UPDATE: Osint613: “A lot of people thought the MOU was a bad agreement. That is not a coordinated influence campaign. It is people expressing their opinions.
The MOU did not collapse because people criticized it. It collapsed when Iran attacked ships in the Strait of Hormuz. The regime killed the deal, not the people who questioned it.”
And Trump came to that same conclusion following the latest Iranian attempt to assassinate him while the blunderous policy of the MOU was being pursued.
See source for more detail from Jay here: https://x.com/Osint613/status/2077722201520840948
Peloni: It is amusing that Vance seems to be reading the same script which has been pushed by Tucker Carlson of being targeted by Israel while responding to claims that he is fulfilling an agenda supportive of Carlson’s pro Iran, anti Israel bias. Is this really how he is preparing for the midterms – by appealing to the “I hate Israel” constituency using the oldest Jew Hating tropes of all time that Israel is controlling the world? Perhaps Vance is reacting to the possibility that his opposition to American meritocracy and free market economics was not enough to pull from the Democrat constituency, so now he is instead focusing on competing for their anti Israel base as well. It is not news to report how politics makes for interesting bedfellows, but it is still somewhat enlightening nonetheless.


Humor: Bit of a stretch, maybe, but Vance’s attitude towards Israel and towards American Jews reminds me of that of King Arthur in the Constitutional peasants scene in Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975).
Script: https://realityraiders.com/fringewalker/irreverent-humor/monty-python-holy-grail-constitutional-peasants/
Actual scene: https://youtu.be/R7qT-C-0ajI?is=7M1bGgag2c7n7PW_
Humor: alternatively: “
– Ring Lardner. The immigrunts. 1919.
This is when he lost me, before I knew about any of this other stuff:
Email received from Andrew Benjamin:
https://youtu.be/U2sL5r-jM5Y?is=T1VOm8s_9_lpJGTr
Did he actually say he “was just following orders” in this context? Have to rate him a 10 on sensitivity.
This is the article – I should say, hit piece – he is referring to:
https://time.com/article/2026/07/13/brad-parscale-israel-influence-operation/
:“manipulating and trying to change American public opinion”
Who’da thunk this: an American politician tut-tuting any effort to change “public opinion”.
This is undoubtedly a case of the kettle calling the pot black. When the USA stops interfering in Israeli elections, we can take a deep breath and consider what Vance is actually talking about and try, if you can, to compare that to what Saudi Arabia and Qatar and others are up to, not to speak of the WEF.
Maybe we should just ignore this, but ignoring it may be short sighted, or as I like to say, sort shited.