Representative Madeleine Dean criticized former President Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu.
She said Trump “would be a useful idiot” to Netanyahu, implying he could be exploited due to being misguided or unaware.
Dean said, “When we’re talking about this very critical subject, I can’t think of anything more starkly clear. Mr. Netanyahu, I believe, is waiting his days out because he would like to have the return of what I believe is a useful idiot to people like Mr. Netanyahu.”
Dean argued Netanyahu misled the world about targeting precision in Gaza strikes and instead dropped large bombs destroying neighborhoods.
She said neither Netanyahu nor Trump support a two-state solution.
She added, “Mr. Netanyahu, after all, let’s think about this, he was not honest about how he was going to prosecute this war. He told us they could be more targeted and strategic instead, he’s dropped 2000 pound dumb bombs and taken out whole villages, whole buildings and neighborhoods. Mr. Netanyahu does not want a two-state solution. Neither doesn’t Mr. Trump. We are better off, the world is better off, and the Palestinian people the, Israeli people will be better off if Mr. Netanyahu is ultimately decided in a new vote, whether or not he should continue.”
Dean asserted Biden is better positioned than Trump to lead toward a two-state solution and more peaceful region, suggesting Trump would hinder such efforts due to his alignment with Netanyahu’s failed war policies.
Dean said, “Mr. Trump would be a useful idiot to Mr. Netanyahu’s, I think failed ways, the failure of the prosecution of this war. Israel had the right, has the right and obligation to defend itself. It’s security, its borders. Jews around the world have the right to this homeland. But at the same time, we have to lift up the homeland of the Palestinian people.”
“Mr. Trump would not be anywhere near that just as Mr. Netanyahu isn’t. Mr. Biden is the world leader who can lead us toward a two-state solution and toward the region living in a more peaceful place.”
