As the U.S. seeks stability and confronts Iran, Israel’s expanding military and ideological posture risks placing it on the same destabilizing spectrum it aims to defeat
The question of Benjamin Netanyahu’s influence on Donald Trump’s decision to confront Iran has become a focus of debate in the United States and will no doubt occupy historians in the years ahead. The prime minister has long envisioned neutralizing the Iranian threat with American support and it is reasonable to assume that he sought to steer the U.S. president in that direction.