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January 28, 2024

Over the past two years, Colonel Douglas Macgregor has become Tucker Carlson’s “go-to guy” on foreign policy and military matters. Yet, there is reason to question whether Carlson should be giving Macgregor a bully pulpit. That’s because, during a recent Cyrus Janssen podcast that saw Macgregor offer insights into the current Middle East conflict, he revealed that he traffics in the worst kind of antisemitic tropes and stereotypes. Macgregor’s theme was that Washington is now controlled by Israel, with Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu calling the shots.

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Preliminarily, Janssen is incredibly hostile to Israel and completely supportive of the Hamas narrative. Given that fact, Macgregor’s willingness to appear on his podcast was already a red flag.

Then, during the interview, Macgregor asserted that Israel has exaggerated the fatality count and the horrors included in these attacks. He further stated that there were a significant number of friendly fire fatalities, inflating the death toll. He suggested that Israel is intent on building an Israeli “super state” from the Jordanian border to the Mediterranean by removing all Arabs in this area. The most stunning accusation was his comparing today’s Israel Defense Force actions to the 1944 Nazi purge of the Warsaw ghetto.

Image: Col. Douglas Macgregor and Tucker Carlson. X screen grab.

Macgregor spoke of collective punishment, a term he has used before. The term is popular among Hamas supporters in the United Nations as it suggests war crimes. Hence, the Nazi comparison.

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Sometimes, it feels as if we are going back in time. In the early 20th century, the fictitious “Protocols of the Elders of Zion” were used to argue a plot by Jews/Zionists to take over the world and subvert Christianity. The abbreviated version of the book first appeared in Russia in 1903. Russian historian Vladimir Burtsev revealed that the “Protocols” were forgeries put together by Russian authorities and the secret police. Apparently, Colonel Macgregor is still unaware that they are a forgery.

The Israeli Knesset (parliament) and our government have seen video footage of the October 7 Hamas atrocities. Macgregor can obtain a screening so that he can verify for himself the horrors of that day. Much of the footage was obtained from Hamas sources, their own people posting online the joy of their grisly work.

Macgregor quotes numbers of fatalities for the Palestinian victims of Israeli aggression that could only have come from Hamas. Since when are terrorist organizations a credible source of information? Did the Allies take Nazi news releases at face value? As it happens, there’s every reason to believe Hamas’s numbers are fake. Indeed, later in the podcast, Macgregor admits that no one knows what the real numbers are.

Much of Macgregor’s commentary was a rambling diatribe, offering no specifics or sources of the Israeli numbers as to exaggeration or details of friendly fire casualties. He just offered up broad generalizations lacking support.

Macgregor asserted that of all Israel’s technological advantages came from America. He seems unaware that Israel is a sophisticated entrepreneurial tech nation. America has benefited immensely from Israel’s sharing of its innovative military technology. This has saved America many billions of dollars and years of research. Israel’s incredible defense system for short-range missile attacks, Iron Dome, is legendary, with a roughly ninety percent effective rate. Iron Dome, which was originally developed by Israel’s Rafael Advanced Defense Systems, has been co-produced with the United States through a partnership with Raytheon since 2014.

In addition, the same two companies developed David’s Sling to counter long-range rockets and slower-flying cruise missiles. In 2020, they teamed up in a joint venture called Raytheon Rafael Area Protection Systems. Israel Aerospace Industries and Boeing form another U.S.-Israel missile defense partnership, together developing the Arrow systems, which cover short-range (Arrow), long-range (Arrow 2), and high-altitude (Arrow 3) aerial attacks.