Israeli Official Rips ‘Shameful’ Trump Comments and ‘The Nonsense He Spouts’
Israel’s minister of communications condemned Donald Trump’s recent remarks about Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and terror group Hezbollah as “shameful,” adding, “We don’t have to bother with him and the nonsense he spouts.”
Shlomo Karhi, a member of the Knesset and the Likud Party, told Israel’s Channel 13 it was “shameful that a man like that, a former U.S. president, abets propaganda and disseminates things that wound the spirit of Israel’s fighters and its citizens,” the Associated Press reported.
Karhi was referring to Trump’s comments at a rally Wednesday night in West Palm Beach, in which he accused Netanyahu of not cooperating with a U.S. drone strike that killed Iranian Qasem Soleimani.
Trump said, “We had everything all set to go, and the night before it happened, I got a call that Israel will not be participating in this attack. We were disappointed by that. Very disappointed. But we did the job ourselves, with absolute precision … and then Bibi tried to take credit for it.”
In the same speech, Trump complimented Hezbollah for its involvement in the Israeli-Hamas War. Fox News Digital reported:
Seemingly referring to Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, Trump said, “They have a national defense minister or somebody saying, ‘I hope Hezbollah doesn’t attack us from the north.’ So the following morning, they attacked … If you listen to this jerk, you would attack from the north because he said, ‘That’s our weak spot.’”
Trump remarked that Hezbollah was “very smart” for following every word put out by American and Israeli officials. When reached by Fox News Digital, a Trump campaign spokesperson clarified that “President Trump was clearly pointing out how incompetent Biden and his administration were by telegraphing to the terrorists an area that is susceptible to an attack.”
President Joe Biden slammed Trump’s comments by retweeting a clip and writing, “Our nation’s support for Israel is resolute and unwavering. And the right time to praise the terrorists who seek to destroy them is never.”
White House senior communications advisor Andrew Bates told Mediaite, “Statements like this are dangerous and unhinged. It’s completely lost on us why any American would ever praise an Iran-backed terrorist organization as ‘smart.’”
