TEHRAN – The Guardian analysed how Americans began to praise Donald Trump for his Israeli Prime Minister’s resistance to Prime Minister, but now less than 200 days from his office, he was fooled by attacking three Iranian nuclear sites.
A shortened version of the article reads as follows:
When he was elected, Trump suggested he could launch a new relationship with Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister who was used to going his way in the White House. However, after taking office for more than 150 days, Trump appears to have fallen into the same trap as his predecessor, and has launched the most consequential strike against Iran in a generation.
The early proposals that the Trump administration would curb Netanyahu’s military ambitions make it seem like the Israeli Prime Minister manipulated the United States directly into the prominent Iranian uranium enrichment site. And the US is now supporting retaliation that could easily bring it to a full-fledged war.
A few days before Trump took office, his envoy to the Middle East, Steve Witkov, held a barrel on Israel with demands to meet Netanyahu in Shabbat, in order to negotiate a ceasefire deal with Hamas in Gaza, to save him in his arms.
The then-highest officials choked it into the “Trump Factor” (a reference to the US president’s unpredictability and trading ability), which could provide a critical advantage when dealing with the Israeli Prime Minister.
Netanyahu was able to pilot previous administrations to support military adventures in the region, but some Israeli critics began to praise Trump for his ability to resist Netanyahu’s pull.
But after the events on Saturday (early morning on Sunday in the Middle East) – it was clear that Trump’s intuition had changed when the US B-2 bombers hit their targets in Iran for the first time since Israel began to launch a strike on June 13th. His inner entourage members have shifted from the MAGA isolationist approach to more ridiculous attitudes towards foreign policy.
Trump’s public dislike for the war and his promise as a candidate to not engulf the US in further conflicts abroad had evaporated less than 200 days after he re-entered.
When he made his appearance in public, Trump tried to rest rumors of a problematic relationship with Netanyahu. He then sought to reject the proposal that US policy was in lockstep with Israel and that Israel blinded the US by pursuing an offensive bombing campaign against Iran.
“I would like to thank and congratulate Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu,” Trump said. “We’ve probably worked as a team that our team has never worked for before, and we’ve come a long way to erase this horrible threat to Israel.”
It was far from the first US response to Israel’s bombing of Iran’s targets. Marco Rubio called the strike “one-sided” and argued that the US “has not been involved in a strike against Iran and our number one priority is protecting the US military in the region.”
What is the difference between a week? The United States now appears to have fully supported the Israeli strike and took part in the attack, potentially setting the stage for a series of escalations that could lead to a new war in the Middle East.
What does this mean for the future? Trump claims that the US is on strike in the nuclear situation for Fordow, Natanz and Isfahan, and is public and private. US forces in the Middle East have been warned about possible retaliatory attacks by Iran.