The same day that the US-Iran ceasefire commenced, Israel launched one of the deadliest attacks on Lebanon since the country’s civil war that ended in 1990.
In “Operation Eternal Darkness” – which Tucker pointed out is a New Testament euphemism for hell – Israel targeted more than 100 sites across southern Lebanon which were deemed Hezbollah centers of operation.
Among the 250+ killed are civilians, including children. Hundreds more, if not thousands, were injured.
Maronite Catholics in Lebanon are praying the Rosary in the streets, defying brutal Israeli strikes and religious persecution.
— Catholics for Catholics 🇺🇲 (@CforCatholics) April 10, 2026
Let us unite with them in prayer for peace. pic.twitter.com/wRPnuJa1Ui
In his podcast episode, Tucker aired footage of apartment and other civilian buildings that were razed by the bombings and questioned why Lebanon – the only country led by a Christian (their government structure stipulates that a Maronite Catholic serves as president in a power-sharing agreement) – was attacked so vigorously by Israel, and why the United States cannot get this proxy state, this “client” state that depends on our financial support, “under control.”
When asked about Israel’s violation of the ceasefire, President Trump’s press secretary Karoline Leavitt said that Lebanon was not part of the deal.
“Our country was undercut by Israel. And there’s apparently nothing we can do about it,” Tucker said. “So again, why is that? And once this is over, even before it ends, every American has a right to know, why does this tiny country have so much control over our government?”
Pragmatically, Tucker says, it makes no sense that the United States continues to provide the same level of partnership with Israel if they continue to undermine our interests.
“And then there are also moral questions. If that partner, your closest ally, the only democracy in the Middle East, is killing kids in Gaza, the West Bank, Lebanon, Iran, and doing so without apology; if it’s committing war crimes every single day for years with your money and your weapons, at some point you’re implicated in those crimes,” he said. “And you have to stop that, too. It’s all bad. There’s no upside.”
Tucker clarified that he doesn’t think the United States should abandon Israel entirely, and nor should we set up an adversarial relationship. But it’s time to “set up a healthy conventional relationship where Israel can pay its own bills and fund its own military and act within the constraints imposed on it by its own economy and population. That’s what normal countries do.”
As he has often done in the face of being called anti-semitic, Tucker made it clear that “This is not about Judaism. It’s about blind support for a nation state called Israel to the extent that it harms our interests.”
“And so the first thing we need to fix when this is all over is the system that produces disaster in the first place. Not just a change of presidents,” Tucker said. “That won’t be enough. We’ve just proven it’s not enough. You need to change the system that acts on not just this president, but every president to produce results that are terrible for the United States. That’s the first thing we need to do.”
Second, we need to figure out how Iran was able to mount such a strong response to our initial attack, because so many talking heads on tv previously seemed convinced this would be an easy war for us.
Tucker also criticized the weapons prioritization of the United States.
“But you watch the war in Ukraine and you watch the 40-odd days of the war with Iran and you realize, well, wait a second. Maybe we should have invested more in drone technology or taken a big picture look at what the United States would need to project military power beyond its shores,” Tucker said.
“And maybe aircraft carriers and the whole suite of weapon systems, the most expensive in the world, aren’t really the way to project military power, cuz it doesn’t work. and they can be defeated or at least constrained at a thousandth the cost by less technologically advanced countries like Iran,” he continued.
“That would be a very obvious conclusion. In fact, that was the conclusion of any smart non-aligned person for the last five years. Is it really worth having an aircraft carrier if you have to open the Straits of Hormuz? Maybe not. Well, apparently not.”
“But we have been unable to have that conversation because the vested players in the whole economic chain coming from the United States Congress through the Pentagon and out to…the entire economy of Northern Virginia has discouraged it. So, we’ve continued to do the same thing the same way except at a higher volume for a very long time. And now we are seeing the results which are embarrassing.”
