb(0,15=
3,204)"><b style=3D"margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;border:0=
px;outline:0px;background:transparent">motives</b></a>=C2=A0have been propo=
sed over the years. Some analysts have suggested that the attack was intend=
ed to prevent the Liberty from observing Israeli military operations such a=
s their intention to attack the Golan Heights while the U.S. was calling fo=
r a ceasefire, to cover up the fact Israeli forces were killing=C2=A0<a hre=
f=3D"https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1995/08/17/israel-repo=
rtedly-killed-pows-in-67-war/ddf09333-2556-4c4a-b928-6a4614e31ab0/" target=
=3D"_blank" rel=3D"noopener" style=3D"margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align=
:baseline;background:transparent;text-decoration:none;word-break:break-word=
;color:rgb(0,153,204)"><b style=3D"margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:ba=
seline;border:0px;outline:0px;background:transparent">prisoners of war</b><=
/a>&lt; In cold blood=C2=A0<a href=3D"https://scholar.lib.vt.edu/VA-news/RO=
A-Times/issues/1995/rt9508/950817/08170030.htm" target=3D"_blank" rel=3D"no=
opener" style=3D"margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:=
transparent;text-decoration:none;word-break:break-word;color:rgb(0,153,204)=
"><b style=3D"margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;border:0px;out=
line:0px;background:transparent">in the Sinai</b></a>, or as a false-flag o=
peration designed to bring the U.S. into Israel=E2=80=99s war. A thorough i=
nvestigation is necessary to determine the facts, which is what the survivo=
rs and others have long been calling for.[/speaker-vo</p><p style=3D"margin=
:0px 0px 1.6em;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;border:0px;outline:0px;b=
ackground:transparent;line-height:1.65"><em style=3D"margin:0px;padding:0px=
;vertical-align:baseline;border:0px;outline:0px;background:transparent">Esh=
man</em>: The false flag theory =E2=80=94 the idea that Israel wanted to si=
nk the Liberty, blame Egypt or the Soviet Union for it and draw America int=
o the war =E2=80=94 makes no sense.=C2=A0</p><p style=3D"margin:0px 0px 1.6=
em;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;border:0px;outline:0px;background:tr=
ansparent;line-height:1.65"><b style=3D"margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-ali=
gn:baseline;border:0px;outline:0px;background:transparent">This assertion i=
s not evidence. The author merely informs the reader that he finds the theo=
ry implausible. However, history is rife with false flag attacks of all sor=
ts, including several by Israel, such as the=C2=A0<a href=3D"https://ifamer=
icansknew.org/history/honor.html" target=3D"_blank" rel=3D"noopener" style=
=3D"margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;t=
ext-decoration:none;word-break:break-word;color:rgb(0,153,204)">Lavon Affai=
r</a>=C2=A0and=C2=A0<a href=3D"https://ifamericansknew.org/history/ref-gila=
di.html" target=3D"_blank" rel=3D"noopener" style=3D"margin:0px;padding:0px=
;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;text-decoration:none;word-b=
reak:break-word;color:rgb(0,153,204)">1951 bombings in Egypt</a>. People in=
terested in learnling the truth should join Massie=E2=80=99s call for an im=
partial investigation and declassification of the many=C2=A0</b><a href=3D"=
https://original.antiwar.com/Michelle_Kinnucan/2024/12/15/deadly-uss-libert=
y-attack-records-remain-secret-for-now/" target=3D"_blank" rel=3D"noopener"=
 style=3D"margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transpa=
rent;text-decoration:none;word-break:break-word;color:rgb(0,153,204)"><b st=
yle=3D"margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;border:0px;outline:0p=
x;background:transparent">files that are still classified.</b></a><b style=
=3D"margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;border:0px;outline:0px;b=
ackground:transparent">=C2=A0</b></p><p style=3D"margin:0px 0px 1.6em;paddi=
ng:0px;vertical-align:baseline;border:0px;outline:0px;background:transparen=
t;line-height:1.65"><em style=3D"margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:base=
line;border:0px;outline:0px;background:transparent">Eshman</em>: The war wa=
s all but won by June 8. Moreover, as the historian and former Israeli amba=
ssador to the United States Michael Oren relates in Six Days of War, the Is=
raelis actually stopped firing initially when they suspected the ship was A=
merican.=C2=A0</p><p style=3D"margin:0px 0px 1.6em;padding:0px;vertical-ali=
gn:baseline;border:0px;outline:0px;background:transparent;line-height:1.65"=
><b style=3D"margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;border:0px;outl=
ine:0px;background:transparent">Instead of citing the American veterans who=
 were on board the ship, Eshleman=E2=80=99s source is=C2=A0</b><a href=3D"h=
ttps://ifamericansknew.org/media/misslib.html" target=3D"_blank" rel=3D"noo=
pener" style=3D"margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:t=
ransparent;text-decoration:none;word-break:break-word;color:rgb(0,153,204)"=
><b style=3D"margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;border:0px;outl=
ine:0px;background:transparent">Michael Oren</b></a><b style=3D"margin:0px;=
padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;border:0px;outline:0px;background:trans=
parent">, who was born and grew up in the United States where he was active=
 in Zionist youth movements, emigrated to Israel where he took Israeli citi=
zenship, served in the Israeli army, participated in Israel=E2=80=99s first=
 invasion of Lebanon,=C2=A0</b><a href=3D"https://www.newyorker.com/magazin=
e/2006/09/11/the-forgotten-war" target=3D"_blank" rel=3D"noopener" style=3D=
"margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;text=
-decoration:none;word-break:break-word;color:rgb(0,153,204)"><b style=3D"ma=
rgin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;border:0px;outline:0px;backgro=
und:transparent">served</b></a><b style=3D"margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-=
align:baseline;border:0px;outline:0px;background:transparent">=C2=A0as a Ma=
jor in the Reserve during Israel=E2=80=99s 2006 invasion of Lebanon, and ha=
s been a senior fellow at an Israeli institute associated with=C2=A0</b><a =
href=3D"https://web.archive.org/web/20120102083344/https://fas.org/sgp/epri=
nt/bamford.html" target=3D"_blank" rel=3D"noopener" style=3D"margin:0px;pad=
ding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;text-decoration:non=
e;word-break:break-word;color:rgb(0,153,204)"><b style=3D"margin:0px;paddin=
g:0px;vertical-align:baseline;border:0px;outline:0px;background:transparent=
">extreme Jewish nationalism</b></a><b style=3D"margin:0px;padding:0px;vert=
ical-align:baseline;border:0px;outline:0px;background:transparent">.=C2=A0<=
/b><b style=3D"margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;border:0px;ou=
tline:0px;background:transparent">Oren has been criticized for=C2=A0</b><a =
href=3D"https://www.972mag.com/omissions-half-truths-and-lies-review-of-amb=
assador-orens-foreign-policy-piece/" target=3D"_blank" rel=3D"noopener" sty=
le=3D"margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent=
;text-decoration:none;word-break:break-word;color:rgb(0,153,204)"><b style=
=3D"margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;border:0px;outline:0px;b=
ackground:transparent">stating</b></a><b style=3D"margin:0px;padding:0px;ve=
rtical-align:baseline;border:0px;outline:0px;background:transparent">=C2=A0=
political advocacy as historical fact and=C2=A0</b><a href=3D"https://jstre=
et.org/celebrated-historian-shameless-conspiracy-theorist-michael-orens-abs=
urd-tamimi-investigation/" target=3D"_blank" rel=3D"noopener" style=3D"marg=
in:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;text-deco=
ration:none;word-break:break-word;color:rgb(0,153,204)"><b style=3D"margin:=
0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;border:0px;outline:0px;background:t=
ransparent">buying into</b></a><b style=3D"margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-=
align:baseline;border:0px;outline:0px;background:transparent">=C2=A0various=
 conspiracy theories.</b></p><p style=3D"margin:0px 0px 1.6em;padding:0px;v=
ertical-align:baseline;border:0px;outline:0px;background:transparent;line-h=
eight:1.65"><b style=3D"margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;bord=
er:0px;outline:0px;background:transparent">The claim itself raises obvious =
questions. If Israeli forces had begun to suspect that the ship was America=
n, why did the attack continue? Critics point to the multiple reconnaissanc=
e flights reportedly conducted before the attack, the clear weather conditi=
ons, the large American flag flying from the ship, and the Liberty=E2=80=99=
s visible hull markings as evidence that ample opportunities existed to ide=
ntify the vessel before and during the assault.=C2=A0</b></p><p style=3D"ma=
rgin:0px 0px 1.6em;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;border:0px;outline:0=
px;background:transparent;line-height:1.65"><em style=3D"margin:0px;padding=
:0px;vertical-align:baseline;border:0px;outline:0px;background:transparent"=
>Eshman</em>: The Israelis sent helicopters to investigate, but heavy smoke=
 obscured the ship.=C2=A0</p><p style=3D"margin:0px 0px 1.6em;padding:0px;v=
ertical-align:baseline;border:0px;outline:0px;background:transparent;line-h=
eight:1.65"><b style=3D"margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;bord=
er:0px;outline:0px;background:transparent">According to crew members who we=
re on deck and observed the helicopters, they contained heavily armed comba=
t soldiers who appeared to be planning to board the ship.</b></p><p style=
=3D"margin:0px 0px 1.6em;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;border:0px;out=
line:0px;background:transparent;line-height:1.65"><em style=3D"margin:0px;p=
adding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;border:0px;outline:0px;background:transp=
arent">Eshman</em>: Meanwhile, as Israeli torpedo boats closed in, a U.S. N=
avy crewman, perhaps not hearing his commander=E2=80=99s orders, opened fir=
e.=C2=A0</p><p style=3D"margin:0px 0px 1.6em;padding:0px;vertical-align:bas=
eline;border:0px;outline:0px;background:transparent;line-height:1.65">The I=
sraelis, now convinced it was an enemy ship, unleashed torpedoes, killing 2=
5 Americans.</p><p style=3D"margin:0px 0px 1.6em;padding:0px;vertical-align=
:baseline;border:0px;outline:0px;background:transparent;line-height:1.65"><=
b style=3D"margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;border:0px;outlin=
e:0px;background:transparent">The phrase =E2=80=9Copened fire=E2=80=9D is m=
isleading because it suggests that the USS Liberty initiated hostilities. A=
ccording to the author=E2=80=99s own account, the ship had already been und=
er attack by Israeli aircraft before any crew member allegedly fired a weap=
on. Any such fire would therefore have been defensive in nature.=C2=A0</b><=
/p><p style=3D"margin:0px 0px 1.6em;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;bor=
der:0px;outline:0px;background:transparent;line-height:1.65"><b style=3D"ma=
rgin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;border:0px;outline:0px;backgro=
und:transparent">The author=E2=80=99s conclusion is equally difficult to fo=
llow. He argues that this alleged return fire =E2=80=9Cconvinced=E2=80=9D t=
he Israelis that the Liberty was an enemy ship, yet Israeli forces had alre=
ady deemed the vessel hostile enough to strafe, rocket, napalm, and attack =
it with cannon fire. The fact that a ship under attack might return fire do=
es not explain how its identity was determined, nor does it resolve the bro=
ader question of why the attack was initiated in the first place.</b></p><p=
 style=3D"margin:0px 0px 1.6em;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;border:0=
px;outline:0px;background:transparent;line-height:1.65"><em style=3D"margin=
:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;border:0px;outline:0px;background:=
transparent">Eshman</em>: Massie left all this out of his narrative.=C2=A0<=
/p><p style=3D"margin:0px 0px 1.6em;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;bor=
der:0px;outline:0px;background:transparent;line-height:1.65"><b style=3D"ma=
rgin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;border:0px;outline:0px;backgro=
und:transparent">Massie was allotted five minutes to speak, which he used t=
o provide facts and honor the veterans; there was hardly sufficient time to=
 repeat and counter every fraudulent claim put out by Israel and its person=
s.=C2=A0</b></p><p style=3D"margin:0px 0px 1.6em;padding:0px;vertical-align=
:baseline;border:0px;outline:0px;background:transparent;line-height:1.65"><=
em style=3D"margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;border:0px;outli=
ne:0px;background:transparent">Eshman</em>: He quoted then-Secretary of Sta=
te Dean Rusk, who said at the time, =E2=80=9Cthe attack was, quite literall=
y incomprehensible,=E2=80=9D implying that a murky conspiracy underlay it a=
ll.</p><p style=3D"margin:0px 0px 1.6em;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline=
;border:0px;outline:0px;background:transparent;line-height:1.65">But he did=
n=E2=80=99t include the rest of what Rusk said: That what happened was =E2=
=80=9Can act of military recklessness reflecting wanton disregard for human=
 life.=E2=80=9D</p><p style=3D"margin:0px 0px 1.6em;padding:0px;vertical-al=
ign:baseline;border:0px;outline:0px;background:transparent;line-height:1.65=
">In other words, Rusk=E2=80=99s full quote doesn=E2=80=99t suggest intenti=
on, but gross carelessness, which is a far cry from premeditated murder. It=
 was chaos, miscommunication, uncertainty, incompetence, fear =E2=80=94 the=
 fog of war.=C2=A0</p><p style=3D"margin:0px 0px 1.6em;padding:0px;vertical=
-align:baseline;border:0px;outline:0px;background:transparent;line-height:1=
.65"><b style=3D"margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;border:0px;=
outline:0px;background:transparent">The author accuses Massie of omitting p=
art of Rusk=E2=80=99s statement while omitting an even more important part =
himself. In the=C2=A0</b><a href=3D"https://history.state.gov/historicaldoc=
uments/frus1964-68v19/d256" target=3D"_blank" rel=3D"noopener" style=3D"mar=
gin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;text-dec=
oration:none;word-break:break-word;color:rgb(0,153,204)"><b style=3D"margin=
:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;border:0px;outline:0px;background:=
transparent">same document</b></a><b style=3D"margin:0px;padding:0px;vertic=
al-align:baseline;border:0px;outline:0px;background:transparent">, Rusk wro=
te that =E2=80=9Cthere is every reason to believe=E2=80=9D that the USS Lib=
erty had been identified, or at least its nationality determined, before th=
e attack. He emphasized that the ship was flying an American flag, displaye=
d clear identifying markings, and was operating in broad daylight under exc=
ellent visibility. These remarks are difficult to reconcile with the articl=
e=E2=80=99s attempt to portray Rusk as an advocate of the mistaken-identity=
 explanation.=C2=A0=C2=A0</b></p><p style=3D"margin:0px 0px 1.6em;padding:0=
px;vertical-align:baseline;border:0px;outline:0px;background:transparent;li=
ne-height:1.65"><em style=3D"margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline=
;border:0px;outline:0px;background:transparent">Eshman</em>: But to Massie =
and others, there=E2=80=99s no need to establish a coherent motive for why =
Israel attacked its harmless friends, because in their minds that=E2=80=99s=
 just who Israelis are.=C2=A0</p><p style=3D"margin:0px 0px 1.6em;padding:0=
px;vertical-align:baseline;border:0px;outline:0px;background:transparent;li=
ne-height:1.65"><b style=3D"margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;=
border:0px;outline:0px;background:transparent">Such speculation about motiv=
es and inner thoughts is not a substitute for addressing the facts being pr=
esented.</b></p><p style=3D"margin:0px 0px 1.6em;padding:0px;vertical-align=
:baseline;border:0px;outline:0px;background:transparent;line-height:1.65"><=
em style=3D"margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;border:0px;outli=
ne:0px;background:transparent">Eshman</em>: If Massie wants another investi=
gation, fine. But I find it hard to believe that any investigation that doe=
sn=E2=80=99t find Israel guilty of murder in the first will ever satisfy hi=
m or the people for whom =E2=80=9CRemember the Liberty=E2=80=9D is shorthan=
d for =E2=80=9CIsrael is evil.=E2=80=9D=C2=A0</p><p style=3D"margin:0px 0px=
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d:transparent;line-height:1.65"><b style=3D"margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical=
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nce again speculates about the motives and future actions of people he disa=
grees with. He offers no evidence that Rep. Massie would reject the finding=
s of a fair and credible investigation simply because they failed to suppor=
t a particular conclusion. More importantly, he equates the phrase =E2=80=
=9CRemember the Liberty=E2=80=9D with the belief that =E2=80=9CIsrael is ev=
il.=E2=80=9D=C2=A0</b></p><p style=3D"margin:0px 0px 1.6em;padding:0px;vert=
ical-align:baseline;border:0px;outline:0px;background:transparent;line-heig=
ht:1.65"><b style=3D"margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;border:=
0px;outline:0px;background:transparent">For many survivors, family members,=
 supporters, and researchers, however, =E2=80=9CRemember the Liberty=E2=80=
=9D is simply a call to remember the 34 Americans who were killed, the 174 =
who were wounded, and the unanswered questions=C2=A0</b><b style=3D"margin:=
0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;border:0px;outline:0px;background:t=
ransparent">and cover up</b>=C2=A0<b style=3D"margin:0px;padding:0px;vertic=
al-align:baseline;border:0px;outline:0px;background:transparent">surroundin=
g the attack.=C2=A0</b></p><p style=3D"margin:0px 0px 1.6em;padding:0px;ver=
tical-align:baseline;border:0px;outline:0px;background:transparent;line-hei=
ght:1.65"><b style=3D"margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;border=
:0px;outline:0px;background:transparent">Seeking truth, accountability, and=
 justice for American servicemen is not evidence of hostility toward Israel=
. It is evidence of respect for the men who served, suffered, and died aboa=
rd the USS Liberty.</b></p><p style=3D"margin:0px 0px 1.6em;padding:0px;ver=
tical-align:baseline;border:0px;outline:0px;background:transparent;line-hei=
ght:1.65"><span style=3D"margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;bor=
der:0px;outline:0px;background:transparent;font-weight:700">For more inform=
ation go=C2=A0<a href=3D"https://ifamericansknew.org/us_ints/ussliberty.htm=
l" target=3D"_blank" rel=3D"noopener" style=3D"margin:0px;padding:0px;verti=
cal-align:baseline;background:transparent;text-decoration:none;word-break:b=
reak-word;color:rgb(0,153,204)">here</a>.</span></p><hr style=3D"height:1px=
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e none;border-color:rgb(233,233,233) currentcolor currentcolor;clear:both">=
<p style=3D"margin:0px 0px 1.6em;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;border=
:0px;outline:0px;background:transparent;line-height:1.65"><em style=3D"marg=
in:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;border:0px;outline:0px;backgroun=
d:transparent"><a href=3D"https://ifamericansknew.org/about_us/alisonweir.h=
tml" target=3D"_blank" rel=3D"noopener" style=3D"margin:0px;padding:0px;ver=
tical-align:baseline;background:transparent;text-decoration:none;word-break=
:break-word;color:rgb(0,153,204)">Alison Weir</a>=C2=A0is is the founder an=
d executive director of the nonprofit organization If Americans Knew, presi=
dent of the Council for the National Interest, and author of=C2=A0<a href=
=3D"https://www.amazon.com/Against-Our-Better-Judgment-History/dp/149591092=
X" target=3D"_blank" rel=3D"noopener" style=3D"margin:0px;padding:0px;verti=
cal-align:baseline;background:transparent;text-decoration:none;word-break:b=
reak-word;color:rgb(0,153,204)">Against Our Better Judgment: The Hidden His=
tory of How the U.S. Was Used to Create Israel.</a></em></p></div></div>

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=9D with
                      Judge Napolitano. We discussed my recent article
                      about why the U.S. military fights and related
                      issues.</p>
                    <a href=3D"https://substack.com/redirect/09a1b145-49ad-=
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height:26px;font-size:16px">With
                      the Iran War, it=E2=80=99s obvious who=E2=80=99s lost=
. The
                      American people have lost. The war has already
                      cost our country roughly $100 billion, and
                      Americans have been driven deeper into debt as
                      inflationary pressures bite into personal budgets,
                      which are increasingly stretched to the breaking
                      point.</p>
                    <p style=3D"margin:0 0 20px 0;color:rgb(54,55,55);line-=
height:26px;font-size:16px">Who=E2=80=99s
                      won? Zionist Israel has won, at least for now as
                      it pursues its vision of =E2=80=9Cgreater=E2=80=9D Is=
rael. Iran
                      has won (despite suffering considerable damage and
                      casualties), emerging stronger on the global stage
                      by standing up to U.S. and Israeli forces. And of
                      course war profiteers have won, including fossil
                      fuel companies, banks, and especially the
                      military-industrial complex.</p>
                    <p style=3D"margin:0 0 20px 0;color:rgb(54,55,55);line-=
height:26px;font-size:16px">The
                      war=E2=80=99s been a disaster for America, yet the
                      Pentagon is on course to getting a colossal raise
                      by Trump. For the warmongers and weapons makers,
                      losing is winning yet again.</p>
                    <p style=3D"margin:0 0 20px 0;color:rgb(54,55,55);line-=
height:26px;font-size:16px">The
                      Judge and I also talked about the U.S. military
                      and its identity. I lamented the ongoing emphasis
                      on lethality, on killing, the whole warrior and
                      warfighter mystique. The U.S. military today has a
                      narrow vision of professionalism focused on
                      =E2=80=9Ckinetic=E2=80=9D action=E2=80=94basically, w=
inning by blowing
                      things up, by killing =E2=80=9Cbad guys.=E2=80=9D irr=
espective of
                      legality and morality.</p>
                    <p style=3D"margin:0 0 20px 0;color:rgb(54,55,55);line-=
height:26px;font-size:16px">The
                      citizen-soldier tradition of World War II has been
                      cast aside for warrior-nihilism. It=E2=80=99s a start=
ling
                      transition that=E2=80=99s been happening for decades =
but
                      which under Trump/Hegseth has reached a grim
                      apotheosis.</p>
                    <p style=3D"margin:0 0 20px 0;color:rgb(54,55,55);line-=
height:26px;font-size:16px">Warrior-nihilism
                      may be the biggest issue the U.S. military faces
                      today=E2=80=94even more pressing than escalatory nucl=
ear
                      weapons spending, Golden Dome boondoggles, and
                      grossly inflated budgets. The U.S. military is
                      supposed to believe in something=E2=80=94specifically=
,
                      supporting and defending the Constitution and our
                      fundamental rights as citizens. </p>
                    <p style=3D"margin:0 0 20px 0;color:rgb(54,55,55);line-=
height:26px;font-size:16px;margin-bottom:0">A
                      warrior-military that believes in nothing but its
                      own strength is an anathema to anyone who believes
                      in democracy.</p>
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Global Currents
https://www.theglobalcurrents.com/p/china-may-have-fewer-people-living
China may have fewer people living in poverty than the USOne system covers
basic needs for its poor while the other doesn't
<https://substack.com/@haugejostein>
Jostein Hauge <https://substack.com/@haugejostein>
Jun 12, 2026


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Some readers might find it odd to even entertain the possibility that China
has fewer people living in poverty than the US. China=E2=80=99s GDP per cap=
ita is
about one-sixth of the US=E2=80=99 =E2=80=94 one-third once you adjust for =
purchasing
power. Given a gap that large, surely China must have far more people
living in poverty, right?

Data from the World Bank challenges this intuition. According to the Bank,
extreme poverty in China was eradicated by 2019, while the rate in the US
still sits at around 1%. Extreme poverty here is defined as living on less
than $3 per day
<https://www.worldbank.org/en/news/factsheet/2025/06/05/june-2025-update-to=
-global-poverty-lines>,
adjusted for differences in cost of living. So on the World Bank=E2=80=99s =
own
benchmark, more Americans live in extreme poverty than Chinese, not only as
a share of the population but also in absolute numbers, seeing that China
has officially eradicated poverty.
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ssive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fi=
mages%2Fafd93b9a-fa12-4a64-bd0e-4534d77e362e_1440x842.png>
Reasons to believe poverty is *understated* in the US

The most common objection to the comparison made above is that the poverty
rate in the two countries is measured differently. The World Bank=E2=80=99s=
 China
numbers are calculated based on consumption (what households spend); the US
numbers based on income (what households earn). An oft-cited argument is
that this measurement difference overstates the US poverty rate relative to
China, because the income measure in the US does not take into account
government transfers like the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program
(SNAP) and tax credits that lift households=E2=80=99 actual standard of liv=
ing
above what their paychecks suggest.

It=E2=80=99s a fair point, but only to a degree. There are strong counterar=
guments
suggesting that poverty figures are often *understated* in the US, not
overstated. The US poverty threshold was originally derived from the cost
of food, then multiplied to cover everything else. It was never built
around a basket that includes services that cover basic needs such as
healthcare, higher education, or transport =E2=80=94 precisely the things t=
hat are
ruinously expensive in a country with privatised medicine, costly
universities, and thin public transit.

Three further problems compound this. The first is that the threshold
barely varies by geography. A family in Manhattan or San Francisco faces
housing costs many times those in rural Mississippi, yet the poverty line
is nearly identical across both. The result is that a large number of
working families who clear the official bar are still, in any meaningful
sense, housing poor.

The second is that an income snapshot ignores assets. A household can post
a modest income while carrying heavy debt, holding no savings, and having
no cushion for a sudden shock. This is not a fringe phenomenon: the share
of Americans who say they could not cover a $400 emergency expense is
consistently far larger than the official poverty rate
<https://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/pressreleases/other20250528a.htm=
>.
Income flow and financial security are not the same thing, and only one of
them shows up in the statistics.

The third is what people report when you ask them directly. Material
hardship surveys =E2=80=94 can you afford food, utilities, medical care, ad=
equate
clothing? =E2=80=94 routinely turn up more deprivation than the official he=
adcount.

It should come as no surprise then that US government agencies set the
domestic poverty line much higher than the World Bank=E2=80=99s internation=
al
definition for extreme poverty. The official US poverty line, set by the
Department of Health and Human Services, is an income of $32,000 a year for
a family of four
<https://www.healthcare.gov/glossary/federal-poverty-level-fpl/>. This
would translate to roughly $22 per day per person. By this measure,
approximately
11% of Americans live in poverty
<https://www.census.gov/library/publications/2025/demo/p60-287.html>. The
US Census Bureau=E2=80=99s own Supplemental Poverty Measure, which factors =
in both
non-cash benefits and real expenses, raises the US poverty rate to 13%
<https://www.census.gov/topics/income-poverty/supplemental-poverty-measure.=
html>
.
Reasons to believe poverty =E2=80=94 at a higher threshold =E2=80=94 is *ov=
erstated* in
China

When comparing the poverty rate in both China and the US, the most
interesting challenge to my opening chart isn't about measurement method =
=E2=80=94
it is about the international poverty line itself. There is no clear
consensus on an international poverty line, but some scholars argue that
around $10 per day
<https://academic.oup.com/wbro/article-abstract/21/1/1/1725515?redirectedFr=
om=3Dfulltext&login=3Dfalse>,
adjusted for differences in cost of living, is not unreasonable for
capturing real deprivation. So what happens to the comparison at that
threshold?

It flips. At $10 per day, 31% of China=E2=80=99s population falls below the=
 line,
against just 2% in the US. On this measure, poverty in China is
overwhelmingly higher.
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ssive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fi=
mages%2F7d9cc925-2de1-4d54-af3f-842e033b6aca_1440x842.png>

Again, the argument that the US poverty rate is substantially higher than
2%, as made in detail above =E2=80=94 and which US government agencies also=
 support
=E2=80=94 goes for this chart as well.

Additionally, there is reason to believe that a $10 per day line
*overstates* true deprivation in China. Market-based poverty measures don=
=E2=80=99t
fully register that poor people in China need to consume less in cash
terms, because so much of what sustains a decent life is cheap or free at
the point of use. This could be why the official poverty line used by the
National Bureau of Statistics in China is roughly equivalent to the $3 per
day line used by the World Bank.

Consider what a decent life from a material point of view generally
requires: affordable housing, electricity, clean water, sanitation,
internet, access to transport, nutritious food, basic healthcare, and
schooling (to name a few). In China, these are now close to universal,
including across the rural areas where poverty is concentrated. In the US
they are not. And much of this simply doesn=E2=80=99t show up in a househol=
d=E2=80=99s
measured purchasing power, whether you measure it through income or
consumption.

Three things drive this gap. The first is China=E2=80=99s decades-long comm=
itment
to fighting poverty, with a heavy focus on building infrastructure. As an
explicit part of poverty eradication efforts, China=E2=80=99s government ha=
s poured
money into roads, railways, electrification, clean water, mobile data, and
rural clinics
<https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/server/api/core/bitstreams/e9a5bc3c-71=
8d-57d8-9558-ce325407f737/content>.
These government investments lift living standards far beyond what a
consumption or income figure can capture, which means people are less
deprived in real terms than the raw number implies. The second is the rural
cost of living, which is very low. A small cash income combined with
subsistence agriculture, communal land rights, and subsidised housing buys
a standard of living that dollar-based comparisons systematically
undersell, even when adjusted for differences in cost of living. The third
is in-kind provision: the dibao minimum-income scheme, cooperative medical
insurance, and free schooling all add real value that an income or
consumption line never counts.
Stuff versus basic needs

None of this means the Chinese middle class out-earns the American one. It
does not. A US middle-class family commands far more purchasing power over
discretionary =E2=80=9Cstuff,=E2=80=9D and is more likely to own a suburban=
 house with a
backyard than to live in an apartment block.

My main point, however, is this: the *quantity* of stuff you can buy =E2=80=
=94
whether this is calculated based on your income or consumption patterns =E2=
=80=94
is not a great proxy for material wellbeing. A family that can buy more
things but lies awake over a medical bill, mounting education costs, or
monthly rent that eats up the monthly paycheck is not obviously better off,
in material terms, than one that buys less but rarely has to worry about
sudden financial ruin.

So where does that leave the original question? Both countries have very
low rates of *extreme* poverty =E2=80=94 that much is clear. Push the line =
higher
and China=E2=80=99s poverty rate rises above America=E2=80=99s in terms of =
money in
people=E2=80=99s pockets. But once you account for what the US line underst=
ates and
what the China line (at a higher threshold) overstates, there=E2=80=99s a s=
trong
case that at the bottom of the distribution =E2=80=94 the people the term =
=E2=80=9Cpoverty=E2=80=9D
is really meant to describe =E2=80=94 the US has more of them as a share of=
 the
population (in line with the World Bank figures), and potentially also in
absolute terms. The reason? China covers basic needs for its poor; the US
doesn=E2=80=99t.

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d to even entertain the possibility that China has fewer people living in p=
overty than the US. China=E2=80=99s GDP per capita is about one-sixth of th=
e US=E2=80=99 =E2=80=94 one-third once you adjust for purchasing power. Giv=
en a gap that large, surely China must have far more people living in pover=
ty, right?</p><p style=3D"line-height:1.6em;margin:0px 0px 20px">Data from =
the World Bank challenges this intuition. According to the Bank, extreme po=
verty in China was eradicated by 2019, while the rate in the US still sits =
at around 1%. Extreme poverty here is=C2=A0<a href=3D"https://www.worldbank=
.org/en/news/factsheet/2025/06/05/june-2025-update-to-global-poverty-lines"=
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less than $3 per day</a>, adjusted for differences in cost of living. So on=
 the World Bank=E2=80=99s own benchmark, more Americans live in extreme pov=
erty than Chinese, not only as a share of the population but also in absolu=
te numbers, seeing that China has officially eradicated poverty.</p><div cl=
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ons to believe poverty is=C2=A0<em>understated</em>=C2=A0in the US<div clas=
s=3D"gmail-pencraft gmail-pc-display-flex gmail-pc-alignItems-center gmail-=
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v><button type=3D"button" aria-label=3D"Link" class=3D"gmail-pencraft gmail=
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hite-space:nowrap;font-family:system-ui,-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,&q=
uot;Segoe UI&quot;,Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,&quot;Apple Color Emoj=
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y:flex;border-radius:8px"></button></div></div></h2><p style=3D"line-height=
:1.6em;margin:0px 0px 20px">The most common objection to the comparison mad=
e above is that the poverty rate in the two countries is measured different=
ly. The World Bank=E2=80=99s China numbers are calculated based on consumpt=
ion (what households spend); the US numbers based on income (what household=
s earn). An oft-cited argument is that this measurement difference overstat=
es the US poverty rate relative to China, because the income measure in the=
 US does not take into account government transfers like the Supplemental N=
utrition Assistance Program (SNAP) and tax credits that lift households=E2=
=80=99 actual standard of living above what their paychecks suggest.</p><p =
style=3D"line-height:1.6em;margin:0px 0px 20px">It=E2=80=99s a fair point, =
but only to a degree. There are strong counterarguments suggesting that pov=
erty figures are often=C2=A0<em>understated</em>=C2=A0in the US, not overst=
ated. The US poverty threshold was originally derived from the cost of food=
, then multiplied to cover everything else. It was never built around a bas=
ket that includes services that cover basic needs such as healthcare, highe=
r education, or transport =E2=80=94 precisely the things that are ruinously=
 expensive in a country with privatised medicine, costly universities, and =
thin public transit.</p><p style=3D"line-height:1.6em;margin:0px 0px 20px">=
Three further problems compound this. The first is that the threshold barel=
y varies by geography. A family in Manhattan or San Francisco faces housing=
 costs many times those in rural Mississippi, yet the poverty line is nearl=
y identical across both. The result is that a large number of working famil=
ies who clear the official bar are still, in any meaningful sense, housing =
poor.</p><p style=3D"line-height:1.6em;margin:0px 0px 20px">The second is t=
hat an income snapshot ignores assets. A household can post a modest income=
 while carrying heavy debt, holding no savings, and having no cushion for a=
 sudden shock. This is not a fringe phenomenon:=C2=A0<a href=3D"https://www=
.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/pressreleases/other20250528a.htm" style=3D"c=
olor:rgb(255,103,25);text-decoration:none">the share of Americans who say t=
hey could not cover a $400 emergency expense is consistently far larger tha=
n the official poverty rate</a>. Income flow and financial security are not=
 the same thing, and only one of them shows up in the statistics.</p><p sty=
le=3D"line-height:1.6em;margin:0px 0px 20px">The third is what people repor=
t when you ask them directly. Material hardship surveys =E2=80=94 can you a=
fford food, utilities, medical care, adequate clothing? =E2=80=94 routinely=
 turn up more deprivation than the official headcount.</p><p style=3D"line-=
height:1.6em;margin:0px 0px 20px">It should come as no surprise then that U=
S government agencies set the domestic poverty line much higher than the Wo=
rld Bank=E2=80=99s international definition for extreme poverty. The offici=
al US poverty line, set by the Department of Health and Human Services, is =
an income of=C2=A0<a href=3D"https://www.healthcare.gov/glossary/federal-po=
verty-level-fpl/" style=3D"color:rgb(255,103,25);text-decoration:none">$32,=
000 a year for a family of four</a>. This would translate to roughly $22 pe=
r day per person. By this measure,=C2=A0<a href=3D"https://www.census.gov/l=
ibrary/publications/2025/demo/p60-287.html" style=3D"color:rgb(255,103,25);=
text-decoration:none">approximately 11% of Americans live in poverty</a>. T=
he US Census Bureau=E2=80=99s own Supplemental Poverty Measure, which facto=
rs in both non-cash benefits and real expenses,=C2=A0<a href=3D"https://www=
.census.gov/topics/income-poverty/supplemental-poverty-measure.html" style=
=3D"color:rgb(255,103,25);text-decoration:none">raises the US poverty rate =
to 13%</a>.</p><h2 class=3D"gmail-header-anchor-post" style=3D"font-family:=
&quot;SF Pro Display&quot;,-apple-system,system-ui,BlinkMacSystemFont,Inter=
,&quot;Segoe UI&quot;,Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,&quot;Apple Color E=
moji&quot;,&quot;Segoe UI Emoji&quot;,&quot;Segoe UI Symbol&quot;;margin:1e=
m 0px 0.625em;line-height:1.16em;font-size:30.875px">Reasons to believe pov=
erty =E2=80=94 at a higher threshold =E2=80=94 is=C2=A0<em>overstated</em>=
=C2=A0in China<div class=3D"gmail-pencraft gmail-pc-display-flex gmail-pc-a=
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on></div></div></h2><p style=3D"line-height:1.6em;margin:0px 0px 20px">When=
 comparing the poverty rate in both China and the US, the most interesting =
challenge to my opening chart isn&#39;t about measurement method =E2=80=94 =
it is about the international poverty line itself. There is no clear consen=
sus on an international poverty line,=C2=A0<a href=3D"https://academic.oup.=
com/wbro/article-abstract/21/1/1/1725515?redirectedFrom=3Dfulltext&amp;logi=
n=3Dfalse" style=3D"color:rgb(255,103,25);text-decoration:none">but some sc=
holars argue that around $10 per day</a>, adjusted for differences in cost =
of living, is not unreasonable for capturing real deprivation. So what happ=
ens to the comparison at that threshold?</p><p style=3D"line-height:1.6em;m=
argin:0px 0px 20px">It flips. At $10 per day, 31% of China=E2=80=99s popula=
tion falls below the line, against just 2% in the US. On this measure, pove=
rty in China is overwhelmingly higher.</p><div class=3D"gmail-captioned-ima=
ge-container" style=3D"margin:32px auto"><a target=3D"_blank" href=3D"https=
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2F7d9cc925-2de1-4d54-af3f-842e033b6aca_1440x842.png" class=3D"gmail-image-l=
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=3D"display:flex"><img src=3D"https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!-MjX!=
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ack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7d9cc925-2de1-4d54-af3f=
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o; margin: 0px auto;"><div class=3D"gmail-image-link-expand" style=3D"displ=
ay:flex;height:32px;opacity:0"><div class=3D"gmail-pencraft gmail-pc-displa=
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8px;text-decoration:unset;list-style:none"></button><button tabindex=3D"0" =
type=3D"button" class=3D"gmail-pencraft gmail-pc-reset gmail-pencraft gmail=
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n></div></div></div></a></div><p style=3D"line-height:1.6em;margin:0px 0px =
20px">Again, the argument that the US poverty rate is substantially higher =
than 2%, as made in detail above =E2=80=94 and which US government agencies=
 also support =E2=80=94 goes for this chart as well.</p><p style=3D"line-he=
ight:1.6em;margin:0px 0px 20px">Additionally, there is reason to believe th=
at a $10 per day line=C2=A0<em>overstates</em>=C2=A0true deprivation in Chi=
na. Market-based poverty measures don=E2=80=99t fully register that poor pe=
ople in China need to consume less in cash terms, because so much of what s=
ustains a decent life is cheap or free at the point of use. This could be w=
hy the official poverty line used by the National Bureau of Statistics in C=
hina is roughly equivalent to the $3 per day line used by the World Bank.</=
p><p style=3D"line-height:1.6em;margin:0px 0px 20px">Consider what a decent=
 life from a material point of view generally requires: affordable housing,=
 electricity, clean water, sanitation, internet, access to transport, nutri=
tious food, basic healthcare, and schooling (to name a few). In China, thes=
e are now close to universal, including across the rural areas where povert=
y is concentrated. In the US they are not. And much of this simply doesn=E2=
=80=99t show up in a household=E2=80=99s measured purchasing power, whether=
 you measure it through income or consumption.</p><p style=3D"line-height:1=
.6em;margin:0px 0px 20px">Three things drive this gap. The first is China=
=E2=80=99s decades-long commitment to fighting poverty, with a heavy focus =
on building infrastructure. As an explicit part of poverty eradication effo=
rts,=C2=A0<a href=3D"https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/server/api/core/bi=
tstreams/e9a5bc3c-718d-57d8-9558-ce325407f737/content" style=3D"color:rgb(2=
55,103,25);text-decoration:none">China=E2=80=99s government has poured mone=
y into roads, railways, electrification, clean water, mobile data, and rura=
l clinics</a>. These government investments lift living standards far beyon=
d what a consumption or income figure can capture, which means people are l=
ess deprived in real terms than the raw number implies. The second is the r=
ural cost of living, which is very low. A small cash income combined with s=
ubsistence agriculture, communal land rights, and subsidised housing buys a=
 standard of living that dollar-based comparisons systematically undersell,=
 even when adjusted for differences in cost of living. The third is in-kind=
 provision: the dibao minimum-income scheme, cooperative medical insurance,=
 and free schooling all add real value that an income or consumption line n=
ever counts.</p><h2 class=3D"gmail-header-anchor-post" style=3D"font-family=
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em 0px 0.625em;line-height:1.16em;font-size:30.875px">Stuff versus basic ne=
eds<div class=3D"gmail-pencraft gmail-pc-display-flex gmail-pc-alignItems-c=
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=3D"button" aria-label=3D"Link" class=3D"gmail-pencraft gmail-pc-reset gmai=
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0px 0px 20px">None of this means the Chinese middle class out-earns the Ame=
rican one. It does not. A US middle-class family commands far more purchasi=
ng power over discretionary =E2=80=9Cstuff,=E2=80=9D and is more likely to =
own a suburban house with a backyard than to live in an apartment block.</p=
><p style=3D"line-height:1.6em;margin:0px 0px 20px">My main point, however,=
 is this: the=C2=A0<em>quantity</em>=C2=A0of stuff you can buy =E2=80=94 wh=
ether this is calculated based on your income or consumption patterns =E2=
=80=94 is not a great proxy for material wellbeing. A family that can buy m=
ore things but lies awake over a medical bill, mounting education costs, or=
 monthly rent that eats up the monthly paycheck is not obviously better off=
, in material terms, than one that buys less but rarely has to worry about =
sudden financial ruin.</p><p style=3D"line-height:1.6em;margin:0px 0px 20px=
">So where does that leave the original question? Both countries have very =
low rates of=C2=A0<em>extreme</em>=C2=A0poverty =E2=80=94 that much is clea=
r. Push the line higher and China=E2=80=99s poverty rate rises above Americ=
a=E2=80=99s in terms of money in people=E2=80=99s pockets. But once you acc=
ount for what the US line understates and what the China line (at a higher =
threshold) overstates, there=E2=80=99s a strong case that at the bottom of =
the distribution =E2=80=94 the people the term =E2=80=9Cpoverty=E2=80=9D is=
 really meant to describe =E2=80=94 the US has more of them as a share of t=
he population (in line with the World Bank figures), and potentially also i=
n absolute terms. The reason? China covers basic needs for its poor; the US=
 doesn=E2=80=99t.</p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>=
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