The Numbers Don’t Lie: Qatar, Not Israel is Taking Control of D.C.

Key Takeaways

  • Qatar has 31 FARA registrants in the U.S., with 22 based in Washington, D.C. — a 71% concentration, the highest of any major lobbying country.
  • Since 2016, Qatar has spent nearly $250M on 88 lobbying and PR firms, logging 627 in-person political meetings from 2021–25 — more than any other country.
  • Its total U.S. footprint is $93.7B, including $30B in business investments, $29B in weapons purchases, $20B in energy projects, $8B for Al Udeid Air Base, and $6.3B in higher education.
  • Qatar is the single largest foreign funder of U.S. universities at $6.3 billion. The D.C.-based Georgetown has recieved $1 billion since 2005.
  • Qatari influence also permeates D.C. media and real estate: Al Jazeera holds 136 congressional press credentials (vs. 82 for the New York Times), and Qatari Diar owns the 2-million-sq-ft CityCenterDC project under Sharia rules.

Yet Another Ginned up Controversy Over Israel

Over the last few days, my feed has been flooded with people suddenly discovering FARA, the Foreign Agents Registration Act, and using it as a cudgel against Israel. Overnight, everyone who couldn’t even tell you what FARA stood for became an expert, righteously insisting that Israel’s “nefarious foreign influence” had finally been exposed.

The latest controversy started with the Soros-funded, Iran-linked Quincy Institute, which claimed influencers were being paid $7,000 per post by an Israeli lobby group. But if you actually read the filings, the real figure is $450–$750 per post — a perfectly normal mid-tier influencer rate, as data wiz Mark Zlochin (a must-follow) pointed out. Some on the Tucker Carlson wing of the GOP, like Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, argued that any influencer being paid by a foreign lobbyist should register under FARA (a point I actually agree with).

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Screenshot from Mark Zlochin on X

The narrative didn’t stop there. Almost immediately, fringe antisemites on the bowels of X began pumping out the false figure as “proof” that D.C. is under Israel’s thumb.

Let’s be clear: every single country tries to influence the United States, and they all use influencers to do it. Without exception. Is it a smart strategy? Meh, I’m not convinced. Personally, I think the risks outweigh the rewards, and I haven’t seen data proving otherwise. Qatar certainly seems to think so though, given how the Wall Street Journal revealed in 2018 that Qatar had targeted 250 influencers to try and sway Trump’s policy in their preferred direction.

That brings us to the main point. The real story isn’t whether countries do this — it’s about which countries many on both sides of the aisle are ignoring.

Because while the spotlight is being forced onto Israel, the real story is Qatar, whose sprawling foreign influence apparatus dwarfs everyone else’s. Yet curiously, few of these sudden FARA “experts” have said a word about the regime, even after President Trump signed an executive order effectively granting the Gulf terror state NATO-like security guarantees from the U.S. — guarantees that could, in theory, drag American citizens into war on behalf of Doha.

Qatar’s FARA Footprint

Here’s the basic landscape. As of today, there are 788 active FARA registrants in the United States (access full FARA database here). From what I could see, Japan has the most active registrants overall at 53, but proportionally Qatar has the highest concentration of FARA agents in Washington, D.C. and its surrounding area among countries with a significant lobbying presence.

  • Israel: 16 total, with 8 based in D.C. (50%)
  • UAE: 27 total, 11 in D.C. (40.7%)
  • Saudi Arabia: 38 total, 15 in D.C. (39.5%)
  • Japan: 53 total, about 30 in D.C. (56.6%)
  • Qatar: 31 total, 22 in D.C. (71.0%)

Moreover, the data also shows that since Trump’s first election in 2016, Qatar has spent nearly $250 million on 88 FARA-registered lobbying and PR firms. From 2021–2025 alone, Qatar’s agents reported 627 in-person meetings with U.S. political contacts — more than any other country in the world.

Screenshot from the Quincy Institute. They’re awful, but at least they did something useful by counting all the meetings.

Critics love to claim that Israel “buys” Washington. The numbers tell a different story. According to OpenSecrets, here are the top spenders on FARA registerants since 2016. As you can see, China has spent the most, at about $460 million, Qatar $258 million, and Israel $194. So when you hear talking points about “Israel buying influence,” remember: the country actually flooding D.C. with cash and lobbyists is Qatar.

Screenshot from excel sheet downloaded from FARA website

These lobbiysts and PR firms were well worth the investment. Earlier this year, the Washington Examiner’s Robert Schmad exposed that since Trump’s 2024 win, Qatar has ramped up efforts to sway conservative media, with over half its foreign-agent outreach now targeting right-leaning outlets (up from ~10% before). This includes paying $180k per month to a firm that secured a Tucker Carlson interview for the Qatari prime minister and pitching favorable stories to Fox, the New York Post, and others — some of which ran soon after.

Somewhat relatedly, in March 2024, reports emerged that a Qatari royal invested about $50 million in pro-Trump network Newsmax, leading senior newsroom staff to pressure reporters to soften coverage of Qatar. The investment, structured via a Cayman Islands corporate entity, represented a significant minority stake.

The $93.7 Billion Footprint

Lobbying is just the beginning. According to The Free Press, Qatar’s overall U.S. footprint adds up to $93.7 billion, broken down like this:

  • Business investments: $30 billion
  • Weapons purchases: $29 billion
  • Energy plants and export facilities: $20 billion
  • Al Udeid Air Base: $8 billion
  • Lobbying and PR: $250 million
  • Colleges and universities: $6.3 billion

Screenshot from The Free Press

That last figure is astonishing. Qatar is the single largest foreign funder of U.S. colleges and universities in history. The next closest? China and Hong Kong at $5.6 billion. Germany follows with $4.2 billion, England with $4.1 billion, and Saudi Arabia/Canada at $3.7 billion.

Qatar blows them all away.

Six major U.S. universities still operate campuses in Qatar: Virginia Commonwealth, Cornell, Texas A&M, Carnegie Mellon, Georgetown, and Northwestern (though Texas A&M is withdrawing in a couple of years).

  • Georgetown University (main campus in Washington, D.C.) has received over $1 billion.
  • Northwestern University has taken around $800 million.
  • Texas A&M once had $700 million, until their contract was canceled last year.

Screenshot from The Free Press

D.C. Capture

Qatar’s influence isn’t abstract. It’s quite literally physically all over Washington.

  • Al Jazeera’s subsidiary AJ+, based in D.C., was ordered by the DOJ in 2020 to register as a foreign agent. Five years later, it still hasn’t — and the DOJ has failed (or refused?) to enforce its own order.
  • Speaking of Al Jazeera, the Qatari government-run outlet also has unrivaled access on Capitol Hill. Congressman Jack Bergman revealed in 2024 that Al Jazeera and its subsidiaries hold 136 congressional press credentials. The New York Times only has 82.
  • The DOJ itself is now headed by Pam Bondi, who was once a registered foreign agent of Qatar and helped polish Doha’s image ahead of the 2022 World Cup.
  • And let’s not forget real estate: the sprawling CityCenterDC development — 2 million square feet across five city blocks — is majority owned by Qatari Diar, which allegedly required the project to adhere to Sharia finance principles (equity investment only, no interest) and imposing restrictions on banks, bars, and certain businesses.

The Bottom Line

The numbers don’t lie. Qatar is:

  • Spending far more than Israel on lobbying.
  • Pumping billions into U.S. universities.
  • Enjoying extraordinary media access.
  • Embedding itself directly into Washington real estate.

Yet when the FARA conversation comes up, the outrage is laser-focused on Israel — where the actual numbers don’t even come close.

And before all the naysayers start whining about “AIPAC operating as an unregistered foreign agent” or some such nonsense, let me remind you: Washington is full of organizations advocating for strong U.S. ties with Greece (HALC), Armenia (ANCA), Ireland (Irish Caucus networks), India (USINPAC), and Taiwan (FAPA). Yet the outrage always seems saved just for AIPAC.

Any honest conversation about foreign influence in Washington has to start with the country that’s been pouring billions into U.S. politics, universities, media, and even the capital city itself. That country is Qatar.

OPINION – Even If Hamas Lays Down Its Arms, the Multifront War Against Israel Will Persist

President Donald Trump is working to secure the release of 48 Israeli hostages, including the return of the dead and the barely living. We pray during this season of Jewish High Holy Days and the festival of Sukkot that his efforts will soon succeed.

The US president has backing for a 21-point plan to address the “day after” in Gaza and across the region, with key Arab and Muslim leaders supporting a framework that seeks to reconstitute Gaza without Hamas terrorists.

While we welcome any plan that prioritizes reconstruction over war, it is brutally clear that the war against the Jews will not end soon.

Demonization of Israel, Jews, and core Jewish values—including Zionism—continues to spread across nations, international justice venues, university campuses, airports and ports, cultural institutions, and sports arenas. Every insult, every call for a boycott, and every violent act against Jews at prayer is legitimized and amplified across social media.

How bad could it get? Just days before the murderous Yom Kippur attack on a Manchester synagogue, CRIF—the official body of French Jewry—released a poll whose ominous findings reveal a growing black hole of Jew-hatred. Nearly one in three young French citizens (18–24) considers it legitimate to target Jews because of Gaza. Almost one in five French people overall share this view.

In apparent anticipation of charges of antisemitism, 68% of respondents recognized that antisemitism is a threat to society as a whole. Words condemning antisemitism in theory do nothing to protect Jews in practice. Jews across the UK and around the world were angered by British Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s hollow condemnation of the Yom Kippur attack, even as he and the mayors of London and Manchester did nothing to block pro-Hamas demonstrations held less than two hours after the synagogue attack. Taking their cues from political leaders, police in many European capitals stand idly by as genocidal chants echo on their streets.

Nor is it lost on Jewish residents of Amsterdam—still reeling from the violent, coordinated attack against Israeli sports fans who traveled to the city where Anne Frank hid to enjoy a “friendly” football match—that the mayor was a no-show at an event marking two years since Israeli hostages were beaten and dragged into underground Gaza dungeons.

Even as Hamas is defeated militarily, other fronts it launched continue the assault against the lone Jewish state and the Jewish people across Western Europe, North America, and Australia.

The goal of these well-funded, organized campaigns? To delegitimize, demoralize, demonize, and ultimately ghettoize.

Here are a few examples of attacks against the Jewish nation in the cultural arena:

  • Within the Union of European Football Associations, activists have demanded that Israel be banned from European competitions.
  • At the Eurovision Song Contest, countries have threatened to withdraw unless Israel is booted out.
  • A respected composer leading an orchestra in Munich, Germany, was recently disinvited from the festival in Ghent, Belgium, not because of his artistic abilities, but solely because he was an Israeli.

These are not isolated incidents. They are the result of the global Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) antisemitic campaign against Israel, which seeks to push the Jewish state and its institutions out of international spaces in culture, sports, academia, and commerce.

This is not protest. It is persecution masquerading as principle. It is the ghetto reborn—not with barbed wire, but with hashtags, petitions, and selective moral outrage. This campaign is not spontaneous; it is financed and amplified by powerful actors like Qatar, whose vast resources are deployed against Israel.

No other nation at war for its survival is treated this way. Iran can hang women in public for showing their hair and still send filmmakers to Cannes. China can imprison over a million Muslims and still host the Olympics. Russia can invade Ukraine and retain its cultural footprint in Europe. Yet Israel—the one democracy in the Middle East, home to Jews, Muslims, and Christians alike—is uniquely quarantined from global cultural life.

This campaign of exclusion does not advance peace. It is moral theater.

One does not have to look far back to recognize the historical parallel: In the 1930s, Jews in Germany were gradually stripped of access to culture, sports, and public life. Then as now, this exclusion was justified under the pretense of “moral purity,” the claim that the Jew was “dirty” and “disgusting.” Today, this smear targets not only individual Jews but the Zionist entity that stands charged and found guilty in the court of public opinion, at the United Nations, in legacy media, and by social-media “influencers” who accuse Israel of genocide, apartheid, and “weaponizing starvation.” In short, facts be damned—using Hamas’ talking points—Israel and the Jewish people are condemned as vile latter-day Nazi criminals.

President Donald Trump is working to secure the release of 48 Israeli hostages, including the return of the dead and the barely living. We pray during this season of Jewish High Holy Days and the festival of Sukkot that his efforts will soon succeed.

The US president has backing for a 21-point plan to address the “day after” in Gaza and across the region, with key Arab and Muslim leaders supporting a framework that seeks to reconstitute Gaza without Hamas terrorists.

While we welcome any plan that prioritizes reconstruction over war, it is brutally clear that the war against the Jews will not end soon.

Demonization of Israel, Jews, and core Jewish values—including Zionism—continues to spread across nations, international justice venues, university campuses, airports and ports, cultural institutions, and sports arenas. Every insult, every call for a boycott, and every violent act against Jews at prayer is legitimized and amplified across social media.

How bad could it get? Just days before the murderous Yom Kippur attack on a Manchester synagogue, CRIF—the official body of French Jewry—released a poll whose ominous findings reveal a growing black hole of Jew-hatred. Nearly one in three young French citizens (18–24) considers it legitimate to target Jews because of Gaza. Almost one in five French people overall share this view.

In apparent anticipation of charges of antisemitism, 68% of respondents recognized that antisemitism is a threat to society as a whole. Words condemning antisemitism in theory do nothing to protect Jews in practice. Jews across the UK and around the world were angered by British Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s hollow condemnation of the Yom Kippur attack, even as he and the mayors of London and Manchester did nothing to block pro-Hamas demonstrations held less than two hours after the synagogue attack. Taking their cues from political leaders, police in many European capitals stand idly by as genocidal chants echo on their streets.

Nor is it lost on Jewish residents of Amsterdam—still reeling from the violent, coordinated attack against Israeli sports fans who traveled to the city where Anne Frank hid to enjoy a “friendly” football match—that the mayor was a no-show at an event marking two years since Israeli hostages were beaten and dragged into underground Gaza dungeons.

Even as Hamas is defeated militarily, other fronts it launched continue the assault against the lone Jewish state and the Jewish people across Western Europe, North America, and Australia.

The goal of these well-funded, organized campaigns? To delegitimize, demoralize, demonize, and ultimately ghettoize.

Here are a few examples of attacks against the Jewish nation in the cultural arena:

  • Within the Union of European Football Associations, activists have demanded that Israel be banned from European competitions.
  • At the Eurovision Song Contest, countries have threatened to withdraw unless Israel is booted out.
  • A respected composer leading an orchestra in Munich, Germany, was recently disinvited from the festival in Ghent, Belgium, not because of his artistic abilities, but solely because he was an Israeli.

These are not isolated incidents. They are the result of the global Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) antisemitic campaign against Israel, which seeks to push the Jewish state and its institutions out of international spaces in culture, sports, academia, and commerce.

This is not protest. It is persecution masquerading as principle. It is the ghetto reborn—not with barbed wire, but with hashtags, petitions, and selective moral outrage. This campaign is not spontaneous; it is financed and amplified by powerful actors like Qatar, whose vast resources are deployed against Israel.

No other nation at war for its survival is treated this way. Iran can hang women in public for showing their hair and still send filmmakers to Cannes. China can imprison over a million Muslims and still host the Olympics. Russia can invade Ukraine and retain its cultural footprint in Europe. Yet Israel—the one democracy in the Middle East, home to Jews, Muslims, and Christians alike—is uniquely quarantined from global cultural life.

This campaign of exclusion does not advance peace. It is moral theater.

One does not have to look far back to recognize the historical parallel: In the 1930s, Jews in Germany were gradually stripped of access to culture, sports, and public life. Then as now, this exclusion was justified under the pretense of “moral purity,” the claim that the Jew was “dirty” and “disgusting.” Today, this smear targets not only individual Jews but the Zionist entity that stands charged and found guilty in the court of public opinion, at the United Nations, in legacy media, and by social-media “influencers” who accuse Israel of genocide, apartheid, and “weaponizing starvation.” In short, facts be damned—using Hamas’ talking points—Israel and the Jewish people are condemned as vile latter-day Nazi criminals.

Smotrich on Trump’s plan: ‘Historic missed opportunity. It will end in tears’

Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich addressed U.S. President Donald Trump’s plan to end the war, calling it a “historic missed opportunity.” He added that it is “turning our backs on all the lessons of October 7 – and in my assessment, it will also end in tears. Our children will be forced to fight again in Gaza. This is what Einstein defined as complete foolishness – repeating the same action over and over and expecting a different result.”

Explosive Report: Soros’ Open Society Gave Over $80 Million to Terror-Linked Groups

Alan Skorski sat down with Ryan Mauro, an investigative researcher at the Capital Research Center, whose groundbreaking research exposed direct connections between George Soros, his Open Society Foundations, and Hamas-supporting groups in America.

Mauro originally broke the news during an interview with Glenn Beck, who for years has warned Americans about Soros’ dangerous ties to anti-Israel and anti-American movements.

In a 90-page report titled Exclusive: Soros’ Open Society Gave Terrorist and Pro-Terror Groups Over $80 Million, Mauro documents how since 2016, Soros’ Open Society—now operated alongside his son Alexander—funneled more than $80 million into extremist groups. According to Mauro, “The evidence is stark: Open Society has sent millions of dollars into U.S.-based organizations that engage in ‘direct actions’ the FBI defines as domestic terrorism.”

The investigation breaks down Soros’ funding into three categories:

Direct Assistance to Domestic Terrorism: At least $23.2 million to seven groups engaged in violence, property destruction, sabotage, and other FBI-defined domestic terrorism.

Support for Terrorism Abroad: Over $50.5 million to 41 groups that endorsed attacks such as Hamas’ October 7 massacre or are tied to foreign terror groups.

Associates of Terrorist Groups: More than $9.3 million to five organizations that provide material assistance to pro-terrorism networks, even while condemning attacks publicly.

Among the groups cited in the report is the BlackOUT Collective, which published a pro-Hamas guide glorifying the October 7 attacks and providing detailed instructions on illegal actions including property destruction, using fake IDs, evading police, seizing assets, and blockades—all of which qualify as domestic terrorism.

Other beneficiaries include Movement for Black Lives (at least $18 million) and Dream Defenders ($1.85 million), which partnered with BlackOUT Collective to produce the pro-Hamas guide using Ruckus Society materials.

Even the New York Times acknowledged the merits of Mauro’s findings, which multiple outlets have covered. Following the revelations, President Trump’s DOJ has reportedly launched an investigation into George Soros, his son Alex, and the Open Society Foundations.

Mauro told Skorski that the American public must understand the danger of allowing billions of dollars in foreign-backed influence operations to support groups working hand-in-hand with terrorist movements: “This is not just political activism. It is funding that has empowered extremists who openly justify terrorism and promote violence in the United States.”

J’accuse

Smotrich slams Trump peace plan as ‘Return to Oslo, historic mistake’

Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich issued a scathing statement on Tuesday morning, expressing strong opposition to the 21-point plan presented by US President Donald Trump to end the war in Gaza.

“I have much to say, and God willing I will do so after a series of consultations I will hold today,” he began, adding, “But one thing must already be said — and forgive me in advance for dampening the joy and bringing a sober view of reality: to revert, after October 7th and two years of sacrifice, heroism and devotion by a nation of lions — with painful costs and dramatic achievements in all arenas, thank God — to the old notion of outsourcing our security to foreigners and clinging to illusions that someone else will do the job for us ‘without the High Court and without B’Tselem’… to trade actual gains on the ground for diplomatic illusions and shiny ceremonies, to talk again of ‘two states’, of ‘Palestinians ruling Palestinians’, of setting up a Palestinian police force trained by Egypt and Jordan, of inserting Qatar as a central player — this whole stew is so outdated. It’s a return to the Oslo concept.”

He continued, “It is a historic missed opportunity to finally break free from the chains of Oslo — a resounding diplomatic failure, a willful blindness, and a turning of our backs on all the lessons of October 7. In my estimation, it will end in tears. Our children will once again have to fight in Gaza. This is what Einstein defined as insanity: doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.”

Calling it “a tragedy of leadership fleeing from its calling,” Smotrich questioned whether there was still hope: “Is there a chance that, once again, the enemy’s intransigence will save us from ourselves, as has happened so often before? That reality will compel us to return to a path of courage, victory, and taking responsibility for our destiny and our security — this time with broader international backing?”

He went on to question whether the current course was the only viable option given the circumstances: “In light of international pressure, the destructive hostage campaign, the Prime Minister’s initial refusal to conquer Gaza or adopt Trump’s original plan, military foot-dragging, the failure to bring army leadership on board, a faltering coalition, and natural fatigue after two years of war — is this the maximum achievable at this time? These are good questions. We will consult, consider, and decide, God willing.”

He concluded emphatically, “But the celebrations since yesterday are simply absurd.”

Assembly of shlemiels

A wide view of the General Assembly Hall at the start of the Assembly’s seventy-first annual general debate.

This year’s United Nations General Assembly meeting has witnessed the largest attendance of shlemiels (Yiddish for fools) ever recorded.

Michael Kuttner

If ever any proof was needed that the UN has outlived its usefulness and is living on borrowed time, this latest circus performance provided ample examples.

Malicious Monsieur Macron and his supporting cast of accompanying acolytes provided a non-stop performance, demonstrating excruciating and painfully pathetic prattle.

It was always going to be a hate-Israel fest, and so it has turned out.

As an added bonus, it was deliberately timed for Rosh Hashanah. The UN once again ignored Jewish Holy Days, which is par for the course these days.

The assembled delegations applauded as each country’s representative breathlessly announced recognition of a fake “Palestine”. Macron, acting as the ringmaster, made thumbs-up gestures and, in some instances, embraced the speaker. The session descended into a choreographed cacophony of denunciations against Israel and a mass denial of reality.

A commentator on SKY Australia made a very pertinent observation.

He remarked that each and every speech seemed to have been produced by artificial intelligence with slight variations. Without exception, the same well-worn and fallacious assertions tumbled forth from the mouths of the speakers.

According to their warped wisdom, the United Nations remained humanity’s sole hope.

History was shamelessly rewritten.

Ignored was the plain fact that the Arab representatives of Mandated Palestine had rejected any offer of statehood in 1947 and that their Arab and Islamic allies vowed to destroy Israel instead. Successive attempts to wipe out Jewish sovereignty never featured in any speech. Instead, each and every address to the assembled delegates emphasised a perceived injustice meted out to the supporters of terror.

Nobody mentioned the perfidious British decision to hack off half of the Mandate set aside for Jewish settlement and its gift of statehood to its Hashemite friends. Unsaid, because it is politically incorrect, is the reality that today this artificial creation is 75% or more “Palestinian.”

Listening to the pontificating UK Foreign Secretary, one could be under the impression that none of this actually happened and that Britain was still the mandatory power. Her unctuous utterances rewriting historical events while censuring Israel were painfully pathetic. It might play well with an increasingly militant jihadist constituency back in the UK, but it certainly will not advance her objectives one bit.

Albanese of Australia performed on cue and earned the applause of the assembled lemmings.

The Spanish Prime Minister, who had previously lamented the fact that his country does not have a nuclear bomb to compel Israel to submit, proved that past history can repeat itself. The country that gave us the Inquisition and expelled all Jews, today is a leading proponent of excluding, banning and boycotting the Jewish State.

The Irish did not disappoint and demonstrated yet again how their country has become one of the leaders in anti-Israel activities.

The Russian Foreign Minister accused Israel of wanting to “blow up” the Middle East.  This insane assertion, coming from a country that is blowing up Ukraine on a daily basis, highlights the farcical depths to which the UN has descended these days.

A few gallant nations refused to join the herd as the haters exited the hall when Israel’s PM came to the podium.

Surprisingly, New Zealand’s Foreign Minister injected a note of sanity by announcing that current conditions are not conducive to Palestinian recognition. In an effort to look even-handed, he of course had to condemn Israel for the usual litany of fake “crimes.”

President Trump had no qualms in exposing the corrupt and irredeemable state of the UN, and as expected, this elicited an outpouring of scorn from the usual quarters.

Fake claims and historically warped mistruths abounded. A common theme is the portrayal of PA president for life, Abbas, as the poster boy for a reformed, democratic and enlightened “Palestine.” His acrobatic contortions over the years have won him first prize for cynical hypocrisy. His video address to the General Assembly followed a familiar pattern.

Promises to reform, democratise, hold free and fair elections, condemn terror and live in peace with Israel tripped off his tongue. The problem is that these self same promises have been made many times in the past. He knows that they will be believed by the assembled shlemiels and used against Israel. The fact that they will never be implemented is irrelevant.

As usual, Abbas accused Israel of every sin and crime. If you read his speech carefully, you will discover that the real PA agenda is the eventual dissolution of Israel and a takeover of Jerusalem. Of course, the useful idiots hailing this resurrected saviour prefer to ignore the ultimate objective.

Having failed to destroy Jewish sovereignty by terror and war, the PA and its proxies now aim to achieve the same result via diplomatic terror tactics. With the abject surrender of democracies to jihadist threats and a majority of UN members being compliant and willing accomplices, this strategy is up and running.

Those advocating for “Palestine” to be established in the heartland of Israel need to take a reality check.  What does that really entail? Hamas is supposed to be defanged and have no role in any future governance. The chances of this happening are close to zero. In any fair and free election, Hamas would be the winner. If they are banned, terror will ensue.

Here are just two examples of what to expect if a two-state solution is ever implemented.

In an official Hamas response to recognition of a “Palestinian” State, they stated:  “this is an important step in confirming the rights of our people to their land and holy sites and to establish their independent state with Jerusalem as its capital. This is a gesture to the struggle, steadfastness and sacrifices of our people on the path to liberation and return. Additional steps need to be taken to lead to an immediate end to the war and annexation and Judaization plans in the West Bank and Jerusalem as well as to isolate Israel and to bring Israeli leaders to international courts.”  

Does this sound as though Hamas is about to surrender authority and disarm?

What about the internationally anointed PA doves of peace who are touted as potential partners living in tolerance alongside Israel?

Here is their vision for how a two-state solution is envisaged.

Recently, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Ambassador Mike Huckabee visited the Kotel together with PM Netanyahu.

The PA was incensed by this visit and published a condemnation against what they called “a crime against Islamic holy places.” They continued: “The participation in these invasions by high ranking American officials in an official capacity constitutes unacceptable collusion with the occupation’s policy and dangerous willful blindness to the daily crimes committed against the holy city, its residents and its holy places.” 

In case the message was not clear enough, the PA went on to declare: “We view the invasion of these officials and the fact that they held Talmudic ceremonies at this purely Islamic site, as a provocative step that offends the feelings of our Palestinian people and constitutes a blatant violation of the historical and legal status quo in the occupied city of Jerusalem. The Western Wall is an inseparable part of the blessed Al Aqsa Mosque and it is part of the Islamic Waqf lands under Palestinian sovereignty. There is no legitimacy for any Israeli or foreign presence within it without the approval of the relevant Palestinian authorities.”

Even the most dimwitted politician should realise what a “Palestinian” state with Jerusalem as its capital would mean. Giving control of the Kotel and the Mount of Olives cemetery to “Palestine” means Jews would once again be banned from worship and burial at two of the oldest holy sites. It inevitably means the destruction again of Synagogues in the Old City, expulsion of Jews and terrorists within a stone’s throw of downtown Jerusalem. Just as the UN ignored this under Jordanian illegal occupation until 1967, so they would do so again.

No amount of made-up and fictitious history can hide the fact that Jewish sovereignty in Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria predated any sort of Islamic presence.

Advocates of a “two state solution” are wittingly endorsing the elimination of a Jewish sovereign presence from the river to the sea.

The shlemiels can keep burbling their nonsense at the UN to their hearts’ content.

As history has proven, the Jewish People will endure long after the deniers, haters and delegitimizers have vanished from the scene.

Charlie Kirk wrote of his ‘deep love’ for Israel in letter to Netanyahu about how to counter rising opposition to the Jewish state in the US

WASHINGTON — Assassinated conservative activist Charlie Kirk advised Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu how to counter “anti-Israel sentiment” among Gen Z and win the “information war” being waged against the Jewish state, according to a letter obtained by The Post.

Kirk wrote to Netanyahu in the May 2 missive that he was alarmed by “anti-Israel and anti-Semitic trends” hitting “record levels on social media” since one of his “greatest joys as a Christian is advocating for Israel and forming alliances with Jews in the fight to protect Judeo-Christian civilization.”

“My team and I have spent months analyzing these trends and debating ideas that could help you
and your country pushback [sic] against these disturbing developments,” he said in the letter, reproduced in full below for the first time. “Anti-Israel sentiment can undermine American support for Israel.”

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“The purpose of this letter is to lay out our concerns and outline potential remedies. Everything written here is from a place of deep love for Israel and the Jewish people,” added Kirk, who defended Israel when speaking on college campuses as part of his duties leading Turning Point USA, one of the nation’s largest conservative youth organizations.

“I think it’s important to be brutally honest with those you love. In my opinion, Israel is losing the information war and needs a ‘communications intervention.’”

 

Nova Survivors Speak – New Movie by Journalist Steve Rosenberg

On Oct. 7, 2023, more than 400 people were murdered by Hamas terrorists at the Nova Music Festival in Israel. These are some of the stories of those who survived, captured in interviews conducted by Steven A. Rosenberg, publisher of the Jewish Journal of Greater Boston, during the Nova Music Festival Exhibition in Boston.