John J. Mearsheimer

And the United States is complicit in this genocide, both under the Biden administration and under the Trump administration.

This is truly remarkable.

And it just goes to show you that Israel can do almost anything, and we protect them, and we provide them with huge amounts of weaponry.

And this has not worked to Israel's advantage.

And in a very important way, the lobby, which is so essential for making this relationship work the way it does, is undermining Israel.

All these people like Bill Ackman who think that they're doing wonderful things for Israel, that they're protecting Israel, are living in a fool's paradise.

The best thing that could happen to Israel is if Donald Trump could actually get tough with them, read them the riot act.

Of course.

And that was true of many previous presidents.

People like Barack Obama, Jimmy Carter, these people were not anti-Semites.

They actually were philo-Semites of the first order, and they cared about Israel's security.

They just thought that Israel was going about providing for its own security in the most foolish ways, and they wanted to crack down on the Israelis.

But they couldn't do that because the lobby made it impossible to do.

And the end result is that Israel is in a deep hole.

And what is it doing?

Digging deeper.

Why?

Because it can get away with it and because it believes that there's got to be some magic military formula that we can find to win against Hezbollah, to win against Hamas, to win against Iran, and to have absolute security.

None of these people are parents?

I think, Tucker, what we're saying here, and this gets back to our conversation about how European leaders think about Putin as Hitler, and they think about this great Russian threat.