North Korea has nukes and ICBMs that can hit the entire U.S. Iran has neither. If nukes were the point, you'd be bombing North Korea. You're bombing Iran because Israel told you to.
— James Fishback (@j_fishback) October 5, 2026
When in late February President Trump launched an attack on Iran, The Washington Post reported that it was
after a weeks-long lobbying effort by an unusual pair of U.S. allies in the Middle East — Israel and Saudi Arabia — according to four people familiar with the matter, as Israeli and U.S. forces teamed to topple Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei after nearly four decades in power.
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman made multiple private phone calls to Trump over the past month advocating a U.S. attack, despite his public support for a diplomatic solution, the four people said. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, meanwhile, continued his long-running public campaign for U.S. strikes against what he views as an existential enemy of his country.
The combined effort helped lead Trump to order a massive aerial campaign against Iran’s leadership and military, which in its initial hour led to the death of Khamenei and several other senior Iranian officials.
That was Israel and Saudi Arabia. It seems that Donald's son-in-law and leading mediator in Gaza ceasefire talks, oligarch Jared Kushner, probably helped persuade Donald given that he
has an indirect financial connection through his private investment firm to a series of companies supplying weapons and equipment to the IDF, according to a CNN investigation published on Thursday and based on Israeli financial documents and Israeli transparency regulations.
According to the investigation, Kushner-owned Affinity Partners is the largest shareholder in Phoenix Financial. Documents reviewed as part of the investigation indicate that Phoenix has investments in nine companies connected to Israeli military activity, including manufacturers of ammunition, drones, vessels, and engineering equipment.
The most significant investment is in Elbit Systems, valued at at least $265 million. Other investments include more than $68 million in NextVision, which manufactures cameras for drones, and at least $40 million in Reshef Technologies, which manufactures electronic fuzes for shells. The list also includes Israel Shipyards, Ashot Ashkelon, Boeing, and Caterpillar.
Kushner does not directly own shares in the nine companies,
but Affinity may indirectly benefit from their profits through its investment
in Phoenix. According to CNN, the company sold about a quarter of its holdings
in July for more than $340 million, generating a return of more than five times
the original purchase price of the shares it sold.
Following the sale, Affinity remained Phoenix's largest shareholder, with a 7.4% stake valued at more than $1 billion.
The investigation raises questions about the intersection
between Kushner's diplomatic activity and his private business interests.
Kushner is carrying out his work on behalf of the president on a voluntary
basis and does not hold an official government position. Alongside the
diplomatic negotiations, he has presented a plan for Gaza's reconstruction that
includes the development of tourism areas and opportunities for private
investment.
The Iraq war has been very good business indeed for Jared Kushner. He has been given nearly a free pass, and Saudi Arabia a completely free pass, in parceling out blame for the destructive and unpopular war Jared's father-in-law and the Kingdom's friend has been waging in the Middle East.
Saudi Arabia has been given a free pass, and Jared Kushner nearly a free pass Nor has President Trump, in some quarters, assumed to have agency. The "Zionism is racism" crowd is glad to exempt the American president, his son-in-law, and the Saudis from responsibility for a chance to claim genocide, which these folks don't understand, or Zionism, which these folks don't understand.
"Woke 1 was crazy", Representative Alexandria Ocasi-Cortez acknowledged while smugly giggling. Welcome to Woke 2, its more dangerous sibling.
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