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What does Trump’s bullying of Mexico have to do with supporting jihad and undermining Israel? Oddly enough, everything. By thus tugging at people’s identity-based emotions, Trump’s handlers divide the political field and weaken opposition to their dangerous policies. It’s psychological warfare. Trump is a con artist. And you’ve been conned.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Historical & Investigative Research – 06 Sep 2017, by Francisco Gil-White
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In previous installments of this series, we’ve seen HIR’s ‘cartel’ model— which predicts that Trump’s policies in the Middle East will be, in substance, like Obama’s—rack some successes. The model makes four claims:

1)    US politics are relatively simple. The Democratic and Republican parties are simulations of a unitary ‘Establishment,’ a ruling cartel centered in the CFR (Council on Foreign Relations) and other powerful think tanks. Every single time, regardless of who ‘wins,’ this cartel determines US policy (Part 4).

2)    Cartel policy, meant to fuel citizen demand for greater State powers (‘to protect us’), has been—since long before Barack Obama—to promote jihadi terrorism, while pretending to confront it (Part 2).

3)    Consistent with that, the US cartel has undermined the security of the State of Israel, which lies on the front-line of the jihadi onslaught, while pretending to support it (Part 3).

4)    Donald Trump is wholly owned by the cartel.

A good scientific model is predictive but also productive. It will account for stuff that, intuitively, seemed outside of its purview. Here, for example, is our fifth claim:

5)    The US ruling cartel’s pro-jihadi and anti-Israeli thrust is what explains Trump’s bullying of Mexico.

I know what you’re thinking: I’ve misplaced my map (and lost my marbles). Mexico is far from Israel, and hardly a major player in Middle-Eastern politics.

Yes, but the map that counts here is the identity field. If you can shape it, you can render certain moves on the physical map possible or impossible. It is the essence of psychological warfare and requires a grasp of ‘political grammar.’

The anti-Mexico onslaught is calculated to make Trump look like a racist, which then closes the ears of ‘leftists’ to anything else he says, and to what their fellow citizens on the ‘right’—who cannot help but cheer the anti-jihadi speeches—may tell them. In this manner, the citizenry is divided, and the cartel gains maneuvering room in which to continue its policies.

We will put together this fifth claim step by step, for it is an interesting, sophisticated game. But let us first briefly get our bearings by reviewing how HIR’s first four claims are doing against those of a rival model.

HIR’s ‘cartel’ model against the competition

The rival model sees US politics as relatively complex: a genuine ‘free market’ of (well… two) independent parties. In this model, Trump is a real challenger, and his anti-Establishment rants, his loud denunciations of Barack Obama’s pro-jihadi and anti-Israeli policies, and his campaign promise to “drain the swamp” in Washington were all sincere. This model predicts that Trump’s and Obama’s policies will be dramatically different.

To decide which model best matches reality we need diagnostic evidence, such that one model can explain it and the other cannot.

For example, take Trump’s choices for top foreign-policy positions. These, it turns out, are all ‘swamp creatures’: former Obama stalwarts and CFR Establishment types with a history of promoting jihad and undermining Israel (Part 5). This evidence agrees nicely with the ‘cartel’ and not at all with the ‘free market’ model. It’s diagnostic.


The HIR model: it’s a cartel

Now consider Trump’s speech in Saudi Arabia. Though it was widely celebrated by his supporters for its harsh language against terrorism, this is not diagnostic evidence. For if Trump is sincere, this is anti-jihadism; and if he’s a fraud, it’s just a pretense—a ‘grammatically’ forced move. Either model can explain mere words; they cost nothing, so they’re worth nothing.

By contrast, Trump’s $100 billion in weapons to Saudi Arabia, announced in the same trip, are worth… $100 billion.[1]

Context is everything, so let’s fill it in. Feast your eyes on over 2 million pilgrims who travel every year to Mecca, Saudi Arabia, to circle the Ka’bah, a black cube at the literal center of Muslim devotion worldwide. As they worship, gorge your ears on their voices, harking to the amplified prayers of Saudi government clerics:

May God set Himself upon the Christian oppressors and over the criminal Jews and over their tyrant brothers. May God give them misery and pain on their paths. May God dress them up in suffering and mourning garb and reprimand them with pain and sickness. May god give them pain and suffering in their lives and prepare for them a violent death. May god give punishment, martyrdom, and anguish to the Christian oppressors and the criminal Jews. ¡May God hear our supplication and give them what they deserve!”[2]


Muslim pilgrims circling the Ka’bah in 2007 (Wikipedia)

Let’s see, then…

Candidate Trump affected a counter-jihad pose and, consistent with that, promised to disappoint Saudi Arabia,[3] which, all over the world, “plays the lead role in financing contemporary Islamist movements” that terrorize the innocent.[4] So then President Trump makes Saudi Arabia his first official destination and pledges gun sales worth $100 billion. You follow?

Candidate Trump also “vowed to ‘knock the hell out of ISIS’ ” and accused that “ ‘…President Obama… is the founder of ISIS…’ ”[5] Indeed, among other policies, Obama, “whose arms sales to Saudi Arabia totaled $115 billion”[6], had the Saudis send some of those weapons to his favorite ‘Syrian rebels,’ who then promptly joined ISIS.[7] So then President Trump rushes to sell $100 billion in guns to the same Saudis. You follow?

If not, then perhaps we can have ourselves a little ‘Qatar crisis’ right after Trump comes home. To Trump’s applause, Saudi Arabia can call ISIS and the Muslim Brotherhood ‘terrorists,’ accuse Qatar of supporting both, and break diplomatic relations with Qatar. What a great show. And that’ll make it ok for Saudi Arabia to get 100 billion in US weapons.

Never mind that it was together with Qatar and the Muslim Brotherhood that the Saudis, at Obama’s behest, sent US weapons to ISIS.[7] Never mind that Qatar does not have its own foreign policy, for this tiny speck is the largest US military base in the Middle East. Never mind…

And let’s not forget Israel. At his next stop, Jerusalem, Trump peddled the Saudi ‘peace’ plan:

“[J]ust a couple of hours after he landed in Israel… [w]ith the gusto of a salesman pushing a limited-time offer, [Trump] cast the Saudi monarch in a leading role and invoked his name to push Mr. Netanyahu toward progress with the Palestinians.”[8]

These behaviors are diagnostic evidence. For whereas the ‘free market’ model, which accepts Trump’s presentation of self, cannot easily explain them, the ‘cartel’ model in fact predicted, before Trump took office, that his counter-jihad and pro-Israeli speeches would be followed, in policy, by just the opposite (Part 1).

So where does Mexico fit in?

These policies have a consequence. As jihadi explosions, shootings, stabbings, rapes, and murders-by-car-ramming become ever more frequent and bloody in the West, more Westerners are willing to accept that individual liberties must be reduced in exchange for the protection that a more powerful State promises. This feeling must be politically channeled, so the cartel fields a candidate marketed as counter-jihadi: Donald Trump.

But a danger lurks. If US citizens tip too strongly, too fast, and too collectively against jihadism, US pro-jihadi policies will become impossible. And then, as the jihadi threat quickly wanes, Western rights and liberties will have to be reinstated—and with them, citizen control of the system. Oops. To avoid this outcome, the cartel must ensure that leftists never join the counter-jihad movement. Solution: make Trump an anti-Mexican racist!

It works beautifully.

When Trump bullies Mexico, ‘left-liberals’ all over the West see a racist, and they hate Trump. In consequence, they hate anything he says. This is power—the power to direct minds. Watch: “Trump hates Mexicans. He is a racist. I hate him. What he says about Islam is just more racism.” See?

Of course, Trump can also be used to manipulate the ‘right.’ Watch: “Trump said the truth about Islam. He is a truth-teller. I love him. He must be right that US violence is made-in-Mexico.” See?

And then ‘left-liberals’ and ‘right-wingers’ each see a confirmation of their worst fears in the opposite camp, and they stay divided.

Which is too bad. If Western ‘right-wingers’ wave a patriotic flag to support a more powerful State because they think that State is fighting jihadist oppression; and if Western ‘left-wingers’ apologize for Islam because they think they are defending the downtrodden, the West—as we know it—will vanish. A more powerful State, or the growth of Islam in the West, or both simultaneously, will bring about the destruction of Western rights and liberties.

We need the ‘Left’ to confront rather than apologize for Islam, because Islam makes us all victims—beginning with Muslims, of course, whom we must help liberate. And we need the ‘Right’ to confront rather than defend the growth of the State because the State is supporting, not fighting, Islam. In other words, ‘Left’ or ‘Right,’ we must together defend the legacy of the European Enlightenment from its current major threat and preserve the modern democratic Republic, a place where we can all be free in our multifarious diversity.

To this end, we must understand the con, expose the con, and unite. For to remain confused and divided is to allow the con artists who rule us to continue with their pro-jihadi and anti-Israeli policies, which will destroy our rights and liberties.

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He’s the con artist; you’re the mark.

The ‘anti-Mexico’ con works because you don’t understand it. But I shall explain it. I have briefly laid out its structure here, but much more remains to be explained and exposed. In what follows, I will carefully demonstrate how and why you’ve been conned. My demonstration has four more stages.

First (Part 7), I show that—aside from style—there is nothing new in Trump’s bullying of Mexico. In fact, in recent history, US policy towards Mexico was never so violent as during the Bush Jr.-Obama period. And now Obama II—better known as ‘Donald Trump’—carries it forward.

Second (Part 8), I show that Trump is a career con artist. In fact, this is not the first time that the US power elite have deceived us by having Trump make an issue of Mexicans.

 

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Third (Part 9), I explain how Trump’s current ‘anti-Mexico’ con works to divide Westerners into separate, antagonistic identities that render us defenseless against the jihadi onslaught.

And finally (Part 10), I explain the entire suite of Trump’s foreign policies, from the vantage point of this unifying perspective, to show you where the system is really going. I have bad news for Israelis (and us all).

Before I do all this, a disclosure: I am a Mexican citizen, writing from Mexico City.

 

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Footnotes and further reading

[1]Senate Narrowly Backs Trump Weapons Sale to Saudi Arabia”; The New York Times; 13 June 2017; By HELENE COOPER.

[2] The prayer may be seen on You Tube. It has a translation to Spanish. I translated from that to English.

Here is another example, also from the Meccan Grand Mosque:

“O Allah, vanquish the unjust Christians and the criminal Jews, the unjust traitors; strike them with your wrath; make their lives hostage to misery; drape them with endless despair, unrelenting pain and unremitting ailment; fill their lives with sorrow and pain and end their lives in humiliation and oppression; inflict your tortures and punishments upon the unjust Christians and criminal Jews. This is our supplication; Allah, grant us our request!”

SOURCE: “Muslim Prayers of Hate”; PJ Media; 7 November 2011; by Raymond Ibrahim.

For a more recent example, also from the Meccan Grand Mosque, there is this one is from 2016:

“O Allah, grant victory, dignity and empowerment to our brothers Mujahideen [jihadis] in Yemen… Grant them victory over the treacherous Jews, and over the spiteful Christians, and over the untrusted hypocrites…”

[3] During the campaign, Donald Trump got into a public spat with Saudi prince Al-Waleed bin Talal, who expressed on Twitter that Trump was “a disgrace.” Trump replied, on Twitter, that “Dopey Prince @Alwaleed_Talal wants to control our U.S. politicians with daddy’s money. Can’t do it when I get elected.”

SOURCE: “Donald Trump in spat with ‘dopey’ Saudi Prince as Muslim row rumbles on”; The Telegraph; 12 Dec 2015; By Rob Crilly, New York

[4] “Saudi Arabia plays the lead role in financing contemporary Islamist movements, within the Arab-Muslim world but also in Africa, Asia, and Europe.”

SOURCE: Labevière, Richard. 2000. Dollars for Terror: The United States and Islam. New York: Algora Publishing. (p.231)

To get a sense for the effect of Saudi Arabia’s dollars, consider Sweden. As Wikipedia explains, “The governments of Saudi Arabia and Libya have financially supported the constructions of some of the largest Mosques in Sweden.” What Swedish Muslims hear in those mosques is consistent with the reigning ideology in Saudi Arabia: Salafism or Wahhabism, which preaches the application of totalitarian Muslim Sharia law and the murder of ‘infidels.’

According to an article in the Swedish media (Dagens Nyheter), the number of ‘no go’ zones in that country, where even the Swedish police dare not tread (given the levels of religious extremism and criminality), has been rising steeply. In fact, there has been a 50% increase in such areas in just the last two years. And they are getting larger. In some of these places, even the Post Office no longer delivers, judging them too dangerous (read about this in English here).

[5] Donald Trump's Pants on Fire claim that Barack Obama ‘founded’ ISIS, Hillary Clinton was ‘cofounder’ ”; Politifact; 11 August 2016; by Louis Jacobson & Amy Sherman

[6] $110 Billion Weapons Sale to Saudis Has Jared Kushner’s Personal Touch”; The New York Times; 18 May 2017; By MARK LANDLER, ERIC SCHMITT and MATT APUZZO.

[7] In June 2012, it became public that Obama’s CIA was running a program to arm the—allegedly democratic—‘Syrian opposition’ to Assad. “The arms themselves,” the report stated, “are coming from Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Qatar.” And how were these weapons reaching their intended recipients? They were “being funneled mostly across the Turkish border by way of a shadowy network of intermediaries including Syria’s Muslim Brotherhood.” As a Pentagon secret report confirmed two months later, the ‘Syrian opposition’ (except for the Rojavans) was entirely jihadi, including the recipients of CIA-sponsored weapons. And yet, immediately after that report, Obama gave his favorite ‘Syrian rebels’ more weapons and military training, after which they joined ISIS en masse.

[8]Trump’s Saudi Arabia Trip Figures Into Plan for Palestinian Deal”; The New York Times; The New York Times; 23 August 2017; By BEN HUBBARD and IAN FISHER


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  1. Will Trump be different? 

 

Will Trump be different? Israeli patriots expect him to be. After all, he postures as an enemy of Iran and ISIS. But, what evidence will be diagnostic that Trump really is delivering on his Mideast promises?

 

  2. Can Trump buck the trend?

 

Can Trump (assuming he wants to) transform US foreign policy in the Middle East? To get a sense for how difficult this might be, we must appreciate how traditional the pro-jihadi policy has been. (It wasn’t just Obama.)

 

  3. Trump & Netanyahu: How to interpret their summit?

 

According to many in the mainstream media, the Trump-Netanyahu summit evidenced a ‘pro-Israeli’ turn. That would be a direct challenge to the HIR model. But we don’t see it. The result of the summit, we claim, was ‘pro Iran.’ To say otherwise, as we show, requires important historical omissions.

 

   4. Is Trump the boss?

 

Is US policy-making run by a bipartisan elite cartel? Perhaps the president is a figurehead; the media show changes, but the long-term goals—chosen by the CFR—are always the same. If so, Trump’s Middle East policies will feel different, but they will yield familiar fruits.

 

   5. Who makes foreign policy for Trump?

 

When we examine the backgrounds of those chosen to make foreign policy for Trump, we find they are Establishment figures with a history of supporting pro-jihadi policies.

 

  6. Why does Trump bully Mexico? (It’s a con)  

 

What does Trump’s bullying of Mexico have to do with supporting jihad and undermining Israel? Oddly enough, everything. By thus tugging at people’s identity-based emotions, Trump’s handlers divide the political field and weaken opposition to their dangerous policies. It’s psychological warfare. Trump is a con artist. And you’ve been conned.

 

  7. Obama, too, was a bully   

 

In the last century, US policy was never so violent against Mexico as in the Bush Jr.-Obama period. What changes with Trump is just the style—and that’s the clue that this is a con—.

 

  8. Trump!: He’s conned us before 

 

In the year 2000 a well-known businessman and media personality announced himself as presidential candidate in order to fight racism, denounce border walls, and defend Mexicans. His name was Donald Trump.

 

  9. Political grammar of the anti-Mexico con 

 

To preserve the West as the refuge of human rights and modern liberties, we need to be, simultaneously, pro-liberty and anti-jihad. But the identity-driven emotions stirred by the anti-Mexico con make Westerners either 1) anti-jihad but fascist; or 2) pro-liberty but pro-Islam. Either combination dooms the West.

 

  10. The anti-Mexico con and Trump’s foreign policy

 

Trump, naturally, makes a few noises to satisfy those who expect him to implement an anti-jihadi and pro-Israeli foreign policy—these are obligated moves, forced by the political grammar. But if we look at what Trump is achieving, we find that, like his predecessors, he is making radical Islam stronger and Israel weaker.

 

  11. Why the US pro-jihadi tradition?

 

Even granting that the US is run by a power-elite cartel, it may be difficult to accept that it would want to support jihadism and destroy Israel. But if we consider the cartel’s history, we shall find nothing implausible in this.

 

 

 

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