Matt Gaetz scapegoats Israel

A regular guest on Fox News programming, the once familiar face of former US congressman Matt Gaetz suddenly stopped appearing back in the spring of 2021, amidst allegations of his involvement in underage prostitution, committing statutory rape and illicit drug use.

After Gaetz’s lengthy absence, Tucker Carlson, who, back then, still had his evening news show on the Fox network, allowed him to come on and offer an explanation for the multiple incriminating charges against him which threatened his career and could also have serious legal consequences for the Florida congressman.

Although Carlson ended the segment with an incredulous sigh, as if to doubt all that had been said, the dismissed Fox evening host now seems to find Gaetz’s testimony useful, since it serves to accuse Israel for having been the culprit behind all of the former congressman’s legal woes. 

This is the new pattern. Whether it’s a clever ploy to keep himself in the limelight, as a relevant voice or a concerted attempt to draw more conservatives into his complex web of Israel conspiracies, Tucker seems to bring to light some new revelation where Israel is painted as the bad guy.

In this particular case, Gaetz explains that “his father had been approached by an Israeli consulate worker with images of him with underage prostitutes, seeking $25 million and aid in securing the rescue of a US spy in Iran.”

From this, Gaetz deduces that “It was an op to silence me and Israel was involved.” Although Florida resident, Stephen Alford, the particular Israeli consulate worker, pled guilty in attempting to defraud Gaetz’s father, there is no evidence linking those criminal acts to either the Israeli government or the Israeli consulate itself.

Nonetheless, Matt Gaetz concludes, with great assurance, that since Alford was “getting paid by the Israeli government, they had to have been involved in a criminal shakedown.”

With no corroborating facts or substantiating evidence, but merely an accusation based on speculation, it leaves us to question Gaetz’s motives, because although he categorically denies having engaged in the acts of which he is accused, he never quite explains the presence of images which apparently show him together with an underaged prostitute.  Shouldn’t that indisputable evidence be clarified before pronouncing a guilty verdict upon Israel?

Interestingly, Gaetz contends that Israel did this to him, as a result of “his isolationist foreign policy.” But as we’ve come to understand the meaning of that term, used by others who champion the “America First” agenda, it more translates into an “America Only” policy, which rejects assisting any other nations if it means using American resources to do so.

In short, their position is that America has no business bailing out other countries by either employing their military assets or earmarking part of its budget to help strengthen the position of foreign nations.

But similar to other isolationists, Gaetz ignorantly dismisses two crucially important factors.  Israel has massively helped the U.S., both through its advanced technology and weaponry, which has enhanced the American military machine, as well as boosting their intelligence capabilities by the vital information it shares. 

In that sense, Israel has more than earned their worthiness of American assistance, just on that level alone. But add to that the intense front-line fighting which the Jewish state has conducted over the last two years.  

Battling the world’s number one enemy – Islamic extremism, via Hamas, Houthis and Hezbollah, this is a war which the world would have to take on, itself, were it not for the willingness of Israel to do the hard lift.

Isolationists somehow fail to appreciate the scope of Islamic terrorism that is being planned throughout the world on a daily basis. Their myopic view of America, being immune from these same massacres and attacks, is not based on the reality of millions of terrorists who were able to breach the open borders, allowing the threat to pour in over the course of several years.

Now, as these foreigners settle in, being aided financially by progressive political leaders, there is nothing preventing them from planning a mass-scale attack on Americans, the likes of nothing that’s ever been seen. If that should happen, to whom will U.S. officials turn? 

More than likely to Israel who has decades of experience overcoming such atrocities which they, themselves suffered at the hands of terrorists. When it comes to understanding the mindset of Islamic extremists, no one has a greater edge than Israel.

It is because of this symbiotic, long-term relationship that both countries need one another more than ever! This is a time that each can be mutually helpful, and for isolationists, such as Gaetz, to not recognize that is to gravely imperil the threatening situation for the citizens of both nations, not to mention the entire world.

The great pity is that Tucker Carlson keeps booking willing guests to come on his show in order to cast aspersions upon the only democracy in the Middle East as well as the people who share the same ethnicity. In the end, all it does is plant the seeds of suspicion to an audience that is primed to hear that kind of speculative garbage. 

It undermines confidence and furthers the rumor mill of why no one should trust the Jewish people or the nation which has never hesitated to come to the assistance of any country which has found itself in desperate need after undergoing catastrophe.

Sadly, when someone has a platform, allowing them to bring in guests who share their same brand of questionable ideology, they are able to amplify their message all the more.  

In fact, it doesn’t matter if the guests, themselves are Holocaust deniers, white supremacists or, in this case, a man who has been accused of statutory rape and illicit drug use. 

An audience that already has its own pre-conceived bias against Jews will listen intently, even to people whose toxic opinions have discredited them. It seems that those are the only kind of individuals who are willing to go on Tucker Carlson’s show.  Birds of a feather, definitely flock together!