Steve Bannon: Our “special relationship” with Israel “is being broken right now by the way the Netanyahu government is dealing with us”
Bannon: “This was rushed, this was rushed to try to suck us into a military operation and get us entangled in regime change. That is obvious.”
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From the June 20, 2025, edition of Real America's Voice's War Room
STEVE BANNON (HOST): With one swoop of an airplane. Of course Kayleigh McEnany's infantile. Let's be blunt. That right there is dangerous. That is dangerous and that is on Fox all day long. I'm absolutely serious.
Why wouldn't — why do you not think that they're representing a foreign government? Hannity, Levin, the whole crowd. There should be an investigation. Has there been intelligence or, you know, are the guys taking ads, see the AIPAC ads all the time over there.
I'm a supporter of Israel and I believe in Israel first to do what they think is necessary, and they've done a pretty magnificent job recently with Hezbollah in southern Syria. I think even in Gaza, although it should be done a lot quicker and get it over with. But this is different scale. This is different level, and in history, scale matters. And this was rushed, this was rushed to try to suck us into a military operation and get us entangled in regime change. That is obvious.
The urgency last week, which still hasn't been explained why they had to have a Pearl Harbor type attack last Thursday night and Friday morning, right? As we said, what do we say in the show, Jack Posobiec?
On Friday morning, we said this was just not to get, it was obvious, it was just not to get, the nuclear program. It was a decapitation move at the highest military command. They were bragging about it. And that's fine, but if you're gonna do that, don't do it where you then got to upsell us for regime change or bring us in to finish, do the coup de grace.
If the coup de grace is needed by the United States of America, you should discuss that, and the American people need to be prepared for that. What did Lincoln say? If you have public opinion on your side, if you have the public's support, you can do anything in this country. But to get the public support, you got to be straight with the public.
We were dealt from the bottom of the deck in Iraq, and I might note Kayleigh McEnany, if you learned your history. Iraq today is, I don't know, 50% - Jack - controlled by Persia for the simple reason is that the buffoons over at Fox that dangerously promoted into the Iraq war, right, had not thought it through.
So Jack, where are we? And look, Israel, we have a special relationship which I unfortunately think is being broken right now by the way the Netanyahu government is dealing with us, but that special relationship is they have air supremacy over Persia right now. But if you look at the hits they're taking, you got to ask the question, and they're running out of ammunition, which they're gonna need us to do. They're gonna — running out of the refueling operations. They're gonna need us to do.
We're already, we're already engaged as a combatant. OK, let's be blunt. We're already engaged as a combatant. Now they want to bring us into air operations. And as Hugo Lowell walked you through yesterday, it's not one swoop. Her words at the end are damning. Oh, it's just one swoop. Get off your beach chair, just one swoop.
Well, lady, guess what? The guys in the beach chairs right now are advising President Trump think this through. You're the commander in chief. We will support you. Obviously, your MAGA base, not Fox and the Murdochs that dumped him in 2021 and try to get, you know, Ron DeSantis and Nikki Haley and Youngkin and all that crowd, right, the neocon crowd, promote him over President Trump, try to crush President Trump. Murdoch tried to make him a non-person. Those are Murdoch's words, not mine.
So your rush here to basically jam the president of the United States and to jam the United States of America into a situation where we had to deliver the coup de grace on a military operation you initiated does not wash with the American people, does not wash with MAGA, and I will tell you, I think the odds are now hopefully that the president thinks through and looks at other diplomatic and economic warfare possibilities to deal with the situation, Jack Posobiec.