Trump Loses War Bigly, Wins NOTHING for the US or Israel!
The TACO King ended the war by chickening out in a defeat that can be described as "biblical" in scale!
First off, let’s be clear that the war isn’t over. The present deal is not a treaty; it’s a just an extended ceasefire, that may turn out to be “Schmeasefire 2.0.” We’ll see if Israel cooperates, which is far from certain, as you’ll see below. In fact, it is not even a truce yet. It’s an agreement to establish a truce when and if Iran signs on this coming Friday. Everything could blow to bits before Iran even signs on, especially with totally disgusted Israel’s help.
U.S. President Donald Trump described Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as “a very difficult guy” and said Israel should be grateful for the agreement reached between Washington and Tehran, following the announcement of a framework aimed at ending months of conflict in the region.
Speaking after the U.S.-Iran deal was announced, Trump criticized recent Israeli strikes in Lebanon, saying they had nearly complicated efforts to secure the deal. He argued that Israel would have faced a serious threat if Iran had succeeded in obtaining a nuclear weapon.
Trump also warned that military action against Iran could resume if negotiations on Tehran’s nuclear programme fail to produce a final agreement….
The future of Iran’s nuclear programme remains unresolved and is expected to be one of the central issues during a 60-day ceasefire period…
(“Trump Calls Netanyahu ‘Very Difficult Guy’ After U.S.-Iran Deal”)
The no-deal deal
Even conservatives on Fox News have described the no-deal deal as a disaster! Trump, of course, said Israel should be thankful toward him, rather than enraged:
“To be honest with you, he [Netanyahu] should be very thankful to us for doing this. Because if Iran had a nuclear weapon, Israel wouldn’t be around for two hours,” Trump told the media house….
As per the agreement, all military operations will be halted, and negotiations will resume between the two nations on several issues, including Tehran’s nuclear programme.
He added that he was authorising the immediate removal of the US naval blockade and the reopening of one of the world’s most strategically important shipping routes. “Ships of the World, start your engines. Let the oil flow!” Trump wrote. “I hereby fully authorize the toll free opening of the Strait of Hormuz, and, simultaneously herewith, authorize the immediate removal of the United States Naval blockade,” he added.
(“Trump Rebukes Netanyahu After Iran Deal Announcement, Says US Saved Israel From Nuke Armageddon”)
Yet, Iran’s side of the blockade remains in force until Friday. So, it is not a truce yet, much less a treaty. It’s a deal to resume negotiations, starting on Friday with the US having to prove its worthiness by fulfilling some of its obligations leading up to Friday. For now the total ceasefire and lifting of the US blockade are the only things that have gone into effect today.
The strait is not open yet for the rest of the world, even though the US is immediately removing its own naval blockade so that Iran’s economy can begin to flow again. The rest of us can struggle along until we show a week of good faith. Then the strait will open on Friday if the ceasefire doesn’t become Schmeasefire 2.0 by Israel’s undoing of it. However, it will still only be open at that point for the purpose of mine removal by the US at its own risk.
Second, let’s be clear that Trump’s big boast of getting the Strait of Hormuz open—the highly successful closure of which was a devastating blow laid against him and the world by Iran—is not a win. The strait was already open before the war in much freer way than it will be under the terms of this hope-based deal, which still says that Iran will have some control over the strait, though it is vague as to what that means. Iran never had control before; so this is, in the very least, a small victory for Iran. Iran didn’t win the ability to exact extravagant tolls for passage, but it will have more control over passage than before the war, and who knows what that will mean?
As for Israel tipping the deal over on its head. It has already tried:
An Israeli drone strike targeted a car in southern Lebanon, killing its driver, Lebanese security sources and state media reported on Monday.
The strike was the first reported deadly Israeli attack in Lebanon since the announcement of the U.S.-Iran agreement.
(“Israeli strike kills one in south Lebanon, first deadly attack since US-Iran deal announcement”)
The strike resulted in Trump scurrying to offer Iran more concessions if it would refuse to respond to the Israeli attack on its Lebanese ally:
US President Donald Trump reportedly offered Iran additional concessions while urging Israel to avoid actions that could derail a deal.
Israeli officials assess that US President Donald Trump will make additional concessions to Iran in exchange for the regime refraining from responding to the IDF retaliatory strike on a Hezbollah in Beirut’s Dahieh suburb, Channel 12 reported on Sunday.
The nature of the reported concession is not known….
According to the report, US officials also made clear in their discussions with Israel that Israel should not, under any circumstances, take any action that could jeopardize the agreement. In other words, even if Iran ultimately launches an attack, Israel is expected to refrain from responding.
Iran claimed that the US President offered them money in exchange for their restraint, but they refused it, stating, “We will not betray our allies (Hezbollah). The response is close.”
So, the deal could blow up the day after it was announced like all of Trump’s other self-praised deals if Iran responds to the Israeli strike, unless Israel practices very uncharacteristic restraint and does not respond to Iran’s promised retaliation for Israels post-deal attack in Beirut. It hangs on a thread as ceasefires often do:
Trump reacted furiously to the Israeli strike, which came after several Hezbollah drones exploded in Israeli territory on a day the President planned to sign a memorandum of understanding with the Islamic regime. In a post on Truth Social, he wrote: “This morning’s attack on Beirut should not have happened, particularly on a special day when we are so close to a Peace Deal with Iran.”
He added that “Israel has the right to defend itself against threats, but the attack it was responding to was very small and meaningless, nobody was hurt, injured, or killed, and should not disrupt this important process….”
President Trump told Fox News that in a call following the strike, he asked Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu, “What the **** are you doing?” and told Netanyahu not to conduct additional strikes.
The Israelis are enraged and feel betrayed
Trump’s no-deal deal has stirred up considerable outrage and feelings of betrayal within Israel at the governmental level and among the people because the war wrecked a great deal of punishment from Iran upon the people of Israel and their economy, and they got nothing out of it, other than the punishment they gave to their enemies, but nothing actually gained.
One of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s closest associates told Channel 12 that Trump’s social media post [announcing the deal to try to make a deal] was received with astonishment. A senior Israeli official said this evening: “Trump’s announcement is a resounding slap in the face. The restrictions have reached a new level—the expectation that we not strike inside Lebanese territory is inconsistent with the notion of a strategic ally.”
Trump slapping Bibi Netanyahu in the face with his words adds to the sense of defeat and betrayal. It may be a political loser for Bibi.
For Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel, the war he had hoped would secure his legacy — Israel and the United States together attacking Iran — may be ending in a way that could sully it….
The full text of the deal has not yet been released, and Israel was not directly involved in the negotiations. But initial details suggest that it does nothing to curb Iran’s ballistic missile arsenal, or its funding of regional proxies like Hezbollah in Lebanon and the Houthis in Yemen….
When it comes to constraining Iran’s nuclear program — a matter of greatest importance to Israel and the greatest priority of Mr. Netanyahu’s career — the terms of the deal remain undisclosed or still to be negotiated during the agreed 60-day cease-fire. Questions remain over what will become of Iran’s stock of highly enriched uranium and whether the country will be able to keep enriching nuclear fuel….
In a news conference Monday night, Mr. Netanyahu said that Israel would seek to “preserve its freedom of action” to act against threats, including in Lebanon. He said Israel had done just that earlier in the day, killing four people he said had posed a threat to Israeli soldiers….
Others in his government were more blunt.
“The agreement with Iran is bad for Israel and the entire free world. Period,” Bezalel Smotrich, the far-right finance minister, wrote on social media earlier on Monday.
Worse still for Mr. Netanyahu, who faces re-election in a few months and is behind in the polls, President Trump, the Israeli leader’s most valuable political asset, has publicly rebuked him multiple times in recent weeks.
While Mr. Trump has praised Iran’s new supreme leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, as pragmatic, he has called Mr. Netanyahu “crazy,” ungrateful and lacking in judgment….
In effect, Mr. Netanyahu appeared to have fallen into a trap.
Had he refrained from hitting back at Hezbollah at that moment, his growing number of critics, including on the Israeli right, surely would have accused him of allowing a new “equation” to take hold. Striking Beirut could have been seen as off-limits to Israel because of Iran’s alliance with Hezbollah and Mr. Trump’s determination to close a deal with Tehran.
But going ahead with the strike was equally perilous for Mr. Netanyahu. Two Israeli defense officials said senior military commanders raised concerns that a strike would prompt Iran to fire missiles at Israel in retaliation, setting off a new escalation of violence. Israel would then be accused of trying to derail the U.S.-Iran agreement just as it was being clinched, they feared….
If Mr. Netanyahu’s goal indeed was to blow up the pending U.S.-Iran deal, he failed to anticipate how forcefully Mr. Trump would push to save it.
Three hours after Israel picked up information that Iran was preparing to attack it with missiles sometime on Sunday night, the two defense officials said, Israel learned that Iran had halted those preparations to give Mr. Trump a chance to calm the situation and close the agreement.
Israel now finds itself counting the ways that Mr. Netanyahu’s grand strategy against Iran has failed.
And Israelis are increasingly convinced that it will make the 2015 Iran nuclear deal look “perfect in comparison,” as the Netanyahu biographer Ben Caspit wrote in the Israeli daily Maariv on Monday.
(“Israel Counts the Ways that Netanyahu’s Iran Strategy Failed”)
On the last note, President Obama agreed, saying he would be very surprise if the final negotiations even result in a deal as good as the one he worked out, which Trump tore up. Israel could easily, as biblical prophecy predicts for the end-times, end up without a friend in the world—not even the US as the snaky Netanyahu has managed to sour relationships even with the world leader he recently praised as Israel’s greatest friend. (See related section below if interested in that angle)
For more than a decade, Mr. Netanyahu has steadily raised his bets in pursuing his strategy against Iran. His 2015 address to Congress denouncing then-President Obama’s nuclear agreement with Iran broke with decades of Israeli bipartisanship and left Mr. Netanyahu frozen out of the talks.
His alliance with President Trump alienated Democrats, a growing number of whom turned against Israel during its war with Hamas in Gaza. The war with Iran, and the perception that Israel had dragged the United States into it, added many Republicans to that column.
With its lofty goal of toppling the Iranian regime, the war was the culmination of Mr. Netanyahu’s long-term strategy. But it ended up showing Iran that the thing it feared most — the might of the U.S. military — was something that it could withstand, said Shira Efron, an analyst at RAND Corporation, a think tank.
“Israel has lost all its leverage, and this has real costs,” she said. “The U.S. can just sort of walk away. But Israel is here in the region with an Iran that is only more threatening….”
“If there is intelligence one day in the future that Iran is building a nuclear weapon and enriching the military-grade uranium, Israel will have to go it alone,” [Mr. Katz, the analyst and a former editor of The Jerusalem Post] said. “We can’t rely on anyone else now….”
Mr. Netanyahu’s difficulty managing his relationship with Mr. Trump could be glimpsed in his failure to come out and say publicly what some members of his own right-wing coalition were already saying on Monday — that the U.S.-Iran deal was terrible for Israel.
Even Israel’s supposed heroic Jewish friends in the US are seen now has having turned against Israel.
Israel sold out by its hero Jews
One article on a Jewish news site is titled “The Jews Who Sold Out Israel.” It leads off with the following claim:
JD Vance, Jared Kushner, and Steve Witkoff drove the Iran deal over Rubio and Hegseth’s objections, leaving Israel sidelined and Tehran celebrating. A reckoning is due.
There’s a bitter irony embedded in the wreckage of this deal, and nobody in polite company wants to say it out loud. So we will.
The two men most responsible for pushing Donald Trump across the finish line on the most dangerous capitulation in American Middle East policy since the JCPOA are Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff. Both Jewish. Both men who built their public personas, in part, on deep and loudly proclaimed love for Israel and the Jewish people. Both men who flew to Islamabad, sat across from Iranian envoys, and negotiated away the leverage that blood and treasure had bought, while Netanyahu was left in the dark calling allies desperately trying to find out what was happening to his country’s future….
[The deal] left Iran’s nuclear program unresolved, its enrichment infrastructure intact, and $12 billion in unfrozen assets flowing to Tehran before the ink even dried….
Kushner and Witkoff acted against Israeli interests with extraordinary enthusiasm. They were so desperate to close a deal, any deal, that they apparently lost sight of what the deal was actually for. They wanted the win. They wanted the photo. They wanted to be the men who ended the war.
What they delivered instead is a framework that Israel’s own officials describe as a profound threat. Iran’s centrifuges are still spinning. Its enrichment stockpile sits at 60% purity. The nuclear question has been “deferred” to 60 days of future negotiations, a timeline that every serious analyst of Iranian diplomacy knows is designed to run out the clock. And Hezbollah, battered but unbowed, has just received a ceasefire that locks Israel into terms it didn’t author and can’t escape without defying Washington.
None of this is a secret. The reporting is there, sourced and documented. Trump’s announcement that a deal had been finalized came as a surprise to Prime Minister Netanyahu. In recent days, Netanyahu found himself in the dark, calling allies close to the Trump administration to try and gather information. The leader of America’s closest regional ally was reduced to making desperate phone calls, scrounging for intelligence about his own country’s security future, while Kushner and Witkoff were on the phone with Qatari mediators finalizing the terms.
Iran’s military, for its part, issued a statement declaring it had “humiliated” the United States and Israel after the deal was announced. They said the quiet part loud. And they’re not wrong….
Both [Hegseth and Rubio] knew that the leverage earned through Operation Epic Fury was the most significant strategic asset the United States had accumulated in the Middle East in years. And both watched it get traded away for a memorandum of understanding and a signing ceremony in Switzerland.
The Rubio and Hegseth camp understood something that the dealmakers did not: that ending a war is not the same thing as winning one. You can end a war by surrendering.
So, nothing was won in terms of stated objectives of the war, which were poorly stated in the first place, except this: In exchange for a lot of money and restored freedom, Iran will keep talking about these things. Yet, the full truth gets far worse.
What makes this sting beyond the geopolitics, beyond the nuclear math, beyond the strategic catastrophe that this agreement may well represent, is the personal dimension. Jared Kushner celebrated the Abraham Accords as a generational achievement for Israel and the region. He was not wrong. Steve Witkoff negotiated the Gaza hostage deal with genuine effectiveness. These are not men without accomplishment. But somewhere between the Abraham Accords and the Islamabad talks, the goal shifted. It stopped being about what was good for Israel and started being about what was good for the deal.
And so now we have this: a U.S. President publicly humiliating the Israeli Prime Minister, calling him a difficult guy who should be grateful, screaming that he’d be in prison without American protection, and lecturing Israel on its right to self-defense. A nuclear program deferred rather than dismantled. Billions flowing to Tehran. Hezbollah alive in Lebanon under a ceasefire Israel didn’t negotiate and can’t enforce.
That’s right, to top off its losses just to schedule a deferment to make a deal to try to dismantle Iran’s nuclear program, the US proposes to pay Iran a vast fortune to cover all the damages it has caused them if the deferred part of the deal goes through. This is after already paying an even larger fortune to cause those damages, and bringing havoc to the entire world economically.
Right now, the US won only the right to talk about the nuclear program, which we have been talking about for decades. Everyone knows the pattern. Iran is always willing to extend talks because talking buys time for covert activity and replenishing military hardware. For now, all nuclear material stays under Iran’s stewardship with nothing agreed, apparently, about what a nuclear deal should even look like.
Biblical prophecy of Israel left without a friend among all nations of the world
(If you’re not interested in seeing how biblical this fail might be in scale, you may want to skip to the closing section.)
In October of 2024, I wrote an article warning “Israel Increasingly Isolated as Nations Gather Around it to Make War.” In that article I referred back to other articles I’ve written along the way about biblical prophecies that state Israel’s total isolation will be it situation in the end times:
Thundering toward Armageddon
It’s not hard to see the many nations of the world that are Muslim would turn in unison against Israel … but those nations may also include Russia as an ally of Iran and other nations that turn against Israel—Islamic Turkey seeming more on sides with Russia now than with the US or Israel—because yet another prophecy says that, in these times, Israel will lose its allies:
12 “This is what the Lord says:
“‘Your wound is incurable,
your injury beyond healing.
13 There is no one to plead your cause,
no remedy for your sore,
no healing for you.
14 All your allies have forgotten you;
they care nothing for you.
I have struck you as an enemy would
and punished you as would the cruel,
because your guilt is so great
and your sins so many.
15 Why do you cry out over your wound,
your pain that has no cure?
Because of your great guilt and many sins
I have done these things to you. (Jeremiah 30:12-15)In another article (“Existential Crisis Envelops the Middle East”) I wrote …
This kind of war is entirely different than anything we’ve seen Israel fight in recent decades…. I think it could easily wind up with Israel facing abject failure because of how much they are outnumbered and how much better armed some of their opponents are than in the past and find themselves facing that situation without any remaining friends if they push beyond US limits because they think they can claim the Promised Land by their own might or by divine blessing that still requires their own might.
And in a Deeper Dive laying out my predictions for ‘24 for paying subscribers clear back in January, I wrote …
Biblical prophecy talks about the war to end all wars—the Battle of Armageddon—as a situation in which all the nations around Israel will turn against it, and Israel will be left without a friend. The present situation certainly has that possibility forming more strongly than we’ve seen in my fifty years of adult life.
We’ve always seen Israel at risk from its neighbors; but now some of its longtime friends are sounding less committed and more disapproving. I think Netanyahu has played them long enough with pretenses of being willing to find some sort of path to peace while always skirting any progress there, that liberal European nations and the current liberal government of the US are falling away from Israel. They see ol’ Bibi as a hard-headed conservative who cannot be trusted. Many conservative Jews see him that way, too, but for opposite reasons.
The first part of the prophecy from Jeremiah that I quoted in that article also describes the end-times as being a time of extreme peril for Israel, though it says God will eventually save them (albeit with a caveat that I’ll come to),
4 These are the words the Lord spoke concerning Israel and Judah:
5 “This is what the Lord says:
“‘Cries of fear are heard—
terror, not peace.
6 Ask and see:
Can a man bear children?
Then why do I see every strong man
with his hands on his stomach like a woman in labor,
every face turned deathly pale?
7 How awful that day will be!
No other will be like it.
It will be a time of trouble for Jacob,
but he will be saved out of it.
8 “‘In that day,’ declares the LordAlmighty,
‘I will break the yoke off their necks
and will tear off their bonds;
no longer will foreigners enslave them.
9 Instead, they will serve the Lord their God
and David their king,
whom I will raise up for them.
10 “‘So do not be afraid, Jacob my servant;
do not be dismayed, Israel,’
declares the Lord.
‘I will surely save you out of a distant place,
your descendants from the land of their exile.
Jacob will again have peace and security,
and no one will make him afraid.
11 I am with you and will save you,’
declares the Lord.
‘Though I completely destroy all the nations
among which I scatter you,
I will not completely destroy you.
I will discipline you but only in due measure;
I will not let you go entirely unpunished.’ (Jeremiah 30:4-11)
If we are, in deed, heading into those times, a very rough battlefield right in the heart of Israel lies ahead for Israel as it marches into battle on its own without a friend among all the nations. It may still be a little while off, but the outfall of the present war has nearly finished Israel’s loss of friends, now putting even the US at risk of no longer being an ally to Israel. It won’t take much more to shove that over the edge. This is a developing situation I have been tracking for a few years. It all relates to another end-time prophecy of the Old Testament that is even more stark in its wording:
As for the prophecies that I said predicted the nations all around Israel will rise up against it in a great and final battle that hugely imperils Israel, I’ll end with one particularly stunning prophecy spoken as God’s judgment against Israel by the prophet Zechariah, but also against the nations that gather around it a little too desirous of carrying out that judgement, which also talks about the final coming of the Messiah:
1 A day of the LORD is coming when your plunder will be divided among you.
2 I will gather all the nations to Jerusalem to fight against it; the city will be captured, the houses ransacked, and the women raped. Half of the city will go into exile, but the rest of the people will not be taken from the city.
3 Then the LORD will go out and fight against those nations, as he fights in the day of battle.
4 On that day his feet will stand on the Mount of Olives, east of Jerusalem, and the Mount of Olives will be split in two from east to west, forming a great valley, with half of the mountain moving north and half moving south.
5 You will flee by my mountain valley, for it will extend to Azel. You will flee as you fled from the earthquake [1] in the days of Uzziah king of Judah. Then the LORD my God will come, and all the holy ones with him.
6 On that day there will be no light, no cold or frost.
7 It will be a unique day, without daytime or nighttime—a day known to the LORD. When evening comes, there will be light.
8 On that day living water will flow out from Jerusalem, half to the eastern sea and half to the western sea, in summer and in winter.
9 The LORD will be king over the whole earth. On that day there will be one LORD, and his name the only name.
10 The whole land, from Geba to Rimmon, south of Jerusalem, will become like the Arabah. But Jerusalem will be raised up and remain in its place, from the Benjamin Gate to the site of the First Gate, to the Corner Gate, and from the Tower of Hananel to the royal winepresses.
11 It will be inhabited; never again will it be destroyed. Jerusalem will be secure.
12 This is the plague with which the LORD will strike all the nations that fought against Jerusalem: Their flesh will rot while they are still standing on their feet, their eyes will rot in their sockets, and their tongues will rot in their mouths.
13 On that day men will be stricken by the LORD with great panic. Each man will seize the hand of another, and they will attack each other.
14 Judah too will fight at Jerusalem. The wealth of all the surrounding nations will be collected--great quantities of gold and silver and clothing.
15 A similar plague will strike the horses and mules, the camels and donkeys, and all the animals in those camps.
16 Then the survivors from all the nations that have attacked Jerusalem will go up year after year to worship the King, the LORD Almighty, and to celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles….
This prophecy is often related to the famous prophecy in the Book of Revelation about the Battle of Armageddon. It starts with an event written about in the news just a month ago as something that is in danger of happening:
12 The sixth angel poured out his bowl on the great river Euphrates, and its water was dried up to prepare the way for the kings from the East.
13 Then I saw three impure spirits that looked like frogs; they came out of the mouth of the dragon, out of the mouth of the beast and out of the mouth of the false prophet. 14 They are demonic spirits that perform signs, and they go out to the kings of the whole world, to gather them for the battle on the great day of God Almighty.
15 “Look, I come like a thief! Blessed is the one who stays awake and remains clothed, so as not to go naked and be shamefully exposed.”
16 Then they gathered the kings together to the place that in Hebrew is called Armageddon.
17 The seventh angel poured out his bowl into the air, and out of the temple came a loud voice from the throne, saying, “It is done!”
18 Then there came flashes of lightning, rumblings, peals of thunder and a severe earthquake. No earthquake like it has ever occurred since mankind has been on earth, so tremendous was the quake.
19 The great city split into three parts, and the cities of the nations collapsed. God remembered Babylon the Great and gave her the cup filled with the wine of the fury of his wrath.
20 Every island fled away and the mountains could not be found.
21 From the sky huge hailstones, each weighing about a hundred pounds, fell on people. And they cursed God on account of the plague of hail, because the plague was so terrible. (Revelation 16: 12-21)
We may be storming in international madness toward those times. With the huge upsurge of fireballs streaming past the earth lately, as reported in The Daily Doom, the astronomical signs may not be that far off either. Who knows what greater, earth-rending astronomical body these large meteors are escorting?
Deliverance comes but not without judgment by God against Israel for its wrongs first:
Hear, O my people, and I will speak; O Israel, and will testify against thee. I am God, even thy God…. And call upon me in the day of trouble: I will delver thee, and thou shalt glorify me. (Psalm 50:7,15)
The prophecies in the New Testament indicate God will ultimately defend Israel, as described in the Zechariah Old Testament prophecy in that passage about the arrival of the messiah, but they make one caveat clear. It will not happen until the Jewish people accept Jesus as their Messiah. In Jesus’ parting words to the Jewish leadership in the temple on the mountain talked about there in Zechariah and Jeremiah:
29 “Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You build tombs for the prophets and decorate the graves of the righteous. 30 And you say, ‘If we had lived in the days of our ancestors, we would not have taken part with them in shedding the blood of the prophets.’ 31 So you testify against yourselves that you are the descendants of those who murdered the prophets. 32 Go ahead, then, and complete what your ancestors started!
33 “You snakes! You brood of vipers! How will you escape being condemned to hell? 34 Therefore I am sending you prophets and sages and teachers. Some of them you will kill and crucify; others you will flog in your synagogues and pursue from town to town. 35 And so upon you will come all the righteous blood that has been shed on earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah son of Berekiah, whom you murdered between the temple and the altar. 36 Truly I tell you, all this will come on this generation [the generation alive when Jesus said that did lose the city and the Temple where he was speaking and evetually the whole nation].
37 “Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those sent to you, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you were not willing. 38 Look, your house [the temple on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem] is left to you desolate. 39 For I tell you, you will not see me again until you say, ‘Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord.’” (Matthew 23:29-39)
Are the nations of the world now storming toward Armageddon as Israel loses the last of its allies?
Trump Trumped himself … and the world
Many other articles in the headlines that follow for paying subscribers rip into Trump by laying out the guts of what a terrible deal this was for the US and for Israel, including particularly that, the US will turn over to Iran hundreds of billions of dollars if a real deal is ever reached over the uranium. In those articles, the deal is described, even by conservatives on Fox, as “a disaster.” It’s also described as “an American humiliation” with president Trump doing anything he had to just to end the war he started.
Numerous articles lay out all the bad parts of the no-deal deal, such as this excerpt about just one of the many:
And under the terms of a new “peace” deal, will [Iran] soon be aided by many billions of dollars of sanctions relief from the very president who condemned Barack Obama for doing just that?
Before the war, America’s deterrent was fearsome; Donald Trump was able to press Hamas into a hostage deal in Gaza with apocalyptic rhetoric alone. Who will take him seriously now? We were told “a whole civilisation would die”, but with Trump at the helm, it is Western civilisation that finds itself in decline.
On February 28, the mightiest military power in history was mobilised against the evillest regime on Earth. Four months later, we have no answer to the nuclear question; no containment of Iran’s proxies; no curbs on its ballistic missiles; no guarantees on Hormuz; no regime change in Tehran.
(Paying subscribers can read the articles below to gather all the details about how bad the no-deal deal really is. I only covered the main points.)
