Steve Bannon has called for the Florida resident son of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to be sent to the front lines of the Iran war before the U.S. sends in its own troops.
Bannon, Donald Trump’s former White House chief strategist, called on Yair Netanyahu, 34, to join the conflict and help the U.S. seize Iran’s oil export hub, Kharg Island, along with royals from Arab nations living abroad.
“Throw in a couple of Qatar princes, throw the Saudi princes in there too. Get them out of London,” Bannon said during his War Room podcast.
“Netanyahu’s kid down in Miami? Turf him out tomorrow. Where’s DHS? We need him. Get him. Throw him out. Get him back there,” Bannon added. “Put a uniform on him. Let’s have him in the first wave.”
Yair Netanyahu has been living in Florida since early 2023. He was previously criticized by Israeli reservists for not helping Israel’s war in Gaza against Hamas in the aftermath of the Oct. 7 attacks. Israeli reservists can be called up for duty until they reach the age of 40.
Images of the 34-year-old living the high life in a Miami condo have also gone viral after Israel launched a bombing campaign against Iran on Feb. 28 and apparently convinced Trump to join the war.
On Monday, Israeli media reported that Israel would not follow the U.S. in deploying troops in Iran should Trump decide to escalate the Middle East conflict by carrying out a full-scale invasion.
Bannon’s call for Yair Netanyahu to fight comes after similar demands were made about Trump’s youngest son, Barron.
MS NOW host Lawrence O’Donnell was among those who suggested that the president’s 20-year-old son should be drafted into his father’s war in Iran.
“After Barron Trump celebrated his 20th birthday in lavish style last week as a Trump, he could have marched straight down to a recruiting station and joined the Army to fight in his father’s war,” O’Donnell said on the March 25 edition of The Last Word.
O’Donnell also noted that neither of the president’s other sons have ever enlisted, while Trump himself avoided being drafted into the Vietnam War after a dubious bone spur diagnosis.
“Eric and his older brother, Donald Jr., were of military enlistment age when their hometown was attacked on 9/11,” O’Donnell said. “Thousands of young American men and women on that day decided to join the United States military, but not the Trumps.”
Toby Morton, a comedian and former writer on South Park, also set up DraftBarronTrump.com, which claims the 20-year-old is “more than ready to defend the country his father so boldly commands.”
The Daily Beast has contacted the White House and Netanyahu’s office for comment.
