Peloni: Preventing a nuclear armed Iran should be understood to be not only an Israeli interest, but as Joel explains below, it is very much an American interest as well, even if American Kumbayists such as Carlson and others would like to pretend otherwise. Indeed, the very regime which holds watch over the Iranian people and are actively sprinting to expand its nuclear program has the blood of thousands of Americans on its hands, from the bombing of an American barracks in 1982 to the roadside IEDs deployed against American servicemen in the Iraq war to the butchered, raped, kidnapped, executed and body snatched American civilians on October 7, America has all the evidence needed to demonstrate an explicit need to keep nuclear weapons out of the hands of the Iranian Twelvers who would use them against American targets should it be given any chance to do so. The motivations of the eclectic falsely claimed ‘American Firsters’ who would tolerate Iranian access to such weapons of slaughter, when Iran has utilized far less credible capacities to butcher American citizens not only puzzles the mind, it demonstrates a sense either duplicity or stupidity on the part of those who would make such incoherent arguments as described by these pseudo America Firsters. Keeping America safe at all costs should specifically be a priority for Americans, and preventing a nation which has casually and purposefully murdered thousands of Americans over the past four decades from becoming a nuclear menace should in fact be advocated by everyone, but certainly by those who claim to be heralding the interests of America as they instead promote the interests of Iran. War is the purposeful act of unraveling civilized norms for the precise purpose of preserving the practice of civilized norms for future generations. It is not something which should be indulged promoted for slight or silly purposes, but should instead be reserved for appropriately serious matters, and this should reasonably include preventing nuclear weapons from being acquired by Jihadi terror states such as Iran whose has already claimed the lives of far too many Americans with impunity.
Tucker trashes Trump for standing with Israel against genocidal Iranian regime — but Trump is absolutely right to stand with America’s most faithful ally
JERUSALEM, ISRAEL — Tucker Carlson has lost it.
It was crazy enough when he openly sided with Vladimir Putin — Mad Vlad — the Russian monster who ordered his military forces to invade, murder, rape, and pillage the people of Ukraine, and has threatened to do the same with various pro-American NATO allies.
But now he’s standing with the terror masters of Tehran as they wage their brutal and bloody 20-month war against the Jewish State of Israel, and openly vow to wipe the “criminal Zionist entity” off the map.
That’s why Tucker is trashing President Donald Trump.
Because Trump is standing with Israel — America’s most faithful ally in the Middle East — as we defend ourselves against more than 580 direct missile and suicide drone attacks from Iran over the past year.
And as we defend ourselves against invasion and thousands upon thousands of rocket attacks by Iran’s terror subsidiaries such as Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis, and other violent and radical Islamists in the West Bank, Syria, and Iraq.
God bless President Trump for being a true friend — for having Israel’s back as we defend ourselves against our genocidal enemies.
Yet this very heartfelt solidarity that Trump shows Israel in good times and bad — precisely because Trump is putting America first and because Trump knows that Israel pulls our own weight in this alliance — infuriates Tucker.
Israel has never asked the United States to send her sons and daughters to fight for us.
Even though our enemies hate America even more than they hate us.
Even though our enemies seek the annihilation of the American people and way of life — not just Israel’s annihilation.
Even though our enemies are constantly chanting, “Death to America!” — not just “Death to Israel!”
We Israelis are more than willing to send our own sons and daughters into harm’s way to protect ourselves and defend Western civilization.
Yes, we ask for American help in terms of weapons.
But what do we provide America in return?
Victory over savages who vow to kill Americans once they finish us off.
Victory over lunatics hell-bent on building nuclear weapons to vaporize Americans, not just us.
Astonishingly precise and nearly impossible-to-obtain intelligence that has helped thwart attacks by America’s worst enemies.
Breakthrough technologies that have helped save countless American lives.
But none of that matters to Tucker.
Consider this headline from the UK Independent tonight:
“Tucker turns on Trump: Ex-Fox News host blasts ‘complicit’ president for backing Israel after attacks on Iran.”
“Tucker Carlson has turned on President Donald Trump by accusing him of being ‘complicit’ in Israel’s attacks on Iran,” the story begins.
“Despite being complicit in the act of war, the president hopes last night’s events will help his ongoing nuclear negotiations with Iran,” Carlson wrote in his newsletter.
“While the American military may not have physically perpetrated the assault, years of funding and sending weapons to Israel, which Donald Trump just bragged about on Truth Social, undeniably place the U.S. at the center of last night’s events,” the right-wing pundit added.
“Washington knew these attacks would happen. They aided Israel in carrying them out,” Carlson continued. “Politicians purporting to be America First can’t now credibly turn around and say they had nothing to do with it.”
The story in The Independent notes that Tucker Carlson is not the only right-wing voice criticizing Trump for standing with Israel.
They cite several others.
“A direct strike on Iran right now would disastrously split the Trump coalition,” podcaster Jack Posobiec wrote on X. “Trump smartly ran against starting new wars. This is what the swing states voted for.”
The article notes that Posobiec “added that it could cost the Republicans the midterms.”
“If Trump gave Israel the ‘green light’ to target Iran, it ‘would be seen as an unforgivable betrayal by millions of American voters,’ Mollie Hemingway, the editor of right-wing publication The Federalist, said in a post on X,” the article continued.
That said, Tucker’s voice is the most troubling because his reach is so wide and his influence in the MAGA world so deep.
He has 16.3 million followers on X.
He also has more than 4 million subscribers on YouTube.
Even though he has told friends over the years that he gives lip service to Trump but actually despises him — once writing that “I hate him passionately” — he somehow has the president’s ear, and that of some of Trump’s closest advisors.
Yes, it concerns me that Tucker doesn’t stand with Israel.
But it concerns me even more that he doesn’t understand just how wicked and dangerous the Iranian regime is — not just to Israel, and our Sunni Arab allies, and to the Iranian people themselves, including millions of Iranian Christians.
But Tucker also doesn’t understand just how wicked and dangerous the Iranian regime is to the American people.
It doesn’t seem to matter to Tucker that the Iranian regime declared war on the American people almost a half-century ago.
Or that the Iranian regime took Americans hostage in Tehran on November 4, 1979, and held them for 444 humiliating days.
Or that the Iranian regime directed its terror proxy, Hezbollah, to attack the U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut on October 23, 1983, killing 241 Americans and wounding many more.
Or that the Iranian regime was responsible for the bombing of the Khobar Towers, a residential complex in Saudi Arabia, on June 25, 1996 — killing 19 Americans and severely wounding 400 more Americans and internationals living and working at the complex.
I could go on, but here’s the point:
If Tucker is really an “America First” guy, why doesn’t Iran’s murder of so many Americans over so many years bother him?
Why exactly is Tucker trashing Trump for standing with an American ally and against an American enemy?
Joel C. Rosenberg is the editor-in-chief of ALL ISRAEL NEWS and ALL ARAB NEWS and the President and CEO of Near East Media. A New York Times best-selling author, Middle East analyst, and Evangelical leader, he lives in Jerusalem with his wife and sons.
Trump’s apparent flirtation with Carlson and Co. was clearly part of the deception. And all of us who doubted Trump and Bibi helped, too. 😀
Hi, Sebastien.
Who was Carlson referring to, when he said, “and those people rule the world?”.
Was it the World Economic Forum? or Israeli artists who support them? or who? It’s hard to figure now days, just what people are thinking. Meanwhile,
Hi, Michael.
Interesting comment. I had just noted the antisemitic trope, I presume you watched it. He was mockingly imitating an Israeli leftist who agrees with him about the war. But, he probably conflates the two, like the pro-pal New Zealander student at the Union Theological Seminary, who drunkenly chased me around a restaurant screaming, “Americans ought to be gassed,” some years ago.
Hi Michael. Finally found the hilarious clip in which Yohay Sponder satirizes the “Jews control the world” antisemitic trope.
https://youtu.be/nhaDENugVnc?si=Tj6C9sUp6wQUmMa2
“And these people run the world?. (laughs) They’re so impressive.
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/366287
And now Steve Bannon is in on this:
“BANNON: If Israel’s gonna go alone, then take care of your deal. You decided to go alone. You said you didn’t need us. And six hours in, not only do they want defense, they want us to go on offense. Don’t believe me? Tucker Carlson’s got a tweet up. He’s naming names.”
As you see he swallowed what Carlson said. So we now have two dolts for the price of one!!!!
We all know that Israel will do what has to be done (we know what this is) without any help… The only help Israel needs is some more rocket-based defenses to keep the civilian population safe.
So in concludihng, I can only politely ask that Bannon and Carlson “Shove it!!!”
Errol Musk, Tucker Carlson, Jeffrey Sachs, Steve Bannon, Alex Jones, Peloni…
…and Donald Trump?
Which names don’t belong here?
I think it is helpful to read this simple essay by Avi Abelow who summarizes the importance of the Israeli strike on Iran to the Jewish people:
https://www.israelunwired.com/open-miracles-living-prophecy-the-night-that-shook-the-world/?utm_source=israelunwired.com&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=open-miracles-living-prophecy-the-night-that-shook-the-world
“As Jews around the world celebrate Shabbat and read Parshat Beha’alotcha, we do so with a deep sense of awe and gratitude.
“This has been a night of open miracles, the kind our ancestors would speak about for generations — and now, we are the generation living them. And we must be so grateful to Hashem!!!
“We are not simply reading about our ancestors this week, we are walking in their footsteps.
“We are seeing the Menorah lit anew in our generation — the eternal flame of Jewish destiny, burning bright through the darkness.
“May we never take for granted the privilege of living in this time. May we continue to rise, to shine, and to stand as proud guardians of our land, our people, and our truth.
“With awe, with pride, and with unshakable faith:
Am Yisrael Chai.”
My thoughts on this: We know now that the CIA has empowered Iran since 1979, at the expense of Israel and all the other countries in the Middle East. There is also the role of Qatar in funding anti-Israel propaganda campaigns and protests all over the world.
Focusing anger on Israel at this moment in time is both a PSYOP and a great way to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.
Instead of people focusing on the miraculous achievements involved in the Israeli attack; that there were surgical strikes to prevent collateral damage. That only those directly involved in the nuclear program or in harming Israel were targeted. That only nuclear and military sites were targeted, not attacks on civilians. Israel did and continues to do everything possible to destroy Iran’s nuclear capability. In doing so, Israel is protecting THE WHOLE WORLD INCLUDING THE U.S.
The CIA, and Qatar, I am guessing, isn’t happy with Israel’s success. They view Iran as their asset, a country that commits terrorist actions and that started a holocaust against Israel on the 7th of October. This is what the CIA and Qatar have been empowering. Israel decided it had to end. Iran had to be disempowered.
So in response, I believe the CIA or Qatar has put out this PSYOP that Israel will start World War III and it will mean US boots on the ground.
This propaganda campaign is meant to turn Americans against Israel. It is turning the truth on its head. The whole thing acts like a smokescreen, so no one is focused on Israel’s amazing victories. Instead they are focusing on this hypothesized danger of US boots on the ground.
Tucker Carlson has Qatari ties, in that his media business got started with the help of Qatari money. He has become a shill for the Qataris. Therefore his opinions on Israel should be considered with this in mind.