{"id":3677,"date":"2025-06-14T14:55:53","date_gmt":"2025-06-14T14:55:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/?p=3677"},"modified":"2025-06-14T15:39:53","modified_gmt":"2025-06-14T15:39:53","slug":"former-trump-aide-calls-for-america-first-over-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/14\/former-trump-aide-calls-for-america-first-over-israel\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Trump aide calls for \u2018America first\u2019 over Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"

The interests of the US and Israel are not necessarily the same in the ongoing escalation, Steve Bannon believes<\/strong><\/p>\n

The US should pursue its own interests rather than those of Israel, Steve Bannon, a former aide to US President Donald Trump, has said, warning that the new escalation in the Middle East could potentially drag Washington into a war with Iran.<\/p>\n

Bannon made the remarks to the Financial Times on Saturday, suggesting that the interests of the US and its closest ally in the Middle East were not necessarily the same in the current crisis.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey [the Israelis] are Israel First; we need to always be America First,\u201d<\/em> he said.<\/p>\n

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\u201cIn Jerusalem they should reflect on the message of Christ: live by the sword, die by the sword.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

When asked whether he feared the US could ultimately be dragged into a war against Iran, the former Trump ally said he was \u201cvery much\u201d<\/em> wary of such a scenario.<\/p>\n

The Israeli military launched a major attack on Iran early on Friday, striking nuclear facilities and military installations across the country. It also launched targeted assassinations which killed several senior military commanders and high-profile nuclear scientists. West Jerusalem claimed the attack was a preemptive measure aimed at preventing the allegedly imminent production of a nuclear bomb by Tehran.<\/p>\n

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Israeli airstrike claims 60 lives in Tehran apartment block \u2013 media<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Iran retaliated by launching a major ballistic missile and drone barrage at Israel, vowing to continue strikes for as long as it deems necessary. Tehran has repeatedly denied it had been harboring any plans to pursue a nuclear weapons program, insisting its uranium-enrichment activities have been serving strictly civilian purposes.<\/p>\n

The Israeli attack on the Islamic Republic comes after five rounds of US-Iranian talks on the country\u2019s nuclear program. The negotiations have effectively stalled and failed to produce any tangible result. Following the attack, Tehran said the continuation of dialogue with Washington was \u201cmeaningless.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

US President Donald Trump claims to have known about the impending Israeli strikes beforehand, and lauded them as \u201cvery successful.\u201d<\/em> Trump suggested Tehran brought the attack upon itself through its reluctance to strike a nuclear deal with the US.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe gave them a chance, and they didn\u2019t take it. They got hit hard, very hard. They got hit about as hard as you\u2019re going to get hit. And there\u2019s more to come. A lot more,\u201d<\/em> he said on Friday, commenting on the attack.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The interests of the US and Israel are not necessarily the same in the ongoing escalation, Steve Bannon believes The US should pursue its own interests rather than those of Israel, Steve Bannon, a former aide to US President Donald Trump, has said, warning that the new escalation in the Middle East could potentially drag…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3679,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3677"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3680,"href":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3677\/revisions\/3680"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}