Posted on 06/21/2025 1:33:42 PM PDT by McGruff
Israeli officials have told the Trump administration they do not want to wait two weeks for Iran to reach a deal to dismantle key parts of its nuclear program and Israel could act alone before the deadline is up, two sources said, amid a continuing debate on Trump's team about whether the U.S. should get involved.
The two sources familiar with the matter said Israel had communicated their concerns to Trump administration officials on Thursday in what they described as a tense phone call.
The Israeli officials said they do not want to wait the two weeks that U.S. President Donald Trump presented on Thursday as a deadline for deciding whether the U.S. will get involved in the Israel-Iran war, said the sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity. The Israeli participants on the call included Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Defense Minister Israel Katz and military chief Eyal Zamir, according to a security source.
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The Raven told me you’re full of bull pucky, poetoaster.
I get the impression we got a lot of kabuki going on here. Why get into a war if you can demoralize and psychologize your opponent into doing what you want? If that ends up not working, the targets aren’t going anywhere. The rats are backed into a corner.
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If they told the truth
I hope there are mothballed planes but they would have no engines installed
Wishful thinking
Don’t want the Samson Option
It’s the wrong application
Izzies gotta strike while the iron is hot. They just had a previous wait period of 60 days that Trump imposed. To wait for Iranian clowns to show up to negotiate. This went nowhere. So on day 61 Israel commenced fire, started taking out key Iranian installations.
Now after a week of hostilities Trump wants another 14 day wait period for Iran. This must be torture for Israel but they buy their weaponry from us. So DJT gets to diddle and dawdle.
Who’s gonna fly it? An Israeli pilot can’t exactly hop out of an F-35 and into a B-2 and be able to fly it.
Besides, one won’t do it. It will take several strikes on each of the five sites to damage or destroy them, and even that might not do it.
We only have 21 B-2 bombers anyway. They cost a shade over two billion each. Bibi can’t afford the rent, and who would insure it?
Some of our Congress are already meeting with the Pahlavi fella behind our backs. They have time on vaca to do a little pick the new boss routine for another country as they do so often. It is that regime change democracy thing.
They will snag us into paying for all of this. Both countries, except ours. Hang on to your pockets. LOL
Maybe he really doesn’t want it. The place is a friggin’ disaster.
Have you forgotten that Oliver North sold weapons to Iran in the 1980s?
Oops. We only have 19. Two crashed.
Wrong. Trump has not asked Israel to wait for two weeks Israel can keep doing what it wants.
Trump is giving himself up to two weeks to decide.
IMHO the two weeks is to position our forces.
Roo bad, President Trup will decide.
“So Vance is one of the ones against this”
If you believe Reuters
Post sources are as bad as the media.
RE: why wait?
One thing is the astonishing earlier move of the B2s to Missouri because the Houthi threat had passed. Now they have to be brought back as fast as they can——but now I see they only now are on their way.
I believe Trump sincerely wants to avoid war if he can. Everyone can laugh-—I no longer care-—but the astrological sun sign (also mine) for Truman, JFK, Henry Kissinger, George H.W. Bush and Donald Trump is Gemini. All wanted diplomatic solutions if possible more than most Presidents and Sec. of States. Then after diplomacy failed, each resorted to war.
Trump held off that one bombing run against Iran because he was informed hundreds of civilians would die and he stopped it and said it was not worth those lives.
Sep 21, 2019 — “As the hour approached, Mr. Trump was given the estimate that 150 Iranians would be killed in the attack.” “Donald Trump has said the US air force was “cocked and loaded” to attack three Iranian targets on Friday morning, but he called off the strike with 10 minutes to spare after being told that the airstrike might kill as many as 150 people.”
But I believe Trump will go all out to destroy the Iranian nuke possibilities and protect the US forces in the region and will not hold back.
Just getting into position.
Attack me, anyone, I don’t care any longer.
I’m almost always right.
And you are a sunshine soldiers panicans. You panicans woul panic before a leftist President.
The people in Iran really hate Shah Junior now, not that they ever much liked him. He shouldn’t have publicly cheered for the destruction of their country while bombs are raining down on them.
Huh? I’ve read that B-2’s were heading to Quatar and/or Diego Garcia.
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