https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/trump-bibi-bond
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will meet Donald Trump today at the White House for their fourth meeting in a year. Last July, Netanyahu traveled to Palm Beach, Florida, to meet with candidate Trump at his Mar-a-Lago mansion. During their last official meeting at the White House on April 7, the president seemed to throw a curveball at Bibi when he announced that the administration would engage in direct talks with Iran over its nuclear program. Both the left-wing media and the Tucker Carlson-led faction of the right erupted with glee at the thought of the Israeli prime minister getting publicly spanked. As it turned out, the meeting was camouflage for Trump and Netanyahu’s joint plans to eliminate Iran’s nuclear program through military action—part of the most successful high-level deception operation since the Allied landing at Normandy.
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Certainly, the relationship between the two men, each of whom prides himself on being at war with his country’s elites, has gone through some rocky patches. Still, it is nonetheless the most consequential relationship between world leaders since Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher teamed up to end the Cold War—and perhaps even since Winston Churchill enlisted Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s aid in defeating Nazi Germany. It’s easy to say that the Churchill-Roosevelt relationship was far more significant to the world at large than Trump’s partnership with Bibi to bomb Fordow. But we’ll never know the extent to which the Islamic Republic threatened to destabilize the world order, since the United States and Israel destroyed the terror regime’s nuclear weapons program before it tested our peace—a peace that has been kept by two resolute leaders.
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Maybe the Israelis would have been able to keep delaying Iran’s program forever, if not for Barack Obama: He wanted Iran to have the bomb. Obama believed that Israel was the destabilizing force in the Middle East and thus the best way to stabilize it was by balancing Israel against Iran—that is, by withdrawing U.S. support from its ally and strengthening an anti-American regime responsible for the deaths of thousands of Americans in Lebanon, Iraq, Israel, and elsewhere. Obama’s rebalancing act, what he called a new geopolitical “equilibrium,” required getting Iran the bomb to keep the Israelis in check.
Obama’s problem, and Iran’s, was that Israel kept setting back the mullah’s nuclear program. Thus, the purpose of Obama’s Iran deal, formally known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), was to get the international community to help Iran build the bomb and commit America to protecting the Iranian bomb from Israel.
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