August 13, 2026
Murdering foreign leaders is not something any American president should ever do. How can the US uphold its claim to be a champion of laws and political decency while committing murder and sabotage?
Alas, Donald Trump is not the first US president to stoop so low. The Eisenhower and Kennedy administrations enlisted gangsters in attempts to remove the irksome Cuban strongman, Fidel Castro. Sixty-eight or more years later, the US is still trying to strangle long-suffering Cuba by blockading its food and oil and sabotaging its electrical system.
How did the US get into this sordid business? The US government has been largely usurped by Israel’s extremist far right government and its American fifth column – what the late renowned Israeli journalist Uri Avnery used to call ‘Jewish fascists.’ Most of the US media dares not use this term, however appropriate. Israel’s current rightwing government has fallen completely in thrall to extreme rightist groups, many in league with US-based ultra-Zionist groups agitating for an ever-greater Israel from the Nile to the Euphrates.
Israel has many excellent qualities, notably its medical, military and scientific capabilities. Its violent settler movements are not among them. Israel could do a lot to lift the Muslim world and Africa out of its backwardness. In fact, I have found that Israel is greatly, if quietly, admired from North Africa all the way to the Great Wall of China. Israel could become the star of the Muslim world – provided that it could bring itself to treat Palestinians and other Arabs with respect and understanding. After all, the Arab world and Iran sheltered Europe’s Jews who were being horribly persecuted by Europe’s Christians during the Middle Ages. How will Israelis ever find peace when they are busy assassinating Muslim leaders and launching wars against their neighbors?
Violent nationalism is a poison. Unfortunately, many Israelis who are a very gifted, intelligent people, are inebriated by the same kind of toxic nationalism that gripped parts of Europe in the last century. As the far-sighted Rabbi Elmer Berger warned in the 1950’s, the Arab-Israeli conflict would one day make its way into North America and infest American politics. This is happening today as the powerful Israel lobby and its minions in Congress and the media are coming under attack by Americans angry at being led around by the nose by Israel’s extremist regime whose power base is the wild-eye settler movement.
Worse, this process is creating antisemitism in America after it had pretty much declined. Now, the world knows that the US went into an unproved, unjustified multi-billion war against Iran. Likely to stop Israel from releasing blackmail information from its agent Jeffrey Epstein and his highly placed friends and fifth column in Washington and New York.
Copyright Eric S. Margolis 2026
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