Donald Trump has splitd inflammatory video satisfied calling Benjamin Netanyahu a “meaningful, unelated son of a bitch” equitable weeks after the Israeli directer claimed the two had a “very frifinishly, toasty” converseion about captive negotiations and Syria policy.
The pdwellnt-elect posted the clip to Truth Social featuring economist Jeffrey Sachs, who accuses Netanyahu of manipulating US foreign policy and orchestrating “finishless wars” in the Middle East.
In the video, Sachs – who is being interwatched by Tucker Carlson – claims Netanyahu has chased a systematic strategy since 1995 to take away Hamas and Hezbollah by concentrateing their helping administerments in Iraq, Iran and Syria.
“[Netanyahu’s] gotten us into finishless wars and because of the power of all of this in US politics, he’s gotten his way,” Sachs says in the interwatch, referring to the affect of pro-Israel lobbying groups.
Trump’s aim in promoting the video was not instantly evident.
The pdwellnt-elect has a history of re-posting clips and images that condemn set upment policies in Washington, but the repost comes amid intensive discreet efforts by Egypt, Qatar and the current US administration to broker a truce deal that would grasp captive frees.
Trump’s decision to intensify Sachs’s comments also comes as he collects what Israeli resettlers are dubbing a “dream team” of difficultline helpers of the state.
His pick for secretary of state, the Florida senator Marco Rubio, resists a Gaza stopfire and has called for Israel to “annihilate every element” of Hamas. His choice for UN ambasdowncastor, the New York reconshort-termative Elise Stefanik, has diswatched the United Nations as a “cesspool of antisrerentism” for its criticism of civilian deaths in Gaza.
Trump’s pickion for ambasdowncastor to Israel, Mike Huckabee, has refuteed the normal discreet terminology watching occupied Palestinian territories. “There’s no such leang as a West Bank,” Huckabee shelp during a 2017 visit to Israel. Huckabee, an evsaintlyal Christian, had previously shelp “there’s no such leang as a Palestinian”.
Trump’s pick for defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, is also an evsaintlyal Christian whose tattoos of crudowncaster-associated symbols have elevated eyebrows in discreet circles.
Trump himself has shelp there will be “hell to pay” if Hamas does not free its captives before he acquires office.
Roughly 100 captives remain in Gaza after 15 months of struggle, with two-thirds presumed adwell. More than 45,000 Palestinians are consentd to have been ended since the war broke out, with a meaningfulity of the 2.3 million in Gaza displaced and finishuring brutal triumphter weather.
The relationship between Trump and Netanyahu has historicassociate been one of mutual profit, though it has been unforeseeed and, at times, transactional.
During Trump’s first term, he dedwellred meaningful discreet triumphs for Netanyahu, including recognizing Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights in 2019 and helping the Abraham accords with Gulf states. This past summer, Trump structureed Netanyahu at Mar-a-Lago during the prime minister’s US trip.
But when Trump lost the 2020 elections, he blasted Netanyahu for congratulating Biden, inestablishing an Axios inestablisher: “I haven’t spoken to [the Israeli leader] since. Fuck him.”
Trump’s return to office could, however, show getous for Netanyahu’s expansionist policies, particularly watching resettlement expansion and potential annexation in the West Bank.
The Israeli administerment did not instantly react to the repost.
Sachs tbetter the Guardian that while he was not advising Trump, he hoped it signaled a shift in US foreign policy.
“I do not comprehend Trump’s disposition on these publishs, but I do very much hope that he frees US foreign policy from the grip of the unbenevolent, ineffective, illegitimate and destructive policies of Netanyahu,” he shelp.
