Israel has shown that it can take full control of Iranian airspace and strike at will without facing any more resistance than if it were bombing Gaza or Beirut. After a ceasefire, Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu can always renew the bombardment at any time, in the knowledge that the balance of power in the region has swung decisively in Israel’s favour, probably for a long time to come.
“I want to thank and congratulate prime minister Bibi Netanyahu,” said Trump after US B-2 bombers had struck at Iran’s uranium enrichment facilities on Sunday. “We worked as a team like perhaps no team has ever worked before, and we’ve gone a long way to erasing this horrible threat to Israel.”
The Iranian nuclear threat in 2025 much resembles Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction in 2003, which provided the justification for US-led invasion of Iraq – though the weapons did not exist.
It is not that the US was unresponsive to Israel’s wishes in the past, but it also had some red lines: in 1982 president Ronald Reagan demanded and obtained an end to the Israeli bombardment of Beirut. In 2015, much against Netanyahu’s wishes, president Barack Obama negotiated the Iran nuclear deal to limit Iran’s nuclear programme, an agreement Trump abandoned in 2018.
square MARK WALLACE Iran's response to US air strikes has given the game away
Read More
“Desperate, hungry people in Gaza continue to face the inhumane choice of either starving to death or risk being killed while trying to get food,” said a UN spokesman.
Iran and the Axis of Resistance were always overmatched by Israel and the US, but they always did rather less resisting than they pretended. Between 2006 and 2023, there was a largely peaceful standoff between Hezbollah and Israel along the Israel-Lebanon border. But it suited Iran and Hezbollah to boast that it was opposing Israel effectively and for Israel to confirm this, claiming that it faced a day-to-day terrorist threat.
Its one priority since then has been to avoid direct military conflict with Israel or, failing that, not to allow Israel to lure the US into a war on its side against Iran. Consequently, its retaliation against the US bombing raids on its uranium enrichment facilities this weekend was limited to firing half a dozen missiles at the giant US base at al-Udeid in Qatar and telling the Qataris and Americans that the missiles were coming so they could be intercepted.
This tactic gains him a reputation for Taco (Trump Always Chickens Out), but it often works and may well do so in the case of the current ceasefire, which Trump now says is fully implemented. He now says that he prevented a “forever war” and turned it into “a twelve-day war”, thereby reassuring Maga “America First” Republicans that he has not surrendered to imperialist designs of the neoconservatives and “the deep state” in Washington.
The EU and Nato powers are once again exposed as having only marginal influence in a region where they once had real power. During the meeting in Geneva with the Iranian foreign minister Abbas Araghchi, they acted as message carriers for Trump.
Likewise the Gulf states, despite their extravagant efforts to cultivate Trump during his visit to the region, are largely reduced to being onlookers when it comes to the radical reshaping of the Middle East by a conflict in which only Israel, the US and Iran are the real players.
Hence then, the article about netanyahu has tested trump and won was published today ( ) and is available on inews ( Middle East ) The editorial team at PressBee has edited and verified it, and it may have been modified, fully republished, or quoted. You can read and follow the updates of this news or article from its original source.
Read More Details
Finally We wish PressBee provided you with enough information of ( Netanyahu has tested Trump – and won )
Also on site :