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’
By ToI Staff
8 January
2025, 5:48 pm
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.
Trump and
Netanyahu have had a complicated relationship over the years. The two leaders
worked closely during Trump’s first presidency, but the partnership hit the
rocks in 2020 when Netanyahu congratulated Joe Biden on his election victory,
which Trump to this day contests as fraudulent.
In
interviews for a book about his Middle East peace efforts, Trump, according to
its author, used an expletive to describe the embattled prime minister — “Fuck
him,” he reportedly said — and accused Netanyahu of disloyalty.
In recent
months, their relationship seems to have shifted in a more positive direction,
as Netanyahu visited Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort home in Florida during his visit
to the US this past summer.
Netanyahu
was also one of the first world leaders to call Trump and congratulate him
after his election win in November.
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.
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