It\u2019s not as if the ranks of antisemites were thinning and reinforcements are needed.<\/p>\n
Nevertheless, haters of Israel and President Trump<\/a>, in the media and elsewhere, have a new rationale for their condemnation of America\u2019s involvement in the Iran war<\/a>.<\/p>\n According to the latest blame-the-Jews- bile, Trump was persuaded to attack the Islamist regime only by a deceptive \u201chard sell\u201d from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu<\/a>.<\/p>\n Otherwise, we are supposed to believe that peace would be breaking out in the Middle East instead of yet another war.<\/p>\n A chief peddler of this fable is, predictably, The New York Times.<\/p>\n A font of misinformation and biased reporting about everything Trump, starting with the Russia, Russia, Russia hoax in his first term.<\/p>\n \t\t\tMore From\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMichael Goodwin<\/p>\n The paper was also a leading proponent of the false claim that Israel committed \u201cgenocide\u201d in Gaza and was intentionally starving children.<\/p>\n It saw no evil either in Hamas or a murderous Ayatollah seeking nuclear weapons and is now combining its obsessions to push distorted allegations against Trump and Israel over Iran.<\/p>\n The \u201cevidence\u201d comes from two Times\u2019 reporters who claim they got an exclusive view of a crucial February meeting of American and Israeli leaders in the top secret White House Situation Room.<\/p>\n Because the room is supposedly secure, anyone who gave the paper details and even direct quotationes, assuming they are accurate, had to have been there\u2013 \u2014 and probably likely committed a federal crime.<\/p>\n The story included descriptions of who sat where and who said what, including the reactions of Trump and members of his national security team to a presentation by Netanyahu.<\/p>\n Distorting the truth<\/p>\n The story also revealed details of a supposed second meeting held the following day that involved only Americans. <\/p>\n They were identified as the president, vice-presidentVice President J.D Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, CIA Director John Ratcliffe, DefenseWar Secretary Pete Hegseth and Susie Wiles, Trump\u2019s chief of staff.<\/p>\n It contained what were supposedly direct quotationes from nearly everyone in the room.<\/p>\n The most pointed ones were from Ratcliffe, Rubio and Gen. Dan Caine, chairman of the joint chiefs of staff.<\/p>\n The article said CIA head Ratcliffe described Netanyahu\u2019s claim in the first meeting that an attack would lead to quick regime change in Tehran as \u201cfarcical.\u201d<\/p>\n Then, according to the Times, Rubio added, \u201cIn other words, it\u2019s bullshi\u2013t.\u201d<\/p>\n The paper cited a long quote attributed to Gen. Caine while he was speaking to the commander-in-chief: \u201cSir, this is, in my experience, standard operating procedure for the Israelis. They oversell, and their plans are not always well-developed. They know they need us, and that\u2019s why they\u2019re hard-selling.\u201d<\/p>\n Trump was quoted as responding that regime change would be \u201ctheir problem,\u201d but \u201cit was unclear whether he was referring to the Israelis or the Iranian people.\u201d<\/p>\n Then came the conclusion that Trump was very interested in accomplishing two parts of Netanyahu\u2019s presentation, described as \u201ckilling the Ayatollah and Iran\u2019s top leaders and dismantling the Iranian military.\u201d<\/p>\n But the real problem with the story isn\u2019t just what it says, it\u2019s also what it doesn\u2019t say that distorts the truth.<\/p>\n Absent is the fact that Trump has waged a decade-long campaign to defang Iran and make sure it never acquires nuclear weapons. <\/p>\n