Trump Confused Asks for 2 Wks Again, Meanwhile It Puts Israel in a Dilemma
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| Israel’s air defense system intercepting missiles from Iran over Tel Aviv on Wednesday. The longer Israel waits for President Trump’s decision on an American attack on Iran, the greater the strain on Israel’s defenses.Credit...Leo Correa/Associated Press |
What's up with this man? Two weeks and if he was on top of what was going on or read the daily Secret Agencies report, he is never read them, he will know what to do. Because he does not read he can only recite the usual words about deals. Trump is a watcher and would love to tell you how I know but you know he likes to watch the tv not read reports.. So when his back was against the wall he said he needs two week. Why? The fact is he does not want to side with Israel after taking credit for the bombing of Israel to Iran. Israel said they gave him a phone call that day same day. He can't keep secrets so Israel was not going to tell him way ahead of time. He is been responsible for secret agents of Israel getting killed during his first administration. So he had nothing to do with it, But he likes the credit not what goes with credit which is responsibility. Now Israel and Iran and the rest of the world are waiting for him.
What is he afraid off? He is afraid of Iran. The only thing he cares is Trump. Iran had told him as directly as they could without outright giving a thread that if US gets involved they will get back at the US How they know how. How is that? They will go for anything Trump because stupid Trump could have protected himself saying the Chiefs of staff voted and decided or congress decided. No He will take to weeks and through the Gambit. He is afraid that all those things his family is doing to accumulate illegal wealth will be exposed but it will be eliminated including his family. They are always flying here and there to make "deals". At least the Kushner group bought half of an Island (the other half belongs to Bessos of Amazon) in the middle of the sea. Islands can be bombed they have on ly isolated from other people that might protect them. Island can be infiltrated and also easier, bombed.But his mental sons they go every where to show how pretty they are. That is the only reason why he will not through Iran under the bus. I don't think that getting the US into a war bothers him much, it never has in the past. My guess is and is only guess is does not attack Israel but might give Israel the bomb, Mother of all Bombs to go into the hardened silos.
President Trump’s deferral of a decision on whether to launch an American attack on Iran has left Israel in a strategic bind.
Israel’s main remaining war goal is to wipe out a nuclear enrichment site at Fordo in northern Iran, which is buried so deep underground that Israeli bombs will struggle to damage it.
For days, Israeli officials hoped that Mr. Trump would send American warplanes armed with the only munitions in the world that are deemed powerful enough to destroy Fordo.
Now, Mr. Trump says he will wait up to two weeks before deciding whether to make such an intervention — a delay that imposes a dilemma on Israel.
The longer Israel waits for Mr. Trump, the greater the strain on its air defense system. To keep out Iran’s ballistic missile barrages, Israel is burning through its stocks of missile interceptors, forcing it to prioritize the protection of some areas over others. As time goes on, that raises the risk of more missiles hitting both civilian neighborhoods and strategic security sites.
With Israel’s airspace closed and much of its economic life suspended, the war’s protraction will also come at an economic cost. The sooner the war ends, the faster commercial flights will return and businesses can resume full operations.
Rather than wait for American help, Israel could decide to attack Fordo alone — taking a chance with the planes and munitions it has at its disposal. Some analysts say that Israel could even send commandos to enter and sabotage the site. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hinted at going it alone on Thursday, saying in a television interview that Israel would “achieve all of our objectives, all of their nuclear facilities. We have the power to do so.”
But experts say that this route is fraught with risk and that its effect may be limited. “It probably won’t be on the scale of what the U.S. can achieve,” said Itamar Rabinovich, a former Israeli ambassador to Washington. “If we could do what the U.S. can, we would have already done it.”
Another option is for Israel to wind down the war unilaterally, without attacking Fordo. But that approach would leave at least a significant part of Iran’s nuclear enrichment program intact, leaving open the possibility that Iran might create a nuclear bomb that could be used against Israel.
For now, Israel does not seem set to take that route. Israel’s political leadership has begun to speak explicitly about prompting the collapse of the Iranian regime and assassinating its leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Even if Israel has no real way of toppling his government, the tone of the comments suggest that Israel, at the very least, intends to continue with its strikes for several days.
The tone of the Israeli news media on Friday also indicated continued domestic support for the Israeli campaign, as did new opinion polling. After Israel’s attack on Iran, Mr. Netanyahu’s party is in its strongest polling position since October 2023, when Hamas carried out the deadliest attack in Israel’s history.
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