Benjamin Netanyahu: Opinion by Scott Ritter

➡ The speaker displays strong dislike for Benjamin Netanyahu, accusing him of dishonesty, manipulation, and contributing to violence and unnecessary wars as Prime Minister of Israel, particularly emphasizing his role in the Iraq conflict and enabling Hamas in Gaza.

It your views on the tenure of Benjamin Netanyahu as prime minister? I’ve hated Benjamin Netanyahu from day one. My my initial dislike of this man came in 1982 when a Marine Corps captain stepped up on an Israeli tank and told him that it could not go across the Marine lines. Over his dead body. Pulled a pistol and told the lieutenant colonel he’d blow his brains out. The Israeli.

He’s backed off. We called, charged the affairs at the embassy to condemn the Israeli actions. That was Benjamin Netanyahu. His response? To go around and create rumors about this captain, saying he was drunk, there was alcohol on his breath. Benjamin Netanyahu is a disgrace. He’s a coward. And he’s been that way ever since he was prime minister from 1996 to 1999. I was there for two years of his prime minorship.

He knows what the truth of Iraqi weapons extraction destruction is, because I worked with the head of his intelligence, and they agreed with me. And yet, in 2002, he went before the United States Congress as a private citizen, but with the cachet of being a prime minister, saying there is no doubt that Iraq has a nuclear weapons program, he lied. Americans then went into Iraq and died. Benjamin Netanyahu has the blood of thousands of Americans and hundreds of thousands of Iraqis on his hands.

And now he’s the war criminal prime minister of Israel. He’s responsible for all this violence. He’s the man who empowered Hamas to take over in Gaza in 2006. He did it. He’s the one. So let’s just remember who the ultimate criminal is in all of this, and his name is Benjamin Netanyahu.