President Donald Trump welcomes Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House in Washington, D.C., September 29, 2025.(Jonathan Ernst/Reuters)
Iran is.
The press, both in America and abroad, would like nothing more than to blame Israel for the Trump administration’s failure to negotiate a durable political settlement to the war with the Islamic Republic of Iran. For some inexplicable reason, the Trump administration is ill-advisedly contributing to their cause.
In impromptu remarks to reporters on the tarmac yesterday, Donald Trump admonished Netanyahu concerning Israel’s continued prosecution of its conflict with Hezbollah in southern Lebanon. “It has to stop,” the president said. “We want to get it finished.” That was probably a more diplomatic version of the irritation Trump admitted to expressing with ...
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