Journalist From the Frontlines Responds to Israel’s Attempt to Assassinate Him on Camera
4/10/20261 hr 4 min
Steve Sweeney was reporting on the Israeli government’s murder of civilians in Lebanon when the IDF tried to assassinate him on camera. Here’s what American tax dollars are paying for. (00:00) Sweeney’s Close Encounter With an Israeli Missile Strike (11:37) Israel’s Bombing of St. Peter’s Burial Site (22:21) The British Government Taking Israel’s Side Over Its Own Citizens (31:06) Why Is Israel Bulldozing Olive Trees? (45:54) Is There More Freedom in Russia Than in Britain? Steve Sweeney is an award-winning Beirut based journalist and has been reporting from the frontline of Israel’s war on Lebanon for the past few years. He spent around two years covering the Ukraine conflict from the Russian side and gave testimony at the United Nations Security Council. In March 2026 he narrowly escaped death after an Israeli airstrike on a bridge he was reporting from in southern Lebanon. Paid partnerships with: Cozy Earth: Celebrate Mom with the ultimate gift of comfort by using code TUCKERBOGO at https://cozyearth.com Paleovalley: Use code TUCKER & get 20% off your first order at https://paleovalley.com VanMan: Use code TUCKER for 15% off your first order at http://vanman.shop/tucker Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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First 90 secondsTucker Carlson· Host0:00
[intro music] Last month, about two weeks ago, a British journalist called Steve Sweeney, who lives and works in Beirut, Lebanon, was in southern Lebanon attempting with a cameraman to document what the Israeli military is doing to the southern part of that country, which is leveling it, moving people wholesale out, including Christian villages across the area. And as he was preparing his report, he was targeted by an Israeli-owned American-made aircraft that fired a missile at him in an attempted assassination. Here's what it looked like.
Steve Sweeney· Guest0:40
Further rocket attacks were reported against Nahariya and a minute... [explosion] [glass breaking] [heavy breathing] Fucking hell. [sighs] Fuck.
Tucker Carlson· Host1:03
That wasn't an accident. It was intentional. The jet that fired it had flown over his position, attempting to assassinate him, as the Israeli government has assassinated on purpose, not accidentally assassinated, murdered so many journalists, including Western journalists, trying to cover its atrocities, atrocities that are spreading even now under the cover of the Iran war, a massive land grab across the region,