This is one of the most profoundly insightful explanations, threading together the labyrinth of historical and religious context. It is the single must-read piece—after which no further explanation is necessary—to understand the Israel–America relationship and the nexus between radical left Islamo-Marxism and the far-right cloaked in Christianity. The quintessential red–green alliance, distilled into a two-minute read that pieces the entire puzzle together.
Dear Tucker Carlson,
I listened to your message in which you claimed to propose four ways to “balance” the relationship between America and Israel.
Even though you made serious mistakes and misrepresented facts in every one of your points, I want to respond specifically to your fourth.
You said that Americans need to “get their theology right,” claiming that Christianity is a universal religion with no special people, that the “chosen” are only those who choose Christ, not the Jews, because God doesn’t favor people based on DNA.
First, let’s be honest: you couldn’t care less about theology. Your real aim is to sway evangelicals in America away from supporting Israel.
Now, on the theology itself: Christianity is universal. God doesn’t favor people because of DNA, and in the New Testament the chosen are indeed those who choose Christ.
But Christianity is not just another religion like Islam. Christianity doesn’t hijack Judaism’s faith, scripture, prophets, history, and Savior only to wash its hands of the people of the covenant. God chose Israel not because of superiority in DNA or virtue but because of His grace (Deut. 7:7-8).
And since “the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable” (Romans 11:29), Christ’s coming globalized the Jewish covenant without erasing God’s faithfulness to His people. Paul is explicit: “Has God rejected His people? By no means” (Romans 11:1).
Follow your logic, and Christianity becomes indistinguishable from Islam. Islam hijacked Christianity, declared it invalid, and expelled Christians from their own covenant. Replacement-theology Christians hijack Judaism, declare it invalid, and expel the Jews from theirs. Either way, the pattern is the same.
Nevertheless, I’ve always said Christians shouldn’t base support for Israel solely on theology, but on truth, on history and facts.
You kept repeating that Israel wouldn’t exist without American tax money. False. America shut its doors to Jewish immigrants during the Holocaust. America embargoed weapons to Israel in 1948, while Harry Truman struggled against his own State Department to recognize Israel’s independence.
U.S. support came only later, when Israel proved useful against Soviet-backed Arab states.
Today, Israel’s GDP is nearly $600 billion a year. According to your own numbers, U.S. aid totals about $300 billion spread over 50 years, that’s equivalent to half a year of Israel’s current GDP. To claim that Israel’s survival depends on U.S. aid is simply dishonest.
And your assertion that “America doesn’t need Israel” is laughable. In fact, the whole world needs Israel.
Israel is the reason Islamic jihad has not succeeded in restoring its caliphate and turning again to conquer the West. Israel shattered the dream of pan-Islamic imperialism and made the modern nation-state in the Middle East a reality. Without Israel, jihad would already be at Europe’s gates.
@LindseyGrahamSC No way you really believe this? I supported Trump for more than 10 years. Voted for him 3X. You won your recent election. You won't need a Trump endorsement the next time around. Say what you really feel!
Israel is our democratic ally fighting Hezbollah, Iran’s terrorist proxy with American blood on its hands. President Trump is right: Iran needs to restrain its terrorist proxy, the U.S. should never restrain Israel from defending itself. And if Iran won’t act, we should back Israel to the hilt.
In Iran, we are dealing with a regime that as recently as January, slaughtered tens of thousands of its own civilians in the streets. That’s not the kind of regime that honors international agreements.
It should've been Mr. Bean at the negotiations, not JD Vance. At least Mr. Bean accidentally gets things right. Even @elonmusk probably would've negotiated a better deal.
I haven’t been so nauseous since Hamas’ humiliating hostage release celebrations in Gaza.
Degrading, subjugating and shaming the enemy are all part of terrorism.
Submitting to this mortification is a huge loss in the psychological war.
Embarrassing🤦♂️ I don't know which is worse...getting stood up by the Islamic Regime or actually taking a photo with terrorists who orchestrated the murder of 40K of their own people.
For your information, during the first 80 minutes of negotiations, which have now concluded their first round, JD Vance did not raise the Islamic regime in Iran's nuclear program even once. Zero mention of the nuclear issue. Instead, Iran demanded that the United States stop Israel from responding to Hezbollah terrorists, support statehood for the Yemen-based terrorists, and accept Iran's control over the Strait of Hormuz, which it is already attempting to assert.
This is not a nuclear deal. It is one of the most shameful and disastrous negotiations imaginable.
This was humiliation. No one in modern history has made America wait and beg for negotiations. This was the moment JD Vance should have returned to Washington. The Islamic regime did this on purpose. Trump, if you don't understand politics, you should at least understand protocol.
The visuals from Switzerland:
• The U.S. delegation entered well before the Iranians. In diplomacy, the side with leverage doesn't wait in the room. You claim to be leading and winning, yet you arrived first. First mistake.
• Ghalibaf did not enter while the press was inside. JD Vance did. Another mistake. It looked as though you didn't just abandon allies, including Israel, you also diminished America's image by ignoring basic diplomatic protocol.
• The Iranian foreign minister entered last and refused to shake hands. We didn't need photographs to tell us who looked confident and who looked desperate, but these images made it easy for the world to draw its own conclusions.
INSTEAD OF WATCHING AN HOUR OF NETFLIX TONIGHT.
This 1 hour Stanford lecture by Joel Peterson will teach you more about negotiation and getting what you want than most people learn in years.
Bookmark it and give it an hour, no matter what.
Trump and JD Vance's foreign policy: lose Italy and Israel, but keep Iran. Tough on allies, soft on the Islamic regime in Iran. They scold Israel, fight with NATO, mock Europe, and lecture Ukraine, then sit down with the mullahs and ask how many more billions of dollars from American taxpayers they would like. It's like getting robbed and then asking the thief whether he'd prefer cash or a wire transfer. At this point, either Tehran has performed magic on them, or they genuinely think the regime will change if they keep being nice to it—which is even worse than magic. For 47 years, the world and the Iranian people tried being nice to the regime and got Hezbollah, Hamas, Al-Qaeda, ISIS, and terrorism in the West.