US commentator Tucker Carlson claims that Saudi Arabia and Qatar detained his Mossad operatives who were allegedly planning bombings in the country. His revelation, his comments come amid the rising regional tensions following joint American-Israeli attacks on Iran.
In a podcast, he clicked calls and claims that Saudi Arabian Qatar had captured and arrested Israeli Mossad agents planning bombings in those countries. Carlson Carlson is a conservative US podcaster. On his program, Carlson questioned Israel’s motives, asking why would Israelis be committing bombings in Gulf countries which are also being attacked by Iran?
He added, “aren’t they on the same side?”
He further claimed “Israel wants to hurt Iran and Qatar and UAE and Saudi Arabia and Bahrain and Oman and Kuwait, arguing Israel deliberately creating instability among Washington’s Gulf allies.”
Tucker Carlson: “Last night in both Qatar and Saudi Arabia authorities arrested Mossad agents planning on committing bombings.” pic.twitter.com/23TK7H6jyH
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Israeli security authorities had briefly detained Carlson and his production team in Tel Aviv after he conducted an interview with Washington’s ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee. During that interview, Huckabee said that the Jews have a divine right to colonize Palestinian land and rejected the idea of distinct Palestinian national identity.
Carlson had criticized Israel’s shocking treatment of Christians and accused Huckabee of not doing enough to protect Christians who have faced attacks from illegal Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank and Jerusalem.
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