Trump beholden to Zionists like Netanyahu, Adelson: Analyst

US President Donald Trump feels obligated to heed to Israeli leaders and the Zionist lobby who want another major military conflict in the Middle East to wipe out the Palestinian people, an American scholar says.

“The concern here is that Trump is beholden to people like [Israeli Prime Minister] Benjamin Netanyahu, Sheldon Adelson and other gangsters allied with extremist fringe of the Zionist movement,” said Kevin Barrett, an author and 9/11 researcher in Madison, Wisconsin.

Sheldon is a billionaire US casino mogul and hard-line supporter of Israel. He had offered to fund the relocation of the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem al-Quds.

“These people would like a huge war in the Middle East that would allow them to finish the ethnic cleansing of Palestine by murdering and expelling the remaining Palestinians,” Barrett told Press TV on Friday.

The US House of Representatives unanimously passed an amendment on Wednesday that bans Trump from declaring a war on Iran without the Congress’s approval.

The amendment, introduced by Democratic Representative Keith Maurice Ellison and cosponsored by a number of other Democratic as well as Republican lawmakers, made clear Congress’s position that no law exists which gives the president power to launch a military strike against the Islamic Republic.

"The fact that they would feel it's necessary to make this point is very disturbing," Barrett said.

He noted that though the president has no authority to declare war without congressional approval, but "the Constitution has essentially been a dead letter in the United States for some time now."

"That leaves us worried about whether Congress can have any effects on what Trump may do," he added.

PressTV-US House bans Trump from declaring war on Iran

The US House of Representatives passes an amendment that bans President Trump from declaring a war on Iran without the Congress’s approval.

Ellison's amendment came two weeks after Washington unilaterally walked out of a multilateral nuclear agreement, officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), signed between Iran and major powers in 2015. The move was construed by many as a declaration of war against Tehran.

“The unanimous passage of this bipartisan amendment is a strong and timely counter to the Trump administration’s withdrawal from the Iran deal and its increasingly hostile rhetoric,” Ellison said.

Trump announced on May 8 that Washington was walking away from the nuclear agreement which was reached between Iran and the five permanent members of the UN Security Council - the US, Britain, France, Russia and China - plus Germany.

Trump also said he would reinstate US nuclear sanctions on Iran and impose "the highest level" of economic bans on the Islamic Republic.

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