When Donald Trump won reelection last week — first caller was the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu who congratulated him for making “history’s greatest comeback.”
“Your historic return to the White House offers a new beginning for America and a powerful recommitment to the great alliance between Israel and America,” Netanyahu tweeted a half hour after Trump announced his win. “This is a huge victory!”
There are two broad explanations for Netanyahu’s enthusiasm.
One is that the Israeli leader is hoping to get back into Trump’s good graces after a dust-up over the results of the 2020 election, because back at that time, Bibi Netanyahu congratulated newly elected Joe Biden on winning the election — despite the fact that president Donald Trump was still contesting the results.
Trump later argued that Netanyahu’s comments showed a lack of gratitude for everything that Trump had done for him. “Bibi could have stayed quiet,” Trump said. “He has made a terrible mistake.”
A second, more worrying possibility is that Netanyahu sees Trump as the key to further escalation in the Middle East.
Reports from earlier this year suggested that Netanyahu was biding his time — and possibly stalling ceasefire talks — in hopes that Trump would win the election.
It is currently understood that Mossad, IDF, the War Council of Israel and the office of the Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu have all worked hard and have now prepared an “orderly and detailed plan” for going after Iran’s nuclear program.
Following Trump’s reelection, according to an anonymous source close to the Israeli leader — the Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir when asked by Bibi for the prospects of this war, said:
“It’s time for total victory.”
Close observers of the Gaza conflict may wonder why Israeli officials are so enthusiastic about Trump’s return, since the Biden administration, for all its expressions of concern about the suffering of Gaza, and the risks of a wider war, have exercised little real restraint on Israel’s behavior. For Israel that is not enough, and now they pin their hopes on the Trump administration which threatens to be a more willing partner on at least one major goal:
The complete destruction of Iran’s nuclear program.
Israeli leaders are smart and they have read the tea leaves properly, and now have good reason to see a difference between Biden and Trump on this point.
Only last month, when president Joe Biden publicly urged Israel, to not attack Iran’s nuclear infrastructure — Trump slammed the comment as “the craziest thing I’ve ever heard.”
And, while Trump himself may not want to start a fresh war with Iran in order to maintain his “peace dove” street cred — his newly appointed foreign policy team certainly does.
So it’s not hard to understand why Israeli officials see a great deal of difference between the long leash they got from President Joe Biden and the blank check they’ve been asking to get from incoming President Donald Trump, to go ahead and remove the ever present and clearly fanatic global threat of a Nuclear Iran.
Yours,
Dr Churchill
PS:
Hell — we went to war for a lot less in Iraq, and by virtue of incompetence in “Nation Building” for Democracy — we turned the country over to the Shia effin black hat hacking Mullahs of Tehran.
Ya all — do you remember “Yellowcake” from fvckin Niger ?