Rhodes, architect of the Iran nuclear deal, hated Israel so much his former colleagues in the Obama White House gave him the nickname ‘Hamas’
Anti-Semites and other terrorist sympathizers were heartbroken Thursday evening after Israel launched a massive preemptive strike to destroy Iran’s nuclear facilities and eliminate much of the regime’s military leadership. Few, if any, individuals on Earth were more distraught than Ben Rhodes, the failed novelist and former Obama adviser who spearheaded the controversial nuclear deal with Iran.
Rhodes, who attended Fidel Castro’s funeral in 2016 alongside his Iranian comrades, hated Israel with such intensity that his colleagues in the Obama White House gave him the nickname “Hamas” after the Iranian-sponsored terrorist group that started an ill-advised war by murdering hundreds of Jews on Oct. 7. He immediately lashed out in distress after news broke of Israel’s military action. “This is all so unnecessary,” he typed between short, heaving breaths as thick tears pooled on his phone screen. “All of it. Everywhere.”
The Israeli military campaign, dubbed “Operation Rising Lion,” was intended to decimate Iran’s capacity to build a nuclear weapon that could threaten the Jewish state’s existence. As far as Rhodes was concerned, any effort to stop the Islamist regime from producing a weapon capable of destroying Israel was “an utterly pointless, dangerous, and immoral action.” It is not yet known how many close personal friends Rhodes lost in the attack. President Donald Trump told CNN on Friday that “the people I was dealing with are dead, the hardliners,” and they “didn’t die of COVID.”
Rhodes’s tantrum grew more severe as the night wore on. He repeatedly asserted (without evidence) that Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu had “humiliated” Trump by attacking Iran, and denounced the U.S. president as “the weakest strongman.” He warned of the harm that Israel’s action would inflict upon “innocent people for no good reason,” and lamented the “truly cruel, perilous and stupid times” we are living in.
The Iran nuclear agreement, which gave the Islamist regime billions of dollars in exchange for a promise of good behavior, was (briefly) the signature achievement of Rhodes’s career. He bragged about creating an “echo chamber” of support for the deal by manipulating compliant journalists who “literally know nothing.” Rhodes went ballistic when Trump tore up the deal in 2018. Years later, he argued that Trump’s decision was “directly” responsible for the Hamas terrorist attack on Oct. 7.
In fact, there is evidence to suggest that Rhodes’s inflammatory rhetoric was directly responsible for the second failed assassination attempt against Trump that occurred in September 2024. Ryan Wesley Routh, the left-wing lunatic who was apprehended after being spotted with a rifle near Trump’s golf club in West Palm Beach, cited the Iran deal in a handwritten letter outlining his motivations for trying to kill the president. “He ended relations with Iran like a child and now the Middle East has unraveled,” Routh wrote. The failed assassin self-published a book in 2023 in which he personally apologized to Iran and said the Islamist regime was “free to assassinate Trump as well as me.”
The last time Rhodes is known to have been so profoundly inconsolable was on election night in 2016, when he was unable to speak while fighting back tears after Donald Trump was declared the winner over Hillary Clinton.
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