Conservative commentator Jonah Goldberg is unsettled by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's gift to President Donald Trump during their meeting this week.
Specifically, he argued on CNN Thursday evening, the gift unnecessarily celebrated military violence.
"I just want to bring up one other thing, because it is kind of interesting," said anchor Jake Tapper. "So Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gave President Trump a golden pager during their meeting yesterday. This is an allusion to that obvious top-secret operation carried out in September by Israel in Lebanon, targeted pagers used by members of the group, recognized as terrorists by the U.S., Hezbollah. The pagers exploded. Thousands were wounded, dozens were killed."
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"Any thoughts on this, on this gift, Jonah?" Tapper pressed him.
"I think it's kind of creepy and weird," said Goldberg. "I thought the pager operation was entirely defensible. It was one of the most brilliant masterstrokes of modern military statecraft and espionage. But, you know, if it was a hand grenade, you'd think it's really weird. And that's essentially what that thing was, right?"
The meeting between Trump and Netanyahu ignited a political powder keg, due to Trump's suggestion that Palestinians should be removed en masse from the devastated Gaza Strip and America should intervene to redevelop the land there.
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