By Kevin Barrett, for American Free Press

I wrote this article for AFP over the weekend of October 17 and 18. Unbeknownst to me, while I was writing about The Trap, Israel was blowing up the filmmaker’s house:

Israeli soldiers have looted and demolished the family home of Radwan Mortada, a prominent Lebanese investigative journalist who directed the recent viral Al Jazeera 360 documentary “The Trap.” The film exposes the surreptitious network and planning behind Israel’s notorious pager attack, which left hundreds of Lebanese citizens wounded and maimed, and has become one of the channel’s most-watched in recent history.

It’s hard to overstate the depravity of Israelis, or the heroism of people who risk their lives and property to expose and defeat them. -KB

Israel—a Jewish-supremacist ethnostate of seven million “chosen people” lording it over three million goyim cattle—is committing the world’s first livestreamed genocide, while simultaneously destroying the US and global economies via its war on Iran. The self-proclaimed “Jewish state” is clearly committing more and worse crimes, on a per capita basis, than any other nation in world history, quite possibly by orders of magnitude. And the US taxpayer is footing the bill.

Two notable recent films document aspects of Israel’s almost unimaginably horrific behavior. The first is The Trap, an al-Jazeera documentary detailing the Mossad’s terrorist murder of more than 30 Lebanese people, and maiming of thousands, using booby-trapped electronic devices.

Israel’s terror attack using pagers and walkie-talkies was originally intended to kill up to 30,000 people. The hero who may have saved as many as 29,970 lives, or thereabouts, was Hussein Muhammad Riad Bazzi, head of the Strategic Studies Department within Hezbollah’s Signal Corps. In mid-September of 2024, Bazzi was auditing Hezbollah’s pagers when he discovered an electronic circuit with no discernable purpose. Bazzi immediately moved to secure advanced scanning equipment. Unfortunately, Israeli terrorists intercepted Bazzi’s communications, realized their plot was about to be exposed, and ordered the premature detonation of the pagers and walkie talkies long before most of the more lethal devices—the walkie talkies, which were larger and contained more explosives—had left the warehouse.

The Trap follows the traces of three Israeli shell companies involved in supplying Hezbollah with exploding consumer electronics. The governments of the countries where the three corporations were registered—Hungary, Romania, and Norway—are all obviously complicit, since none of them have sought to arrest or neutralize the terrorists or otherwise hold them accountable. The Hungarian government, in particular, demonstrated its fealty to the Israeli terrorists by having its secret service detain, harass, and threaten journalists investigating the story.

The pager terror attack killed two children and wounded many more. Hundreds of victims were women. Most victims were not armed combatants. They included medical personnel, religious figures, and a huge number of bystanders—people who simply happened to be in a crowded bus, taxi, restaurant, street, or sidewalk next to the exploding pager.

Imagine if “al-Qaeda,” were it a real terror organization, had murdered dozens and maimed thousands using exploding consumer electronics devices. Not only would Western governments spare no expense and effort to track down the perpetrators, but would likely kidnap (“rendition”) and murder (“neutralize”) as many of them as possible, all the way up the chain of command. Since the terrorist organization, in the case of the pager attack, is the state of Israel, that state and its officials, funders, supporters, and members ought to be treated the same way.

But of course they will not be, at least not any time soon. Why not? Benjamin Netanyahu answered that question on February 4, 2025, when he gifted Donald Trump a “golden pager.” Netanyahu’s “gift” to the President of the United States was obviously a symbolic death threat. It meant that if Trump disobeyed Netanyahu’s orders, Israel would assassinate, or politically destroy, the US president.

Trump apparently takes the threat seriously. When Netanyahu secretly visited the White House on February 11, 2026 and ordered Trump to attack Iran, every Trump advisor except Pete Hegseth advised against it. Trump ignored them, joined Israel’s war on Iran, and found himself in a quagmire that is destroying the US and global economies—and Trump’s presidency. Trump would have been better off telling Bibi to take back that pager and stuff it where the sun doesn’t shine…and then carpet bombing the terrorist’s headquarters in Tel Aviv.

The second and better-known film documenting Zionist atrocities was actually produced in Israel. Entitled NAZA, the Israeli term for “collateral damage,” it features numerous interviews with genocide perpetrators describing methods behind Israel’s deliberate slaughter of tens or even hundreds of thousands of civilians in Gaza. The mass killers of women and children explain how Israel’s military uses AI to invent vacuous excuses for blowing up whole apartment buildings and neighborhoods, as well as hospitals and schools and churches and mosques, burying the people inside under mountains of rubble.

NAZA got the biggest standing ovation in the history of the Venice Film Festival when it premiered in September. It also incited outrage in Israel, including widespread death threats against the filmmakers. Netanyahu has even introduced legislation to revoke their citizenship.

In limited theatrical release through October, NAZA will be available to watch free online beginning in November. Americans should watch it to better understand the genocide they are paying for—and the bizarre hold that the tiny mad-dog state of Israel holds over their government in general, and their apparently blackmailed president in particular.

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