Source: Antiwar.com
by JD Hester
“Following Israel’s strikes on Damascus, Axios quoted a Trump White House official as saying, ‘Bibi acted like a madman. He bombs everything all the time.’ However, while some on the MAGA or ‘America First’ right might celebrate this as a sign that Trump might further pressure Israel into ending its, as Pope Leo XIV recently put it, ‘barbarity,’ this analysis of Netanyahu as a ‘madman’ is misguided at best and deliberate obfuscation at worst. Netanyahu is not a madman. Instead, he is a calculating sociopath who readily disregards human life if it means political survival and furthering his violent and expansionist policies throughout the Middle East.” (07/25/25)