Well this is interesting. I haven't seen this reported. Anyone? I totally missed this. From January 8th.
Trump posts clip of prof calling Netanyahu ‘obsessive’ about getting US to fight Iran
US president-elect shares without comment a video on Truth Social of Columbia’s Jeffrey Sachs calling PM a ‘deep, dark son of a bitch’ and saying he’s gotten US into ‘endless wars’
US President-elect Donald Trump shared a video on his Truth Social account on Wednesday that included an American professor calling Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a “dark son of a bitch,” accusing him of being “obsessive” in trying to get the US to go to war against Iran.
The video Trump shared was a snippet of a lecture by Columbia University economics professor Jeffrey Sachs, where he speaks about the pretext for the US invasion of Iraq and how the US government at the time was trying to find a way to sell the “phony war” to the American people.
“Where did that war come from?” Sachs asks rhetorically, as part of an attack on the Obama administration’s actions.
“You know what? It’s quite surprising. That war came from Netanyahu, actually,” he claimed.
“Netanyahu had, from 1995 on, the theory that the only way we are going to get rid of Hamas and Hezbollah is by toppling the governments that support them. That’s Iraq, Syria and Iran,” he added.
“And the guy [Netanyahu] is nothing if not obsessive, and he is still trying to get us to fight Iran to this day,” he claimed. “He is a deep, dark son of a bitch, sorry to tell you.”
“He has gotten us into endless wars, and because of the power of all this in US politics, he has gotten his way,” Sachs concluded.
After Trump’s election victory, Netanyahu said that the
two see “eye-to-eye on the Iranian threat in all its components, and the danger posed by it,” but the fact that Trump shared a video that explicitly criticized the Israeli premier for trying to get the US to go to war with Iran brings Netanyahu’s assessment into question.
Trump’s Truth Social post on Wednesday had no caption, was posted without context and the president-elect has not commented on why he shared the video.
US President-elect, Donald Trump, shared a video on his Truth Social platform Wednesday that shows Columbia University Professor, Jeffrey Sachs, criticising Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for his “obsessive” efforts...
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In other comments made in the video, he claims that former President Barack Obama instructed the CIA to overthrow the Syrian government and says the war on Iraq was "totally phony", citing how alleged "weapons of mass destruction" were used by former President George W. Bush to justify the war.
US President-elect Donald Trump shared a video containing disparaging insults and criticism of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
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While responding to the news, Sachs told
The Guardian that while he was not advising Trump, he is hoping his administration changes its outlook towards Israel.
“I do not know Trump’s disposition on these issues, but I do very much hope that he frees US foreign policy from the grip of the cruel, ineffective, illegal and destructive policies of Netanyahu,” he averred.
US President-elect Donald Trump shared a provocative video of an economist bashing Israel’s Prime Minister Netanyahu amid ceasefire talks between Tel Aviv and Hamas
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