In the last almost year and a half, Trump’s America has managed to bamboozle the rest of the world. We have to ask if America is a reliable partner in anything today.

Trump keeps hating on just about anything and everything, both inside and outside America, but has been totally ineffective in doing anything to improve the country. If anything, American external policies have only served to increase the problems facing people all over the world.

Illegal immigration, for example, is rampant. But why? The simple answer is that the loss of safety and security in many parts of the world. Gaza, Ukraine, Armenia, Africa, several South and Central American nations are all experiencing severe economic problems brought about by war, the lack of opportunity, corrupt government, poor education and health standards and so on. Perhaps if we were to push for countries to clean up their acts, that might help. The problem is that such pressures are easily misrepresented.

Take Gaza. Any criticism of Israel is today being treated as “antisemitic”, and not what it truly is, “antizionism”. In October of 2023, Hezbollah led attack created the excuse the Netanyahu Government needed to begin a pogrom of Palestinians that continues today. Since the creation of Israel, there has grown an ever stronger Zionist movement that is now indistinguishable from Nazism. This is a terrible thing, but it needs be said. The problem for anyone on the outside, is that if they speak out about it like I am here, comments are far too easily derailed as “anti-semitic”. Nothing could be further from the truth.

Zionism began in the mid-late 19th Century as a movement to repopulate Judeah, Gallilee, and other parts of “Eretz Israel”. Of itself, it was not necessarily a bad idea, and as later events proved, fully commendable. It is what has happened since that is the real problem.

In the years since the re-establishment of Israel, the Askenazi Jews have dominated political and social institutions in Israel. These were, in large part, survivors of the Holocaust, but were joined by many Jews from parts of the world that didn’t suffer Nazi persecution. They have had a long history of persecution, throughout Europe and other parts of the world. Or as one Jewish wag put it, “There are only five nations that we haven’t been kicked out of. So if your child is expelled from more thean one school, the schools are not the problem.” (Or words to that effect.)

One story of their beginning says they arose from the Rhineland and Northern France, but it doesn’t say how they got there. An earlier chapter in the official story of their origins have them being descendents of Ashkenaz, a great grandson of Noah, but he is not mentioned as a founder of any of the 12 Tribes. A different story emerges as a pagan tribe in the eight century found themselves between Christians in the north and Muslims in the south and trying to fight off the depredations of both. To survive, they recognized that both their neighbors had better relations with Jews, so they converted, and spread throughout Europe from there. But who knows, really?

In the meantime, the growth of Zionism seems to have struck a note with the Ashkenazi, particularly, and the ethos of Zionism has focused on a Zionist-Jewish state. That means a totally Jewish state, no Muslims, no Christians, no other religion, just Jews. And here is where the story gets so entangled. Right from the start things got crazy. One sad chapter of this story is the Mizrahi Jews. Somewhere between 1,000 and 4,500 Mizrahi Jews children disappeared. Their families claimed that they were taken by Israeli authorities, but there has never been any official confirmation of this. So was the recreation of the State of Israel haunted by abduction of children in the Yemenite Children Affair?

If this is the case, then we are going to see many more events like what’s happening in Gaza in other parts of the area recognized as David’s Israel. We will see more events like as happened at the Church of the Holy Sephelcure last Easter. And that is disturbing.

Speaking out against Zionism though is often conflated with being antisemitic. People should be free to believe whatever they like about a mythical sky being but they should not be free to impose their views on others, nor scream hatred in the name of “My Duck God is better than your Duck God.” For most people, I believe in one less God than they do, and for some people it might be as many as 400 gods I don’t believe in, unless it’s the God of Washing Machines to whom I surrender a sock occasionally.

Now we have a war that no-one wanted, except Trump and Netanyahu, Trump to prove he’s tougher than any of his predecessors, and Netanyahu because it gives him the excuse to continue his attack on Southern Lebanon. In both cases, they have done exactly what Putin would want, distracted the world’s attention from Ukraine. It has also distracted attention from a dozen other hot spots as well. Which brings me back to my starting point.

If we seriously want to reduce illegal immigration, we need to address corruption, the lack of economic opportunity, environmental vandalism, political inequities and a dozen other problems. We can’t do that when we are tied up in a useless war that threatens everyone.