ALERT! The Single Most Dangerous Threat To America
"The foundational principles of this nation are under attack by the state of Israel and its supporters here in the United States. This is what's going to destroy America.”
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Scott Ritter Lays Out The Greatest Threat Americans Confront
“To have this extraordinary relationship with Israel is the single most dangerous thing to America on a number of fronts. First of all, Israel is getting us in wars we don't need to fight. There's an Israeli hand in every major Middle East conflict we've been in. The blood of Americans is spattered upon the Israelis who've been pushing us to do this ever since 9/11, so we've got that.
“We've got the damage that's been done to America's reputation as being the only supporter of Israeli genocide, so … our reputation abroad is shot. We're supposed to be the nation that stands for something. Now, I don't know how much we can stand for when we illegally invaded and occupied Iraq and we've carried out our own war crimes in Afghanistan and elsewhere in Syria. But at least we could pretend that we believe in something. But now we're providing open cover for Israeli genocide; for the murder that Israel is committing against the Gazans on a daily basis.
“But the greatest threat is here at home where we're allowing the Israelis in the Israeli lobby to take control of concepts of freedom of speech, freedom of assembly — to criminalize thought. What's happening right now with the arrest of these foreign students who are simply doing what their American counterparts are doing — the ones that have been arrested haven't broken the law. If it's illegal to write an op-ed, then man, I belong in jail for four lifetimes. If it's illegal to articulate in favor of compromise and peace, then I belong in jail. I've opposed American policy across the board. I'm probably one of the greatest threats to American foreign policy that exists, but because I'm an American citizen [and] what I'm saying is allegedly protected by free speech. We know it's not — the FBI kicked down my door and proved the falsehood of that. But the Constitution clearly says that when you are in the jurisdiction of the United States, free speech applies to you as well. And because of Israel we're chipping away at that.
“This can't happen, ladies and gentlemen. This is the greatest threat to the United States of America that there is. Forget wars. We can fight wars. We can survive wars. This is about attacking who we are, what we stand for, what we believe in. The foundational principles of this nation are under attack by the state of Israel and its supporters here in the United States. This is what's going to destroy America.”
— Scott Ritter, former US Marine, weapons inspector, journalist, author during interview on Judging Freedom podcast (4/14/25)
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COMPLICITY & COWARDICE: As US Bombs Kill In Yemen & Gaza, Dem Party Leaders Sit On Their Hands
The truth is that a number of Democratic members of Congress, whom millions of people see as leading the resistance, actually ally with Trump on foreign policy.
By Steven Zunes
The Progressive (4/11/25)
On March 15, National Security Adviser Michael Waltz informed fellow Trump Administration officials through their now-infamous Signal chat that a U.S. missile attack had resulted in the collapse of an apartment building filled with Yemeni civilians. Vice President JD Vance replied, “Excellent.”
Democrats on Capitol Hill have since expressed outrage—not at the deaths of innocent civilians, or at the United States’ unprovoked attack on a sovereign country, but at the fact that the conversation was not more carefully shielded from the public.
The Trump administration claims to have resumed bombing in Yemen to stop the Houthi rebels’ attacks on shipping vessels in the Red Sea, despite the fact that the Houthis, who serve as the de facto government of much of the country, had ceased those attacks months ago. Scores of Yemeni civilians have died since the United States resumed the bombing last month. Air strikes have denied tens of thousands of people in this impoverished country access to electricity and drinking water. The Democratic leadership in Congress has refused to condemn this destruction or attempt to invoke the War Powers Resolution, which was enacted in 1973 to limit a president’s ability to engage in armed conflict without the consent of Congress.
Today, it is the majority of congressional Democrats who are allying with a Republican President to support war crimes and undermine international humanitarian law.
Those same Democratic leaders have expressed little opposition to President Donald Trump’s support of Israel’s ongoing occupation forces in Lebanon, which violate the terms of the cease-fire agreement made between Israel and Lebanon last fall. Nor have the Democrats objected to Trump’s support for Israel’s violation of its 1974 disengagement agreement with Syria, or his defense of the ongoing large-scale seizure of Palestinian lands and destruction of villages in the occupied West Bank.
And it’s not just Israel. The Democratic leadership has also backed Trump’s arms shipments and other support for oppressive Arab dictatorships, including Morocco, whose illegal annexation of Western Sahara he recognized in 2020, violating a series of United Nations Security Council resolutions and a landmark ruling of the International Court of Justice.
Returning to slaughter children
Soon after Trump launched his war on Yemen, Israel’s far-right government tore up its cease-fire agreement with Hamas, which was the product of months of negotiations led by the United States, Egypt, and Qatar. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the indicted war criminal feted this week in Washington, D.C., relaunched devastating air strikes as Israeli troops re-occupied large swathes of the territory, forcing the evacuation of hundreds of thousands of people.
More than 1,000 Palestinians, primarily civilians, have been killed in these post-cease-fire attacks, including more than 300 children. The recent execution-style slaying of 15 paramedics and rescue workers in clearly marked ambulances by Israeli forces, who attempted a coverup by burying the victims and their vehicles in a mass grave, has sparked international outrage.
Had today’s Democrats been in office 40 years ago, they would have likely backed arming the Contra terrorists in Nicaragua, the death squads in El Salvador, and the Guatemalan genocide against the indigenous Mayans. A few years earlier, they would have probably supported former President Richard Nixon’s carpet bombing of Vietnam.
Meanwhile, both Netanyahu and Trump are pushing forward with their plan to ethnically cleanse the Gaza Strip of surviving Palestinians in order to develop resorts there, per Trump’s aspiration. Rather than try to force 2.3 million people out by bayonet point, the U.S. and Israel appear determined to drive out the population by bombing civilians and blocking food and medicines from entering the besieged enclave, forcing the remaining population to flee in order to survive.
U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) has sponsored Joint Resolutions of Disapproval over some of Trump’s continued backing of Netanyahu.
“As a result of Israel’s blocking of humanitarian aid into Gaza, many thousands of children there face malnutrition and even starvation,” Sanders said. “Sadly, and illegally, much of the carnage in Gaza has been carried out with U.S.-provided military equipment. Providing more offensive weapons to continue this disastrous war would violate U.S. and international law.”
Among the weapons included in the resolution are 35,000 two-thousand-pound bombs, which have caused thousands of civilian casualties over the past 18 months. The international outcry over these war crimes was so great that even President Joe Biden suspended their shipment last spring. Trump insisted that such arms shipments should be resumed, however, and the majority of Senate Democrats are supporting him.
Indeed, only 14 Democratic Senators voted for Sanders’ resolutions to block the transfer of these and other deadly weapons.
This was not a result of political pressure. Only 15% of Americans and just 5% of Democrats support additional military aid to Israel. Senate offices were flooded with calls to support the resolutions in a campaign organized by a wide array of peace, human rights, and religious organizations. Despite this, more than 70% of Senate Democrats sided with Trump and the arms industry over the wishes of their constituents.
The truth is that a number of Democratic members of Congress, whom millions of people see as leading the resistance, actually ally with Trump on foreign policy.
Hot air n’ hypocrisy
While Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.)—a prominent supporter of Trump’s massive arms transfers—was widely praised for his marathon speech warning of the dangers of Trump’s policies, few pointed out that Booker expressed support for Trump’s backing of Israel’s far-right government and autocratic Arab allies during his address and joined the majority of Democrats if voting against limiting arms shipments.
Instead of challenging Trump’s Middle East policies, today’s opposition party resembles the so-called “Death Squad Democrats” who backed former President Ronald Reagan’s policy in Central America. The difference is that such Democratic militarists were then in the minority. Today, it is the majority of congressional Democrats who are allying with a Republican President to support war crimes and undermine international humanitarian law.
Had today’s Democrats been in office 40 years ago, they would have likely backed arming the Contra terrorists in Nicaragua, the death squads in El Salvador, and the Guatemalan genocide against the indigenous Mayans. A few years earlier, they would have probably supported former President Richard Nixon’s carpet bombing of Vietnam.
Perhaps today’s Democratic Party leadership assumes that the threat to basic government institutions and our very democracy posed by the Republicans is so great that progressive voters will support their candidates even if they side with Trump on such issues as offensive military operations, arms control, human rights, and international law.
Gaza, the Number 1 issue
This is not necessarily the case, however. Polls have shown that Democratic support for Israel’s war on Gaza was the number one issue among the 19 million voters who backed Biden in 2020 but did not vote for Kamala Harris in 2024.
Indeed, a case could be made that, given the closeness of the presidential election and some key congressional races, Democratic support for Israel’s wars on its neighbors cost them the White House and both houses of Congress.
A growing number of Democrats and Democratic-leaning voters do see opposing ethnic cleansing, undeclared wars, massacres of civilians, and other crimes as a fundamental principle that’s worth defending. Even if that means standing up to the party’s leadership.
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The problem with confronting Israel is that it would require the USA to collectively admit to its own genocidal history and also acknowledge the source of its great wealth.
Israel delenda est. It's the only reasonable choice now.