Eli Clifton on what changed when Israel started spending its own money inside the US:
"this is a five alarm fire. We are potentially losing these communities."
The paper trail is real.
Justice Department foreign-agent filings show Israel's foreign ministry contracting through an ad network to American firms, roughly six million dollars to a former Trump campaign manager's company, and a separate deal to geofence pro-Israel messaging to congregants at hundreds of megachurches.
Eli's argument is that this signals failure, not strength.
The traditional model was American-funded and American-run, and he reads direct state spending as an admission it no longer holds while public opinion moves and policy doesn't.
His framework is older than any of it.
Washington's farewell address warned that most factions eventually draw a rival, but a passionate attachment to a foreign nation might never attract one.
He's also blunt that treating Jewish Americans as synonymous with the lobby is both false and antisemitic, since polling shows they vote on the same local concerns as everyone else.
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