United States President-elect, Donald Trump, has reportedly refused to invite the Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, to his forthcoming second term inauguration.
It was learnt that Trump had invited major world leaders but he did not include Netanyahu as one of his invitees.
As a result, AFP reported that Netanyahu has also cancelled his plan to attend Trump’s inauguration because he was not invited and Trump also insulted him as a “warmonger, enemy of peace who wanted to get the U.S. to fight Iran.”
This is coming barely a week after Donald Trump shared a video on his Truth Social account on Wednesday that included an American professor calling Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a “dark son of a bitch,” accusing him of being “obsessive” in trying to get the US to go to war against Iran.
The video, Trump shared, was a snippet of a lecture by Columbia University economics professor Jeffrey Sachs, where he speaks about the pretext for the US invasion of Iraq and how the US government at the time was trying to find a way to sell the “phony war” to the American people.
“Where did that war come from?” Sachs asked rhetorically, as part of an attack on the Obama administration’s actions.
“You know what? It’s quite surprising. That war came from Netanyahu, actually,” he claimed.
“Netanyahu had, from 1995 on, the theory that the only way we are going to get rid of Hamas and Hezbollah is by toppling the governments that support them. That’s Iraq, Syria and Iran,” he added.
“And the guy [Netanyahu] is nothing if not obsessive, and he is still trying to get us to fight Iran to this day,” he claimed. “He is a deep, dark son of a bitch, sorry to tell you.”
