Aside from taking it nuclear, Trump and Netanyahu’s options have shrunken dramatically. From Martin Jay at strategic-cuture.su:
Can there be anything more repulsive if not comical than Benjamin Netanyahu nominating Donald Trump for a Nobel Peace Prize?
Can there be anything more repulsive if not comical than Benjamin Netanyahu nominating Donald Trump for a Nobel Peace Prize? Trump himself always complained that Obama got the esteemed prize for doing more or less nothing, while he aims to get one by being a genocidal maniac and wiping Palestine off the face of the earth, while also being dragged into WWIII with Iran. Or will he? The Iran question still remains aloof regardless of how many pundits are lining up the podcast circuit to say that it is inevitable that the U.S. will play a pivotal role in the second stage of Israel’s Iran campaign. Bibi in the White House will of course be leaning on Trump now to “finish off the job” as Alastair Crooke recently put it during an interview. But how would phase II look?
There are a number of problems for the Israelis to go ahead with such a project leaving even more emphasis on the U.S. to play an even bigger role than the first time round. Of course both these men behind close doors might be slapping one another on the back over the Iran attacks, but the reality is far from rosy from a western perspective. The main objective for the initial attacks by Iran was to topple the regime. Not only did this happen, but in reality it was the opposite which transpired. First major gaffe is that the regime in Tehran is emboldened by more public support now for standing up to the U.S. and Israel than ever before. The second gaffe was Trump’s B-2 bombers attempting to destroy three of Iran’s underground nuclear facilities, which we now know, did not happen at all. The so called ‘bunker buster’ bombs didn’t go anywhere near enough down to doing the kind of damage hoped as the ventilation shafts that the bombers used were not a straight vertical line down but dog-legged in places. So, the objective of destroying Iran’s enrichment also backfired. The third major error could be argued that the U.S. successfully tricked the Iranians into allowing IAEA inspectors to double up as Mossad agents in the country, so they’ve been kicked out and won’t be coming back. This ruse has backfired as it has not only hardened Iranians about not allowing international watchdogs in their country but the resolve now to go ahead and continue the enrichment program is stronger than it has ever been.
Yasser Arafat was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1994.
Moshe Trumpstein (MIGA) has a full plate until the handoff to AOC (spicy!) and the CPUSA (D) in 2028?
There was a lot of honking in Jericho.