4/10/25 Max Blumenthal on Israel’s Control over America’s Middle East Policy

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Scott Horton

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4.8 • 902 Ratings

🗓️ 13 April 2025

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Scott brings Max Blumenthal of The Grayzone back onto the show to discuss developments in the Middle East. They start with a recording that The Grayzone recently published in which AIPAC leaders were bragging internally about having total control over Trump’s foreign policy team. That leads into a broader discussion of AIPAC’s playbook when steering Washington’s Middle East policy to the Israeli government’s benefit. Scott and Blumenthal also discuss how a war with Iran would most likely play out, what Israel is currently doing in Syria, the health of Turkish President Erdoğan and more. Discussed on the show: Leaked audio: AIPAC leader details control over Trump natsec team Big Israel: How Israel's Lobby Moves America by Grant F. Smith Max Blumenthal is a senior editor of the Grayzone Project and the author Goliath, Republican Gomorrah and The 51 Day War. Follow him on Twitter @MaxBlumenthal. This episode of the Scott Horton Show is sponsored by: Roberts and Robers Brokerage Incorporated; Tom Woods’ Liberty Classroom; Libertas Bella; ExpandDesigns.com/Scott. Get Scott’s interviews before anyone else! Subscribe to the Substack. Shop Libertarian Institute merch or donate to the show through Patreon, PayPal or Bitcoin: 1DZBZNJrxUhQhEzgDh7k8JXHXRjY Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:37.8	All right, you guys, on the line I got Max Max Blumenthal, the editor of the gray zone.
0:42.9	Welcome back.
0:43.3	How you doing?
0:44.7	Doing well.
0:46.3	Good.
0:46.8	Happy to have you back on the show, man.
0:49.0	Definitely.
0:50.2	So we got a lot to talk about.
0:53.5	I guess first we got to do the top headline.
0:56.5	Leaked audio, A-PAC leader, details control over Trump, NATSEC team.
1:00.5	Everybody can find that on YouTube and wherever else I'm sure at the gray zone.
1:06.0	Substack and the regular website.
1:08.7	The audio is terrible, so I'm not going to play it in your interview here for everybody
1:12.6	to ruin their ears in the cars.
1:14.8	But you can pull it up on YouTube.
1:17.3	We'll put it in the show notes, I guess, there.
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