Analysis Was Trump oblivious to the realities of Netanyahu's promised 'easy' war on Iran?

[Uncle Joe]

Peter Beaumont
Senior international correspondent

Senior US officials consider the PM’s pitch to have been overblown, creating potentially far-reaching consequences for Israel

When Benjamin Netanyahu arrived at Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club on 29 December last year, the Israeli prime minister came with an appeal – and a not so subtle inducement.

After months of restocking air defence and other missiles after June’s 12-day conflict in which the US joined in to bomb Tehran’s nuclear facilities, Israel was ready to go again, this time with more substantial objectives.

In the press conference hosted by the two leaders, Trump appeared to dutifully echo familiar talking points of Netanyahu’s. “Now I hear that Iran is trying to build up again,” Trump said. “Then we are going to have to knock them down. We’ll knock the hell out of them. But hopefully, that’s not happening.”

The Israeli leader, like others before him, had come armed with an appeal to Trump’s ego: the award of his country’s top honour, the Israel Prize, rarely given to non-Israelis, for his “tremendous contributions to Israel and the Jewish people”.

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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/06/trump-iran-war-netanyahu-israel

[everyonematters]

1. All Netanyahu has to say is, "You are going to be a hero".

[JBTaurus83]

2. Netanyahu visits FOX

More often than media in his own country. He knows who his audience is.

[mwmisses4289]

3. So, as many of us figured, this bibis war,

but he didn't want to ask to many more of his own people to fight it.
Holding out a shiny sparkly thing to t, he got t to commit to put u.s. troops to fighting his war.
I feel sorry for many of the Isrealis; many of them feel bibi has gone way too far in response to Oct 7.

[AloeVera]

4. I spare my sympathy for the victims of genocide and ethnic cleansing.

And the far less than 10% of Israeli Jews who opposed it.

However the large majority of Israelis - with the exception of Palestinian Citizens of Israel of course - were perfectly fine with what was done to Gaza and cheered it on. As they are now cheering on Lebanon and Iran.

Opponents of these genocidal war are few and far between in Israel and they have all my support and sympathy. They are brave beyond measure, enduring arrests, beatings, job losses and ostracism from their fellow Jews.

I would hope that by now people are "getting" what kind of society Israel has become and why the Palestinians and now others have suffered so much. We must stop funding and supporting it, in order to have any chance at peace.

[Wicked Blue]

5. Netanyahu also may have threatened to reveal some Epstein material

that would implicate Trump.