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Tucker Carlson: “Israel feels legitimately threatened.”

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JD Vance's Warning to Israel, the Last Desperate Move of Israel-Firsters & Iran's Growing Strength

Published June 24, 2026 | Video Starts at 1:00:40

I think your analysis is spot on, very smart and I hope people are listening to this. But I just wonder how it unfolds because Israel feels legitimately threatened. And you could say Israel has a very long history of hyping threats and we heard Randy Fine invoke the Holocaust. Okay, settle down Randy Fine. But this is a real threat. (1:00:40–1:00:43)

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“Over 4,000 Lebanese, almost all of them civilians, killed by Israel since Israel and the United States launched the war against Iran.”
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“They almost have a nuclear weapon. And the delivery device, the intercontinental ballistic missile, the icbm, capable of blowing up Miami.”
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“The United States spent more money defending Israel than Israel spent defending itself.”
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“Our prime minister's been indicted for war crimes in civilized countries.”
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“Qatar sent money to Hamas at the request of Israel.”
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“Four and a half years in, we really have no idea how many Russians, Ukrainians or people from other countries have died in the Russia…”
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“We definitely don't know with precision how many people have died in the war with Iran.”
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“The official numbers may be 16 [American deaths].”
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“On the Iranian side, the official number is about 3,600. 3,664 about that. Iranians dead combatants and civilians.”
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“Israel...founded by socialists on socialist principles. It's not a free market country. It's run by the government and the military.”
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“Lebanon... is in effect occupied by Hezbollah and has been for a long time.”
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“Israel cajoled, convinced, threatened, however they did, it got the US government to fight this war, a regime change war in Iran, on its…”
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“Maybe [Israel] shouldn't blow up a peace deal that's essential to [America's] survival as an economic power.”
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“Israeli leaders somehow convince control, threaten whatever they did, they overrode the advice of the American President's advisors and…”
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“The Iranian nuclear program was the justification for this regime change effort, for killing the Ayatollah, bombing the girls, school…”
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“Hezbollah has shelled the Galilee or sent drones over the galley and killed people in the galley.”
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“Israel would like to steal the land of a sovereign nation called Lebanon.”
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“Israel's style of war tends to be wildly disproportionate.”
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“A cabinet minister in the Israeli government did just the other day, hours ago, yeah, those are the rules. Kill one of ours, we kill a…”
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“The United States realizes its president, its leadership, that there's no military solution to this.”
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“We can't kill our way out of the war with Iran.”
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“If we keep going, we run out of oil.”
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“We have massive energy reserves in the United States.”
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“Energy, gasoline, diesel fuel, heating oil, jet fuel... will become too expensive for most people to buy.”
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“We have reached the limit of American power.”
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“Israel's been complaining about whining about inflating the severity of existential threats for know generations.”
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“They killed the head of state and the entire top echelon running the state and new people nobody had ever heard of seamlessly moved into…”
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“Iran has been funding, and it's a little more complicated than this, but they have effectively been funding some of Israel's most dangerous…”
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“We now lack the defensive capacity to send American troops other places in the world if we needed to, because we expended it defending you…”
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“We paid for more of [Israel's] defense than [Israel] did.”
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“Maybe USA needs another Pearl Harbor or 911 to remember who is the enemy and who is the friend.”
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“It was Benjamin Netanyahu himself...after 9/11...who said this is a good thing because it reminds America that we're on the same side.”
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“The United States did not abet the Holocaust. The United States fought the Nazis and hundreds of thousands of Americans died.”
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“United States has done a lot more for Israel than Israel has done for the United States.”
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“There's certainly a massive rise in distrust of Israel.”
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“It's disapproval at the behavior of a secular government that we fund.”
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“The only people who don't understand [the situation] at this point are the bitter enders in the US Congress, in the American neocon…”
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“Fox News...has become in the last year sort of a non stop cheerleader for the most nihilistic kind of military action.”
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“Israel's not really a player, except to the extent that we imbue it with value because our politicians have been lobbied by them.”
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“The Israeli government has abandoned the central tenet of Western civilization, which is justice on an individual basis.”
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“Israel embraces [a standard of] blood guilt.”
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“That is a disaster for Israel.”
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“Now you have, the regional powers are all Muslim states, by the way, majority Muslim states. And they're all kind of hostile to Israel.”
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“Israel spent the last number of decades making bellicose noises at all these governments, assassinating people in their countries.”
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“Israel has a very long history of hyping threats.”
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“Israel is under too much pressure. I don't think their leaders are thinking clearly at all.”
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“They were doing a solid for Bibi Netanyahu.”
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“Trump was completely outraged by it, but he humiliated Netanyahu.”
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“The U.S. military is totally and obviously unprepared for modern drone warfare.”
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“We helped create [modern drone warfare].”
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“We've got a bunch of aircraft carriers in production still.”
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“All these members of Congress and Fox News flag pin wearers who are like, we've got the greatest military in the world.”
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“The President says that all the time.”
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“When you drop the standards, they become less impressive.”
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“I don't think I know that the administration has gotten religion on this.”
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“The consequences of proceeding are so severe that not only are they committed to ending this, but they are turning against the president…”
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“Trump has totally soured on Mark Levin.”
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“There was all of a sudden this overnight consensus in the US Congress, throughout Washington, really, that, quote, Assad must go.”
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“I don't see the pre March status quo politically surviving where 95% of members of Congress, whatever, over 90% of members take money from…”
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“Tom Cotton is the driving force behind the idea of giving up the sovereignty of our intel agencies to a foreign country.”
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“He's also, as far as I know, the chairman of the Senate Intelligence committee and sitting U.S. senator.”
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“Can you have the chairman of the Senate Intel Committee demanding that we have mandatory intel sharing with a foreign pretty obviously…”
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“It was Tom Cotton who expressed concern that the Kennedy F. That all the JFK files would be released.”
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“It's a fact that shortly into this administration, he expressed concern that the Kennedy F. That all the JFK files would be released.”
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“So it's the agenda is more spying on Americans.”
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“No voter id, because why would we want secure elections then like voters would have a say?”
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“Energy prices that drive people into poverty.”
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“Certainly these are decisions made without reference to what people want.”
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