At an Oct. 13 campaign stop in Miami, independent Presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. set out his views on the present crisis in Southwest Asia. His remarks were totally over the top, not only fully backing Israel but putting forth the whole Establishment line that China and the BRICS are the major threat to the U.S. Not surprisingly, his comments have caused a commotion among some of his own supporters, who don’t share that view.
“Iran and China are one organism at this point,” the candidate told his audience. “And they now—because of BRICS—they now control, and because of Iran’s control of Venezuela, they control 90% of the oil supply in the world. If Israel was not there, China could blackmail the entire world with our energy supply, and that is the most disastrous foreign policy outcome.... We have an absolutely critical, existential strategic interest for being in Israel, for supporting them.”
“Israel has a legal right to be there. It is not an occupying force ... the Jews have continuously occupied it for 3,700 years....”
Michael Tracey has tweeted a video pulling together Kennedy’s comments on the subject:
RFK Jr. continues to boldly challenge foreign policy consensus, now by bizarrely claiming that without Israel, "China can blackmail the entire world." He says the US has a "critical, existential strategic interest for being in Israel," which he insists is "not an occupying force" pic.twitter.com/gCArhx8jAK
— Michael Tracey (@mtracey) October 13, 2023
