Beltway Insider: Trump/Israel Split on War Objective, Border Wall, Cesar Chavez, Robert Muller
- Details
- Category: Haute This Issue
- Published on Saturday, 21 March 2026 16:27
- Written by Janet Walker
President Trump and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu have drifted apart in what was once a united campaign, with Trump harshly rebuking the Israeli leader for its recent escalation resulting in the bombing of the South Pars oil field.
The President's job approval rating, according to the American Research Group poll featured in The New York Times for the period ending March 21, 2026, of those polled who approve of his effectiveness as President decreased by five percentage point to 34% and those who disapprove of his effectiveness as president increased by three percentage point to 63%. A slight 3% of the population polled have no opinion. Ratings are calculated weekly.
Beltway Insider: Trump/Iran War, School Strike, Israel Widens War, Oil, Gas Prices, Alexander Brothers Guilty
Trump, Prime Minister Netanyahu Split on Israel's Scorched Earth Objective
President Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are experiencing a spilt in the Iranian War objective, as Israel continues to increase the temperature and the United States attempting to intervene and tamper Israel efforts to replicate its scorched earth war campaign.
From the moment Israel began its retaliation against Hamas, targeting the Gaza Strip, the military under the leadership of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, has adopted a “scorched earth” policy, that targeted a three pronged attack striking residential, agricultural, and critical and necessary infrastructure to make areas uninhabitable, using predominantly air strikes to annihilate the Gaza Strip, section by section, and then sending in tanks and troops to complete its objective.
As Israel has widen its war effort, with the assistance of President Trump, who has supported Israel’s efforts explicitly, and joined in the effort to assist, Netanyahu complete his scorched earth regional goal.
With Israel moving in Lebanon, and Iran, Netanyahu has attempted to rally the Iranian people, echoing President Trump’s initial battle cry, telling the people they should rise up and seize control of their government. However, while Trump may actually mean the words, Netanyahu who has used double speak frequently in addressing his plans during his intense air raids on the Gaza Strip, is using encouraging statements, such as “cast off the yoke of this murderous regime” to lure the millions of Iranians into the streets for slaughter and alluded to the possibility that the weakened Iranian regime would, which they have in the past, slaughter its citizens in the street for protesting.
And it also remains a possibility that Israel would fire upon the protestors. As the world has seen, once the bombs have fallen, the world remains silent or manages a few admonitions and provides Netanyahu with ample leeway to continue his campaign.
World News: Iranian War Highlights Defense Department Weaknesses
Israel’s recent bombing raids against Iran, crystallize its intent to replicate its scorched earth methodology by attacking critical infrastructure in the South Pars gas field, in which Netanyahu admitted Israel acted alone.
“Israel’s targeting of the South Pars gas field in Iran on Wednesday set off a wave of Iranian reprisals that caused extensive damage to the world’s largest liquefied natural gas exporting facility in Qatar. It’s a major escalation in the war and one that energy industry observers have most feared because the destruction of oil and gas facilities could take years to repair and turbocharge the economic disruption already ensnaring the globe,” Politico reported.
Without the U.S. to pressure Netanyahu with restraint, the Israeli Prime Minister will continue until he believes he has successfully dismantled Hezbollah, Hamas, and disrupted the economic stability of the region, and the world, if necessary to destroy the possibility of another October 7, 2023 attack.
Israel was well within its right to a measured response. The continued campaign has become Netanyahu’s own personal war for a lifetime of tolerating the injustices, and encroachments. Many say its long overdue, others say the world cannot absorb much more of Netanyahu’s personal ‘hell or high water’ campaign to retaliate against fifty years of loss.
World News: The Dominoes of Mesopotamia
Pentagon Request Excessive War Budget
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has submitted a preliminary budget to Congress of $200 billion, to continue the current war campaign in Iran.
“Last week, Pentagon officials told lawmakers that the first six days of the war against Iran had cost more than $11.3 billion. Since then, President Trump has threatened to escalate the fighting, and has floated the idea of putting American troops on the ground even as he suggested that the United States might conclude its military campaign soon,” The Washington Post reported.
If six days runs roughly $11.8 billion, which equates to about $1.8 billion per day, than Hegseth expects to be in this war for 111 days, a little more than three months to secure a budget of $200 billion. Congress would possibly agree to a three month presence but certainly not a six month presence.
What is more important is explaining to the American people the objective of the current Iranian campaign and the timeframe in which it can be completed.
Without hesitation, the current Iranian regime needed to be overthrown, the slaughter of its citizens, the continued human rights violations, the abhorrent treatment of women, the morality police, and the funding of terror organizations in the region, as well as the failure to participate in good faith negotiation over nuclear bans, continued to be a growing evil that needed to be uprooted.
As the war has progressed the former Supreme leader has been killed, his son, Mojtaba Khamenei, stepped into his place, which does not equate to a regime change. He now holds ultimate authority over the military, judiciary, and foreign policy. It is extremely doubtful that Khamenei would negotiate with the United States after the murder of his father.
With president Trump signaling the possibility of increasing the U.S. presence, who exactly is the target? The United States has been lured into Middle East conflicts in the past. Troops were stationed in Beirut, Lebanon, for 18 months, after the last invasion by Israel, in 1982, and now currently the total U.S. forces in the region total more than 50,000.
With Israel continuing its scorched earth campaign, future questions seem to be bombarding the determination to stand with our allies. How long to we stand before we are once again lured into a long ground presence in the region?
Moreover, the U.S. remains the great Satan American, and no matter the determination or effort of the U.S. to protect lessor nations from harm, there will always be a fringe group willing to attack the United States, on any given day and especially on the day, the terrorists in the region deem a high holy day, September 11.
The cost presented this week is not simply dollars, it is time and lives, and how much is that worth and is it worth the ultimate sacrifice that some have already paid?
World News: Iran is in Crisis, 12K Protestors Killed, Government is Falling
Trump’s Border Wall 2.0
The border wall, the majority of which was constructed during President Trump’s 2016 presidential terms to combat illegal immigration and proved that a border wall was somewhat effective in stopping the flow of Latin and Middle America illegals crossing the border.
However, as many news agencies have reported, the wall also became simply another obstacle for the cartels to work around to continue to sustain their illegal trade and human trafficking business.
The Wall project has been resurrected, at an accelerated pace, approximately three miles a week, which will cover the 250 mile southern border, from the California coast to the tip of Texas.
“Last month, the Army Corps of Engineers sent packets to Texas landowners along the wall’s path containing maps showing the land they planned to take. The proposed construction could include anything from ground sensors and infrared cameras to 30-foot steel bollards affixed with floodlights and gravel roads for Border Patrol vehicles — and often all of the above,” reported The Washington Post.
What makes the attempt different from the 2016 effort, is the president’s disregard of any other agency, including the Environmental Protection Agency, as the ecosystem in the region will be severely disrupted and possibly destroyed permanently with the construction necessary to complete the project.
When the Border wall is completed it will run along the southern border, and possibly slow the flow of illegal immigration, but one thing is certain illegal immigration will not end due to the border wall.
Immigration has been an increasing problem since Ronald Reagan was president and has only increased throughout the decades. Moreover, illegal immigration is directly tied to birth rate, and statically Middle and Latin American populations procreate higher with an average of 8-to-1 more than Caucasian or non-middle or Latin American populations.
Beltway Insider: Trump Launches Epic Fury, Iran Leader KIA, SOTU, Mid-Terms, 2028, Clinton’s Testify
Cesar Chavez Accused of Years of Sexual Abuse
The California migrant farmworker champion, who died at the age of 66 in 1993, was accused by numerous women in an explosive New York Times article that paints a very different and horrifying image of the man who was once considered one of the most influential men fighting for Farmworkers Rights.
Two women, each 66, agreed to go on the record with The Times. “Ms. Murguia and another woman, Debra Rojas, say that Mr. Chavez sexually abused them for years when they were girls, from around 1972 to 1977. He was in his 40s and had become a powerful, charismatic figure who captured global attention as a champion of farmworker rights. The two women have not shared their stories publicly before, and an investigation by The New York Times has uncovered extensive evidence to support their accusations and those raised by several other women against Mr. Chavez, the United Farm Workers co-founder,” The New York Times reported.
The story can be read here.
The New York Times explained at the beginning of the piece, their exhaustive efforts to confirm the allegations, which has resulted in a domino effect of cancellations, and efforts to remove the pedophile’s name from the annals of Mexican-American history and move forward from the “very troubling” accusations to continue protect the migrant farmworker.
Rapists and a Prosecutors Rationalization
As the public is well aware from the release of the Epstein Files, the sexual abusers, pedophiles and rapists who now sit in a seat of power need to be exposed. The Times has failed horribly in seeking the truth for the crimes in its own backyard, as it has failed to ever report on the sexual assaults that occurred in Hudson County, NJ, which resulted in a complete shut down of the system, no assistance, no investigation, no prosecution, not ever speaking with the victim again. A full on campaign to erase her like she, and the crimes committed against her, never existed.
Does the fact that the victim has positively identified a former associate from her former Wall Street law firm cloud the investigative efforts? Or is it simply the unwritten and oft used, special privileges law that protects the elite from prosecution? Or did they fall of the rails after 9/11 and have since found their way back, so why prosecute? Or let the victim suffer, and if we’re lucky she’ll commit suicide or her 9/11 exposure will end it early?
The rationalization for failing to adhere to the law is anchored in the Epstein days of letting the elite commit crime knowing special privileges law will protect them.
World News: The French Perspective of The Epstein Paradox
Gasoline Prices Rise for the Third Straight Week
Petroleum expert Patrick De Haan issues who writes weekly on his Substack Fuel Insights, presented another ominous warning to consumers this week.
“The nation’s average price of gasoline has risen 23.2 cents over the last week and stands at $3.68 per gallon, according to GasBuddy® data compiled from more than 12 million individual price reports covering over 150,000 gas stations across the country. The national average is up 80.0 cents from a month ago and is 66.1 cents per gallon higher than a year ago. The national average price of diesel rose 34.0 cents in the last week and stands at $4.951 per gallon,” De Hann wrote.
As the Middle East war continues to linger, the U.S. consumer will be forced to bear the brunt of the burden, not only at the gas pump, as prices will continue to increase, but for consumer goods, as diesel, which those who transport consumer products to the local grocery store will need to increase costs to offset the increase in the cost of fuel.
The trickle down effect, if the Strait of Hormuz remains closed, will effect every aspect of life, from the gas pump to the grocery shelves, to home heating.
Beltway Insider: Trump, Royals, Billionaires Listed in Epstein Files, Clintons to Testify, WaPo Gutted, Mystic Camp Lawsuit
Coronavirus Total
At the order of the President of the United States, the U.S. no longer recognizes the value of The World Health Organization. The CDC has recommended every person from age six months, including senior citizens should receive at least one shot of an updated COVID-19 vaccine, annually. The death toll from Covid-19 has dramatically decreased, as has transmission of the virus. Even as confirmed new cases continue each week, fewer are dying from each new variants.
For the 7 days ending March 21, 2026, the total number of confirmed coronavirus cases reported by the World Health Organization increased by 20,648 to 779,166,580. The total worldwide death toll increased by 425 to 7,112,777 deaths. The United States has stopped providing Covid data to the World Health Organization. (Data updated March 1, 2026, from the World Health Organization).
Beltway Insider: Trump, Iran, Epstein Fallout, Royal Arrest, Avalanche, Israel/West Bank, Jesse Jackson
Robert Muller, Former FBI Director, Dies
Robert F. Muller, the former FBI Director, who secured indictments against several of President Trump’s 2016 campaign members, died this week. He was 81.
“In his report, released in April 2019, Mr. Mueller concluded that “the Russian government perceived it would benefit from a Trump presidency and worked to secure that outcome,” and that the Trump campaign “expected it would benefit electorally from information stolen and released through Russian efforts,” The Washington Post reported.
Muller, who was much more than his legacy investigating Russian interference in the 2016 Trump campaign, began his tenure as the FBI director September 4, 2001, one week for the Al-Qaeda attacks on the World Trade Center, Shanksville, and the Pentagon. He went on to be the longest serving FBI director since J. Edgar Hoover, serving, 12 years, and two president across three terms.
He was diagnosed with Parkinson’s Disease in 2021 and retired to a Senior living facility. He died Friday, March 20, 2026.
The complete Washington Post obituary can be read here.
For more information on President Donald Trump: Whitehouse.gov.
Sources: Various © Articles covered by Copyright protection.
Janet Walker is the publisher, founder, and sole owner of Haute-Lifestyle.com. A graduate of New York University, she has been covering international news through the Beltway Insider, a weekly review of the nation’s top stories, for more than a decade. A general beat writer/reporter and entertainment/film critic, she is also an accomplished news/investigative news/crime reporter and submitted for Pulitzer Prize consideration "Cops Conspire to Deep Six Sex Assaults" in the Breaking News Category and was persuaded to withdraw the submission. Ms. Walker has completed five award-winning screenplays "The Six Sides of Truth," "The Assassins of Fifth Avenue," "The Wednesday Killer," "The Manhattan Project," and the sci-fi thriller "Project 13: The Last Day." She has also published “Unholy Alliances: A True Crime Story,” a non-fiction narrative, “Days, Times, Seasons, and Events: A Collection of Poetry & Prose,” and “Songs of Freedom: A Collection of Biblical Teachings,” which can be purchased here. She is a member of the Authors Guild, the Los Angeles Press Club, the National Writers Union, and a member of the International Federation of Journalists.
