Bush punted, Obama and Biden appeased, while Trump 2.0 played into Tehran’s hands by delaying a decision with futile diplomacy, leaving Netanyahu no choice but to act.
Like many, if not most, wars, the conflict between Israel and Iran didn’t have to happen, and certainly, not in this way. But the blame for the hostilities now underway doesn’t belong to the Israeli government led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who ordered the Israeli Air Force to undertake a pre-emptive strike on Iranian nuclear targets in the early morning hours of June 13.
That won’t be the way the international media, as well as liberal legacy news outlets in the United States, report it. The same sources that have been demonizing Jerusalem’s efforts to eradicate the Hamas terrorists who launched the Gaza war with unspeakable atrocities on Oct. 7, 2023, will put all the blame on Netanyahu and the Israelis. They will blast him for not waiting to see if President Donald Trump’s efforts at diplomacy could succeed in ensuring that Iran could not obtain a nuclear weapon.
Voices on the “woke right,” such as Tucker Carlson, will undoubtedly repeat their appalling apologias for the Islamist regime in which they falsely claimed that Tehran wasn’t working for a bomb. They’ll likely refloat familiar antisemitic tropes about Jerusalem trying to drag the United States into an unnecessary war against its interests.