Was Netanyahu Recorded Saying, 'America Is a Golden Calf and We Will Suck It Dry'?

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Netanyahu was recorded in 1990 saying: “America is a Golden Calf and we are going to suck it dry, chop it up, and promote it off piece by piece till there may be nothing left however the world’s greatest welfare state that we’ll create and management.”

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In September 2024, a rumor resurfaced online claiming that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was as soon as secretly recorded in a Jerusalem bar saying: “America is a golden calf and we are going to suck it dry, chop it up, and promote it piece by piece till there may be nothing left however the world’s greatest welfare state that we’ll create and management… That is what we do to international locations that we hate. We destroy them very slowly.” 

The alleged quote was not new, having repeatedly resurfaced since not less than 2017 on each X and Reddit.

Netanyahu: America is a golden calf and we will suck it dry, chop it up, and sell it piece by piece until there is nothing left but the world’s biggest welfare state that we will create and control. This is what we do to countries that we hate. We destroy them very slowly.
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The assertion was supposedly uttered by Netanyahu in 1990, though he didn’t assume prime ministership till 1996. That is the complete quote attributed to Netanyahu because it has appeared in different social media posts:

If we get caught they’ll simply substitute us with individuals of the identical material. So it doesn’t matter what you do, America is a golden calf and we are going to suck it dry, chop it up, and promote it off piece by piece till there may be nothing left however the world’s greatest welfare state that we’ll create and management. Why? As a result of it’s the will of God, and America is sufficiently big to take the hit so we will do it many times and once more. That is what we do to international locations that we hate. We destroy them very slowly and make them endure for refusing to be our slaves.

This textual content accompanies the quote in memes such because the one above: 

The meme cites “Gordon Duff, Veterans Immediately” as its supply. Veterans Immediately is a web site we have previously found to publish antisemitic, pro-Nazi, and Holocaust-denying materials. Vice called Veterans Today “conspiracy-oriented.”

Duff, the senior editor and director of Veterans Immediately, stated in a 2012 interview that, “About 30% of what is written on Veterans Immediately, is patently false. About 40% of what I write, is not less than purposely, partially false, as a result of if I did not write false data I would not be alive.”

Veterans Immediately has a disclaimer that reads as follows [archived here]:

The first link [archived here] listed takes us to a web page written in 2015 by James Preston, who claims to be a Social Psychologist with a Ph.D. The second link would not work, both as a result of the web page has been deleted or as a result of the URL is incomplete.

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The article itself claims that Netanyahu is the “Operational Head of the Khazarian Mafia” (an antisemitic trope) and that the assertion was recorded whereas he was assembly at Fink’s Bar in Jerusalem, a real bar that closed in 2005. Though the article claims that the quote was pulled from the transcript of a recording, no such recording has by no means been introduced as proof. 

(Veterans Immediately)

In sum, though Veterans Immediately claimed this quote was “100% absolutely authenticated,” we discovered no corroborating proof to help this declare, nor certainly any proof that the quote even existed previous to the 2015 article through which it was printed. Moreover, Veterans Immediately has a fame for spreading antisemitic conspiracy theories. Due to this, we charge this declare “Unfounded.”

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