🚨 WTF?! Abdul El Sayed just refused to say Iran is a bigger threat to America than Israel IRAN K*LLED AMERICANS AND WAN
A clip in which a politician declines to rank Israel vs. Iran as security threats, instead reframing the question as a trap toward war.
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I don't want to be pushed into war by Israel.”
I don't want to be pushed into war by Israel.
El Sayed frames Israel, not Iran, as the force dragging America toward war.
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who do you think's a bigger threat to the United States Israel or Iran? You have sixty seconds And again, Rick I'm just gonna say that that's a ridiculous hypothetical because here's what's happening right now Our ostensible ally in Israel has lobbied us to go to war with Iran We have watched as Iran has responded by bombing all kinds of countries in the Middle East and then choking off the world's energy supply So this is a situation in which I don't think we should be a part I don't want to be pushed into war by Israel and I
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That's a ridiculous hypothetical.
El Sayed refuses the interviewer's direct question by dismissing its premise entirely.
In context
Gonna ask you again tonight who do you think's a bigger threat to the United States Israel or Iran? You have sixty seconds And again, Rick I'm just gonna say that that's a ridiculous hypothetical because here's what's happening right now Our ostensible ally in Israel has lobbied us to go to war with Iran We have watched as Iran has responded by bombing all kinds of countries in the Middle East and then choking off the world's energy supply So this is a situation in which I don't think we should be a part I don't want to be pushed into war by Israel and I
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Our ostensible ally in Israel has lobbied us to go to war with Iran.
El Sayed casts Israel as a manipulative rather than trustworthy partner by calling it only an "ostensible" ally.
In context
Gonna ask you again tonight who do you think's a bigger threat to the United States Israel or Iran? You have sixty seconds And again, Rick I'm just gonna say that that's a ridiculous hypothetical because here's what's happening right now Our ostensible ally in Israel has lobbied us to go to war with Iran We have watched as Iran has responded by bombing all kinds of countries in the Middle East and then choking off the world's energy supply So this is a situation in which I don't think we should be a part I don't want to be pushed into war by Israel and I
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Iran responded by bombing countries across the Middle East and choking off the world's energy supply.
Even while deflecting blame from Iran, El Sayed acknowledges Iran's aggressive regional actions as part of his framing.
In context
who do you think's a bigger threat to the United States Israel or Iran? You have sixty seconds And again, Rick I'm just gonna say that that's a ridiculous hypothetical because here's what's happening right now Our ostensible ally in Israel has lobbied us to go to war with Iran We have watched as Iran has responded by bombing all kinds of countries in the Middle East and then choking off the world's energy supply So this is a situation in which I don't think we should be a part I don't want to be pushed into war by Israel and I
Iran has responded by bombing all kinds of countries in across the Middle East and then choking off the world's energy supply.
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This is a situation in which I don't think we should be a part.
El Sayed lands his core policy position: U.S. non-involvement, regardless of which side provoked the conflict.
In context
who do you think's a bigger threat to the United States Israel or Iran? You have sixty seconds And again, Rick I'm just gonna say that that's a ridiculous hypothetical because here's what's happening right now Our ostensible ally in Israel has lobbied us to go to war with Iran We have watched as Iran has responded by bombing all kinds of countries in the Middle East and then choking off the world's energy supply So this is a situation in which I don't think we should be a part I don't want to be pushed into war by Israel and I
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