And You Thought You Knew

“Talk is cheap” [Theodore Rosenzweig]

“The idea that Arabs could kill Israeli’s without any subsequent reaction was close to becoming an international doctrine.” [ Abba Eban, 1950 ]

The Free Press [The news outlet founded by Bari Weiss generally publishes articles well-sourced]. On May14, 2025 it published, “How Qatar Bought America” by Franni Block and Jay Solomon.

It commences with President Trump’s recent trip to Qatar. He would attend meetings with the ruling Al Thani family. And above all thank them for the $400 million gift of a luxury Boeing 747-8 jumbo jet which was retrofitted for his use, and subsequently transferred to his presidential library.

Guess what? The airplane deal was signed by Attorney General Pam Bondi. She used to work at a Washington, DC lobbying firm that received $115,000 a month from Qatar to fight human trafficking, according to a 2019 contract reviewed by The Free Press. She’s not the only one in the administration with ties to the Persian Gulf state.

President Trump’s chief of staff, Susie Wiles led the lobbying firm Mercury Public Affairs when it represented Qatar’s embassy in Washington. FBI Director Kash Patel worked as a consultant for Qatar, though he didn’t register as a foreign agent.

And then, most important of all, Steve Witkoff, Trump’s longtime friend and senior adviser, who accompanied him on the given trip. For months ,Witkoff had served as Trump’s special envoy to the Middle East—and his name had been floated as a future national security advise. Witkoff had been a beneficiary of QATAR’S largess. In 2023, QATAR’S sovereign wealth fund bought out his faltering investment in New York’s Park Lane Hotel for $623 million!!

The public at large clearly looks upon Qatar as a top American ally. A trustworthy partner, and a key hub of international commerce—a country in good enough standing that the president of the US would use its plane as Air Force One.

However, Qatar is also a seat of the Muslim Brotherhood, a crucial source of financing Hamas, a diplomatic and energy partner of Iran, a refuge for the Taliban’s exiled political leadership; financier and cheerleader of Palestinian terrorism, and the chief propagandist of Islamism through its media powerhouse Al Jazeera, which reaches 439million people in more than 150 countries.

Whats at stake is nothing short of American sovereignty and national security.

At a moment when so many political leaders, pundits and ordinary Americans are reaching for explanations of —or entertaining conspiracies about—who really pulls strings in Washington and beyond, many of them are ignoring a story in plain sight.

Antisemitism

Today there are more floridly anti-Semitic elected Democrats than ever before in history. Sadly the Democrat Party of old—JFK, Sen. Henry “Scoop” Jackson , Sen. And VP Walter Mondale et al—has vanished, replaced by Democrats like “the squad”, who spew their poisonous hatred of Jews and Israel from the House of Representatives itself. And there are those who remain thunderously silent—including elected Democratic Jews like Senator Minority Leader Charles Schumer, Jerrold Nadler, Eliot Engel, Adam Schiff, Richard Blumenthal et alas well Democratic representatives from Long Island with a huge Jewish population—Tom Suozzi and Kathleen Rice.

With the advent of the well-organized and heavily financed emergence of the Jew-hating, Christian-hating, America-hating “Cancer Culture” of the left, what can people do? Yes, they can call or write a letter or email to their elected representatives, for which they’ll get back a form letter written by an intern. But a sure-fire cure for this downward plunge into the sewers of our body politic is to vote out every Democrat running for office. Not one of these America-loathing anarchist-supporting people is worthy of representing either their constituents or America itself.

One should not be fooled by the boilerplate, politically correct press releasers written by their aides. Once these statements are made public, these cowards go back to cowering before the radical leftists who now call the shots in the Democrat Party;most prominently the racists who continue to vent their anti-Semitic bile to this day.

Shockingly, most of the Jewish organizations that once supported and defended Jews in America abandoned those roles, having caved to their biggest downers’ conversion to a new religion called “Social justice.” These are quislings who reach out to groups like Black Lives Matter, Antifa and others that wantonly attack synagogues, Jewish businesses [BDS] movement to destroy the Israeli economy.

Antisemitism, especially in its modern form is frequently understood as a form of racism. Both racism and antisemitism operate through similar mechanisms .

Politics

Is there a distinction between embracing peace and being a coward ? It is a topic that has been debated throughout history, often in moral, philosophical, and social contexts. Embracing peace means actively choosing non-violence, dialogue, and compromise to resolve conflicts.

Being a coward refers to acting out of fear, avoiding confrontation not because of principle, but because of principle, because of an unwillingness to face difficulty or danger. Cowardice is generally seen as a negative trait because it prioritizes personal safety or comfort over what is right or necessary.

The main difference lies in motivation and principle:

Embracing peace is about making a deliberate principled choice to avoid violence and seek harmony—often requiring courage.

Being a coward is about avoiding action out of fear, regardless of what is right or necessary.

In short, choosing peace is an act of courage; acting out of fear is cowardice. The distinction is not in the action itself, but in the intention and value behind it.

In answer to Trump’s dichotomy, a defense of Israel by an extraordinary and prolific journalist, essayist and novelist, who challenged her early assimilated beginnings, follows.

Tablet, April 13, 2015

“Is Zionism Racism: Israel is not a normal state . Here’s why” by Ann Roiphe

“I am a person of the left and have been ever since I was a girl and Jackie Robinson joined the Brooklyn Dodgers or maybe it began when the Rosenbergs were executed and I knew a great lynching had occurred or maybe it was the photos of Auschwitz that I saw in Life magazine that made it clear I was one of those inside the fence not those waving at passing trains. That is why today the phrase “Zionism is Racism” sends shivers down my spine and sets my teeth to grinding. Zionism is not about race. It is a nationalism.

This dream of return, this next year in Jerusalem, existed long before the Holocaust. It existed before Herzl and the Zionists of the century before last had ever taken their first breath. It is a dream sunk deep into the Seder ritual, “Next Year in Jerusalem.” This vision of an end to exile kept the Jews together and brought them hope through the years spent in Babylon millennia ago when the texts that form our memory were edited and scrolls were connected and ordered into a lasting canon.

‘This hope of return to the land of Israel, which God had given to the Jewish people through Abraham, through David, for all time, this hope of return lasted through the exile of our people from England and France, the calamity of the Spanish exile and and of Portugal’s cruel dictates.’

An essential reading for all who want to understand the Arab-Israel conflict, drawing on documented events and new sources is Holocaust survivor Sabina Citron’s, “The Indictment-The Arab-Israeli Conflict in Historical Perspective”. It draws on documented events and new sources.

This Auschwitz survivor takes a fearless look at the roots of Christian anti-Antisemitism and how it creates a receptive audience for the Arab propaganda war on Israel. “British perfidy knew no bounds,” Citron avers of Whitehall’s behavior as the Mandatory power in Palestine and subsequently toward Israel. “I believe that most Jews from Europe could have been saved had the British lived up to their solemn undertaking to restore the Jewish people to their land.

The League of Nations Mandate provided for just that. It included no provision to create an Arab state in Palestine.”She sees little that has changed in Britain’s perception of an Arab state in Palestine.”

She sees little that has changed in Britain’s perception of Israel’s place among the nations in the ensuing 58 years. “What we are witnessing today” she writes, “is still the same offensive, high handed, ‘high minded’ disapproval of all we do, all we are, even in our own land.” The re -partition of Israel, she charges, is “Tony Blair’s price for Britain’s alliance with the US against Iraq.

For a United Nations dominated by a 3rd World, anti-Israel “automatic majority” led by the Arab/Muslim block—”a tyranny of the majority, by a majority of tyrannies” Citron can find only contempt. “The Arabs/Muslims could introduce a ‘flat earth’ resolution at the UN and it would pass”, she asserts. The Europeans would likely abstain.

The subject book, all 378 pages of its meticulous documentation and scalpel-edged prose, is a modern day J’ Accuse, laying bare with uncommon passion and wit the whole panoply of lies, distortions, slanders and illusions that has shaped the public’s conception of Jewish history and the 58 year long Arab-Israeli conflict. It renders to Jewish historical truth the day’ in court’ it has so long been denied.

The author could hardly have abstained from comment on Europe’s growing alienation from Israel and its rising tide of anti-Antisemitism. Noting that 59% of Europeans regard Israel as “the greatest threat to world peace, “she accuses the European Community of a “dangerous game”in serving as “an I, playing along with the terrorists incubator of Arab-Islamic extremism
playing along with the terrorists, hoping to be spared.

It is a “pathology” she adds, “that will cost it dearly.” The Europe that shed buckets of crocodile tears at the 2005 Holocaust Memorial; the Europe she charges with having signed a 1973 pact with the Arab oil producing states guaranteeing the EC [then known as the EEC] unimpeded oil supplies in exchange for its collaboration against Israel, is the same Europe currently denying El Al cargo planes bearing material vital to Israel’s defense refueling rights at its airports.

Citron has included some useful appendices to the text, including a copy of the Palestinian National Charter, a copy of the UN Security Council Resolution 242, and several telling maps.
The text also includes a bibliography that will be useful to anyone wishing to delve further into this contentious topic.