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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) slammed right-leaning news outlets Fox News and the New York Post on Monday, accusing them of brainwashing Americans into supporting U.S. involvement in a conflict between Israel and Iran.
“We’ve watched propaganda news for decades. I’ll call out Fox News and the New York Post. They’re known to be the neocon network news,” Greene told former Florida GOP lawmaker Matt Gaetz on his show on One America News Network.
“We have propaganda news on our side, just like the left does, and the American people have been brainwashed into believing that America has to engage in these foreign wars in order for us to survive, and it’s absolutely not true,” Greene continued.
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Greene’s comments came a week after Israel launched attacks aimed at a nuclear and military site in Iran, killing some of the country’s top generals. In response, Iran launched missiles at Israel.
President Donald Trump said he knew Israel’s attacks on Iran were coming, even calling them “excellent.” While Trump said the U.S. is not directly involved in the conflict between the two countries, he did not rule out future involvement.
Greene went on to criticize Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who blasted U.S. reluctance to get involved in the conflict with Iran.
“Today, it’s Tel Aviv. Tomorrow, it’s New York,” Netanyahu said in an interview with ABC News on Monday, adding, “Look, I understand ‘America first.’ I don’t understand ‘America dead.’”
The Georgia Republican told Gaetz that Netanyahu’s remark “sounds like a threat to me,” adding that “a Middle Eastern war will pull America back 20 years.”
“In order for America to not be dead, it’s to stay America First, and this is what the American people want,” Greene said. “It is not antisemitic to say that we do not want to go to war against Iran or any other country. That is not antisemitic at all.”
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Greene reiterated that she is “completely opposed to this war” before criticizing Israel for launching the first strike against Iran.
“Of course, we don’t want to see the people in Israel bombed, but they’re only being bombed because Israel attacked Iran first, and that’s the truth that we need to be talking about,” she said.
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