Five decades of Israeli covert strategy to push US, Iran into confrontation
Israeli ex-generals urge US President Trump to pressure Prime Minister Netanyahu about settler violence in the occupied West Bank.
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As Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu prepares to meet US President Donald Trump, there is good reason to expect that he will use the meeting to discourage any move towards ending hostilities in the Gulf. This expectation is grounded in a historical record spanning more than five decades. Declassified intelligence, memoirs by senior American officials, investigative reporting, and academic scholarship further reinforce this assessment. Taken together, these sources point to a recurring pattern: successive Israeli governments, often with the support of elements within the country’s security establishment, have repeatedly sought to obstruct efforts to end regional conflicts or attempts to manage tension between the United States and Iran.
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Why it matters
Israeli ex-generals wrote a letter to US President Trump. They asked him to talk to Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu about settler violence in the West Bank. This violence is a problem for Israel's future.
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- Israeli ex-generals urge US President Trump to pressure Prime Minister Netanyahu about settler violence in the occupied West Bank.
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Five decades of Israeli covert strategy to push US, Iran into confrontation
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