By R. Cort Kirkwood (The New American)
During an Israeli Cabinet meeting today, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu confessed that the Trump administration has Netanyahu on speed dial so it can report to him “every day” about the Iran war U.S. President Donald Trump started on Israel’s behalf.
The latest on the tail-wags-dog relationship comes from Axios writer Barak Ravid, a former Israeli military intelligence operative in constant contact with Israeli officials.
That news follows a report in The New York Times that Netanyahu lied to Trump during a briefing in February in the White House Situation Room to push him into attacking Iran.
Amusingly, Trump told Fox News that the U.S.-Israel relationship is one of big brother-little brother, with the United States being the big brother. The latest from Netanyahu suggests that Trump had it backwards.
But in any event, former U.S. counterterrorism chief Joe Kent noted that the administration’s position during failed peace talks over the weekend — that Iran cannot have any enriched uranium — reversed long-standing U.S. policy and “killed” the talks.
And in yet another off-the-cuff remark to reporters, Trump said today that the U.S. might attack Cuba after it is done with Iran…
Read the rest here: Netanyahu Says Trump Admin Reports to Him “Every Day.” Kent: No-enrichment Position Killed Peace Talks. – The New American
