America; Enemies to the Left of us. Enemies to the Right. Stuck in the Middle Alone.

Barry Shaw | The View from Israel | Sep 01, 2026

I recently published a report on the decay of the English-speaking Western democracies caused by the mass import of alien cultures whose negative impact can clearly be seen in the type of behavior once thought impossible in advanced Western societies.

The phenomenon, named by political psychologist, Gad Saad, as “suicidal empathy” shows us how people who once proclaimed themselves as “progressive” and “liberal” have unleashed the most regressive ideas on their societies as they whip off their progressive masks and reveal themselves to be hardened Communists, Marxists, and Islamists.

Can there be any clearer example of suicidal empathy than in New York where, within a lifetime, Islamic terrorists flew planes into the Twin Towers killing over three thousand New Yorkers, yet New Yorkers voted in a radical Communist with an Islamist mindset to be their mayor.

The warning was there, in the scarred skyline of the Big Apple, yet they elected someone who shares the same political and religious bent as the murderous hijackers.

Suicidal empathy personified.

These aggressively ambitious Marxist-Islamists, and it goes much deeper and wider in America that just Mamdani, not only have ambitions to radically change – some would say destroy – America. They have a rabid hatred of Israel with an intense dislike of Jews.

But what of the political Right in America? Should Israel and America be wary of developments on the Right of the American political spectrum?

Sadly, the answer is yes. And the fear is what, or who, will follow Trump into the White House, assuming that the Republicans will take advantage of a Democrat Party in collapse mode, and recent revelations about JD Vance are causing real concerns not only in Israel but in mainstream America.

What is happening on the conservative Right?

In Israel, Emily Shrader’s Axis of Truth on JNS videoed alarming messages including right wing influencers with ties to Qatar being core supporters and potential donors of JD Vance’s Presidential campaign. This has been linked to, from an Israeli perspective, disturbing statements made by Vance, particularly those on foreign policy including US-Israel relations that caused deep concern, to put it mildly, in Jerusalem.

Vance’s friends include Gareth Ventry who, as head of GRV Strategies, was a FARA agent for Qatar receiving, according Yahoo News ‘The Wrap’, $80,000 a month to promote Qatar to the Trump Administration.

Then we have Omid Malek 1989 Capital and an investor in the Tucker Carlson network, and in the Daily Caller, according to Shrader, that was founded by Tucker Carlson. He was bought out and it is now owned by Neil Patel, his business partner, and Patel’s name also pops up in association with TC network of which he was the co-founder.

So, despite the fact that Tucker Carlson left the Daily Caller it is still very much in line with his network, his circle of friends, which are the same circle of friends that circle JD Vance and all this was promoted by the 19^th August RNC fundraiser hosted on the invitation of Omid Malik and Chris Buskirk both of which. Who are in the inner circle of the Qatari affiliated figures. And it should be extremely concerning both in the United States and also in Israel, and there needs to be more transparency because of issues such as foreign influence and foreign subversion this despite FARA laws which require disclosure. But the difference between conversations with regard to Israel and Qatar is that Qatar is an Islamic dictatorship which promotes the Muslim Brotherhood, which is completely antithetical to all of the constitutional values of the United States and that is not the case with Israel whatever one may think about the Israeli government, whatever mistakes have been made, whatever inappropriate comments may have been made, not of that holds a candle to the anti-Western sentiment and plot of Qatar to undermine the entire Western democratic world especially the United States.

MAGA influencer and close Trump ally Laura Loomer also took aim at the event, writing, “Omid Malik, a half Pakistani and half Iranian Muslim, gave Tucker Qatarlson $15 million dollars to launch the Tucker Carlson Network, which has become a platform to spread Holocaust denial, rabid Jew hate, and the promotion of Sharia Law and Islam.”

Loomer wrote that Omeed Malik last November at the Doha Forum in Qatar sitting in the front row when Tucker was giving his speech about how much he loves Islam and Qatar.

Tucker Carson has said he wants to create a 3^rd party with some of his friends naming Joe Kent, Thomas Massie, and Marjorie Taylor Greene about breaking away from the Republican Party.

One has to wonder about JD Vance. He talks about defending Christianity but his brand is Catholicism that has a historic and current stain of being rabidly anti-Semitic.

He has made remarks that Israel has to protect Christian holy sites as if Israel doesn’t do that already. Vance seems unaware that the Christian majority in Bethlehem dropped from over 80% down to less than 12% after Israel was required to hand over control to Arafat’s Palestinian thugs who now control this once Christian town.

If Vance is so concerned about safeguarding Christianity, he has been strangely silent about the disappearance of Christians in Muslim countries, and the current genocide against Christians by Islamic forces in Africa going on right now. And Qatar is one of them. Let’s not talk about Jews. How many Christians are there in Qatar?

Qatar has been pumping billions of dollars into Western countries to pervert their view of the world to the extent that the West has completely lost their traditional civilizational compass, and this loss includes the Judeo-Christian roots of Western civilizations.

We need to remind ourselves that the only place in the Middle East in which the Christian population is growing is in Israel.

Beyond its Hamas connections, Qatar has been criticized for its draconian treatment of women, among other abuses.

According to Human Rights Watch, “Women in Qatar must obtain permission from their male guardians to marry, pursue higher education on government scholarships, work in many government jobs, travel abroad until certain ages, and receive some forms of reproductive health care.”

Morality and traditional values, it seems, can be ignored by both the hard Left and the hard Right of the American political spectrum that are positioning themselves to be hardened anti-Israel influencers.

Why anyone would be paid to influence American decision makers on behalf of Qatar and against Israel, the only liberal democracy is a vast Middle East, is puzzling, if not devious.

I find it hard to believe in America First without also sympathizing with an America-Israel partnership. This is mutually beneficial to both countries based on shared values that simply doesn’t exist in a Qatar, a state that hosted the most malevolent Hamas leaders. This is baffling, no matter how much money this center of the Muslim Brotherhood throws at America.

It is baffling to see an America that wants to see a stronger US-Qatar bond, even at the expense of an intimate Israel-US relationship.

We have to look deeply into the fanatical heart of Qatar, and their core principles, their beliefs, their raison d’etre, which are reflected through their Muslim Brotherhood media, Al Jazeera, to see evidence of everything they accuse Israel of doing they and their allies are doing. Hamas says explicitly what Qatar believes.

It wants to see an end of Israel.

With this in mind, the right-wing branch of the Republican Party, particularly those who are wedded to Qatar, are not ashamed to shoot themselves in the foot.

By that I mean they target Jewish donors to the Republican Party accusing them pf having some sort of malign intent, as if Qatar does not, just as they demonize AIPAC for having a strong US-Israel bond,

Vance faced general questions about his association with Carlson, a former Fox News host who faced a backlash last year for interviewing antisemite Nick Fuentes on his podcast when he attended a meeting with Republican Party Jewish caucus at the Venetian Hotel in Las Vegas in August 2026.

The vice president described his appearance on podcasts as ways to reach as many people as possible, whether he agrees with the host or not,

Bruce Pearl, the former Auburn University men’s basketball coach said of the Vice President after this meeting, “If he continues on a path with Carlson, it’s going to be a problem. But I’m not judging yet, because he has so many phenomenal qualities.”

It is claimed that some of JD Vance’s closest supporters are edging toward splitting the Republican Party, just as the Socialist-Marxists-Islamists are doing to the Democrat Party.

In short, we are witnessing the tragic sight of America ripping itself apart.

This is no longer the United States of America.

That is tragic to those who admired America, but that America is being taken over by those who are truly malevolent to the West.

Namely Qatar and Hamas but also other malevolent actors currently being shmoozed by the current Administration.

The enemies that are being courted include the Turkish dictator Erdogan who increasingly sees himself as a future Ottoman Pasha conquering the part of the Middle East and the prize he covets most – is Israel.

No doubt some of the above influencers will courting, or be courted by, Erdogan.

In short, Qatar and Turkey, together with the new troubling wings of both the Democrat and the Republican parties, are positioning this potential new squeeze on Israel.