Carlson: Trump has surrendered to Netanyahu
Tehran - BORNA - Tucker Carlson, a prominent media figure and conservative political commentator in the United States, criticized the U.S. military aid budget to the Israeli regime in an interview, stating that the regime has "definitely lost its moral ground" due to civilian casualties in recent wars.
In an interview with the Israeli regime's Channel 13 television, Carlson also asserted that the Israeli regime is not a democracy because Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza do not have the right to vote. He accused U.S. President Donald Trump of surrendering to the influence of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to escalate the war in Gaza.
Carlson pointed to civilian casualties in Israeli attacks against Hamas in Gaza, Hezbollah in Lebanon, as well as aggressive strikes against Iran as examples of the moral decline of the Israeli regime.
When the Israeli media outlet claimed during the interview that the regime was acting in self-defense, Carlson shifted the argument, noting that his primary issue is that the United States funds the occupying regime's military.
"The reason I am allowed to comment on this, and have the right to speak up and say that this is wrong, is because I pay for it. There is no reason for the United States to give money to Israel, especially to its military," he stated.
Making a claim against the Hamas movement, Carlson added: "If Hamas does a bad thing, it’s bad, but it doesn’t justify Israel doing the same bad thing, nor does it justify the United States. You cannot kill people who have done nothing wrong."
He implied that the Israeli regime lacks enlightenment due to the collateral damage caused by the Gaza war in response to the October 7 attacks by Hamas.
"We had the September 11 attacks where many were killed, and in response, the U.S. killed some of those responsible, but also many innocent people. We did that. It is never permissible to kill an innocent person. You cannot kill a child who has done nothing wrong. That is the definition of enlightened people; that is the definition of an enlightened country," Carlson said.
The Israeli Regime is Not a Democracy
Carlson also claimed that the Israeli regime is "by no means" a democracy, citing the millions of Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza who are deprived of the right to vote.
Regarding his previous statements describing the Israeli attacks on Gaza as a "genocide," he remarked: "Israel has killed all these children, thousands of children in Gaza, but the real criminal is me because I describe it as a genocide. Fine, it’s not genocide. It is the killing of innocent people. It is wrong. You can call it genocide or ethnic cleansing. You can call it a crime, a sin, or brutality. I don’t really care."
Carlson went on to accuse the U.S. president of "surrendering to Netanyahu's pressure."
Referring to the illegal joint U.S.-Israeli strikes against Iran, the prominent political commentator noted: "The United States followed Israel into this war on February 26 [February 27 of last year], and the U.S. Secretary of State said there was no choice and that Israel chose the timing. This is the definition of control. So my question is, why did Trump allow a country of 9 million people to drag a country of 350 million people into a war that will change its future and is bad for America?"
The Israeli regime stands condemned of genocide in Gaza at the International Criminal Court (ICC). Furthermore, arrest warrants have been issued for Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant, the regime's former war minister, who have been convicted at the court of crimes against humanity and genocide in Gaza.
Reports by UN agencies have described the deliberate attacks on civilian populations in Gaza as genocide, noting that the creation of a man-made famine and starvation in Gaza has been used as a tool for genocide alongside military strikes. The regime continues to block the normal flow of food and medicine into Gaza and has repeatedly used violence against the global "Convoy of Conscience" (Fleet of Resilience) aimed at breaking the humanitarian blockade of Gaza.
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