Last night (Tuesday), President-elect Donald Trump shared a social media post on TruthSocial showing economist Jeffrey Sachs accusing the US of lying the country into war with Iraq in 2003 - at the behest of Prime Minister Netanyahu.
While the text of the shared post talks solely of alleged American perfidy in the Syrian Civil War, based on Sachs' accusation that then-President Obama ordered the elimination of then-Syrian dictator Bashar Assad from power multiple times, Sachs argues at the end of the video that this was all at Prime Minister Netanyahu's behest.
Sachs says that Netanyahu had a belief, held since 1995, that in order to neutralize Hamas and Hezbollah, it would be necessary to bring about regime change in the states that funded and armed them - Syria, Iraq, and Iran.
Netanyahu did openly testify as a private citizen and former Prime Minister before Congress in favor of the Iraq War in 2003. However, he reportedly took a hands off approach to Syria during the Civil War, telling members of the conservative Heritage Foundation in 2015 that he considered Assad a "neighborhood bully" less dangerous than the alternatives.
Trump's decision to post this video, assuming he listening to the video rather than just reading the text, which makes no mention of Netanyahu, points to some possibly serious tensions between Israel and the incoming administration regarding whether or not to use military force against Iran for fear it would lead to a general war.
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