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  PATRICK LAWRENCE: AIPAC’s Anxieties The Israel lobbies’ grip on U.S. politics has slipped beyond restoration since Oct. 7, 2023 due to the Zionist army’s own savagery in Gaza.   Charlie Kirk speaking at the 2018 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC). (Gage Skidmore/ Flickr/ CC BY-SA 2.0) By  Patrick Lawrence I f Charlies Kirk’s well-documented defection from the Zionist cause confirmed one thing above all others, it is that the Israeli lobbies’ grip on American politics has slipped—measurably, and I would say beyond any kind of restoration—since the events of Oct. 7, 2023. It would take more hasbara than the Israelis could ever produce to persuade me Kirk did not pay for his abandonment of the Christian– Zionist orthodoxy when he was assassinated before a crowd of conservative youth last Sept. 10. Andrew Cockburn  has an excellent piece on this question  in the current edition of  Harper’s , published under the headline “Turning Point.” And...

 Thanks to Who D. Who for recommending this article... “We Create a Pretend World”: The Most Important 38 Seconds Israel Has Ever Shown You. I am BEGGING You to Watch This. RIGHT NOW! This isn’t a conspiracy theory. It’s a senior Mossad agent on national television explaining how they build fictional worlds. (Go to source to watch video.) Listen, I want you to read my words, but more than anything else…  WATCH THIS VIDEO.  It’s 38 seconds long. Then watch the 11 second video below. These two videos might be the single most insightful and instructive videos Israel has ever given the world. It’s not a fringe podcast. It’s not a Telegram channel. It’s  60 Minutes —as mainstream as American television gets—and the interviewer is  Lesley Stahl  - as mainstream as it gets. A masked, voice-disguised  senior Mossad agent  sits in the dark and says, plainly, that they  create fictional worlds . In the full interview, found here , Stahl calls the man ...