Poor Jamal Khashoggi is dead, and perhaps dismembered. A Saudi “hit team” reportedly traveled to the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, Turkey; lured Khashoggi into the building; and then either murdered him or, more gently, allowed him to expire during a “botched interrogation.” The Western world is aflame in feigned self-righteous anger, pretending to be enraged that such a thing could happen, and the American president is being pushed hard to punish Saudi Arabia.

Now, clearly, Khashoggi’s luck ran out. After paling around with Osama bin Laden and traveling with and giving positive media coverage to the Mujahedin – anti-American services that made him a must-have for the Washington Post – he launched steady public criticism of Crown Prince Muhammed bin Salman, the heir to the Saudi throne. When he would not stop, he paid the price that many Saudi dissidents before him have paid. The only difference between the prior dead and the dead Khashoggi is that the Saudis made the mistake of killing the latter sloppily in Turkey, instead of quietly at home.

This sort of behavior is not unusual in the Islamic world, although the published media pieces about this sort of extraterritorial lethal operation more often than not describe Israel’s Mossad entering Muslim countries and killing one or another of Israel’s countless Muslim enemies. Remember how loud the world’s outspoken and lasting condemnation of the Mossad’s international murders has been? Oh, yes, that’s right, there has been none.

For the United States, it is hard to understand why the Congress should be bent out of shape over the fact that Khashoggi got bumped off. It does not seem that Khashoggi was a U.S. citizen, and these days one less writer for the Washington Post is a small step toward the republic’s survival.

No one, I suppose, approves of the Saudi’s action, but it comes down to an illegal action taken by the Saudis on Turkish soil, and the Turks must have a law that addresses the occurrence. Let them deal with the Saudis in a Turkish court. The legal case should be easily won, as all signs so far show the Saudis killed Khashoggi

Americans must understand, however, that the uproar they are seeing and hearing in Congress over the Khashoggi affair has absolutely nothing to with its sympathy for the murdered man and his family. Had the Israelis killed Khashoggi, Americans would have heard crickets, at most, from their own politicians and media and all of Europe’s.

What Americans are hearing in the spreading demand for harsh sanctions against Saudi Arabia are the voices in the Congress and Western media who are paid for their support by Israel via pro-Israel Jewish-American leaders and their advocacy organizations, entities that have a peculiarly malign power – in the forms of campaign contributions and media coverage – in the final weeks before the mid-term elections. The Israel-trained seals in Congress are now slapping fins and barking against the Saudis as ordered by their pay masters and election manipulators.

The basis for this current Israeli intervention in the conduct of America’s foreign policy and its coming election is definitely not poor, old Khahsoggi. Instead, his timely death is being used as cover for the Israeli-subsidiary called Congress to apply sanctions to block the pending sale of $110 billion worth of U.S.-made arms to Saudi Arabia. The Israelis and their disloyal Jewish-American compatriots are seeking to scuttle that deal in order to defend Israel.

For these Israeli, Jewish-American, and congressional/media enemies of the republic, it is damn the American workers who will lose work if the deal fails, and damn whatever impact a successful attack on the deal might have on the U.S. economy and the price of oil.

Their screeching anti-Saudi rhetoric has nothing to do with avenging Khashoggi’s life, protecting human rights, or enforcing international law. It has only to do with making sure that Israel’s recent, blatant intervention in U.S. foreign affairs and elections – via the disloyal Jewish-Americans and those they control in Congress – continues to maintain the fact that U.S. decision-making in the Islamic world is controlled by a nation-state that is irrelevant to, and the enemy of the genuine national security interests of the American republic.

I carry no brief for the Saudis, they are bastards, deceitful, murderous, and have knowingly caused substantial pain and loss for the United States for decades. But we should not attack them if the only certain victims of the action will be Americans and their families, and the only sure beneficiaries will be Israel and disloyal Jewish-Americans.

There can be no “America First”, Mr. Trump, until you can reduce the influence of Israel, and its well-paid American-citizen shills, on U.S. foreign policy to the level of that currently enjoyed by, say, Sierra Leone. That is, to near nil.