One Israeli citizen unhappy with the recent Iran deal said the U.S. might need to experience an event in which many Americans die.
Israeli defense researcher Beni Sabti said the U.S. might need to suffer through an attack to renew U.S. support for Israel and remind Americans who their allies are in an X post on Saturday. While the post was later edited, an X Community Note revealed the content of the original version.
“Maybe USA needs another Pearl Harbor or 9/11 to remember who is the enemy and who is the friend,” Sabti wrote on X.
The post was then edited and replaced with an updated statement.
“Good luck for USA to handle Iran regime terrorists. I hope for USA administration to remember who is the enemy and who is the friend,” the updated post reads.
Sabti did not respond to a request for comment.
American journalist Glenn Greenwald addressed the comments in an X post on Monday, quoting the Daily Caller’s postabout Sabti’s statement.
“Under the official 9/11 story, Iran had zero involvement with that attack,” Greenwald said in the X post. “The countries with the closest relationship to 9/11 attackers are the tyrannies called ‘our closest partners’: Saudi, UAE, Egypt. Yet another bizarre attribute of ‘The War on Terror.’ Odd threat here.”
As the U.S. works to negotiate with Iran toward peace in the Middle East, President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance have been critical of Israel’s recent behavior in Lebanon.
“You can do a little softer touch, Bibi,” Trump said Wednesday at the G7 summit. “I’m saying, when two drones are shot into the desert and dropped harmlessly, you don’t have to knock down buildings in Beirut.”
“Donald J. Trump is the only head of state in the entire world who is sympathetic to the nation of Israel at this moment in time, and he happens to be the head of state of the world’s superpower,” Vance said Thursday during a White House press briefing. “If I was in the cabinet of the Israeli government, I might not be attacking the only powerful ally that I have anywhere left in the entire world.”
These statements have sparked criticism of the U.S. negotiating efforts from pro-Israel commentators.
“In a period of two months, Israel has gone from a great ally and partner in war … to Israeli PM Netanyahu being a difficult person who should be thanking us for saving his country from Iran,” pro-Israel Fox News host Mark Levin said in an X post on June 14.
The U.S. wants to “deal with them [Iran] so badly that you’re going to tell our allies in the region [Israel] to stand down, you are giving them an enormous amount of forward momentum, and that is a huge mistake that should not be done, and I hope that the president does not do that,” pro-Israel commentator Ben Shapiro said on episode 2446 of the “Ben Shapiro Show.” “Again, that signing ceremony in Switzerland should be cancelled. It should not happen.”
Ben Shapiro and Mark Levin did not immediately reply to the DCNF’s requests for comment.
Sabti was also critical of the U.S. negotiations in another X post on Saturday.
“Iran regime won’t be satisfied of any agreement with USA,” Sabti said in the post.
The criticism from Trump and Vance comes after multiple Israeli attacks on Lebanon.
Iran announced Saturday it will close the Strait of Hormuz, accusing Israel of launching strikes in Lebanon in violation of a ceasefire which had taken effect hours earlier, Reuters reported. Israel Defense Forces killed 361 people and injured over 1,000 people in a single day on April 8 during Operation Eternal Darkness, the BBC reported, citing Lebanese authorities.
Thousands of Americans perished in each of the attacks Sabti’s original post mentioned.
The Japanese Empire’s attack on Pearl Harbor cost the U.S. dearly. Over 2,400 Americans were slaughtered in the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on Dec. 7, 1941, according to the U.S. Navy.
“Yesterday, December 7, 1941, a date which will live in infamy, the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan,” President Franklin Roosevelt told Congress on Dec. 8, 1941, according to the National Archives.
The terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, were just as devastating and are in the living memory of many more Americans than Pearl Harbor. The “9/11” terrorist attacks killed “nearly 3,000 Americans and international citizens,” according to the FBI.
“We remember the cruelty of the murderers and the pain and anguish of the murdered,” President George W. Bush said in a statement from the White House on Dec. 11, 2001, according to White House archives. “Every one of the innocents who died on September the 11th was the most important person on earth to somebody. Every death extinguished a world.”
(DCNF)