Trump sier Israel ikke har råd til å gjøre feil slik det skjedde med det massive sikkerhetsbruddet 7. oktober. De står overfor potensielt krig med Iran og det er ikke spøk. Iran må ikke undervurderes.

“You talk about the intelligence or you talk about some of the things that went wrong over the last week, they’ve got to straighten it out because they’re fighting potentially a very big force. They’re fighting potentially, Iran,” the GOP presidential frontrunner says during a campaign rally in West Palm Beach. “When they have people saying the wrong things, everything they say is being digested by these people because they’re vicious and they’re smart. And boy, are they vicious because nobody’s ever seen the kind of sight that we’ve seen.”

“They cannot play games,” he continues. “They’ve got to strengthen themselves up.”

Den israelske regjering er hårsår etter sikkerhetssvikten som det ikke har kommet noen fornuftig forklaring på.

Trump har også en høne å plukke med Netanyahu over likvideringen av Irans stjernegeneral, Qasssem Soleimani. Israel og USA hadde planlagt operasjonen i lang tid, men i siste øyeblikk trakk Israel seg ut. Det kunne torpedert hele operasjonen, men Trump nektet og Soleimani ble tatt ut.

“I’ll never forget that Bibi Netanyahu let us down. That was a very terrible thing. We were very disappointed, but we did the job ourselves, and it was absolute precision, magnificent, beautiful job,” he says. “Then Bibi tried to take credit for it. That didn’t make me feel too good. But that’s all right.”

Netanyahu har åpenbart trodd at det ville betale seg å holde med Demokratene i stedet for Trump. Han var den første til å gratulere Biden valgnatten.

I NTBs versjon heter det at Trump roser iranerne for å være smarte. Alt for å trekke Trump ned.