By: Cliff Kincaid
I bought Canadian Warren Kinsella’s book on the war against Israel and the Jews, but it turns out that he is affected by TDS, and he now accuses President Trump of betraying Israel in the Iran deal and losing the war. Jewish conservative commentator Ben Shapiro claimed the deal “appears to be, just from the text, a disaster that does not achieve any of the actual signal goals that were set by the administration at the beginning.”
I have got news for Kinsella and other supporters of Israel (myself included): America didn’t go to war against Iran on behalf of Israel.
Justice (revenge) for the murder of hundreds of American soldiers in the Middle East by Iran has been achieved. The top Ayatollah and his cronies were eliminated, paving the way for genuine reform and an opportunity for the people themselves in the country to organize a revolution.
One thing is clear: Israel’s nuclear arsenal was not an effective deterrent to Iran developing a nuclear weapon. America alone destroyed Iran’s nuclear weapons program.
Israel is talking tough, with Israeli national security expert Dan Schueftan saying the Jewish state is the “only real power in this region that is committed to fighting the radicals.” But Senator Roger Marshall was correct in noting that the alternative to a deal at this point was “boots on the ground” involving thousands of American troops in Iran.
However, those now criticizing the deal, such as the disgraced anti-MAGA Texas Republican Senator John Cornyn, are reluctant to openly advocate for more American blood and treasure to topple the remaining remnants of the regime.
The critics compare the deal to Barack Hussein Obama’s nuclear arrangement with Iran, but this is a lie. Obama never bombed Iran; Trump did, and he threatens more bombing if the regime doesn’t comply with the terms.
America First, Not Israel First
The nuclear-armed Jewish state collaborated with the United States, but Israel was not in charge. However, Trump eliminated Iran’s nuclear program, and that benefited Israel. But the main beneficiary was the United States, under attack by the regime in Iran for 47 years, producing thousands of our wounded warriors and war dead from other Middle East conflicts.
Ironically, Kinsella is working on a documentary, The Campaign, about Iran’s dominance in the propaganda war, and he is now getting caught up in that campaign, to the detriment of Israel. Those who are cooperating with him should understand what they are getting into.
The CFR journal Foreign Affairs has run a story under the headline, “Iran Won the War but May Lose the Peace,” which is bizarre considering that U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) Commander Navy Admiral Brad Coopery says the Iranian navy will not begin to rebuild for five to 10 years. This is Iran “winning the war?” Its nuclear weapons program has been decimated. Winning the war?
Conservatives Swallow Iranian Propaganda
As Kinsella suggests, Iranian propaganda has saturated the American and global media. Consider the Iranian claim, regurgitated by the New York Times, that a U.S. strike killed 168 children, mostly girls, on the first day of the conflict. Cooper noted that the school was located on an active Iranian cruise missile base.
Islamists like those in Iran and elsewhere typically hide their weapons in civilian areas, even schools and hospitals.
However, Israel supporter Kinsella’s book favorably quotes former president Barack Hussein Obama (page 174), and he personally wrote the book, Fight the Right: A Manual for Surviving the Coming Conservative Apocalypse. He was a strategist for the Liberal Party in power in Canada.
By the way, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney now concedes the Trump deal with Iran is “a game changer” and “well-structured.”
The G-7 released a statement, “We welcome the announcement of a deal between the United States and Iran, secured under the strong leadership of President Trump, with the support of mediating countries, which provides an historic opportunity to prevent Iran from acquiring any nuclear weapon and tackling the threats related to its regional and ballistic activities. We support and are ready to contribute to its implementation.”
Yet Kinsella posts a made-up photo of Trump wearing a cap, “Make the IRGC great again.”
This constitutes defamation. In his first term, Trump authorized a U.S. drone strike in Baghdad that successfully killed IRGC commander Qassem Soleimani. Israel was never on board with the strike in the first place, but praised it after the fact.
Israel Supporters Turn on Trump
It’s a shame that Kinsella suffers from TDS because many points in his book are valid. In fact, he quotes Trump favorably on two separate occasions. He quotes an expert applauding the Trump Administration’s “decision to threaten the withholding of federal grants” to American universities practicing antisemitism and (page 184) notes the validity of Trump’s attack on the fake news media.
But he advertises a T-shirt that says, “Donald Trump Is An Asshole.”
No wonder the U.S. is so disappointed with Canada and other “allies.”
Let us understand what our U.S. President accomplished.
Call it revenge, but Trump exercised the right of self-defense on behalf of America and, in the process, decimated Iran’s weapons program, eliminating most of the regime’s military infrastructure. Iranian targets included IRGC command and control facilities, Iranian air defense capabilities, missile and drone launch sites, and military airfields.
“With 90% of its defense industrial base destroyed, Iran won’t be able to reconstitute those weapons for years,” Navy Admiral Brad Cooper, Centcom commander, said. “The defense industrial base for their drones and their missiles in their navy was degraded by 90%; they have about 10% left,” he told lawmakers. “My military assessment would be that the [Iranian] navy will not begin to rebuild for five to 10 years.”
“In less than 40 days, Centcom forces achieved our military objectives,” Cooper explained. “Most notably, we degraded Iran’s ability to project power outside its borders and threaten the region and threaten our interests.”
You would think a supporter of Israel, like Kinsella, would offer a word of thanks.
The Impact of American Bombing
Admiral Cooper testified that no resources or equipment are flowing from Iran to terrorist proxies. Furthermore, he said Centcom works with partners in the region on shared security goals. That benefits Israel.
The latter is key. In this deal now under discussion, most of the Arab/Muslim world has come together to join with the United States to put pressure on Iran. Many of them were attacked by Iran.
By contrast, the same Gulf states opposed the Obama administration’s 2015 Iran nuclear agreement (JCPOA). Indeed, Arab states feared that the United States was tilting toward Iran with the agreement and therefore wanted a defense pact with the U.S. to protect them from a nuclear Iran.
All of that has changed.
In his March 2015 address to the U.S. Congress, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned that the Obama agreement would not impede Iran’s ability to develop a nuclear weapon. He said, “This deal has two major concessions: one, leaving Iran with a vast nuclear program; and two, lifting the restrictions on that program in about a decade. That is why this deal is so bad. It doesn’t block Iran’s path to the bomb; it paves Iran’s path to the bomb.”
Trump’s remark about Syria playing a role against Hezbollah is significant in this regard. The leaders of Syria, who are Sunni, have major problems with the Syrian branch of the Shi’a Lebanese militia Hezbollah. That faction lost the Syrian civil war.
This new approach by the Trump Administration benefits Israel as well.
Kinsella’s book relies greatly on the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) for information. But that citation is not warranted, for the organization smears conservative Christians.
ADL Targeted Charlie Kirk
Once considered an authority on antisemitism, it has changed over the years. Dr. Mary Grabar has exposed its transformation into a source of smears against conservatives in her article, “The Anti-Defamation League: Thuggery Under Cover of Fighting Anti-Semitism,” noting that the ADL had included Turning Point and its founder, Charlie Kirk, in their “Glossary of Extremism and Hate.”
“Using such false and defamatory labels about people and organizations encourages murder,” Elon Musk wrote on X.
Charlie Kirk was assassinated by a homosexual partner of a transgender person on September 10, 2025.
Regarding the war, Kinsella claims, “Iran is getting billions. Its homicidal regime is intact, worse than ever before. It keeps its weapons-grade uranium. It gets to keep its proxy armies in Hamas and Hezbollah. It is getting de facto control of the Strait of Hormuz and has been transformed into a regional superpower.”
None of this is true.
Number one: the Gulf Arab states will provide funds based on whether the regime is reformed and complies with American demands.
Second, the uranium is buried in the ground.
Third, the U.S. has maintained control of the strait. The U.S. naval blockade of Iran halted all maritime economic trade entering and exiting Iranian coastal ports.
Fourth, a regional superpower? If Iran had developed and deployed a nuclear weapon, that could have been the case. Iran did not “control” the strait beforehand because it didn’t want any disruptions to its nuclear weapons program.
Today, the country is an economic basket case without a Navy.
Trump’s only regret has to be that the people did not rise up in revolt. However, it was never the U.S. obligation to send our soldiers into Iran to overthrow the regime.
As noted, Kinsella is a Canadian, which is significant since Canada maintained an official policy of non-involvement in Operation Epic Fury, the war with Iran.
But he attacks America and says nothing about Canada’s failure to support the war. Perhaps that is because, according to Canadian war veteran Lloyd Leugner, Canada’s “new military force is a disgrace.” He cites a report based on leaked documents exposing “collapsing standards in Canadian Armed Forces recruitment, as a spike in non-citizen applicants fuels training breakdowns, language barriers and reported ethnic tensions.”
Kinsella is not a spokesman for the survival of Israel or for Canada. He needs help with his TDS.
- Cliff Kincaid is president of America’s Survival, Inc. www.usasurvival.org
