“Netanyahu Has Gotten Us into Endless Wars”: Trump Shares Anti-Netanyahu Critique on Truth Social
Washington (Quds News Network)- U.S. President-elect Donald Trump re-shared a critique on Wednesday on his Truth Social platform showcasing criticism of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu by American professor Jeffrey Sachs, in which Sachs accuses Netanyahu of dragging the U.S. into “endless wars.”
Jeffrey Sachs, 70, is an American economist, educator and public commentator. He’s had an illustrious career as an advisor to several governments and the U.N. Secretary-General, at think tanks and academia.
Sachs has gone viral for lambasting American foreign policy, which he says is built on lies and deceit, no longer operating as a democracy. He is also an outspoken critic of lobbies and interest groups infiltrating American politics.
In the video shared by Trump, Sachs states:
The war in Syria, and you may actually hear from grown-up reporters who are lying through their teeth or ignorant beyond imagining, ‘That, oh, the war in Syria, yes, Russia intervened in Syria.’ Well, do you know that Obama tasks the CIA to overthrow the Syrian government starting four years before Russia intervened?
What kind of nonsense is that, and how many times did the New York Times report on Operation Timber Sycamore? Which was the presidential order to the CIA to overthrow Bashar al-Assad? Three times in 10 years.
This is not democracy; this is a game, and it is a name of narrative. Why did the U.S. invade Iraq in 2003? First of all, it was completely phony pretense. It wasn’t, ‘Oh, we were so wrong they didn’t have weapons of mass destruction.’ They actually did focus groups in the fall of 2002 to find out what would sell that war to the American people. Abe (Abram) Shulsky if you want to know the name of the PR genius.
They did focus groups on the war. They wanted the war all the time. They had to figure out how to sell the war to the American people. How to scare the sh*t out of the American people. It was a phony war. Where did that war come from? You know what it’s quite surprising; that war came from Netanyahu, actually.
You know that it’s weird and the way it is is that Netanyahu had from 1995 onward the theory that the only way we’re going to get rid of Hamas and Hezbollah is by toppling the governments that support them. That’s Iraq, Syria and Iran. And the guy is nothing if not obsessive and he’s still trying to get us to fight Iran this day, this week. He’s a deep dark son of a b*tch, sorry to tell you.
He has gotten us into endless wars and because of the power of all of this in U.S. politics. He’s gotten his way, but that war is totally phony. So what is this democracy versus dictatorship? Come on, these are not even sensible terms.
Throughout his campaign, Trump has vowed to bring peace to the region.
“Get it over with and let’s get back to peace and stop killing people,” Trump said of the Israeli war in Gaza in an interview with conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt in April.
In December, Trump also promised “there will be hell to pay” if Israeli captives held in Gaza during Israel’s ongoing war are not released by the time he takes office on January 20. The statement was Trump’s most forceful on the deadlocked efforts to bring an end to the war since the November 5 US elections and comes amid reports that he is pushing for a ceasefire to be reached before his second term begins.
The former president had campaigned on the broad notion that he would bring about peace in the Middle East, particularly in Gaza, but has offered scant details on how that would be achieved.
At the same time, Trump has voiced support for Israel to “finish the job” in the Palestinian enclave and has long been Netanyahu’s preferred leader in the US.
During his first term from 2017 to 2021, Trump was a strong backer of the US ally.
He moved the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, the illegally occupied eastern half of which has long been seen as the capital of a future Palestinian state. He recognised Israeli sovereignty over the occupied Golan Heights in Syria. He forged a series of normalisation agreements between Israel and Arab countries, and he allowed for the rapid expansion of Israeli settlements, which are illegal under international law.
This time around, Trump has packed his administration nominations with staunchly pro-Israel officials, including his secretary of state pick Senator Marco Rubio, a rabid defender of Israel’s war, and ambassador to Israel pick Mike Huckabee, a vocal supporter of Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank who refuses to use its commonly used name, instead referring to “Judea and Samaria”.
