Standing With Israel

June 22, 2025 Hunter Wallace Conservatism, Foreign Policy, Geopolitics, Iran, Israel, Politics, Populists 7

How much shit from Israel can you tolerate?

Americans who dislike Israel are deeply divided over this question.

My personal limit was reached with Trump’s strikes on Iran yesterday which he did solely for the sake of Israel and his Zionist donors. Starting a war with Iran has always been my red line.

Here is a short list of awful things which were not deal breakers:

  • Israel’s horrific genocide in Gaza
  • Israel’s various wars with Lebanon, Syria and Yemen
  • Israel’s spying on our government
  • The Antisemitism Awareness Act
  • The TikTok ban
  • Hate speech laws in Georgia and Florida
  • The $26 billion in foreign aid that Israel got after October 7th
  • The crackdown on anti-Israel protests on college campuses
  • Mahmoud Khalil
  • Defunding Ivy League colleges to fight antisemitism
  • The half dozen or so pro-Israel resolutions passed by Mike Johnson
  • AIPAC’s corruption of Congress

I could go on and on.

I can swallow performative gestures of “Standing With Israel” from state officials like Kay Ivey which at the end of the day do not matter much because I care more about other issues.

Specifically, I care more about identity issues like race, identity and immigration than I do about Israel and the Middle East. I don’t support the “Axis of Resistance.” Thus, I was willing to support Trump because I care more about domestic policy issues like immigration than I do about anti-Zionism. I was convinced that he wouldn’t do this because he had Elon Musk’s money and X to get his message out.

My view of Israel is essentially that what happens here in America is more important than what happens in the Middle East. Two weeks ago, we were focused on the anti-ICE protests in Los Angeles and Congress was poised to pass Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill, which is his domestic policy agenda. There were negotiations going on with Iran over its nuclear program. Trump had just returned from the Middle East where he stood in Saudi Arabia and condemned decades of disastrous regime change wars. We were happy with Trump BECAUSE events in the Middle East could be treated as annoying background noise.

Today, we are in a fundamentally different place.

Bibi Netanyahu launched this war with Iran and seized control of the Trump administration. He succeeded in steering us into an offensive war with Iran … a war which is predictably already sucking all the oxygen out of the room, and which required setting aside America First to put Israel First. Now the focus is on “remaking the Middle East” which has imperiled Trump’s domestic policy agenda and risks transforming the political landscape by giving an enormous political lifeline to Democrats.

Until now, Republican politicians have gotten away with “Standing With Israel” because their younger voters care more about national identity and immigration than Israel. They haven’t had to pay a political price for it. The anti-Israel camp has been internally divided because the focus hasn’t been on Israel’s influence on American politics. Israel hasn’t been dominating the political frame. We have been satisfied with progress on other issues and content to let MIGA Zionism fade with the Boomers.

This development has the potential to force the issue and it is now beyond our control. Iran is now in the driver’s seat and its response to Trump will shape our politics moving forward.

7 Comments

  1. Great post!

    It may be too late now, but if the South ever secedes I hope they will remove any faction that tries to take the South’s wealth/manpower/etc and use it for their own interests in other parts of the world. What has happened to the Yankee Empire should be a lesson for us.

    Secede Now!

    May God Save the South!

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  2. I will never understand why Israel has USA by the ball, how it’s able to hold the United States hostage for years and make them do what he (Israel) wants.

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  3. Hegseth said this mission has been planned for months; that suggests as soon as Trump took office. It looks to me as if the US colluded with Israel all along and diplomacy initiatives were a smoke screen.
    Gen. Wesley Clark said he was told by someone in the Pentagon that the US wanted to take out seven countries:
    Iraq and Afghanistan under Bush, Libya under Nobel Peace prize winner Barrack Obama, Syria and Lebanon under Biden, and it looks like Iran is Trump’s contribution to the Yankee mission. I think Yemen is on the list, too, but that didn’t go well for Biden or Trump. I probably left out a subverted country, but it doesn’t matter. The Yankee machine marches on, regardless of who is in office. I doubt that anyone who really desired to stop it’s aggression could ever be elected.

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  4. I’d like to believe that Trump will keep up the deportations, but when he’s shown how deceptive he can be, who can trust him?

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    • I honestly have no clue.

      We have plunged into this tar baby BEFORE Trump’s domestic agenda passed Congress. This could easily go sideaways

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  6. I’ve never once heard an American politician say ” I stand with American citizens”.

    (Shows where their true loyalty lies.)

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