COMMENTARY / OPINION
Part 2: The Sacrificial Pawn: Is Israel Fighting a War for the Saudi Crown? By Mordechai Sones
In a matter of months, Israel’s military campaign accomplished what Riyadh has sought for decades
June 23, 2025 Jewish Home News
The Sacrificial Pawn
In the turbulent spring of 2025, Israeli warplanes, backed by American firepower, executed a series of devastating strikes that allegedly crippled Iran’s nuclear infrastructure and decimated its ballistic missile arsenal. To the Israeli public, conditioned by decades of warnings about an existential Persian threat, the campaign was presented as a moment of profound national triumph, a daring act of self-defense that secured the nation’s future.
Contents
The Uncontested Beneficiary: Riyadh
The Architect’s Hand: A Proxy-Led Order
But what if this triumph was not Israel’s at all?
Applying the cold logic of cognitive warfare—the modern doctrine of manipulating a population’s perceptions to achieve strategic goals—a disturbing alternative interpretation emerges. In this view, Israel’s formidable military was not the master of its own destiny, but a powerful, perhaps unwitting, lever in a grand geopolitical game architected in Washington and designed to crown a new king in the Middle East: Saudi Arabia.
This assessment of covert statecraft suggests Israel’s war was not a straightforward struggle for survival, but the bloody execution of a pre-scripted agenda. Israeli soldiers may have been risking their lives not for their nation’s security, but to eliminate the chief rival of the Saudi kingdom, paving the way for a new regional order that serves American interests and Riyadh’s ambitions, potentially at the expense of Israel’s own sovereignty.
The Trigger and the Narrative
The foundation for the war was laid not with munitions, but with a meticulously crafted 30-year narrative of an imminent Iranian nuclear apocalypse. As detailed in the first part of this series, this relentless drumbeat of fear, amplified by political rhetoric and media, created a state of deep-seated psychological anxiety. It conditioned the Israeli public to accept drastic military action as not just a policy option, but a necessity for survival.
Within this cognitive framework, the horrific Simchat Torah attacks of October 7, 2023, must be viewed with intense strategic scrutiny. The prevailing folklore holds them as a catastrophic intelligence failure. But a colder analysis suggests they may have been a “calculated trigger.” This assessment posits that the attack was permitted to unfold by some in Israel’s leadership to stoke the necessary war fever and provide an unassailable public justification for a long-desired military campaign against Iran and its proxies. The war, then, was not a reaction to an unforeseen attack, but the execution of a standing plan for which the attack provided the perfect casus belli.
The Uncontested Beneficiary: Riyadh
If the war was part of a script, the crucial question is: who stands to benefit the most? An analysis of the strategic outcomes points overwhelmingly to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
In a matter of months, Israel’s military campaign accomplished what Riyadh has sought for decades: the neutralization of its primary regional adversary. Iran’s power has been severely degraded, clearing the path for an uncontested Saudi ascendancy in the Arab and Muslim world. The outcome aligns so perfectly with Riyadh’s strategic interests that to deem it a mere coincidence strains credulity.
The sophistication of the maneuver is evident in the diplomatic charade that accompanied it. As Israeli bombs fell on Iranian targets, the Saudi Foreign Minister publicly denounced the “blatant Israeli aggressions,” framing them as a threat to regional stability. Riyadh continued to champion the “Palestinian” cause, maintaining a critical veil of plausible deniability.
Behind the scenes, however, the strategic reality was the polar opposite. As one Egyptian scholar noted, while Arab governments issued official condemnations, Gulf states were “quietly praying for the success of Israel” and the downfall of the Iranian regime.
This glaring contradiction between public rhetoric and strategic benefit is a hallmark of well-executed covert policy. The asymmetry of sacrifice versus gain reveals the underlying power dynamic. Israel bore the full cost of the conflict: the lives of its soldiers, the depletion of its advanced weaponry, the immense economic strain, and global condemnation. Saudi Arabia, by contrast, risked nothing and gained everything: the crippling of its main rival and a clear path to regional hegemony.
The Architect’s Hand: A Proxy-Led Order
The entire operation bears the distinct signature of modern American grand strategy. For years, the U.S. has sought to pivot away from direct, large-scale military intervention in the Middle East while maintaining its influence. The preferred method is the empowerment of reliable regional proxies to manage security and advance American interests.
In this new tripartite security architecture, each partner has a defined role. The United States provides the overarching strategy, advanced weaponry, critical intelligence, and the indispensable diplomatic cover. Saudi Arabia provides the financial muscle and the political leadership to rally a new Arab coalition. And Israel provides the unique and essential component: the specialized, high-tech military capability and the political will to execute high-risk strikes against hardened enemy targets.
Evidence of American orchestration is abundant. Sources suggest that President Donald Trump, not Prime Minister Netanyahu, was “setting terms” for the operation against Iran, revealing where the true authority lay. The complex logistics, including securing flight corridors over allied Arab nations, would have been nearly impossible without American diplomatic weight. Furthermore, the reported deployment of U.S. assets, including cruise missile submarines and specialized “bunker-buster” bombs, confirms this was not an independent Israeli operation, but a joint coalition campaign under American strategic direction.
This geopolitical trap was made possible by a long-term Israeli policy choice. For a quarter-century, successive Israeli governments rejected a final resolution with the Palestinians, opting instead for a policy of “conflict management.” As a 2021 RAND Corporation study found, the only alternative to the conflict acceptable to a majority of Israeli Jews was the status quo. By perpetuating the conflict, Israeli leaders prevented the kind of overt normalization with the Arab world that would have made a massive strike on Iran on behalf of Saudi interests politically untenable.
The long avoidance of peace was the necessary precondition for the current war. The conflict was kept simmering, allowing the “Iranian threat” to be elevated and used as the justification for a military campaign that ultimately serves the interests of the U.S.-Saudi axis. The chessboard, it appears, was set long ago. And as the final article in this series will explore, the endgame is not just a new political map, but a new economic order designed to trap nations in a web of integration from which there is no escape.
EXCLUSIVE: Trump FTC Secures Landmark Agreement to End Political Collusion in Advertising Industry By Brent Scher
The move could be a final nail in the coffin of ad agencies coordinating against outlets based on their political viewpoints.
Jun 23, 2025 DailyWire.com
President Donald Trump’s top consumer protection and antitrust official has approved a massive $13.5 billion merger that will reshape the advertising industry, effectively putting the final nail in the coffin of coordination against outlets based on their political viewpoints.
The Federal Trade Commission announced Monday morning that it has decided not to block a merger between Omnicom and IPG, two rival firms which together make up a third of the world’s “Big Six” advertising agencies. But rather than rubber stamp the deal, FTC Chairman Andrew Ferguson extracted a major concession: the firms have agreed to cease all coordination related to viewpoint discrimination, refrain from any coordination in the future, and submit to strict compliance mandates.
Ferguson on Monday in his official statement on the decision said the firms have offered not only to cease coordination in any way that would steer advertising dollars away from publishers based on political viewpoints, but to cooperate with the FTC’s investigation into past collusion and submit to regular compliance reviews.
The FTC appeared poised to block the merger based on evidence of past “anticompetitive” coordination against conservative news organizations, an issue the commission is actively investigating. Ferguson on Monday pointed the finger at the Global Alliance for Responsible Media, better known as GARM, which was disbanded in controversy after it was caught directing ad dollars away from right-of-center outlets, including The Daily Wire.
“A Congressional investigation concluded that GARM banded together the most powerful firms in their industry to choke off the vital advertising revenue of those who disagreed with them,” Ferguson said in a Monday statement, adding that GARM aimed “to destroy publishers of content of which they disapproved.”
“GARM was neither the beginning nor the end of harmful and potentially unlawful collusion in this industry,” Ferguson said, a reference to concerns that GARM would reconstitute itself. “Numerous other industry groups and private organizations have publicly sought to use the chokepoint of the advertising industry to effect political or ideological goals.”
The conditions proposed by the companies, however, “mitigate” the FTC’s concerns about politically-motivated collusion in the future.
“Today, Omnicom and IPG have committed themselves to help stop that sort of coordination in their industry,” Ferguson said. “This consent agreement will help mitigate the dangers inherent in a consolidated national advertising market.”
“I hope the conditions imposed on this merger will encourage all advertising firms to adopt similar practices and thereby reduce the temptation to collude to the detriment of their customers, independent journalists, small and independent media companies, consumers, and the American public square,” he concluded.
GARM came under fire in 2024 after a congressional investigation, first reported by The Daily Wire, uncovered overt political bias in the advertising coalition that was being used to keep ad dollars away from websites that weren’t deemed “brand safe.”
READ MORE: GARM Exposed: House Judiciary Report Says Ad Coalition Likely Broke Law To Silence Conservatives
Internal emails from ad executives involved in the coalition, which included both Omnicom and IPG, showed that The Daily Wire was put on a “High Risk exclusion list” and “categorized as Conspiracy Theories.” Other emails show that the highest ranking official derided people “advocating for freedom of speech online” and complained that the Constitution was written “by white men exclusively.”
Daily Wire Editor Emeritus and co-founder Ben Shapiro testified to Congress that GARM was a “cartel,” and effectively made it impossible for conservatives to run an ad-based business.
“GARM acts as a cartel,” Shapiro said. “Its members account for 90 percent of ad spending in the United States–almost $1 trillion. In other words, if you’re not getting ad dollars from GARM members, it’s nearly impossible to run an ad-based business.”
The concessions by Omnicom and IPG — which, once merged, will represent the largest ad firm in the world — are a sea change for the ad industry.
While individual companies are certainly still able to decide where they’d like to advertise, it has become standard practice in recent years for the industry to move in concert. Rather than making individual decisions, the industry giants created blacklists using biased third party “misinformation” services such as Newsguard. Entire business sectors would cut off access to disfavored publications based on exclusion lists that became industry standard.
According to the consent decree issued by the FTC on Monday, the firms have agreed to submit annual compliance reports on the matter of coordination for the next five years, as well as spot compliance reports any time the FTC requests one.
The FTC is urging publishers to alert the commission if they believe they are the “object of unlawful collusion.”
The agreement also stipulates that the firms will cooperate with the FTC on all past coordination to boycott publishers based on viewpoint.
“This Agreement requires Omnicom and IPG to cooperate with the Commission in any investigation relating to media-buying services,” Ferguson said, adding that “investigating and policing censorship practices that run afoul of the antitrust laws is a top priority of the Trump-Vance FTC.”
It is unclear whether the other four major ad firms — Publicis, WPP, Dentsu, and Havas — will take action regarding their own practices following the change by Omnicom and IPG. The ad industry has been gathered at the Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity, where the potential merger was certainly a main topic of discussion.
The public will have 30 days to submit comments to the FTC on the merger decision.
The “N word” TIERNEY’S REAL NEWS
JUN 23, 2025
Yesterday, I posted this on social media:
We now have concrete proof that Iran intended to build a nuclear weapon and wasn’t just dabbling in nuclear energy. I’ve been waiting to hear this for years. The former president of Russia, Dmitry Medvedev, confirmed that Iran is not just enriching uranium for their civilian energy program – but for nuclear weapons.
Dmitry Medvedev, the deputy chairman of Russia’s Security Council, made a statement suggesting that the enrichment of nuclear material by Iran and the “future production of nuclear weapons will continue.” He further claimed that a number of countries are ready to directly supply Iran with their own nuclear warheads.
Medvedev is close to Putin and often speaks for him. You’ll read otherwise – but this is the truth.
Here is his total statement:
MEDVEDEV: What have the Americans accomplished with their nighttime strikes on three nuclear sites in Iran?
1. Critical infrastructure of the nuclear fuel cycle appears to have been unaffected or sustained only minor damage.
2. The enrichment of nuclear material — and, now we can say it outright, the future production of nuclear weapons — will continue.
3. A number of countries are ready to directly supply Iran with their own nuclear warheads.
4. Israel is under attack, explosions are rocking the country, and people are panicking.
5. The US is now entangled in a new conflict, with prospects of a ground operation looming on the horizon.
6. Iran’s political regime has survived — and in all likelihood, has come out even stronger.
7. The people are rallying around the country’s spiritual leadership, including those who were previously indifferent or opposed to it.
8. Donald Trump, once hailed as ‘president of peace,’ has now pushed the US into another war.
9. The vast majority of countries around the world oppose the actions of Israel and the United States.
10. At this rate, Trump can forget about the Nobel Peace Prize — not even with how rigged it has become. What a way to kick things off, Mr. President. Congratulations!
So, while trying to mock Trump – Medvedev just cleared up the lie that has been told for years that Iran is not building a nuclear weapon and that Russia does not support them.
So, all those Koch Libertarian pundits who are spewing the party line that Iran had no intention of ever developing a nuclear bomb, so we should leave them alone, are lying too. Call them out. We don’t need to have that stupid debate any longer.
Also, Iran apparently threatened to unleash “sleeper cells” in America if Trump dared take out their nuclear program. I can’t confirm that but I have no doubt.
Over 1200 illegal aliens from Iran, that we know of, were allowed in America the last four years under the Obama-Biden regime.
Rubio went on the Sunday shows and said we need to stop blaming Hezbollah, Hamas and the Houthis for all the terror attacks around the world – because they are ALL funded by Iran (and by association – her masters in Russia & Communist China.)
The first satellite images from Iran’s Fordow nuclear enrichment site appear to show that Medvedev is lying – that the part of the mountain protecting the facility was completely obliterated by US bunker buster bomb strikes and the underground structures have collapsed.
Images show significant amounts of concrete dust from spread out over the site from 2 exit points in the ground and indicate that concrete structures deep underground were hit by the U.S. bunker-buster bombs.
Today – almost as if Trump reads my posts – he called out Medvedev of Russia and pointed fingers at Putin for being the brains of the nuclear operation in Iran! I love it!
PRESIDENT TRUMP: “Did I hear Former President Medvedev, from Russia, casually throwing around the “N word” (Nuclear!), and saying that he and other Countries would supply Nuclear Warheads to Iran? Did he really say that or, is it just a figment of my imagination? If he did say that, and, if confirmed, please let me know, IMMEDIATELY.
The “N word” should not be treated so casually. I guess that’s why Putin’s “THE BOSS.”
By the way, if anyone thinks our “hardware” was great over the weekend, far and away the strongest and best equipment we have, 20 years advanced over the pack, is our Nuclear Submarines. They are the most powerful and lethal weapons ever built, and just launched the 30 Tomahawks — All 30 hit their mark perfectly. So, in addition to our Great Fighter Pilots, thank you to the Captain and Crew!”
President Trump also confirmed that Iran’s nuclear sites were totally destroyed and that only the fake news & our enemies (including the Koch Libertarians) would lie about that.
All previous presidents said they would stop Iran from ever building a nuclear weapon – but Trump is the only one who acted on it and kept his promise.
What will happen next? Only God knows. But, at least now, we aren’t pretending any longer.
Mamdani, Schumer, AOC battling for most idiotic response to Trump’s Iran strikes
[Ed.: Now, we can add Marjorie Taylor Green to the list of imbeciles, She claims that Israel started the war with Iran: “The Hot War that Israel Started” I’m not making this up!
June 22, 2025 New York Post – Boy is the competition stiff for most idiotic response to Operation Midnight Hammer.
NYC lefty “it boy” Zohran Mamdani is one clear leader of the pack: “Donald Trump ran for president promising to end wars, not start new ones,” the failed rapper posted on X.
And: “Today’s unconstitutional military action represents a dark, new chapter in his endless betrayals that now threaten to plunge the world deeper into chaos.”
Wrong on virtually every count: As the president noted Saturday night, Iran’s been waging war on our country since it seized the hostages back in 1979, through its sponsorship of the 1983 Beirut barracks bombing, its provision of IEDs to slaughter our troops in Afhganistan and Iraq and on to its efforts to assassinate Trump.
By finishing off Tehran’s nuclear program, the prez moved decisively to end Israel’s strikes on Iran by eliminating their target.
And defanging the monsters who run the Islamic Republic is a blow against chaos that opens the door to a brighter future for the entire region.
Naturally, Mamdani’s less-radical rivals for Democrats’ mayoral nomination felt obliged to also condemn Trump, with Andrew Cuomo (Dems’ “it boy” of 2020!) whining about how “Trump went about this without consulting Congress, without consulting the normal congressional officials” blah-blah-blah.
That’s the same approach embraced by most national Democrats, including ex-Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Minority Leaders Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer.
Which is beyond pathetic, as all of them are on record praising President Barack Obama’s various unilateral, left-Congress-in-the-dark actions from doing “regime change” in Libya by taking out Moammer Khadafy to his multiple drone assassinations of US citizens such as Anwar Al-Awlaki.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez basically sits in the same camp as Mamdani (her preferred mayoral candidate, of course) with the added filip of claiming Trump’s actions are “absolutely and clearly grounds for impeachment.”
In fact, the US strikes were plainly legal, covered (like Obama’s) by Congress’ open-ended authorizations for presidential force back in 2003 — resolutions that neither party has sought to repeal even when both Houses of Congress are held by the presidential-opposition party.
Yes, it’d be wonderful if the House and Senate were willing to do their duties in matters of war and peace, but instead they’ve chosen not to — and to just carp about the other team’s leadership.
This also means Trump had no responsibility to brief top Democrats in advance of the strikes — and that no word of the coming attacks leaked suggests he was wise to shut them out.
We certainly wouldn’t trust the likes of Sen. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) to put the safety of Americans headed into a war zone above his partisan desire to undermine anything and everything Donald Trump is doing.
Let us not forget the international contestants in the idiot sweepstakes: UN Secretary-General António Guterres (last seen thundering that Israel’s strikes on Iran could “ignite a fire no one can control”) denounced Trump’s “dangerous escalation” as “a direct threat to international peace and security” before droning on about supposed “rules of international law.”
That is: He’s still pretending Iran isn’t one of the main threats to other nations’ safety, and that stopping it is somehow an “escalation.”
Russia and China of course condemned the US strikes, but all should note that that’s literally the least they could do to support their ally Iran.
We guess British Prime Minister Keir Starmer can represent the countless fools of Western Europe in the competition, adding to the chorus of clueless handwringing over the supposed “risk of escalation” even as he admitted Iran’s nuke program posed a “grave threat to international security” and called for “a diplomatic solution to end this crisis.”
OK: Tehran should end the crisis by calling it quits on attacking Israel so the Israelis don’t need to keep taking out Iranian missile launchers etc., and by foreswearing any response to the US strikes; it certainly shouldn’t try to close the Strait of Hormuz to global shipping if it doesn’t want half its Navy sunk again (as was its fate the last time it tried that stunt).
No one else can or should offer the Islamic Republic a damned thing except what’s been on the table from the start: Verifiably end your nuke quest, stop attacking other countries (remember its utterly unprovoked strikes on Israel last year) and other nations will leave you alone.
It’s all clear as crystal, even if so many idiots insist on pretending otherwise.
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The End of Iran | Israel is the NEW Regional Superpower [21:02] The Tom Nash Report
Jun 22, 2025
The Middle East just changed forever. In this deep dive geopolitical analysis, I break down the unprecedented joint airstrikes by Israel and the United States on Iran’s nuclear facilities, and what it really means for the future of the region and the world.
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Tucker Carlson doesn’t matter. How we talk about him does Josh Warhit
He gets Israel wrong, but he could simply be misinformed, traumatized, in love with his own contrarianism, or all of the above. The real problem is his influence
JUN 20, 2025 Times of Israel
The American Right is split into two uneasy factions on foreign policy: hawks, who tolerate US military intervention around the world, and restrainers, who loathe it. Among the most vocal of the restrainer camp is political commentator Tucker Carlson, who issued dire warnings against US backing if Israel should attempt to eliminate Iran’s nuclear program.
Carlson cast such action as a path to catastrophe, claiming it would serve only the interests of a foreign country, and not those of Americans. Despite being long said to have the ear of Donald Trump, the president put him in his place over social media several days into Israel’s campaign in Iran, imploring followers to explain to “kooky” Tucker Carlson that Iran cannot have nuclear weapons.
Just in the few days since, Carlson has already lost considerable standing — yes among conservatives, but also among Trump’s MAGA base supporters, who, war-weary as they are, overwhelmingly oppose letting Iran develop nukes. There is a growing consensus that Carlson is misinformed, and that his stance on this issue in particular is born of downright fiction. The same cannot be said, though, of another accusation that Carlson faces from many supporters of Israel: that he is an antisemite.
Antisemitism is, regrettably, quite prevalent on the restrainer Right. That’s not incidental. The restrainer worldview is especially susceptible to antisemitism because it orients itself around the assumption that Americans are being manipulated into wars by a pervasive oppressive force. The more conspiratorial the restrainer mindset becomes, the more it overlaps with classic antisemitic tropes, framing the Jewish state as a geopolitical puppeteer whose American supporters are either accomplices or dupes.
But the answer isn’t to label everyone in the restrainer camp antisemitic. That is both inaccurate and strategically unwise. Take Carlson. He doesn’t make statements that are explicitly antisemitic. His tone is often conspiratorial, yes, but there’s a more straightforward explanation for his posture.
What motivates Carlson is a fear that took root in Iraq. After supporting America’s 2003 invasion, he became disillusioned by the overreach, the lies, and the staggering cost in blood and credibility. All of this shattered Carlson’s ability to trust any use of American military power.
He’s hardly an outlier. A generation of Republicans came out of Iraq suspicious of everything: intelligence claims, foreign policy consensus, even the idea of moral clarity abroad. But where others learned caution, Carlson learned panic. Everything now looks like Iraq redux. Anyone asking for resolve looks like a neocon in disguise.
So when Iran moves toward nuclear weapons and Israel takes action, Carlson doesn’t see a danger to US interests being neutralized. He sees a trap. He reacts with hallucinatory intensity, projecting the ghosts of 2003 onto the present. He collapses real threats and imagined conspiracies into a single, incoherent warning: DON’T GET FOOLED AGAIN!
That impulse may be deranged, but it is not in and of itself antisemitic. And calling it that too quickly doesn’t just miss the point. It dilutes the charge.
Treating confusion or trauma as if they are inherently bigoted helps no one, least of all the Jews. Ascribing antisemitic malice where none exists – or even where none necessarily exists – trivializes the term “antisemitism.” And like any overused accusation, it loses force. People tune out precisely when we need them listening.
Not everyone who gets Israel wrong is a lost cause. Some are misinformed. Some are traumatized. Some are simply in love with their own contrarianism. And some, like Carlson, are all of these things.
Carlson may not influence Trump as many people had thought, but millions of his viewers and listeners will undoubtedly carry political weight in future elections. And if we want them to listen to criticism of Carlson, we should speak with moral clarity and rhetorical care.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Josh Warhit is a contributing opinion columnist in Israel, where he writes in both Hebrew and English on the intersection of society and politics. He made aliyah from the United States in 2012 and served in the Nahal Brigade (infantry) in the Israel Defense Forces.
[Ed.: Shmucker Carlson gets no exposure at this web site, unless it is to expose his distortion of reality vis a vis Jews, or Israel. He is one of many on our long list of “Israel committed genocide in Gaza” celebrities (think Mike Adams, Joe Rogan, Alex Jones, Candice Owens, etc.,) who have chosen to be on the wrong side of history and truth about the Jewish people. Carlson is one of the worst of them.]
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UPDATE:AMERICA’s HEARTLAND INVADED:TERROR COMPOUNDS GALORE. LAW ENFORCEMENT GIVES THEM FREE REIN!WHAT’s GOING ON? By Adina Kutnicki
UPDATE: Guerilla training of women at Islamberg, Hancock, N.Y.
UPDATE: TEXAS POLICE DOUBLE AS MAHMOUDBERG’S MILITIA
27 Terrorist Training Camps in US in 2003
TEXAS-STYLE ALERT: Will self-proclaimed Conservative patriots stand still for this Islamic invasion – a double travesty – as they abuse America’s Constitution and aim to destroy it, while it lends them (legal and religious) cover? Meanwhile, America’s leaders play deaf, dumb and blind, many of whom despise the Constitution as well!
Readers who are familiar with this site have (likely) come across several commentaries which highlight the absolute, undeniable dangers embedded within America, from the east coast to the west coast and all parts in between. For the record, the following instructive video from 2009 (alongside others) was posted at this site, as one such alarm bell – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WubEFsN5pk8
But before we get to the latest horror, please internalize that terrorist compounds have been flourishing within America for many years and they operate under “religious” cover, as provided by the U.S. Constitution. Imagine that. So, in the same Orwellian manner in which Islamist groups are afforded tax exempt ! status to plot their jihad, so too they arm themselves (to the teeth) within barricaded compounds throughout many American cities.
Knowing a thing or two about both travesties – their tax-exempt status via hidden “religious” cover, as well as their actual jihadi compounds – well, this site can claim a certain first hand knowledge base:
That being said, and in line with the above work, an opportunity arose which brought this American-Israeli to the outskirts of a mega terror compound, as evidenced below:
In furtherance of the menace ready to explode inside America, the following was noted in March 2013:Islamberg . MUST See Visual Renditions Within America!
YES, jihad here, there and everywhere….
That was then, and here we go again, round and round the Islamist terror tree, but this time in big ole’ Texas-style!
NEW TERROR COMPOUND FOUND IN HEART OF TEXAS
Muslims shoot firearms ‘without interference from law enforcement’
Sheik Mubarak Ali Gilani
Declassified FBI documents confirm the existence of an Islamic jihadist enclave in Texas that is part of a network in the U.S. identified by the Department of Homeland Security as a terrorist organization.
Jamaat al-Fuqra was founded in New York in 1980 by Sheik Mubarak Ali Gilani, an Islamic cleric in Pakistan who at one time was in Pakistani custody in connection with the abduction of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl.
Muslims of the Americas says it has a network of 22 “villages” around the U.S., with headquarters at an encampment in the Catskill Mountains near Hancock, N.Y., called Holy Islamberg, as WND reported in 2006. An investigative report at the time found neighbors of Islamberg were deeply concerned about military-style training taking place there and frustrated by an apparent lack of attention from federal authorities.
WND also reported in 2006 that Jamaat al-Fuqra has collaborated with major terrorist organizations, including Hezbollah and al-Qaida.
The FBI describes the compound in Texas, called Mahmoudberg, as an “enclave” and “communal living site.” Located in Brazoria County along County Road 3 near Sweeny, Texas, it was discovered by the FBI through a tip from an informant in New York, according to the Clairon Project.
The Texas commune, in a heavily wooded area, is estimated by a local resident who spoke to ACT researchers to encompass about 25 acres. It dates back to the late 1980s, the resident said, which is confirmed by the FBI documents.
The FBI reported in 2007 that one commune resident formerly was a leader at the Muslims of the Americas compound in Badger, Calif., called Baladullah.
In March 2001, a Baladullah member was arrested for transporting guns between New York and South Carolina. Another was charged with murdering a police deputy that caught him breaking and entering a home.
The declassified FBI documents show that the enclave is not the only affiliate of the organization that has operated in the state.
In 1991, after a MOA/Jamaat-ul-Fuqra bomb plot in Toronto was foiled, a federal search warrant for three suspects was issued and a nearly 45-acre “compound” about 70 miles south of Dallas was raided.
The location of the compound corresponds to a reference in an FBI document obtained by the Clarion Project that says about seven MOA members purchased property near Corsicana, Texas.
The suspects fled before the raid, and the children at the compound suddenly disappeared from school. Federal officials found four mobile homes; three military, general-purpose tents; and six vehicles. Also discovered were loose ammunition, books on counter-terrorism techniques and weaponry and various items with “Jamaat Fuqra Land” written on them.
Surveillance photos of a post office building and the Greenhead Station in Los Angeles were discovered as well.
The activities of Muslims of the Americas continued after the October 1991 raid, however. Two 1992 FBI documents say MOA members in the state were using false aliases, Social Security numbers and birth certificates.
Murder, firebombing
Muslims of the Americas is identified as a terrorist group in the FBI documents obtained by the Clarion Project.
A 2007 FBI record states members of the group have been involved in at least 10 murders, one disappearance, three firebombings, one attempted firebombing, two explosive bombings and one attempted bombing.
“The documented propensity for violence by this organization supports the belief the leadership of the MOA extols membership to pursue a policy of jihad or holy war against individuals or groups it considers enemies of Islam, which includes the U.S. Government,” the document states. “Members of the MOA are encouraged to travel to Pakistan to receive religious and military/terrorist training from Sheikh Gilani.”
The document also says Muslims of the Americas is now “an autonomous organization which possesses an infrastructure capable of planning and mounting terrorist campaigns overseas and within the U.S.”
A 2003 FBI report states that investigation of MOA “is based on specific and articulate facts giving justification to believe they are engaged in international terrorism.”
The Clarion Project said MOA members believe the holiest Islamic site in the country their Islamville commune in South Carolina. Along with Islamberg, other MOA entities include the International Quranic Open University, United Muslim Christian Forum, Islamic Post, Muslim Veterans of America and American Muslim Medical Relief Team.
An FBI report states the Sweeny, Texas, enclave is in an area “so rural it is quite common for residents to shoot firearms for target practice or hunting on private property without interference from law enforcement.”
ACT said that when its researchers were spotted in the area, they were immediately and repeatedly approached. At one point, a commune resident gave them a final warning to leave, despite the fact that they were not trespassing or harassing any members.
“It was definitely very threatening and menacing,” an ACT member said.
Multiple sources confirmed, according to the Clarion Project, that a resident of the commune is a police officer. Another, a neighbor has said, formerly drove trucks for the U.S. Army in Kuwait.
The commune is also linked to a nonprofit called the Muslim Model Community of Texas. Members, the Clarion Project said, travel to Houston to worship at the Muslims of America Dawah (Outreach) Center that is linked to another organization called First Muslims of Texas.
According to FBI documents and a police report, one of the MOA members was shot and killed by another member in 2002.
The report said the death of Salminma Dawood, also known as Terrance C. Davis III, was an accident. He reportedly was shot by another MOA member who “returned gunfire to unknown individuals who were harassing the MOA commune.”
Law enforcement reported they met about a dozen African-American males at the scene of the shooting. About five of the men lived at the commune, and there were an estimated seven women and children who also lived there.
Police said they were denied access to the trailer homes and were not allowed to directly interview the women, who covered their faces.
Local residents told researchers with ACT that they were aware of a few visits by government investigators to the commune. The locals said the MOA members refused to talk. One neighbor said two ambulances were denied entry into the compound until police intervened. The Clarion Project said Brazoria County criminal records show that two residents of Mahmoudberg were arrested in April 2013 and charged with “interference with public duties.” A trial is pending, the Clarion Project said.
Terror designation
In 2005, the Department of Homeland Security privately agreed to list Jamaat al-Fuqra and Muslims of the Americas as a possible sponsor of a terrorist attack on the U.S.
The State Department, however, has not designated it as a Foreign Terrorist Organization, and it continues to organize in the U.S.
In 1998, the State Department’s Patterns of Global Terrorism report described Jamaat al-Fuqra as an “Islamic sect that seeks to purify Islam through violence.” It said that Fuqra members engaged in assassinations and bombings in the U.S. in the 1980s and still live in “isolated rural compounds” in the country.
A State Department spokesman was asked in January 2002 why Jamaat al-Fuqra stopped appearing in the department’s annual terrorism reports.
“Jamaat al-Fuqra has never been designated as a Foreign Terrorist Organization,” the spokesman said. “It was included in several recent annual terrorism reports under ‘other terrorist groups,’ i.e., groups that had carried out acts of terrorism but that were not formally designated by the Secretary of State. However, because of the group’s inactivity during 2000, it was not included in the most recent terrorism report covering that calendar year.”
The Clarion Project noted that Jamaat al-Fuqra has not appeared since then in the annual report, yet the declassified FBI documents from as late as 2007 discuss the terrorist threat posed by Muslims of the Americas.
Last year, MOA filed a lawsuit against the nonprofit Christian Action Network for defamation and libel after CAN’s publication of the book “Twilight in America: The Untold Story of Islamist Terrorist Training Camps Inside America.”
The book accuses Muslims of the Americas of “acting as a front for the radical Islamist group Jamaat al-Fuqra.”
Much of the book is based on the investigation of a former NYPD undercover informant who spent eight years posing as a member of the group.
The authors of the book, Martin Mawyer and Patti Pierucci, told Fox News they welcome the lawsuit because it will expose the Islamic group’s activities.
Tied to Daniel Pearl abduction
The Jamaat al-Fuqra leader, Gilani, at one time was in Pakistani custody for the abduction of American journalist Daniel Pearl.
Intelligence sources determined Pearl was attempting to meet with Gilani in the days before he disappeared in Karachi in 2002 and later was beheaded. Intelligence sources also suggest a link between al-Fuqra and Richard Reid, the infamous “shoe bomber” who attempted to ignite explosives aboard a Paris-to-Miami passenger flight Dec. 22, 2001.
Beltway sniper John Muhammad also has been tied to the group, and there is circumstantial evidence that links it to Oklahoma University bomber Joel Hinrichs.
Joseph Bodansky, the former director of the Congressional Task Force on Terrorism and Unconventional Warfare, has affirmed Jamaat al-Fuqra operations in the U.S. have been known to the FBI and CIA for decades.
Gilani was a close associate of 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed, who sent convicted conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui to live with Jamaat al-Fuqra member Melvin Lattimore and attend flight school in Norman, Okla.
MOST intrinsically, while Obama Inc. rules by fiat and shreds the Constitution into insignificant pieces, the security agencies are ordered to keep their hands-in-their-pockets, due to the First Amendment rights afforded to jihadists! Unfathomably, they are left to plot America’s upending without any law enforcement interference.
As indicated from the onset, via the linked youtube, some of these (hands off) terror compounds have WMD’s already in their possession.
Patriots, is standing still an option?
[Ed.: There were 27 terrorist training camps in the US in 2003. Last I heard in 2011, it was 37 known musloid camps I haven’t found the count today, but they were coming in trainloads from Mexico filled with armaments for over a quarter century now. Old world math can connect these dots accurately…]
Iran Has Been at War With Us for 46 Years by Daniel Greenfield
“America can’t do a damn thing against us”.
June 19, 2025 Frontpage Magazine
“America can’t do a damn thing against us,” Ayatollah Khomeini bragged while holding our hostages.
The Carter administration had undermined the Shah’s government in favor of the Islamists who seized power and then prevented the embassy’s Marine guards from defending the facility and the people inside against the Muslim ‘student’ groups who claimed to be coming in peace.
The “peaceful” student activists took over our embassy and held our people hostage.
Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei taunted President Trump with the same slogan in June after being asked to give up Iran’s nuclear weapons program. “Our response to the US nonsense is clear: they cannot do a damn thing in this matter,” he echoed his regime’s founder.’
Carter’s failure to defend Americans had turned Khomeini’s taunt into a confident slogan.
America couldn’t stop its diplomats and soldiers from being taken hostage and paraded through the streets. In subsequent decades, future administrations couldn’t stop other Americans from being taken hostage again, tortured and executed. By the end of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, Iranian IEDs alone had accounted for as many as 1,000 American victims.
Qassem Soleimani, Iran’s IRGC terror mastermind, had thought that America couldn’t do a damn thing. In January 2020, President Trump taught him otherwise with a Reaper drone.
It was the first time in a long time that America had done a “damn thing” about Iran.
In 1983, Iranian backed terrorists set off truck bombs in Beirut that killed 220 US Marines and 21 other servicemembers. Mohsen Rafiqdoost, Khomeini’s bodyguard who helped found Iran’s IRGC terror force, boasted that, “both the TNT and the ideology, which in one blast sent to hell 400 officers, NCOs, and soldiers at the Marines headquarters, were provided by Iran.”
Beyond a few airstrikes, America didn’t do a “damn thing” because the intelligence proving Iran was behind the attack was suppressed so that it never reached Reagan. Eventually we placed multimillion dollar rewards on the heads of Hezbollah’s Ibrahim Aqil and Fuad Shukr who continued to live without a care in the world until Israel took them out after Oct 7.
The Biden administration assured the media that it had nothing to do with the Israeli strikes.
Over the decade, Iran’s Hezbollah proxies took dozens of American hostages. Some were released after months or years in exchange for concessions, while others were killed.
In 1984, Hezbollah kidnapped, tortured and killed CIA Station Chief William Francis Buckley whose identity they learned from classified documents seized from the embassy in Tehran. Buckley was transferred to Iran and tortured there, before being returned to Lebanon. Videos distributed by Iran’s Jihadistsshowed him in agony. “Buckley was close to a gibbering wretch. His words were often incoherent; he slobbered and drooled and, most unnerving of all, he would suddenly scream in terror, his eyes rolling helplessly and his body shaking.”
America once again did not do a “damn thing”.
In 1985, Hezbollah hijacked TWA Flight 847. One of the terrorists was Imad Mughniyeh who had also interrogated Buckley. Navy diver Robert Stethem was beaten and kicked to death before his body was dumped on the tarmac.
“They were jumping in the air and landing full force on his body. He must have had all his ribs broken,” Uli Derickson, the stewardess, described. “I was sitting only 15 feet away. I couldn’t listen to it. I put my fingers in my ears. I will never forget. I could still hear. They put the mike up to his face so his screams could be heard by the outside world.”
Instead of sending a message and holding Iran and its terrorists accountable, the United States made a deal to have Israel free hundreds of Jihadists.
In 1988, Hezbollah kidnapped Colonel William R. Higgins andtortured him for months. An autopsy found that he had been starved, the skin on his face had been partially removed along with his tongue and he had also been castrated. Finally his body was dumped near a mosque.
“I am one of a small handful of Americans who knows the exact manner of Rich’s death. If I were to describe it to you now – which I will not – I can guarantee that a significant number of people in this room would become physically ill,” a friend of Higgins stated.
Finally, decades later, in the last days of the Bush administration, the CIA teamed up with Israel to take out Mughniyah with a car bomb. America had finally done a “damn thing”.
But Iran continues to hold American hostages today like former FBI agent Robert Levinson.
In 1996, Shiite terrorists backed by Iran bombed the Khobar Towers killing 19 American servicemembers, but Iran was also pursuing other options including a new Sunni terror group.
Al Qaeda built a relationship with Iran. The 9/11 Commission noted, “Iran facilitated the transit of al Qaeda members into and out of Afghanistan before 9/11” (with the aid of Soleimani, later taken out by Trump) and “Al Qaeda members received advice and training from Hezbollah.”
After 9/11, some Taliban leaders relocated to Iran to fight America. By 2010, Iran was paying $1,000 for each American soldier killed and Iranian IEDs were claiming American lives.
After losing in Afghanistan, Al Qaeda relocated much of its operations to Iran.
Abdullah Ahmed Abdullah, Al Qaeda’s second-in-command, responsible for the bombings of American embassies across Africa, was taken out in Tehran in a joint Israeli-American operation during the first term of the Trump administration.
Saif al-Adel, the current leader of Al Qaeda, lives in Tehran and has been there for two decades. Even while supposedly in Iranian custody, he ordered the 2003 bombings in Saudi Arabia that killed 9 Americans.
As recently as last year, Iran and its terrorist proxies continued murdering American soldiers and contractors including Scott Patrick Dubis in 2023 and Sgt. William Rivers, Specialist Kennedy Sanders, and Specialist Breonna Moffett in 2024.
No matter how much politicians and social media influencers may insist that we’re not at war with Iran, the Islamic terrorist state has been at war with us for 46 years. And is still fighting us.
It only takes one side to have a war. Fighting back isn’t what makes the war endless.
Refusing to fight back or to fight back effectively is what makes wars endless.
The Carter, Reagan, Bush, Clinton and Bush administrations for the most part failed to act. The Obama and Biden administrations took it one step further by aiding Iran. President Trump first stood up to Iran and showed the Islamic terrorist state that there would be consequences.
“America can’t do a damn thing against us,” the ayatollahs mocked us as they killed our people.
For the first time in two generations, the smirks have been wiped off their murderous faces.
Those complaining that President Trump is too tough on Iran aren’t upset because the president isn’t keeping his campaign promises, but because he is, they’re not upset because he changed his foreign policy, but because they want the old Carter and Obama appeasement of Iran back.
America is not contemplating bombing some “random middle eastern country.” After 46 years of kidnapping, terrorism, torture and murder, we’re fighting back against Iran’s war on us.
Daniel Greenfield is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism.
