Tucker Carlson: The Path to Peace requires ending ‘special alliance’ with Israel

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Tucker Carlson: The Path to Peace requires ending ‘special alliance’ with Israel

As long as Washington maintains a “special alliance” with Israel, Israeli leaders will always seek to use our military to do their dirty work. They have proved it for decades, continuing to demand more U.S. troops die on their behalf

By Tucker Carlson, Reposted from TCN, April 8, 2026

We hope the president’s ceasefire creates a lasting peace and puts an end to America fighting Mark Levin’s wars for him. Unfortunately, such an outcome is no guarantee.

As long as Washington maintains a “special alliance” with the Israeli government, the latter’s leaders will always seek to use our military to do their dirty work. They have proved it for decades, pitching every president since Ronald Reagan on invading Iran and continuing to demand more U.S. troops die on their behalf even after America took out Saddam Hussein and Ali Khamenei. Our bending over backward for them has never been, and will never be, enough. 

It only took Israel a few months after Operation Midnight Hammer to swoop back into the White House and aggressively lobby for more acts of war against their enemy. The same thing will happen again unless President Trump gets ahead of it and tells the Israelis that enough is enough. The American people have endured enormous amounts of pain because of Israel, and the thankless torment must stop now. That means ending the U.S.-Israeli “special partnership,” and instead treating Israel like any other country. If their interests align with ours, that’s great. But if they don’t, we must never compromise what is best for us in order to help them. They are not our priority.

This shift would lead to a foreign policy that exists to benefit the United States. Perhaps we could improve relations with Iran, developing an actual partnership that reduces the threat of terrorism and increases our access to Middle Eastern natural resources. Maybe we would no longer need to have tens of thousands of troops stationed in the Gulf, and could finally bring our boys home. Thirdly, and this one is definite, America’s decades-long humiliation exercise of treating Israel like a 51st state would end, allowing our government to justly serve us. 

This plan might not create peace for Israel, but that is not America’s concern. For once this century, it is time for our leaders to legitimately, without exception, put the United States First. Yesterday’s ceasefire creates a legitimate opportunity for them to do so. Whether they dare to follow through could determine the Republican Party’s fate.

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The World Can Have Peace Or Israel, But Not Both

By Caitlin Johnstone, reposted from Caitlin Johnstone’s Substack, April 9, 2026

Israel is already aggressively sabotaging the Trump administration’s two-week ceasefire with Iran by slaughtering huge numbers of civilians in Lebanon, a nation which is explicitly off-limits for any attack under the ceasefire conditions agreed to by Tehran.

The US and Israel are trying to claim that Lebanon is not part of the ceasefire agreement, but Pakistan, whom the US appointed to mediate the agreement, says this is false. The New York Times reports that the White House took part in Pakistan’s public messaging which explicitly included Lebanon in the ceasefire conditions, before changing its tune after Israel attacked.

Iran has reportedly responded to these violations by again halting traffic through the Strait of Hormuz.

This serves as yet another reminder that the world can have peace or it can have Israel — but it cannot have both. Israel is a genocidal apartheid state whose entire existence is premised upon a strategy of unceasing violence and abuse in the middle east. As long as that state continues to exist in its present iteration, peace will never be attainable.

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If your job hired a guy who kept getting into fights with your coworkers and saying it’s because they are racist against him, for a week you might believe him.

After a month, you’d have doubts.

After two months, you’d realize he’s probably just an asshole.

Israel has been doing this for eighty years.

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Democrats in the House and Senate are finally moving on a War Powers Act to stop the US president from going to war with Iran, and I’d say better late than never but at this point that would barely even be true.

Democrats like Chuck Schumer and Chris Murphy are currently slamming the president not for his horrifying mass atrocities in Iran but for losing the Strait of Hormuz and failing to achieve objectives like completely disarming their conventional missile program.

As I have said here previously, it’s clear that the reason the Democratic Party failed to oppose Trump’s warmongering with Iran was because they supported it too.

The actual, official 2024 Democratic Party platform accused Trump of “fecklessness and weakness” for failing to go to war with Iran during his first term. Kamala Harris labeled Iran the #1 enemy of the United States. In their 2024 debate, Harris repeatedly slammed Trump for being too soft on America’s enemies and announced that she “will always give Israel the ability to defend itself, in particular as it relates to Iran and any threat that Iran and its proxies pose to Israel.”

I’ve seen a lot of people trying to argue that Trump’s depravity in Iran proves everyone should support Democrats, but it’s clear the Democratic Party is just the more polite-looking face on the same evil power structure.

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The Grayzone’s Wyatt Reed has an article out about a freakish BBC article which cited an anonymous Iranian who allegedly told them he supports the US and Israel “hitting energy infrastructure, using an atomic bomb, or leveling Iran.” Following public outcry, the quote was removed and replaced with completely different words — initially without any editor’s note of any kind.

Reed documents how the BBC reporter behind the story, Ghoncheh Habibiazad, is a London-based Iranian monarchist with an extensive history of agitating for regime change war against her home country, including with the US government propaganda operation Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.

Last month The Times ran an article titled “Some Iranians say one thing’s worse than bombs: no bombs”. Western powers are always aggressively pushing this self-evidently false claim that people in empire-targeted countries want bombs dropped on them, in much the same way slavery proponents argued that Africans were happiest as slaves because God made it their nature to serve.

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: it’s impossible to have enough disdain for the western press.

Caitlin Johnstone is a reader-funded journalist, essayist, painter and poet based in Melbourne, Australia. 

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