Prominent right-wing commentators came out against the US-Israeli campaign against Iran on Tuesday, drawing a dismissal from US President Donald Trump.

“This happened because Israel wanted it to happen. This is Israel’s war. This is not the United States’ war,” said Tucker Carlson, a prominent voice on the right.

Carlson said the war was based on “lies” and led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s manipulations, and argued that the campaign was not in the interest of Israel or the US.

“You have that country breaking apart, and what does that mean? Hard to see that as a good thing for the rest of the world,” he said.

“The United States didn’t make the decision here. Benjamin Netanyahu did,” Carlson said, dismissing concerns about Iranian weapons development.

“The point is regional hegemony. Really simple,” he said. “Israel wants to control the Middle East.”

Carlson regularly asserts that Israel controls the US, echoing traditional antisemitic tropes. He also blamed Israel for getting the US to kill Muammar Gaddafi in Libya in 2011, and has previously said Israel made the US invade Iraq.

He claimed Israel was seeking to “sow chaos and disorder” in the Gulf states in its pursuit of regional power, adding that authorities in Qatar and Saudi Arabia arrested Mossad agents in their territory this week, a claim that appeared to be baseless and was rejected by Qatar.

Carlson has previously fabricated claims to........

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