Talking heads make fools of themselves when they hate Israel more than they love the truth.
There are several individuals on the right who in the past seemed to be reasonable supporters of Israel. One can certainly find old clips where they praise Israel and at times state that Iran is dangerous. Times have changed and some of them simply cannot control their hatred of the Jewish state. The situation created often makes them choose between speaking the truth which may support Israel or going for a lie and thus distancing themselves from those Jews. They often end up making themselves look ridiculous.
Let’s start with Tucker Carlson whom President Trump recently described as “kooky”. Carlson stated previously his support for Israel and that if Iran was pursuing a bomb that it needs to be attacked. Of late, Carlson suggested that Israel was dragging the US into a war, one which he described as World War 3, in which thousands of American soldiers would be killed. He spoke on his podcast during the Iranian’s performative Qatar base attack, and acted as if dozens of American soldiers had been killed, when in point of fact the base had been emptied well beforehand. Flying in the face of his Bibi controls Trump narrative, the president ordered Bibi to return fully loaded fighter-bombers who were sent when Iran attacked Israel after the formal ceasefire time had passed. Israel bombed a radar and came home with fully-loaded planes. A lot of Israelis were disappointed, but Bibi was not going to cross Trump after the successful nuclear raid.
Candace Owens hollered that she would have her children go to jail before letting them fight for Israel. Her oldest is 4. Israel has never asked American soldiers to fight for it. America has been exceptionally generous and gracious in providing weaponry and support; yes, the THAAD missiles in Israel are manned by American soldiers because they alone are trained to operate them. But Israel has never asked the US to fight a war for it. Period. Israeli leaders told George W. Bush that attacking Iraq would be a mistake as Iran was the strategic threat. The war in Syria was a Turkish undertaking, though Carlson and his guests implied that Israel got Assad booted and caused the death of many Christians. The dislike of Israel is so great that they could not even accept Donald Trump’s arguments that A) Iran was in the process of putting together a nuclear bomb and that B) such a weapon would be a direct threat to the United States. They either claimed that Iran was not using its nuclear efforts to make a bomb—the mullahs said as much! Or okay, if they are making a bomb, its address is Israel and is not a problem for the United States because the 700,000 Americans in Israel are almost all Jews and it’s their problem.
One of the worst features of Israeli society can be found in former officials who lie to the press to embellish their stature. Ehud Olmert seems filled with envy and hatred towards Bibi Netanyahu and periodically demands that he be removed from office, by force if necessary. A former general claimed that IDF soldiers were wantonly killing Gazans. After every Arabic and Iranian Telegram channel grabbed the headline, he walked back his comments. TOO LATE. The damage was done. The shameless newspaper, Haaretz, too disgusting to even be used to wrap fish, made a similar claim which of course Candace Owens jumped on to show that here, even the Jews are saying that Israel is killing Gazans for sport. “Israel will not indoctrinate another generation of American children with money and lies,” she thundered. The whole Haaretz story is a lie, and every soldier knows that any deviation from legal weapons protocols will end up in a court-martial and jail time. The damage by Jews to other Jews by lies they spew cannot be calculated, as every Jew-hater grabs on to them: “Look, a Jew said it!”
It’s very hard for people like Owens, Carlson, supposed comic Dave Smith, and Steve Bannon to realize that Israel and the US worked hand-in-hand in preparation and implementation of the war on Iran. There is no way that the B-2s get through for a flawless attack without Israel neutralizing Iranian air defenses and sharing all relevant information with the US. How much combat knowledge are the US Air Force and plane manufacturers receiving from Israel from thousands of hours of flights and attacks? How much better will American F-35 tactics be from the experiences of the Israelis who modified their “Adir” planes to allow flight to Iran with no need for refueling? Anti-Israel talking heads find it impossible to admit that Israel’s success is good for the US and that the US and Israel are working together for the betterment of both. They always try to present Bibi as manipulating Donald Trump and the US serving Israel. There is no question that the US provides a great deal to Israel, but news flash, the US receives a great deal back. Virtually all military aid provided to Israel must be spent in the US. As an ally, Israel gives the US a big, healthy footprint in one of the most important regions in the world. If Carlson or Bannon didn’t think that the Iranians would gladly bring a nuclear device in a suitcase into the US to destroy the “Great Satan”, then they are fooling themselves—only because the truth would align with the Jews, something that they cannot accept.
The Jew hatred expressed by a few elements of the “MAGA right” may be driven by fat checks from Qatar or religious beliefs that don’t accept a vibrant Jewish state. The problem with these former darlings of the right is that they have consistently chosen anti-Israel narratives over truth and are looking more foolish by the day. Each brings on a lobotomized guest who goes on about Israel controlling Trump and how the US fights Israel’s war. Our media star nods along like a bobblehead. Piers Morgan has resorted to swearing and screaming whenever he hears a guest say something that he doesn’t want to hear. When a recent guest quoted facts that were in Israel’s favor, he screamed and cursed at her. Israelis have given up on Morgan as he has not allowed an honest debate about the war in Gaza for some time. Apparently, when Carlson said that Morgan stated off camera that he hates Israel with every fiber in his body, he was telling the truth.
While many people are turned off by the right-leaning talking heads spewing anti-Israel and antisemitic tripe, they definitely have their followers. Any anti-Israel show (like Carlson with Marjorie Taylor Green saying that certain members of Congress work for Israel) has thousands of views and likes. Just as there are still Americans who hate blacks, there are Americans who hate Jews, and by extension, Israel. Such is life. The good news is that those with a public presence are looking stupid, while a more middle-ground Trump looks smart and holding on to the majority of the Republican party. The Israel-haters can rage about Israel and some World War 3, and then a 35 minute bombing run with no Iranians killed and all planes home safely make them look like the fools they have become.
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