Tucker Carlson published his third interview this year on X with a strident anti-Israel guest — this time the left-wing economist Jeffrey Sachs, who described the fall of the Assad regime in Syria as a plot by Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu.
Sachs claimed that the unexpected events of the past few weeks in Syria were the outcome of a 30-year plan by Netanyahu, whom he said was determined to destroy any government that favored the creation of a Palestinian state.
Sachs described the Assad regime as a “normal, functioning country” by the time the Arab Spring took place in 2011, ignoring the fact that Syria was already a totalitarian dictatorship that had murdered tens of thousands of its own civilians. And he blamed the Israeli prime minister for creating Hamas and Hezbollah, two distinct Islamic terror groups that had both existed for many years by the time Netanyahu…
