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Posted on 06/15/2026 10:09:19 AM PDT by Miami Rebel
For Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel, the war he had hoped would secure his legacy — Israel and the United States together attacking Iran — may be ending in a way that could sully it.
The framework agreement to end the war in Iran, which was announced on Sunday, omits some of the most important things Israel wanted.
The full text of the deal has not yet been released and Israel was not directly involved in the negotiations. Initial details suggest that the agreement does nothing to curb Iran’s ballistic missile arsenal, or its funding of regional proxies like Hezbollah in Lebanon or the Houthis in Yemen, who have attacked Israel with their own arsenals. It could help Iran bolster those proxies by easing sanctions, which would allow billions of dollars to flow into its bank accounts.
The deal’s terms when it comes to constraining Iran’s nuclear program....remain undisclosed or still to be negotiated during the agreed 60-day cease-fire to allow for further talks. Questions remain over what will become of Iran’s stock of near-bomb-grade uranium and whether the country will be able to keep enriching nuclear fuel.
Worse still for Mr. Netanyahu, who faces re-election in a few months and is behind in the polls, President Trump, the Israeli leader’s most valuable political asset, has publicly rebuked him multiple times in recent weeks.
While Mr. Trump has praised Iran’s new supreme leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, as pragmatic, he has called Mr. Netanyahu “crazy,” ungrateful and lacking in judgment.
On Sunday, Mr. Trump added “difficult” to that litany of insults, after Israel’s military.... struck what it described as a Hezbollah target on the outskirts of Beirut, the Lebanese capital, in retaliation for a Hezbollah attack that wounded two Israeli soldiers.
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The left on display....instinctively siding with evil.
But I think Netanyahu is not helping Israel with his approach.
Even before 7 October, Netanyahu and his team have taken a very hardliner approach (Temple Mount, settlement expansion) and this likely helped contribute to 7 October in the first place.
After 7 October, they took things to far in Gaza and now in Lebanon.
Frankly, the only reason why I care is because many of these issues are interconnected.
What Israel does impacts us regards Iran and a peace deal there, it could cause problems for Jordan where you have a government that cooperates with us extremely well, it could cause Saudi Arabia and Egypt that work with Israel on security matters under the table to fracture, and the PR damage done in the West (EU and US) is undoubtedly serious and very real.
IMHO, Netanyahu is pandering to a smaller internal political segment of Israeli population and it was largely Ben-Gvir whose support he needed after Bennett split away. So Netanyahu is basically pandering to a guy who was rejected by the Israeli Defense Forces because he was seen as a “nut job.” This is a guy who has pictures of someone that killed 14 people in a Mosque as if this person is a hero! I think Netanyahu will do anything to cling to power, even align himself with “nut jobs” like this:
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DYVQ8SBD1yv/?hl=en (at the al Aqsa mosque)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gy0rJ184v5Y
Just like Trump, Netanyahu has Ben Gvir who he can't control and is running around lighting every fuse he can find.
Gadi Eisenkot resigned form the IDF about number of years ago to start a new politcal party funded by a consortium of Israeli tech billionaires to oppose Netanyahu in the upcoming elections
Gadi Eisenkot is now a political operative running against Netanyahu.
Not sure the guy is the arbiter of IDF consensus on the current state of the Iran stirep
i know regime change wasn’t our war goal -but obviouslysome things were done sub rosa to help the people (to wit, Trump saying he sent weapons via Kurds).also, Israeli press is pretty much anti-Bibi 24/7. what do you consider Likud press?
When the promised Iranian uprising failed to happen, DJT (and most of us here in FR) realized that we had been fed a line of bull. Wherever that figment came from, it was never even close to true, apparently.
Israel Hayom is a Likud outlet and it happens to be the highest-circulation Israeli paper.
and definitely anti-Bibi for several years,post 10/7.
Israel’s primary focus remains its own agenda, policies
not inimical to Trump’s pro-America Iranian peace deal.
Despite Netanyahu’s saying he wants to go it alone, Israel relies heavily on US tax dollars.
Some observers have noted that Trump’s approach to the Russia-Ukraine conflict—-—which proposes concessions and the ceding of territory———serves as a potential template for how the US might approach resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Israel could be forced into making compromises to get US tax dollars.
Because of its reliance on US tax dollars, the Israeli government’s word is highly suspect as it typically avoids openly defying the US on major international issues, usually expressing frustration with pro-America Washington’s mediation terms in the Middle East.
Trump’s decidedly pro-America policy objectives are not generally espoused by Israel due to its decades-long dependency on US tax dollars.
Netanyahu said publicly that Israel “does not know” the terms of the US-Iran deal, following the announcement that the United States and Iran reached a ceasefire agreement.
https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-899517
One Israeli official, Avigdor Liberman, warns that Israel must reject any US linkage between Trump’s Iran ceasefire and Israel’s incessant Lebanon bombing.
Israel should act independently he adds and be ready to strike Hezbollah and Iran, including possible retaliation against Iranian energy infrastructure if Israel is attacked.
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