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JD Vance’s Warning to Israel, the Last Desperate Move of Israel-Firsters & Iran’s Growing Strength
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Israel's Response: Randy Fine, the '9/11 Tweet', and American Enablers
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Tucker plays Florida Congressman Randy Fine's response to Vance — calling the remarks 'absolutely inappropriate and frankly disgusting' and invoking the Holocaust while claiming the US barely funds Israel. Tucker methodically demolishes Fine's argument: the US fought and bled fighting the Nazi regime, hundreds of thousands of Americans died, and invoking the Holocaust without acknowledging American sacrifice is designed to produce unearned guilt, not historical accuracy. Then Tucker introduces the more alarming response: Israeli defense analyst Ben Sabti of the Institute for National Security Studies tweeted that the US 'maybe needs another Pearl Harbor or 9/11 to remember who is the enemy and who is the friend.' Tucker reads this as an explicit threat — the ugliest possible sentiment, rooting for civilian deaths in an ally's country — and connects it to Netanyahu's own 2001 comment that 9/11 was a good thing for the US-Israel relationship. The response from Israel's American allies was to double down further, setting up the Hannity-Fetterman clip.
Israeli defense analyst Ben Sabti — at a government-linked think tank — tweeted that America 'maybe needs another Pearl Harbor or 9/11' to remember who its friends are. This isn't a fringe view; it's a window into an elite that has come to see American suffering as a tool for its own ends.
Sean Hannity and John Fetterman looked into the camera and told America that any criticism of Israel means you hate capitalism, America, and Western civilization. Tucker's analysis: this is what national decline looks like on television. Israel is a socialist country founded by socialists, so the capitalism argument doesn't even make sense.
