{"id":261388,"date":"2026-06-10T02:08:30","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T02:08:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/261388\/"},"modified":"2026-06-10T02:08:30","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T02:08:30","slug":"netanyahus-bow-to-trumps-iran-pressure-spurs-new-criticism-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/261388\/","title":{"rendered":"Netanyahu\u2019s Bow to Trump\u2019s Iran Pressure Spurs New Criticism"},"content":{"rendered":"

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu\u2019s decision to halt the latest round of clashes with Iran following pressure from President Trump<\/a> prompted criticism and mockery from the Israeli leader\u2019s political rivals, and some expressions of concern from his allies.<\/p>\n

After speaking by phone with Mr. Trump on Monday, Mr. Netanyahu ordered the Israeli military to suspend plans for a new attack on Iran a short time later, according to multiple U.S. and Israeli officials briefed on the call.<\/p>\n

That disclosure prompted Gadi Eisenkot, a former chief of staff of the Israeli military and now a politician, to post a new campaign ad<\/a> on social media. In the clip, Mr. Trump\u2019s voice is heard saying several times of Mr. Netanyahu, \u201cHe\u2019ll do whatever I want him to do.\u201d<\/p>\n

Israel is scheduled to hold elections later this year<\/a>, and Mr. Eisenkot surpassed Mr. Netanyahu in one recent poll as Israelis\u2019 top choice for prime minister. \u201cThe U.S. has a leader,\u201d a tagline in Mr. Eisenkot\u2019s ad says. \u201cIsrael has no leader. That\u2019s all the difference.\u201d<\/p>\n

Naftali Bennett, a former prime minister who is challenging Mr. Netanyahu for the post, released a video<\/a> statement saying that \u201cthe past 24 hours will be remembered as the beginning of normalizing a reality of drip-by-drip attacks from Iran.\u201d He added that Mr. Netanyahu was \u201cnot capable of making a decision on any front \u2014 not in Gaza, not in Lebanon, and not in Iran.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dan Illouz, a member of Parliament from Mr. Netanyahu\u2019s Likud party, made a similar argument<\/a>, albeit more obliquely. In a statement on social media, he said that Mr. Netanyahu\u2019s government had totally relinquished the ability to act decisively against threats from Iran and in Lebanon, where the Iran-backed Hezbollah militia has been launching attacks against Israel.<\/p>\n

Mr. Illouz argued that Israel was effectively being prevented from striking Dahiya, a Hezbollah stronghold on the outskirts of Beirut, unless the group attacked major Israeli cities. That leaves the country without an adequate answer to Hezbollah attacks on smaller communities in northern Israel, he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re refraining from using the only offensive tool we have to deter the enemy,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu\u2019s decision to halt the latest round of clashes with Iran following pressure from President…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":260952,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[76303,1451,100696,1452,27306,14670,60,33408,1450,9,24,63,122,124,123,1069],"class_list":["post-261388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-beirut-lebanon","tag-benjamin","tag-dahiya-lebanon","tag-donald-j","tag-hezbollah","tag-iran","tag-israel","tag-lebanon","tag-netanyahu","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news","tag-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=261388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261388\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/260952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}