Jeremy Scahill

They stood by for two and a half years of watching Palestinian children get burned alive in tents.

They did nothing about it.

They stand by and issue at best strongly worded statements and do nothing.

And so what I think we're witnessing here

is that Trump is using the White House as a vehicle for his business.

They've cut all these deals with these Gulf countries.

Yes, it's true what you said about Saudi Arabia, particularly in the first term.

The real collusion was building a coalition against Iran.

They were really contemplating this.

There were all these meetings in Trump Tower with the Saudis, the Israelis, et cetera.

Over the past two years, but really over the period from the June war until now,

An untold story was that there had been a rapprochement between Iran and many of these Gulf countries, where Iran had a very dedicated campaign of diplomacy, and there was an improvement of relations going on in the Gulf.

And Netanyahu did not like this at all.

He hated this.

You had these Gulf countries say, oh, you can't use our airspace.

You can't use our territory.

Now, of course, that's nonsense.

They all have massive US military facilities, including the arteries of the entire thing running through the GCC countries.

But publicly, they were stating this.

And that was the result of this diplomacy going on.