Epoch Times Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office has responded to President Donald Trump’s recent announcement to end billions of dollars in aid to the country. “U.S. military aid to Israel has always been a cross-the-aisle agreement,” Netanyahu’s office wrote in a post on X. “Israel has used it both to defend itself and to confront enemies who threaten America and the West. Today, Israel has a strong and stable economy.”
Framing Trump’s announcement as a collaborative transition from “aid to partnership,” the office wrote that the decision “shows the strength and sophistication of our relationship, and its ability to adapt and stand strong over time.”
Trump has said he would consider resuming strikes against Iran after the midterms. But U.S. airstrikes are unlikely to make the Iranian regime capitulate, and the country’s leaders are likely to stand by expansive demands they have made in negotiations.
“Iran has been very unwilling to have any reasonable discussions about peace,” said Leslie Shedd, a nonresident fellow at the Atlantic Council and a former senior aide to Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Texas.
Trump could launch U.S. airstrikes against Iran but the government there has already absorbed thousands of such strikes.
In the unlikely scenario that Trump takes the extraordinary step of dropping a tactical nuclear weapon on a nuclear storage site beneath Pickaxe Mountain, it would not eliminate Iran’s nuclear program, which is deeply buried and also spans the country, experts said. The first attack since Nagasaki with a nuclear weapon of any size would create long-lasting radioactive fallout and threaten to destabilize existing weapons agreements among nuclear powers.
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