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Trump Is Even Sacrificing the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge for Israel
Paul Craig Roberts
All of the reasons behind disastrous policies, such as Trump’s military aggression against Iran, are not always acknowledged. We know that the main reason for America’s gratuitous military attack on Iran was, as State Department legal adviser Reed Rubinstein wrote in an official document, to accommodate the Zionist agenda of Greater Israel–“from the Nile to Pakistan.” In the US State Department’s justification for Trump’s unprovoked attack on Iran, Rubinstein wrote: “The United States is engaged in this conflict at the request of and in the collective self-defense of its Israeli ally, as well as in the exercise of the United States’ own inherent right of self-defense.” https://www.state.gov/releases/office-of-the-legal-adviser/2026/04/operation-epic-fury-and-international-law/
Rubinstein admits that Trump took America to war with a foreign power at the request of a third party–Netanyahu. Realizing that this is not a sufficient reason or justification for attacking a country, Rubinstein added also “in the exercise of the United States’ own inherent right of self-defense.”
Where does Rubinstein find evidence of Iranian attacks on the US? It is not Iran that has assassinated Israeli and American leaders. It is Israel and Washington who have assassinated scores of top Iranian leaders.
The war did not start with Iranian attack on Washington and Israel. The war started with the Israeli-American attack on Iran.
Rubinstein concludes that the Iranian Revolution in 1979 that overthrew Washington’s puppet dictator of Iran and re-established Iranian sovereignty over the ancient nation, was an attack on America.
Rubinstein goes on to conflate Iranian, Hamas, Hezbollah, and Yemeni responses to American-Israeli aggression as attacks on America.
So, you can see the level of honesty in a US government where Israel wrties the explanations.
There is no honesty. Its place has been taken by Israel’s Zionist agenda and the material interests that profit from war.
Reduced oil flows from the partially blocked Hormuz Strait have increased the oil price. Trump and those who have long wished to rape the Arctic National Wildlife refuge with oil spills and liquified gas plants has given the to-ahead for oil and gas drilling on 689,000 acres of a formerly protected refuge. Trump, ever Netanyahu’s puppet, will make up the reduced oil flow from his mindless war for Israel by despoiling the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. This shows us how totally Americans are under the power of Zionist Israel’s agenda of Greater Israel.
It is impossible to be a proud American. The American people don’t rule. Israel does.
For a variety of people the despoliation of the Arctic Wildlife Reguse means money for them, and only money is important. The American Petroleum Institute declared that “Alaska’s resources are key to America’s energy security, and we expect to see continued investment throughout the state.”
Even the Inupiat natives have been bought off. Only Gwich’in natives resist: “Some places are too important to sacrifice,” Kristen Moreland, executive director of the Gwich’in Steering Committee, said on a call with reporters. “Tomorrow’s lease sale is about much more than economics or development. It is about whether our voices, our culture, and our way of life matters.”
In America only two things matter: money and Israel’s wishes.