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The Most Explosive Story You Haven't Heard: Netanyahu, Trump, and the Fight Behind the Front Lines
2025-07-13
[IsraelUnwired] While most eyes are fixed on the war in Gaza, few realize that the real battle for Israel’s future is being fought by Netanyahu and Trump in the shadows, and this may be the most explosive story you haven’t heard.

Prime Minister Netanyahu’s latest trip to Washington, his third this year and second meeting with former President Donald Trump on this trip itself, sparked intense speculation: Was it about Gaza? Iran? A future regional deal?

Yes, all that—but ultimately, something deeper is unfolding.

These meetings aren’t just about military coordination or diplomatic pressure. It reflects a shared understanding: no external victory is possible without also confronting internal dysfunction.

Israeli attorney Efraim Dimri recently said in an interview that he has proof that ties the Biden administration directly to the legal persecution of the IDF soldiers in Sde Teiman prison.
Because Israel is involved in two struggles — one war against an Islamonaz*i enemy, with the focus in Gaza, and one internal sabotage at home.

Let’s zoom out. From the very start of the war, a coordinated bloc of senior legal officials, top IDF officers, and mainstream media figures — Israel’s unelected elite — has worked systematically to hijack the war narrative, destabilize Netanyahu’s government, and prevent a decisive victory in Gaza.
Fire them all. They are mistaking mere political dislike for acting as traitors to the nation they are pledged to defend. Yes, there will be cost, when those who are supposed to be the best at army stuff are gone, but since they’re working to undermine the war effort there is no benefit to them being there.
Instead of rallying around the nation’s survival, these institutions launched an internal campaign of psychological warfare. They weaponized the hostage crisis to drain public morale, stir fear, and pressure the government into premature concessions. Media allies and expert pundits relentlessly pushed defeatist messaging: "Soldiers are dying for nothing," "There’s no military solution," "Bring the hostages home — even at any cost." The objective wasn’t humanitarian — it was political: to force Netanyahu into a ceasefire that would halt the war and collapse his government, not through elections, but by breaking public will.

Netanyahu, understanding this dynamic, pursued a war strategy that included limited, tactical ceasefires — not as surrender but as a way to save lives while undercutting the protest movement that had co-opted the hostage issue. The results are clear: what once paralyzed the country has become a fringe cause, as the public increasingly sees through the exploitation of genuine pain for political gain.
Visible by the ever small crowds showing up for the weekly protests.
On the surface, we’re battling Hamas. But behind the scenes, an unelected layer of legal, military, and bureaucratic elites is obstructing government policy, paralyzing decision-making, and undermining our war effort. Many Israelis instinctively shy away from language like "deep state." But what else do you call it when a government decision is blocked — not by voters but by officials who were never elected?

Just listen to Brigadier General (res.) Erez Wiener, former head of planning in the IDF Southern Command, who revealed:

"We should have started by evacuating Gaza City. But we didn’t. Because the Military Advocate General said: ’You can’t force civilians to evacuate — and you must keep supplying them with aid.’ Then we’re told: go in and fight, but under those conditions. The result? More fallen soldiers."

The U.S. Department of Justice recently issued a second official notice to the far-left Israeli NGO Blue and White demanding documentation about tens of millions of dollars it received from the Biden administration.
"And now even the new Chief of Staff has surrendered to the dictates of the unelected elite: Nitzan Alon says, ’You might endanger hostages.’ Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi, the MAG, says ’you may not, you may not’ — legal nonsense. Ghassan Alian, head of COGAT, says ’we must keep the aid flowing...’ This is insanity."

This isn’t a political opinion. It’s operational reality from someone who helped run the war effort.

And the same unelected legal elites who have paralyzed our war effort have been waging a crusade against IDF soldiers, including the ones who served at the Sde Teiman prison. The legal establishment accused them of abuse, relying on testimony they told a Hamas terrorist to say, and a video—exposed to have been doctored with no proof whatsoever of any wrongdoing. Yet, the blood libel was launched into the world. This same legal elite have ignored the far more troubling misconduct inside their own ranks. There has been no investigation into the legal insiders allegedly involved in doctoring and leaking that video of prisoner treatment—a manipulated video that was leaked to the media on a silver platter. That clip reached billions of viewers worldwide, fueling a modern-day blood libel, and just days ago, UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese cited it as "proof" that Israeli soldiers systematically sexually harasses Hamas terrorists in custody.

The video’s leak didn’t just smear Israel’s name, it endangered our global legitimacy, demoralized our soldiers, and handed Hamas a diplomatic victory. Yet while soldiers face public crucifixion, those within the legal system who enabled this international scandal remain untouched, protected by the very legal institutions now claiming to defend "ethics" and "rule of law." What kind of justice system holds soldiers to impossible standards in combat in a just war but shields those sabotaging the war effort from within?

Israeli attorney Efraim Dimri recently said in an interview that he has proof that ties the Biden administration directly to the legal persecution of the IDF soldiers in Sde Teiman prison.
Just like President Obama did in his second term, one of the many bad ideas they repeated in his “third term”.
These are huge issues hidden from the public that uncover a deep, deep problem that needs to be exposed and stopped.

And it’s not just about the military. The U.S. Department of Justice recently issued a second official notice to the far-left Israeli NGO Blue and White demanding documentation about tens of millions of dollars it received from the Biden administration.
Elections matter. They all thought the Democrats would be in charge forever.
Why? Because this U.S.-funded Israeli NGO was a central player in anti-Netanyahu government protests, not to pressure Hamas, but to topple the Netanyahu government. Using the judicial reform protest movement and then the hostage families’ pain as political tools, these campaigns aimed to delegitimize Netanyahu’s government and block its war policies.
Every year a different reason to protest in an attemot to get enough voters on their side to overthrow Bibi Netanyahu.
If true, this would mean American taxpayer money helped finance internal protest campaigns to topple a government. These protest campaigns also weakened Israel during a time of war. That’s not just controversial—that’s a national security breach.

And now, even the ideological architects of Israel’s activist legal system are admitting the stakes.

Former Supreme Court President Aharon Barak, who reshaped Israel’s judiciary in the 1990s, recently said last week:

"If Netanyahu leaves political life, there would be no justification for continuing the trial... If he retires from politics, I think it’s not a bad idea that the trial should also come to an end."

That’s a stunning statement. If the charges against Netanyahu are real, they should proceed, regardless of politics. And if they’re not, they should be dropped now. Instead, we’re told that if Netanyahu walks away, the system will quietly let the charges go. That’s not the rule of law—it’s political leverage.

This is why the Netanyahu—Trump alignment matters. Not because of personalities or partisan politics—but because both leaders now face the same challenge: unelected deep state institutions that have drifted from their mandates, acting as power centers unto themselves.

This isn’t about Left or Right—it’s about democratic accountability. When unelected legal officials override government decisions on life-and-death military policy, that’s a crisis. When US-funded NGOs run political pressure campaigns to topple our government, especially during wartime, that’s a threat. When top military brass ignore binding cabinet decisions, that’s not "independence"—it’s insubordination.

We’ve seen this before. In 1982, during the First Lebanon War, internal pressure campaigns and foreign condemnation — fueled by the Sabra and Shatila massacre by Lebanese Christians — led to Israel’s premature ending of the war. Then too, rising casualties and media pressure were weaponized to halt a war mid-fight. Netanyahu remembers that moment well. He’s determined not to let history repeat itself.

He has already delivered major blows to Iran’s proxy network, damaged Iran’s nuclear and ballistic weapons programs, weakened Hamas’s military infrastructure, and resisted global pressure for a premature ceasefire. But to finish the job, he must also take back control at home.

That means restoring civilian authority over military and legal bodies. It means confronting insubordination directly. And it means telling the public a hard truth: We are not struggling slowly in Gaza because of Hamas’s strength, but because of deep state senior positions who weaken our resolve, handcuff our army, and try to divide our people in wartime.

This is not just a war against terrorists in tunnels. It’s a war against fear, dysfunction, and the deep-state machinery—in both Jerusalem and Washington—that has worked to erode the authority of Israel’s elected governments and sabotage their ability to act.

Now, Netanyahu and Trump are doing more than comparing notes, they are forging a joint strategy to confront and dismantle the unelected power centers that have hijacked policy in both countries. The parallel power structures that allowed U.S. State Department—funded NGOs to operate freely in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, without oversight or accountability, are finally being brought to an end.

This isn’t about defending one leader or another. It’s about defending democracy itself—the right of free nations to be governed by those the people choose, not those the system protects.

No more legal vetoes on war policy. No more foreign-funded interference. No more unelected elites dragging nations into paralysis and defeat.

What began as meetings in Washington DC may well be remembered as the start of a coordinated effort to reclaim democratic control, to stop the sabotage, protect sovereignty, and chart a path forward based on strength—not submission.

The world is watching. And this time, the people, not the unelected deep state bureaucrats, must win.
Posted by:Grom the Affective

#3  Oh, Israel doesn't like foreign countries funding lobbyists to control their government?

Welcome to how we feel about AIPAC.
We give Israel billions a year while Maui is still in ruins.
Posted by: Jairong+Scourge+of+the+Gepids2435   2025-07-13 22:05  

#2  No surprise at all, Airandee. We’ve been following their public and private shenanigans in Israel for over two decades.
Posted by: trailing wife   2025-07-13 12:15  

#1  Rumor has it the Obama administration also used taxpayer money and GIVERnment employees to undermine and over throw the Trump Presidency. The same behavior toward Netanyahu should be no surprise.
Posted by: Airandee   2025-07-13 06:45  

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