Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Monday that the Trump administration reports to him every day about the ongoing war in Iran.

In a meeting with Israel’s Cabinet ministers, Netanyahu said, “I spoke yesterday with Vice President JD Vance. He called me from his plane on his way back from Islamabad. He reported to me in detail, as this administration does every day, about the development of the negotiations. In this case, the explosion in the negotiations.”

Netanyahu went on to claim that the U.S. broke off the negotiations because Iran didn’t immediately reopen the Strait of Hormuz and wouldn’t commit to getting rid of all of its enriched uranium.

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    Reported a few times as an Opinion piece, but when it comes to stories like this, I lean heavily on the rule:

    Opinion pieces MAY be removed. They aren’t automatically removed.

    The story here is a direct quote from Netanyahu which raises it above opinion or speculation.

    “I spoke yesterday with Vice President J.D. Vance. He called me from his plane on his way back from Islamabad. He reported to me in detail, as this administration does every day, about the development of the negotiations.”

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    I’m wondering if the final collapse of an Empire being triggered by going into a war they cannot win which accelerates their Economic and social collapse, to serve the wishes of a much, much smaller country, is actually Historically unique.

    Sure, getting some populist leader who then proceeds to mismanage everything and ends up doing some stupid shit with massive consequences that final torpedoes the once imperial nation down, is pretty common in History, but doing said “stupid shit” serving the interests of a much smaller and weaker nation might actually make this unique.

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    Just friendly reminder that Bibi’s corruption trial would’ve started this week in Israel, but was conveniently delayed because of a forever war he is perpetuating.

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      It’s like he and the people who could remove him have silently made a deal with the devil. He stays out of jail in exchange for a “Greater Israel”. It’s weird how fascism looks exactly like this every time. Like some sort of sociological defect, like ants in a death spiral.

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    I mean, they’re fighting a war together. It would be weird as hell if they weren’t reporting to each other daily.

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    I don’t understand why the United States needs Israel so much. why can’t they just do regular types of diplomacy like economic trade agreements or whatever? what’s the problem?

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      Christian Zionism. If Israel is armed to the teeth and encouraged into a bloody, protracted regional war, conservative evangelicals believe it will force Jesus to come back to Earth sooner than God was expected (because apparently an omnipotent and omnipresent deity can be tricked so easily), and thus usher in Armageddon.

      I wish that was a joke. But it’s not.

      Of course that’s only one reason. The real answer is a complex series of interdependent pieces. Christian Zionism, anti-Muslim paranoia, subconscious guilt over the Holocaust, wanting to appeal to conservative Christian and Jewish voters domestically, and now many politicians on both sides being deep in the pockets of ultra conservative Israeli power brokers via AIPAC.

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        i want to assume religion isn’t a real reason for anything and it’s more of a tool for manufacturing consent

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      One obvious possibility: Israel is blackmailing American politicians to do what Israel wants. Epstein was an Israeli asset. The kid-diddle island was Israel collecting blackmailable people from politics, finance, entertainment – all assets they could deploy later.

      The Republican Party’s files were hacked like a decade ago…right around the time a whole lot of anti-Trump Republicans (like Sen Graham SC) permanently changed their tune about Trump.

      That’s why American can’t seem to quit Israel.

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      I think it’s 2 thing mainly.

      1. Israel has bribed or blackmailed most major politicians. Look up campaign donations from AIPAC and their related PACs.
      2. A large portion of American Evangelicals genuinely believe that by supporting Israel they are helping to bring about armageddon. You know, gog and magog type shit.
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        God comes back, looks at Israel: “Fuck me, you murdered a lot of kids! Just because you’re my chosen people, doesn’t mean you can act like barbarians! Y’know what? Fuck it. I’m choosing the North Sentinelese”.

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        israel is trying garner more support from magats apparently, it seems it not enough. TPUSA is primarly funded by an israeli-backed person, which is the contention that caused his death, because kirk and owens were anti-semites, and it was hurting thier image, Tucker was a problem for aipac because he has a sucha large audience and can easily make them hate israel.

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      probably the oil and natural gas, they cant have ME countries nationalizing and controlling thier own supply. thats why Iran is the pariah of the ME, because they broke from the US/UK during islamic revoltion as result of the SHAH regime which was installed by the US/UK to keep the supply of oil coming.

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        I understand this in some sense but not really because I don’t see what difference it makes if you have regular types of diplomacy and internationalism and trade with money or whatever

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      consider he/MOSSAD was behind the honeypots of billionaires and trump to begin with in order to manipulate western democracies to his will. Putin likely came later likely acquiring some krompromat after he became president. epstein also advised Putin how to control TRUMP in 2018, and a year later Epstein is dead.

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      No doubt.

      What’s interesting is Bibi’s use of the word ‘report’. Very clearly saying publicly that Donald is his bitch.

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      Does it even matter at this point? Dude is a convicted criminal, and says awful things about women, posted an AI picture of himself as jesus, and his cult followers dont care

      Pretty they could release all the worst epstein stuff and the cultists will shrug.

      And his political opposition will continue letting him operate unchecked.

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        I’m pretty sure he lost a few of his supporters after the AI picture of himself as Jesus.

        I think the Epstein stuff is undeniable at this stage, but they choose not to believe it’s as dirty and nasty as it was/is. I think if the full unredacted papers come out, there’ll be a lot of disgusted Trump supporters. I think that even the anti-Trump group would still be shocked at the cold hard truth.

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          The conservatives I know never have the time or desire to follow politics when a republicans president. They only have time for that nonsense when an evil democrat is in charge. It’s like magically all of their problems go away, even if they’re getting worse.

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            I think this is it. It was always about how bad kamala is / how bad hillary is / “let’s go brandon”

            Although I also think Hillary Clinton and Kamala Harris ran similar campaigns “we’re not Trump!”

            The issue on the sanctity of life also sways a lot of votes.

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            Thats the same, someone in my family is one but he actually doesnt follow politcs at all, just memes, and right wing grifter as thier sole source of politics, but he acts all defensive when confronted about his support for trump as a POC. its the joe rogans, j petersons, and the likes that are convincing genz/milleneal men to support him. the boomers or older milleneals are likely drunk on fox pundits.

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        well they created the parties/events trafficking. through Maxwell epstein. plus they need continued support in AId to israel for thier expansion efforts. the billionaire backers are thier agents in the west to foment that Support indefinitely, remember the universities that were protests they were largely quashed and almost never hear a peep in the news anymore. and then theres all sorts of israeli shills: fetterman, seinfeld and his wife(who apparently was even more involved than he is),etc.

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      You don’t even need that at this point. You just need to tickle old Donny’s taint every day and he’ll keep coming back for more

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    Is Netanyahu saying Israel is pulling Trump’s strings? That guy’s repeating an anti-semitic conspiracy theory!

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      Its not antisemitic because its about the government of Israel, not all jews.

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        It’s a joke about Zionists claiming anyone who says Israel persuaded Trump to do this stupid illegal war is antisemitic. Which is a claim Zionists are definitely making.

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        I think that was the implication, but no harm in making it explicit

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    Tucker Carlson is right. Very, very, insidiously, cryptofascistically, WASP-ingly, heir to the Swanson Foods fortune inheritingly, aristocracily aligned far right. In this case he’s also correct.

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      he was always anti-semetic pretty much, its just fox kept a tight leash on him. thats why kirk, CANDACE were pretty much on his side. having tucker on kirk’s show rubbed the aipac backer the wrong way