{"id":716,"date":"2025-06-25T16:43:19","date_gmt":"2025-06-25T20:43:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/criticalhistorianofreligionasdetective\/?p=716"},"modified":"2025-06-30T13:55:05","modified_gmt":"2025-06-30T17:55:05","slug":"art-of-the-double-cross-trumps-betrayal-of-israel-and-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/criticalhistorianofreligionasdetective\/2025\/06\/art-of-the-double-cross-trumps-betrayal-of-israel-and-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"Art of the Double Cross: Trump’s Betrayal of Israel and Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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Is he just that ignorant of the\u00a0Art of War<\/em>? Or could it be that giving advanced warning to the Iranian regime is<\/em> in fact just what Sunzi ordered, his plans being \u201cdark and impenetrable as night? | Image from the Tzava Ha\u2019Mashiach<\/a> and Hashlamah Project<\/a>. Used with permission.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>

This morning, headlines such as \u201cTrump Goes Absolutely Berserk on Iran and Israel as Ceasefire Deal Crumbles: \u2018They Don\u2019t Know What the F*ck They\u2019re Doing\u2019\u201d<\/a> filled news feeds of anyone following the war against the Iranian regime.<\/p>\n

Yes, Trump turned on Israel almost faster than he turned on Zelensky <\/a>and the Ukraine. But why?<\/p>\n

The Art of the Double-Cross: Trump\u2019s Simultaneous Betrayal of Israel and Iran<\/h2>\n

Why did Trump give the Khomeinist regime advanced warning of the strike?<\/p>\n

Was it so it could move their 800 lbs. of weapons-grade uranium, which he falsely claimed he \u201ccompletely destroyed\u201d at Fordow? In fact, the strike set back the Iranian nuclear program by only a few months, a report cited in The New York Times<\/em><\/a> revealed.<\/p>\n

Today, a top Trump official, Andrew Kloster<\/a>, who serves as general counsel at the Office of Personnel Management, even characterized the US airstrikes on Iran as \u201cpointless.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

It is hard to argue with that assessment.<\/p>\n

After having done less than<\/em> nothing, Trump immediately declared \u201cpeace\u201d and unilaterally barred Israel from completing the job of toppling the Vilayat-e Faqih<\/em> regime.<\/p>\n

Now, thanks to his \u201cceasefire,\u201d there are Jews and dissidents being rounded up door-to-door by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), the Sepah-e Pasdaran-e Enqelab-e Eslami<\/em> (the \u201cArmy of Guardians of the Islamic Revolution\u201d), according to sources on the ground in Tehran.<\/p>\n

In classified findings, recently leaked, <\/a>we find that the bombing campaign, which Trump patted himself on the back for, merely sealed entrances to the facilities\u2014a minor complication, easily remedied by the regime. The underground buildings of the site did not collapse at all<\/a>, and thanks to Trump\u2019s advanced warning, the regime moved their enriched uranium before the US strikes.<\/p>\n

The Art of War<\/h2>\n

In his chapter on \u201cMilitary Maneuvering,\u201d the classic work known as Sunzi Bing Fa, <\/em>or\u00a0The <\/em>Art of War,\u00a0<\/em>the sagacious Sunzi famously instructs, \u201cLet your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt\u201d (7:19).<\/p>\n

It is no exaggeration to say that Trump did the exact opposite of the Art of War<\/em>. It is inconceivable to imagine that military advisers did not caution him not to give Iran such advanced warning.<\/p>\n

So why then did he not heed the warning?<\/p>\n

Is he just that ignorant of the\u00a0Art of War<\/em>? Or could it be that giving advanced warning to the Iranian regime is<\/em> in fact just what Sunzi ordered, his plans being \u201cdark and impenetrable as night? In that case, maybe, just maybe, Trump is not being open and honest with us about his underlying plans. Perhaps he is practicing what the mullacracy<\/em> in Iran would call taqiyyah.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Nazi Salutes, Hitler Speeches, and Presidential Gaslighting<\/h2>\n

In case you haven\u2019t been paying attention, Trump is the same person who was routinely given the Nazi \u201cSieg Heil<\/em>\u201d salute <\/a>as a greeting by friends and colleagues, according to his former wife, Ivanka Trump, who also swore under penalty of perjury that he read from a book of speeches <\/a>by Adolf Hitler every night before bed\u2014and that he kept said book on his nightstand<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It takes either cult-like loyalty and gullibility or abject stupidity to imagine Trump gave such forewarnings to Iran with the best intentions for Israel in mind. He did this to sabotage the regime-change project. He did so not only because his master, Vladimir Putin, told him to but because he absolutely wants to see the destruction of Israel.<\/p>\n

Trump did accomplish one thing with his theatrical bombing campaign that barely was\u2026 He has now green-lighted Chinese trade with Iran in spite of previous sanctions<\/a>. Again, all of his actions have served either himself, his master Putin, or both\u2014never Israel and never the United States, for that matter.<\/p>\n

I have been saying the exact same things from day one<\/a>. This was even before he was elected, when Trump was throwing fits to reporters from Time Magazine,<\/a> CNN, and any news outlet that would listen to his claims that I hacked his cellphone when I doxxed him<\/a> in 2016 (even though I didn\u2019t<\/a>).<\/p>\n

On the Ehrenarier <\/em>Status of \u201cHonorary\u201d or \u201cFunctional\u201d Aryans<\/h2>\n

Before you interject something about Jarod Kushner, bear in mind that Adolf Hitler himself personally approved the \u201cfunctionally Aryan\u201d statuses of nearly 5,000 Germans of Jewish background during the Third Reich. This special status as \u201cHonorary Aryans,\u201d or Ehrenarier<\/em>, was done on a case-by-case basis, often due to their value to the German war effort, economy, or for political reasons.<\/p>\n

Notable examples include people like Helmuth Wilberg, a\u00a0Luftwaffe general with Jewish ancestry who was declared Aryan by Hitler at the request of Hermann G\u00f6ring. <\/span>As well, Emil Maurice was an early Nazi Party member and Hitler\u2019s driver, who was given \u201cHonorary Aryan\u201d status despite having Jewish ancestry.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Erhard Milch was a Luftwaffe field marshal with a Jewish father who was able to obtain a German Blood Certificate to avoid persecution due to the intervention of G\u00f6ring. <\/span>Similarly, Helene Mayer was a German-born fencer with Jewish ancestry who was designated an \u201cHonorary Aryan\u201d to allow her to participate in the 1936 Olympics. <\/span><\/p>\n

Melitta Schenk Gr\u00e4fin von Stauffenberg was an aeronautical engineer and test pilot with Jewish ancestry who was granted \u201cHonorary Aryan\u201d status.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Last but not least, Hitler\u2019s lover and eventually wife, Eva Braun, needs no introduction\u2026<\/p>\n

Someone so fascinated with Hitler <\/a>as to literally study his words on a nightly basis\u2014as we know to be the case with Trump\u2014could easily see a small number of Jews who submit to him as being functionally Aryan or Ehrenarier.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

To that end, consider one further example: Sophie Leh\u00e1r (n\u00e9e Paschal), the wife of the composer Franz Leh\u00e1r. She was born and raised Jewish before her conversion to Catholicism upon her marriage. Hitler enjoyed Leh\u00e1r\u2019s music tremendously. In fact, the Nazi Reich made propaganda use out of some of her music. Joseph Goebbels personally intervened on Leh\u00e1r\u2019s behalf and awarded her the status of Ehrenarier <\/em>by marriage in 1938. Read that again slowly: she was awarded functionally Aryan status by marriage.\u00a0<\/em>Might this not also be the way Trump looks at his son-in-law, Jarod Kushner?<\/p>\n

Talk is cheap. Actions speak louder than words, even if those words are said by his naked daughter in a miqvah<\/em> before a Bet Din<\/em>, which no doubt received a hefty bribe\u2014or \u201cdonation,\u201d if you prefer\u2014to expedite her marital gerut<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Implications<\/h2>\n

This, of course, brings us to what could be an even more focused\u00a0halakhic\u00a0<\/em>discussion of what legitimizes or delegitimizes such a conversion-immigration\u00a0gerut\u00a0<\/em>process. Talmudically, of course,\u00a0gerut\u00a0<\/em>for marriage alone was never seen as legitimate. This, however, is a topic that\u2014though relevant\u2014is beyond the scope of the discussion at hand.<\/p>\n

Nevertheless, reflect on this for a minute. Perhaps Jarod Kushner and Ivana do have the best interests of the Jewish people in mind\u2014and if so, I must sincerely beg their pardon if this discussion implies otherwise. If they do, however, they do so in contradistinction and conflict with what appear to be the booming words that Trump\u2019s actions speak. As well, if this is the case, then they should speak up for the People of Israel, against these betrayals.<\/p>\n

It is time for the People of Israel\u2014those within Eretz Yisrael<\/em> and those in the Galut\u2014<\/em>to stop taking everyone\u2019s protestations of allyship with us at face value. The most nefarious of enemies may, in fact, come to us with open arms and a palmed knife to stab us in the back with. Without question, that is what this unilaterally imposed ceasefire is: a stab in the back to the Jewish People as well as the Persian people of Iran.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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