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█ 1. Will Trump be different?
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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?
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█ 2. Can Trump buck the trend?
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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.)
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█ 3. Trump &
Netanyahu: How to interpret their summit?
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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.
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█ 4. Is Trump the boss?
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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.
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█ 5. Who makes
foreign policy for Trump?
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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.
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█ 6. Why does Trump bully Mexico? (It’s a
con)
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When Trump bullies Mexico he pulls a symbolic
lever, and pieces and gears in the Western political system click
‘grammatically’ into place, aligning so that Trump can advance the
traditional pro-jihadi and anti-Israel policies of the US power elite. More
than racism, it’s psychological warfare. Trump is a con artist. And you’ve
been conned.
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█ 7. Obama, too, was a bully (and Bush Jr.,
and Clinton, and...)
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Except for the declared US-Mexican War of the
19th c., US policy has never been 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—.
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█ 8. Trump!: He’s conned us before
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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.
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█ 9. Political grammar of the anti-Mexico
con
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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.
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█ 10. The anti-Mexico con and Trump’s
foreign policy
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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.
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█ 11. Why the US pro-jihadi tradition?
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Even granting that the US is run by a
power-elite cartel, it may not be obvious why that cartel would want to
support jihadism and undermine Israel. We attempt to explain that here.
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