Army Officer Brian McGlinchey - How the US-Israel Relationship Weakens America and Harms the World
If Americans Knew
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This speech was delivered on April 25, 2026 at the conference hosted by the Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity.
Brian McGlinchey is a former Regular Army Officer and founder of StarkRealities.net where he undermines official narratives, demolishes conventional wisdom and exposes fundamental myths across the political spectrum.
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0:055 secondsI'm going to begin our examination of the US Israel relationship by taking you to an unlikely location thousands of
0:1313 secondsmiles from Tel Aviv or Washington. We're also going to be traveling 36 years back in time.
0:2020 secondsOn December 20th, 1989, the United States invaded the Republic of Panama to oust its leader, General Manuel
0:2828 secondsNoriega, who had outlived his usefulness to the empire.
0:3333 secondsAt that point, it was the largest US military operation by far since the Vietnam War. And it marked the beginning of this era of endless regime change wars that we find ourselves in now.
0:4747 secondsBefore Operation Just Cause was over, three 23 American service members had laid dead and 325 wounded. At the time,
0:5656 secondsI was a brand new platoon leader in the army's fifth infantry division at Fort Pulk, Louisiana. Two of my fellow fifth
1:031 minute, 3 secondsID soldiers, members of a battalion that was on a rotation to Panama at the time, were killed as they engaged in the
1:101 minute, 10 secondsassault on the Command Dansia, which was the headquarters of the Panameanian Defense Forces.
1:161 minute, 16 secondsI was not part of the invasion, but soon after my military police unit was deployed to Panama with a mission of conducting joint operation, joint
1:241 minute, 24 secondssecurity operations with their uh reconstituted and demilitarized security forces.
1:311 minute, 31 secondsOne afternoon, several weeks into my deployment, I had an interesting conversation with one of our Panameanian officer counterparts, a major.
1:411 minute, 41 secondsAs we stood outside a police station near the Tkuman International Airport, he told me that he was at the Command Dansia on the night of the invasion.
1:521 minute, 52 secondsKnowing that had been the sight of one of the bloodiest battles of the invasion, I could only shake my head and offer my appreciation that he must have
2:002 minutesendured quite an ordeal under assault from my fellow countrymen.
2:062 minutes, 6 secondsAnd then without prompting, he said, "We knew you were coming." "How?" I asked.
2:152 minutes, 15 seconds"The Israelis told us." And that's how 36 years ago under a hot
2:232 minutes, 23 secondspanameanian sun my education about the true nature of the USIsrael relationship began.
2:312 minutes, 31 secondsThis is a relationship without parallel in world history. It's no exaggeration to say it's the strangest relationship
2:392 minutes, 39 secondsbetween two countries this world has ever seen. One in which the largest economic and military power the world has ever known subordinates itself to a
2:482 minutes, 48 secondstiny country that would otherwise be almost entirely inconsequential.
2:532 minutes, 53 secondsnot only systematically redistributing its own wealth to this tiny well-off country, but unconditionally embracing
3:003 minutesthat country's geopolitical agenda to its own detriment and taking extreme actions on behalf of
3:083 minutes, 8 secondsthat country in a way that causes immense harms to our own interests while also inflicting death, displacement, and despair on millions of innocents.
3:203 minutes, 20 secondsNow, US support for Israel comes at a staggering multiaceted price. The steepest costs of this relationship are
3:273 minutes, 27 secondsnot measured in dollars. But we'll start with dollars, mindful that every one of them, as Daniel alluded to, is borrowed at interest.
3:373 minutes, 37 secondsWhen aid is discussed, you'll often hear people discuss a very specific figure, $3.8 billion. That's what the United States is committed to under the current 10-year memorandum of understanding.
3:483 minutes, 48 secondsthat's negotiated with the Israelis.
3:513 minutes, 51 secondsBut thanks to supplemental authorizations, total aid is frequently far above that floor. For example, in the first year after the October 7th
3:593 minutes, 59 secondsHamas invasion of Israel, Congress threw on another $8.7 billion without thinking about it.
4:074 minutes, 7 secondsIsrael's routinely the top annual aid recipient by far.
4:114 minutes, 11 secondsGoing back to World War II, Israel isn't just the largest beneficiary. It's received almost double what the next country has received. Let's put that in
4:204 minutes, 20 secondsperspective. Israel represents just 0.12% of the world's population, but it's
4:284 minutes, 28 secondsreceive something like 20 to 30% of total aid since World War II. That's even crazier when you realize that
4:364 minutes, 36 secondsIsrael is among the world's richest countries. In per capita GDP, Israel is 20th in the world, above the likes of
4:444 minutes, 44 secondsAustria, Canada, Germany, the United Kingdom.
4:494 minutes, 49 secondsAnd yet, Israel typically receives more than double what America gives to all of subsaharan Africa combined.
4:584 minutes, 58 secondsBut even that's a wild understatement because in addition to what the United States gives directly to Israel, we spend so much more on behalf of Israel.
5:085 minutes, 8 secondsSince World War II, the second largest recipient of aid is Egypt. And for all intents and purposes, aid to Egypt is
5:155 minutes, 15 secondsaid to Israel, owing to the commitments that were made during the Camp David Peace Accords. In recent years, the third place country is Jordan.
5:265 minutes, 26 secondsYou can throw them on the Israel tab as well.
5:315 minutes, 31 secondsOwing to a 1994 treaty of their own, we'd see the same dynamic. What you see here is essentially the United States
5:395 minutes, 39 secondstaxpayer, the United States citizens renting the cooperation of the Egyptians and the Jordanians in in cooperating with the state of Israel.
5:485 minutes, 48 secondsFurther obscuring things, Uncle Sam often uses bureaucratic tricks to conceal the actual amount of aid that's flowing to Israel.
5:575 minutes, 57 secondsFor example, just the first six months following October 7th, the Biden administration structured 100 separate
6:056 minutes, 5 secondsarms deals so that each one would be beneath the level that triggers automatic reporting requirements to Congress.
6:146 minutes, 14 secondsThere's other tricks like dishing out weapons from the US stockpiles that are positioned in Israel supposedly for our use, but giving them to the Israelis.
6:246 minutes, 24 secondsNow, all American aid comes in the form of military aid, which means Israel ras in more than half of the global total of our military aid in the world.
6:346 minutes, 34 secondsAnd get this, because Israel's share is so embarrassingly high, Israel supporters actually push for the United
6:416 minutes, 41 secondsStates to increase its military aid to other countries, not for Israel's security, but just for the pure cosmetic
6:496 minutes, 49 secondsreason of not making Israel's share look so bad. And here's a stark reality.
6:566 minutes, 56 secondsEvery single dollar of aid to Israel violates US law. The Glenn and Simington
7:027 minutes, 2 secondsamendments passed in the 1970s prohibit any form of aid to countries that have gone nuclear without signing the nuclear
7:117 minutes, 11 secondsnon-prololiferation treaty. You know that treaty that Iran is a member of.
7:227 minutes, 22 secondsNow, far and away the biggest costs of this relationship come from a phenomenon that Donald Trump emphatically promised to get rid of. Regime change wars.
7:327 minutes, 32 secondsFully adopting Israel's agenda, US policy puts priority in ensuring Israel has no powerful rivals in the region. In
7:407 minutes, 40 secondscases like Egypt and Jordan, that subservience is rented rented. But throughout much much of the region, Isra
7:477 minutes, 47 secondsis Israeli primacy is pursued by repeatedly shattering and hammering these other states and societies, weakening them repeatedly.
7:587 minutes, 58 secondsAt the extreme, that's done via regime change. Two of the most prominent such campaigns, of course, are Iraq and Syria.
8:088 minutes, 8 secondsAnd in dollar terms, regime change puts us on a whole new level of magnitude.
8:138 minutes, 13 secondsThe Brown University cost of war project estimates that just Syria and Iraq cost America $2.9 trillion.
8:258 minutes, 25 secondsPart of that is future medical and disability care for veterans. Patriots who signed up to defend America but ended up serving as attack dogs for a
8:338 minutes, 33 secondstiny country on the other side of the world.
8:368 minutes, 36 secondsAnd now, of course, we're turning from dollar costs to incalculable human costs. In Iraq alone, 4,600 US service
8:438 minutes, 43 secondsmembers died and 32,000 were wounded, many of them dreadfully.
8:518 minutes, 51 secondsThen there's the relentless pace of suicides from soldiers suffering from traumatic brain injuries, PTSD and moral injury, which is the phenomenon where
9:009 minutesyou suffer psychological distress from having participated in allowed or witnessed actions that conflict with your moral beliefs.
9:139 minutes, 13 secondsIraq and Syria at the forefront, but there have been so many other costly US engagements that spring from the USIsrael relationship. For example, the
9:219 minutes, 21 seconds1983 truck bombing of a Marine barracks in Beirut that killed 241 Marines.
9:289 minutes, 28 secondsWhy were they there? A peacekeeping mission to try to bring order after an Israeli invasion of Lebanon. One marred by ghastly atrocities and massacres.
9:399 minutes, 39 secondsNow, most people wouldn't realize it, but even the 2012 attack in postregime change Libya, the one that killed the ambassador,
9:479 minutes, 47 secondsforeign service officer and two CIA contractors, that has an Israeli connection.
9:529 minutes, 52 secondsWhy was the ambassador in Benghazi? Why was there a safe house there two blocks away? As Seymour Hirsh reported, it's because this they were shipping weapons
10:0110 minutes, 1 secondfrom Libya to Syria as part of the regime change effort there.
10:0810 minutes, 8 secondsNow, in addition to the toll on Americans, these wars have victimized millions of innocent people in far away lands, inflicting death, displacement,
10:1610 minutes, 16 secondsand mass suffering on a spectacular scale. In Iraq and Syria, estimates of a
10:2310 minutes, 23 secondshalf million dead with far more believed to have been killed from indirect causes like disease.
10:3010 minutes, 30 secondsmillions of refugees displaced, causing misery for them and also causing all kinds of trouble in the countries that they end up in.
10:4110 minutes, 41 secondsArmed conflict isn't the only instrument the United States uses to inflict mass suffering on foreign people on Israel's behalf. When the US isn't dropping bombs
10:4910 minutes, 49 secondson Israel's rivals, it's hammering their societies with economic sanctions.
10:5610 minutes, 56 secondsFar too many people embrace the idea that economic sanctions are an alternative to war.
11:0411 minutes, 4 secondsAs Ron Paul helped me realize, sanctions are just a different form of war.
11:1111 minutes, 11 secondsConservative estimates on the number of Iraqi children killed by malnutrition and disease brought on by US sanctions in Iraq start at 100,000.
11:2111 minutes, 21 secondsWhen then US Ambassador Maline Albbright was confronted with a higher figure estimate of 500,000, she didn't even
11:2811 minutes, 28 secondschallenge that number, but infamously said, "We think the price is worth it."
11:3711 minutes, 37 secondsAnd of course, for decades now, the innocent people of Iran have been subjected to this kind of misery.
11:4611 minutes, 46 secondsStrangling sanctions, they like to call them, devastating sanctions.
11:5111 minutes, 51 secondsAnd what people might think of sanctions as economic warfare. They think, "Oh, we're going to put a dent in their GDP." No, we're talking about Iranian people
11:5811 minutes, 58 secondshaving to eat partially decomposed vegetables and food because that's all they can get to. It's a young aspiring Iranian hoping for a career in a job who can't afford their own apartment yet.
12:1012 minutes, 10 secondsIt's children in cancer treatment centers who don't have access to medicine because everyone's afraid to ship anything to
12:1812 minutes, 18 secondsIran, even things that are accepted under the sanctions regime for just fear of running a foul of the US Treasury Department.
12:2812 minutes, 28 secondsAnd now, of course, we have this latest war of aggression launched on false pretenses, launched in the middle of negotiations. A war that in its opening
12:3712 minutes, 37 secondshours killed something like 150 elementary age school girls. A war that threatens global catastrophe and
12:4512 minutes, 45 secondsstarvation. This will only pad America's resume as the principal cause of misery for the going back decades.
12:5512 minutes, 55 secondsNow all that harm on Israel's behalf comes back to haunt us here in the United States. As Dr. Paul famously
13:0313 minutes, 3 secondsinstructed Rudy Giuliani on that debate stage.
13:0813 minutes, 8 secondsAmericans do pay a dear price for US support of Israel in the form of terrorism inspired by anger and resentment over that support. 911 is
13:1813 minutes, 18 secondscertainly the biggest example. While Americans were told it was an attack on our freedom, the evidence is clear that
13:2513 minutes, 25 secondsbacking US backing of Israel was a central motivator.
13:3013 minutes, 30 secondsIn his 1996 declaration of war against the United States, Bin Laden cited an IDF massacre of 106 Lebanese civilians who had sought refuge at a UN compound.
13:4113 minutes, 41 secondsHe said, quote, "Muslim youth hold the United States responsible for all the killings carried out by your Zionist brothers in Lebanon. You openly supplied
13:5013 minutes, 50 secondsthem with arms and finance." He later would say that he was inspired to strike American skyscrapers when he
13:5713 minutes, 57 secondswitnessed Israel's destruction of apartment towers in Lebanon.
14:0214 minutes, 2 secondsInvestigators who looked at Khaled Shake Muhammad and studied him noted that he had spent time in the United States himself.
14:1114 minutes, 11 secondsWhile many people would want you to think he was disgusted by what he saw of our society, they concluded no, that's not what it was. It was his quote
14:1814 minutes, 18 secondsviolent disagreement with US foreign policy favoring Israel. 911 hijacking ring leader Muhammad Ada signed his will
14:2714 minutes, 27 secondson the day Israel began its 1996 Operation Grapes of Wrath attack on Lebanon. A friend said Ada was furious
14:3414 minutes, 34 secondsand used his will to commit his life to the cause.
14:3814 minutes, 38 secondsAn acquaintance to one of the hijacker pilots in America asked why neither he nor Muhammad Ada ever laughed. and he
14:4614 minutes, 46 secondsreplied, "How can you laugh when people are dying in Palestine?"
14:5514 minutes, 55 secondsNow, if you don't have a 911, um, excuse me, were it not for the US support of Israel, I don't think you have a 911. There were other motivating
15:0415 minutes, 4 secondsfactors, but I think if you take that one away, I don't think you get a 911, which means there would be no war in Afghanistan.
15:1215 minutes, 12 seconds2,400 US service members killed, 20,000 injured, $2 trillion.
15:2115 minutes, 21 secondsWhile 911 is obviously the most prominent example, there are many other examples of terrorism motivated by US support of Israel and military
15:2915 minutes, 29 secondsinterventions on Israel's behalf. the first World Trade Center bombing, the 1998 embassy bombings in Africa,
15:3715 minutes, 37 secondswouldbe shoe bomber Richard Reid, a the Times Square bomber, and the mass shooting at the Pulse nightclub. All of
15:4515 minutes, 45 secondsthem were explicitly motivated by US support of Israel or resentment over US actions in the region.
15:5415 minutes, 54 secondsNow, after what Israel has done to Gaza and Lebanon, killing at least 72,000 people, and
16:0316 minutes, 3 secondsrendering enormous swaths of territory uninhabitable, you know, we have to shudder to think what might be in the pipeline for us coming down the road.
16:1416 minutes, 14 secondsIn addition to threatening American lives, the US Israel relationship has become a menace to American liberties.
16:2216 minutes, 22 secondsAs the powerful pro-Israel lobby weaponizes our own government against their political opponents,
16:2916 minutes, 29 secondsmore than 30 states have made it illegal for the state to do business with anybody, a company or an individual that
16:3616 minutes, 36 secondsboycots the state of Israel. In Texas, that led to a bizarre spectacle in which families applying for hurricane relief
16:4516 minutes, 45 secondsfrom the state were handed a form to sign, promising that they would not boycott the state of Israel.
16:5616 minutes, 56 secondsNow, recently the Heritage Foundation concocted a sinister scheme under what they call Project Esther.
17:0417 minutes, 4 secondsLook it up. which the US government would characterize pro- Palestinian activists as quote effectively members
17:1117 minutes, 11 secondsof a terrorist support network or William and then use that characterization to expel them from
17:1817 minutes, 18 secondscolleges, deport them, sue them, fire them from their jobs, and exclude them from open society.
17:2617 minutes, 26 secondsThe new Trump administration ran with it, first trying it out on foreign students.
17:3217 minutes, 32 secondsIn the most atrocious example, they targeted a mild-mannered 30-year-old PhD student from Turkey studying at Tus
17:4017 minutes, 40 secondsUniversity in Boston studying child development.
17:4417 minutes, 44 secondsShe was suddenly whisked off of a street, shackled in leg irons, and taken to a prison in Louisiana.
17:5217 minutes, 52 secondsHer crime was co-authoring a calmly written student oped. All she did was urge Tus University to formally
18:0018 minutescharacterize Israel's conduct in Gaza as a genocide and to sell the school's Israel related investments. That's all.
18:0818 minutes, 8 secondsMarco Rubio doesn't want you to know that. That was all there was to it.
18:1418 minutes, 14 secondsIt was easier to victimize her because she was an foreign exchange student. But don't think for a second that they don't have ambitions to abuse Americans that
18:2318 minutes, 23 secondsway. Watch what's happening in other countries. Merely saying the phrase from the river to the sea
18:3118 minutes, 31 secondscan put you in prison in places like Germany and Australia.
18:3918 minutes, 39 secondsNow for years the principal tactic in the broad campaign to silence critics of Israel has been to falsely accuse them of being anti-semitic.
18:4818 minutes, 48 secondsBut what was once just a terrible smear is increasingly becoming codified into laws and regulations.
18:5518 minutes, 55 secondsIn particular, we see governing entities around the world adopting the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance or IHA working definition of anti-semitism.
19:0619 minutes, 6 secondsUnder that definition, it can be deemed inherently anti-semitic to simply compare Israel's actions to those of Nazi Germany, or to argue that the state
19:1519 minutes, 15 secondsof Israel is an inherently racist endeavor, or to call for a new governing arrangement for the 15 million people
19:2219 minutes, 22 secondswho live between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean.
19:2719 minutes, 27 secondsOur own US Department of Education is now using that definition to pursue civil rights cases against American universities, hammering them with fines
19:3519 minutes, 35 secondsranging from just millions to even hundreds of millions of dollars in the case of Yale, coercing them into donating to Jewish nonprofits that fund
19:4419 minutes, 44 secondsso-called anti-semitism initiatives of the kind we just talked about, forcing them to adopt the IHR defi definition
19:5519 minutes, 55 secondswhen evaluating complaints. and accusations leveled at students and professors on campus and even reviewing
20:0220 minutes, 2 secondsand modifying their Middle East studies criteria uh curricula.
20:0720 minutes, 7 secondsOf course, what's built as a fight for civil rights is really a campaign to stamp out criticism of Israel and the USIsrael relationship from the classroom to the quad.
20:2020 minutes, 20 secondsIsrael's supporters insist that all of these costs are worthwhile and justified,
20:2720 minutes, 27 secondsbut they constantly, if you examine what they're saying, their arguments are frequently circular.
20:3420 minutes, 34 secondsFor example, they say that we must support Israel because it's in a region where much of the population is intensely hostile to the United States
20:4220 minutes, 42 secondsgovernment, ignoring the fact that most of that hostility springs from resentment over US support of Israel and particularly how that support has
20:5020 minutes, 50 secondsenabled the subjugation of the Palestinians.
20:5420 minutes, 54 secondsreduced to its core, their argument says the US government has to arm Israel because people in the Middle East hate
21:0121 minutes, 1 secondthe US government because it arms Israel.
21:0621 minutes, 6 secondsWhen they try to justify US support on regional geopolitics, Israel's advocates take us into a real true house of mirrors.
21:1521 minutes, 15 secondsThey'll tell you that Israel is a critical ally because it serves as a bullwark against Iran. Ask them why we need one of those and they'll say,
21:2421 minutes, 24 seconds"Well, Iran is an enemy of Israel." None of that points to any actual US interest.
21:3221 minutes, 32 secondsThis circular logic has a particularly perverse effect when Americans are killed by terrorists motivated by the USIsrael relationship. Like clockwork,
21:4121 minutes, 41 secondsthey'll rush to the nearest microphone and tell you that the incident demonstrates why the United States must support Israel more than ever.
21:5121 minutes, 51 secondsIsrael's advocates also like to insist that Israel is a vital intelligence partner.
21:5721 minutes, 57 secondsHowever, time and again, Israel has used bogus intelligence to maneuver our government and our public into acting on Israel's behalf.
22:0622 minutes, 6 secondsThe Iraq war, who can forget Netanyahu and Congress. There's no question whatsoever that Saddam is feverishly
22:1422 minutes, 14 secondsdeveloping nuclear weapons. Israel's repeatedly fed us bogus intelligence on Iran's nuclear program, including
22:2222 minutes, 22 secondsmanufacturing fake intelligence and then laundering it through organizations like the MEK, so uh so as to mislead the American public.
22:3322 minutes, 33 secondsLast summer, we had during that initial phase of this war that we're in right now, you had Netanyahu coming out with
22:4022 minutes, 40 secondsthis ridiculous claim in the hours after the attack was launched. He said, "We have recently learned that Iran was
22:4822 minutes, 48 secondsplanning to give nuclear weapons. It would develop in the future to terrorist proxies." Nobody believed it. And then he never said it again. He just throws
22:5722 minutes, 57 secondsit out there and sees if it sticks. This is our partner.
23:0123 minutes, 1 secondNow, of course, the world is kneedeep in the consequences of fake toxic Israeli intelligence. In a mid-february briefing
23:0823 minutes, 8 secondsthat will live in infamy, the MSAD told Trump that Iran's ballistic missile capability would be gone in a couple of
23:1523 minutes, 15 secondsweeks, that the Iranian people would rise up against the government, that Kurds and Iraq might come across the border and invade, opening up another
23:2423 minutes, 24 secondsfront, that there was little chance Iran would be able to hit bases in nearby countries, US bases, that Iran would be,
23:3223 minutes, 32 secondsget this, too weak to close the straight of Hormuz.
23:3523 minutes, 35 secondsThank you, vital intelligence partner and greatest ally in the region.
23:4223 minutes, 42 secondsBy the way, this ridiculous war for Israel isn't just weakening us economically, but also militarily, putting a huge dent in our readiness for any other potential conflicts.
23:5423 minutes, 54 secondsOver the past seven weeks, the Pentagon has blown through half of its global Patriot missile inventory.
24:0124 minutes, 1 secondIn fact, in just the first four days of this latest conflict, the US fired more Patriot missiles than the United States has given to Ukraine in four years.
24:1224 minutes, 12 secondsThe Pentagon has also blown through almost half of its precision strike missiles, half of its THAD anti-bballistic missiles, and nearly a
24:1924 minutes, 19 secondsthird of its Tomahawk missiles. That will take years to replenish, and lots of money, of course, to the benefit of the military-industrial complex.
24:2824 minutes, 28 secondsWhen Israel actually has valuable intelligence, it doesn't always rush to hand it over. Sometimes it stops to
24:3524 minutes, 35 secondsconsider whether Israel might be better off leaving America vulnerable.
24:4024 minutes, 40 secondsAccording to former MSAD agent Victor Ostrovski, that's what happened with that 1983 bombing of the Marine barracks
24:4724 minutes, 47 secondsin Beirut. He said the MSAD had learned that Shiite milit militants were constructing an enormous bomb of a whole different scale than what they had seen.
24:5624 minutes, 56 secondsFrom its size, they concluded it must be destined for a US target. However, he says the MSAD figured that a devastating attack on the United States would be
25:0525 minutes, 5 secondsbeneficial to Israel as it would help build American animus against the Arab world.
25:1225 minutes, 12 secondsAnd so, rather than provide details, the MSAD merely provided a vague warning to cover Israel's back and let the attack proceed.
25:2125 minutes, 21 secondsFor those who claim Israel is a vital intelligence partner, they ignore the fact that is also an huge intelligence
25:2925 minutes, 29 secondsadversary, spying on America to an extent that's far beyond what other supposed allies undertake.
25:3725 minutes, 37 secondsFormer CIA officer John Kuryaku likes to talk about when he first came on board.
25:4325 minutes, 43 secondsHe was told the FBI had identified 187 undeclared Israeli intelligence officers spying inside the United States, more
25:5125 minutes, 51 seconds[clears throat] than the KGB, most of them working to steal military secrets.
25:5825 minutes, 58 secondsIn 2014, a congressional staffer received a briefing on the scope of Israeli spying on America and said it
26:0626 minutes, 6 secondswas quote very sobering, alarming, even terrifying.
26:1226 minutes, 12 secondsAnd speaking of alarming things, one of the most alarming revelations from Edward Snowden was that the NSA was
26:2026 minutes, 20 secondsroutinely feeding raw intelligence to Israel that included intercepted phone calls and emails of American citizens
26:2826 minutes, 28 secondswith Israel merely promising not to do anything nefarious with it. And there's no reason to think that ever stopped.
26:3626 minutes, 36 secondsAnd don't forget Jonathan Pard, arguably the most damaging spy in the history of
26:4226 minutes, 42 secondsour country. 360 cubic feet of documents carried out in suitcases at a time from
26:5126 minutes, 51 secondsthe CIA, NSA, State Department, Department of Justice.
26:5826 minutes, 58 secondsAnd this included intelligence that had nothing to do with Israel security. in particular intelligence about how the United States tracked Soviet subs.
27:1027 minutes, 10 secondsOur intelligence, many of them concluded that this was part this this was intelligence that Israel then passed on
27:1727 minutes, 17 secondsto get deals with the Soviet Union on the side. And of course, what happened after he got out of prison?
27:2527 minutes, 25 secondsMega GOP donor and pro-Israel advocate Sheldon Aden puts him on his private plane and flies him to Tel Aviv where
27:3427 minutes, 34 secondshe's greeted on the tarmac by Benjamin Netanyahu, giving him a simultaneously giving him a hero's welcome and showing his utter
27:4227 minutes, 42 secondscontempt for the benefactor that he manipulates and plunders.
27:4927 minutes, 49 secondsThis is our vital intelligence partner.
27:5427 minutes, 54 secondsAnd let me ask, what kind of intelligence partner was Israel to the men of the USS Liberty?
28:0228 minutes, 2 secondsIn June 1967, it was the most sophisticated spy ship in the world, operating in international waters, the
28:1028 minutes, 10 secondsEastern Mediterranean, as the six-day war was unfolding.
28:1728 minutes, 17 secondsAnd then the state of Israel launched a devastating attack on that ship, killing 34 people. wounding 170.
28:2728 minutes, 27 secondsAnd let's be clear, this was not some ill-considered shot in the middle of the night. This was a prolonged multi-wave
28:3628 minutes, 36 secondsattack on a clearly marked ship in broad daylight using a succession of bombers and torpedo boats.
28:4728 minutes, 47 secondsWhile the motive is unclear, some think perhaps a false flag to trigger the United States to engage in the war and
28:5428 minutes, 54 secondsuh attack Egypt. Perhaps what we saw after in the aftermath was a
29:0229 minutes, 2 secondsdisgraceful treatment of the survivors and the memories of the men who perished. A sham investigation rapidly
29:1029 minutes, 10 secondsundertaken to dismiss any notion that this was an intentional attack.
29:1629 minutes, 16 secondsBut the survivors fight on all these years later and Phil Turney sir is with us here and I'd ask you sir again to stand and be recognized. We're with you.
29:2829 minutes, 28 seconds[applause]
29:3629 minutes, 36 secondsThen there are the fluffier justifications of the USIsrael relationship.
29:4229 minutes, 42 secondsWe're told that we have to support Israel because it's the only democracy in the region. Yes, Israel has elections, but it's ridiculous to hold it out as a beacon of democracy.
29:5329 minutes, 53 secondsBecause the privilege of voting is enjoyed by perhaps only half of the people that live under Israeli domination. For
30:0230 minutes, 2 secondsall the talk of Israeli ambitions to annex the West Bank and Gaza, the reality is that Israel has been ruling over everything between the river and
30:1130 minutes, 11 secondsthe sea for 58 years. And the millions of Palestinian Muslims and Christians living in those territories don't get a voice in Israel's so-called exemplary
30:2030 minutes, 20 secondsdemocracy. Those in the West Bank, even worse, live under a form of martial law
30:2730 minutes, 27 secondsthat subjects them to indefinite detention in Israeli military prisons and their cases adjudicated by military
30:3430 minutes, 34 secondstribunals. They're politically powerless as they're prayed upon by violent and depraved settlers and endure unending
30:4230 minutes, 42 secondshumiliations at the end at the hands of the IDF soldiers.
30:4730 minutes, 47 secondsWe're also told we have to support Israel because we're two countries united by shared values.
30:5530 minutes, 55 secondsLet's think about this claim of shared values in light of the absolute horror show that we've seen in Gaza and Lebanon.
31:0331 minutes, 3 secondsAnd keep in mind that some of these worst allegations come from IDF soldiers themselves. We've seen the systematic
31:0931 minutes, 9 secondsbuilding by building eraser of towns, villages, farmers fields, factories, schools, universities. The purposeful
31:1931 minutes, 19 secondsdeprivation of food and medicine. 2,000 pound bombs recklessly dropped in densely populated
31:2631 minutes, 26 secondsareas. Lethal weapons used as crowd control at food distribution points.
31:3331 minutes, 33 secondsdrones dropping grenades on clearly unarmed Palestinians merely wandering into unmarked no-go zones.
31:4331 minutes, 43 secondsPalestinians used as human shields to clear buildings.
31:4831 minutes, 48 secondsIntentional attacks on ambulance convoys and hospitals. Over 75,000 dead in Gaza and counting.
31:5831 minutes, 58 secondsVolunteer doctors from around the world have been astonished.
32:0232 minutes, 2 secondsthose who've traveled to Gaza by what they've seen coming into their clinics and hospitals.
32:0932 minutes, 9 secondsUnmistakable patterns of deliberate gunfire on civilians to include children.
32:1632 minutes, 16 secondsA British surgeon returned from Gaza and he recounted observing strange clusters
32:2232 minutes, 22 secondsof similar wounds. One day they'd see an unusual number of head shots. The next day the ad ab abdomen. The day after
32:3232 minutes, 32 secondsthat, the groin. He concluded that IDF soldiers were playing some kind of game.
32:4032 minutes, 40 secondsAs Daniel mentioned, the IDF routinely targets journalists. And according to Brown University, the war in Gaza has killed more
32:4932 minutes, 49 secondsjournalists than the Civil War, World War I, World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War combined.
32:5732 minutes, 57 secondsAnd yet another one as Daniel told that horrible tale just perished again this last week.
33:0533 minutes, 5 secondsThen we've observed this perverted IDF social media trend with male soldiers going into the homes abandoned by
33:1533 minutes, 15 secondsPalestinians dressing up in their lingerie and underwear and posting it on social media.
33:2433 minutes, 24 secondsAnd it isn't just the IDF.
33:2733 minutes, 27 secondsIsraeli society is increasingly depraved, too.
33:3133 minutes, 31 secondsIn a poll last summer, 82% of Israeli Jews said they support the forced expulsion of Gaza's Palestinian
33:3933 minutes, 39 secondspopulation to other countries. Ethnic cleansing. 82%.
33:4433 minutes, 44 seconds56 want to forcibly expel all Arabs that are inside what is now considered
33:5233 minutes, 52 secondsIsrael, inside that part that was supposed to be this valued democracy. They want them out.
33:5933 minutes, 59 secondsBefore I share this next poll result, I want to emphasize something. This is not some throwaway social media poll or a
34:0634 minutes, 6 secondsFacebook poll of some extreme group in inside Israel. This is a poll conducted by Penn State University and
34:1534 minutes, 15 secondsMaryland, University of Maryland professors and published in Israel's oldest newspaper. Listen to this poll question. quote, "When conquering an
34:2534 minutes, 25 secondsenemy city, should the IDF act in a manner similar to the way the is Israelites acted when they conquered Jericho under the leadership of Joshua,
34:3434 minutes, 34 secondsnamely to kill all its inhabitants." 47% of Israeli Jews said, "Yes, kill
34:4134 minutes, 41 secondsthem all." These are not values anyone in this room shares. And as much as American society
34:4834 minutes, 48 secondshas its flaws, I'm certain it doesn't mirror the values of most Americans.
34:5534 minutes, 55 secondsFrom a global relations perspective, it's hard to imagine a worse thing to proclaim than that America shares Israel's values.
35:0635 minutes, 6 secondsNow, I want to tell you there is something wonderful about the USIsrael relationship.
35:1235 minutes, 12 secondsIn a major sea change, the American people are increasingly fed up with it.
35:2035 minutes, 20 seconds[applause]
35:2535 minutes, 25 secondsAccording to a new Pew Research survey, nearly twothirds of Americans view Israel unfavorably. The proportion that
35:3335 minutes, 33 secondsviews Israel very unfavorably has tripled.
35:3735 minutes, 37 secondsAnd though there's a big distinction between the parties, we're even moving towards a bipartisan consensus. 80% of
35:4435 minutes, 44 secondsDemocrats view Israel unfavorably and 41% of Republicans, which is previously unheard of.
35:5335 minutes, 53 secondsAnd those trends are only going to strengthen.
35:5735 minutes, 57 secondsWhen you look at Republicans under 50, 57% of them view Israel unfavorably, a clear majority.
36:0436 minutes, 4 secondsAnd 74% of all Gen Z now say they sympathize more with the Palestinians than with Israel.
36:1336 minutes, 13 secondsAnd in this election year, there's another remarkable development. Reacting to that sea change in the electorate,
36:2036 minutes, 20 secondsmore and more politicians, almost all of them Democrats at this point, are promising not to accept money from the Israel lobby and attacking their opponents who do.
36:3336 minutes, 33 secondsAt the same
36:3736 minutes, 37 seconds[applause]
36:4036 minutes, 40 secondsat the same time, false accusations of anti-semitism, which have been wielded like a dagger against a long line of American patriots, are losing their
36:4936 minutes, 49 secondsimpact. Accusations that once drew political blood, today increasingly draw defiance and outright ridicule.
36:5836 minutes, 58 secondsThese accusations have been wielded against me for what I've written. and know they'll be wielded against me for what I've spoken here today.
37:0737 minutes, 7 secondsBut I've got news for Benjamin Netanyahu and Mark Levvin and politicians rented
37:1337 minutes, 13 secondsby mega donors like Miriam Adamatory Anti-Defamation League. With every
37:2437 minutes, 24 secondsmalicious jab of that dagger, the blade only grows duller.
37:3137 minutes, 31 seconds[applause]
37:3537 minutes, 35 secondsI began my tale with a I began with a tale for my post deployment invasion post, excuse me, my post invasion
37:4337 minutes, 43 secondsdeployment to Panama that wasn't part of Operation Just Cause. It had another name, one that would prove somehow prophetic for a
37:5237 minutes, 52 seconds22-year-old Army lieutenant who would years later embrace the philosophy of Ron Paul. It was called Operation Promote Liberty.
38:0238 minutes, 2 seconds[laughter]
38:0438 minutes, 4 seconds[applause]
38:0638 minutes, 6 secondsBut now it's time for all Americans of all political stripes, progressives, real conservatives, libertarians,
38:1338 minutes, 13 secondsheck, we'll take the socialists, everybody's in the pool, to unite in a broad coalition to promote a particular form of liberty. Liberty from foreign
38:2338 minutes, 23 secondsinfluence, which George Washington called one of the most baneful foes of republican government. Liberty from the relentless redistribution of American
38:3138 minutes, 31 secondswealth from this nearly insolvent empire to one of the most well-off countries in the world. Liberty for America first
38:4038 minutes, 40 secondspatriots who must no longer be vilified and slandered as anti-semites for merely opposing the most entangling of America's alliances.
38:4938 minutes, 49 secondsLiberty from terrorism motivated by American support of Israel and America's catastrophic interventions on its behalf.
38:5838 minutes, 58 secondsAnd liberty for America patriotic American service members who must no longer be sent to lose their lives and
39:0539 minutes, 5 secondslimbs and minds in amoral wars carried out to advance the agenda of an undemocratic expansionist apartheid state. Thank you very much.
39:1739 minutes, 17 seconds[applause]
39:1839 minutes, 18 secondsThank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
39:2639 minutes, 26 secondsThank you so [applause] much.
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<요약>
본 강연은 전직 미 육군 장교이자 StarkRealities.net의 설립자인 브라이언 맥글린치(Brian McGlinchey)가 2026년 4월 25일 론 폴 평화·프로스페리티 연구소 컨퍼런스에서 연설한 내용을 담고 있다
<개인적 경험과 이스라엘과의 관계 파악> 맥글린치는 1989년 미국의 파나마 침공 직후 파나마 파병 당시, 이스라엘이 이미 미국의 침공 계획을 파나마 측에 알려주었다는 사실을 파나마 장교로부터 듣고 미국-이스라엘 관계의 실체에 대해 의문을 품기 시작했다
. 그는 미국이 자국의 국익보다 이스라엘의 지오폴리틱스 아젠다를 우선시하며 예속적 태도를 보인다고 지적한다 . <경제적·재정적 비용 및 법적 문제> 미국은 이스라엘에 양해각서(MOU)상 연간 38억 달러 이상의 군사 지원을 제공하며, 추가 승인을 통해 그 금액은 더욱 늘어난다
. 이스라엘은 2차 세계대전 이후 미국 외교 지원금의 가장 큰 수혜국이다 . 또한, 미국은 이스라엘의 안보 협력을 위해 이집트와 요르단에도 막대한 지원금을 지급하고 있다 . 맥글린치는 이스라엘이 핵비확산조약(NPT)에 서명하지 않은 핵보유국이므로, 미국 법(글렌 및 심밍턴 수정조항)상 이스라엘에 대한 미 지원은 법률 위반에 해당한다고 주장한다 . <인적·군사적·경제적 제재의 비용> 미국은 이스라엘의 중동 내 우위를 보장하기 위해 이라크, 시리아 등에서 정권 교체 전쟁을 수행했으며, 이는 수조 달러의 예산 소모와 수많은 미군 및 중동 민간인의 사망·부상을 초래했다
. 또한 이스라엘을 위한 경제 제재(이라크, 이란 등)는 상대국 국민과 어린이들에게 극심한 인도주의적 폐해를 가져왔다 . <안보 및 안보 협력 신화 비판> 이스라엘이 유용한 정보 파트너라는 주장에 대해, 맥글린치는 이스라엘이 가짜 정보를 제공하여 미국을 전쟁으로 유도하거나(이라크전, 이란 핵 관련 거짓 정보), 미군을 겨냥한 테러 정황(1983년 베이루트 해병대 미사일 폭격)을 알고도 방조했다고 지적한다
. 또한 이스라엘은 미국을 상대로 광범위한 첩보 활동(조나단 폴라드 사건 등)을 벌여온 주요 정보 대립국이기도 하다 . <표현의 자유 및 표현 제한 문제> 미국 내 이스라엘 로비는 정부 및 사법 체계를 무기화하여 이스라엘에 대한 비판과 보이콧 활동을 탄압하고 있다
. IHRA(국제홀로코스트기억연대)의 반세미티즘 정의를 도입함으로써 이스라엘 비판을 반유대주의로 모함하고, 대학 및 민간 영역에서의 표현의 자유를 침해하고 있다고 주장한다 . <여론의 변화와 결론> 맥글린치는 점차 더 많은 미국인, 특히 젊은 세대와 여론이 이스라엘에 대해 부정적인 시각을 갖게 되고 있다고 언급한다
. 그는 미국이 외국 세력의 영향력과 무의미한 중동 개입에서 벗어나 미국 우선주의와 참된 자유를 회복해야 한다고 촉구하며 연설을 마무리한다 .
<평론>
브라이언 맥글린치의 연설은 미국 외교 정책에서 가장 성역화되어 온 <미국-이스라엘 특수 관계>에 대한 정면 비판이자, 리버테리어니즘 및 고립주의적 안보관에 기반한 통렬한 문제 제기이다
본 연설의 강점은 이스라엘에 대한 무조건적 지원이 가져오는 비용을 명확한 수치와 법적 근거, 역사적 사례를 통해 제시한다는 점이다
그러나 맥글린치의 논지에는 외교 전략적 맥락을 다소 단편화하거나 극단적으로 해석하는 한계도 존재한다. 미국과 이스라엘의 관계를 단순한 <종속>이나 <외국 로비에 의한 피배>로 규정하는 시각은, 중동 지역 내에서 미국이 누려온 전략적 자산, 정보 공유, 군사적 기지 역할 등 복합적인 지오폴리틱스적 이익을 과소평가하는 경향이 있다. 또한 9·11 테러나 기타 중동 내 분쟁의 원인을 전적으로 이스라엘 지원으로 단선화하는 것은 이슬람 극단주의의 내부적·이념적 역동성을 지나치게 단순화했다는 지적을 받을 수 있다
그럼에도 불구하고, 이 연설은 미국 내 언론과 정치권에서 오랫동안 담론화되기 어려웠던 주제를 수면 위로 올려놓았다는 점에서 중요한 의의를 갖는다
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