Let’s unpack a couple of things that I believe are linked to a desire to tank President Trump in the midterms. This doesn’t mean that everything is organically or forcibly connected; it means that there are relationships between the different events taking place, and we need to pay close attention to them. President Trump said that he endorses Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu for re-election, and they are going to the polls this week.

Domestically, what that means is that if Netanyahu is defeated, it makes President Trump look like he has been defeated. So, it is very important for the Democrats to defeat President Trump—to delegitimize President Trump—and I think that is why we see American politicians going over to Israel and participating in these stunts ahead of the Israeli elections: to polarize, to divide, and to do everything possible to mess up Netanyahu, ruin his chances, and ruin Trump’s chances. Because at the end of the day, while Israel is important, from a geopolitical perspective, the United States is the last bastion of freedom on this earth.

It is very important to tyrants to take down the United States. To take down the United States, they have to take down Trump, and they have to take down Netanyahu before this election. I think that is why you see this sudden wave of stories about settler violence during the olive harvest. Now, I am not saying that settler violence never happens; it happens.

However, the actual proportion of violent settlers is microscopic—it is less than something like 0.07 percent; it is almost nothing. But the Heidi Levine story is treated as very important: play it up, play it up, play it up. I am not even reporting on all of the provocations going on in the area. I did report on the fact that Iran played a strong role in promoting the Heidi Levine story—including the presence of an Iranian journalist very early on putting it on their newsfeed like victory footage, the presence of Palestinians an hour before the event provoking the Israelis, the fact that nobody reports on the provocation, and the fact that everybody reports on Heidi Levine crying her eyeballs out.

This is the Western media—The Washington Post, Western outlets, and played-up alternative media like Jasper Nathaniel. Everyone wants to push this narrative of the settlers occupying; we know the story. Then, on Friday, we had this horrible terrorist attack in Hebron. Israel took security measures, and the response of the media—including NBC News, which was unbelievable—was to focus on the security measures and frame Israel as the aggressor.

It is very shocking stuff. But when you remember the agenda to take Trump down through Netanyahu, you see the commonality. You see that the Gaza genocide narrative is failing because it is a fake news story, so now it has moved over to the West Bank. Now it is going to be “October 7th, West Bank genocide,” and so on and so forth.

As for the second leg of the story: Prime Minister Netanyahu said something very strange. He said that Israel needs to be prepared for sanctions, that Israel needs to be prepared for a complete loss of aid, and that they need to move to blockchain. It was a very dire warning, and one would say that if Trump wins, they are not losing the aid. They don’t really know what is happening. If there are sanctions, is he suggesting they become like Cuba, Iran, and Russia, living off the grid? Why is he bringing that up now? It certainly doesn’t make him look good.

I think what Netanyahu is trying to do from an optics standpoint is build distance between himself and President Trump—acting as a form of political support for President Trump by saying, “Regardless of what happens to us, we are different from the United States. We are not wedded to the United States.” He is trying to take some steam away from President Trump’s enemies. Now, his warnings may be accurate, but things can operate on two levels at the same time.

I want to call your attention to something else: the fact that Iran is actively threatening the United States is not in question or in doubt. However, the role of Iran in the Heidi Levine story has not been mentioned by the mainstream media at all. Iran is doing quite a lot to stir the pot—not just with terror threats, but on the propaganda side—and nobody wants to talk about it.

Iran is allied with Russia and China, both of whom are also stirring the pot with propaganda. And here is the thing: you may have heard the story about Jared Kushner and that big Vanity Fair article. This whole story comes with zero receipts. I am a critic of Kushner—believe me, I am not uncritically supportive of him, and I have a lot to say about him—but there is no proof. Vanity Fair ran with an excerpt from a book. I think Kushner is going to sue; his lawyer said they are going to pursue legal action. They are basically alleging all these money transfers through Israel based on what? Based on a tip from a Russian spy? Are you kidding me?

The crazy thing is that although Kushner and those rebutting the story are speaking out, nobody is saying anything about Russia—specifically, that Russia may well have planted the story in sympathetic media to get at President Trump.

There is a lot that is not being said and not being connected. Our supposedly independent and objective media is completely falling down on the job because they are acting as propagandists instead of watchdogs. If we had real media, they would be asking Heidi Levine critical questions, such as: “Heidi, was your husband—or ex-husband, I don’t know if they are still married—the photographer for the State of Israel?”