[Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu] has not earned the title "The Churchill of the Middle East" for nothing.

What is lethal for the country is that the judges ruled that Netanyahu must appear in court three times a week for at least six consecutive hours each time. All this when the prime minister is preoccupied with the multi-front war against Israel by Iran, its terror proxies, and now Turkey, which no doubt sees its proxy-invasion of Syria as a pathway to Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's long-term dream to "liberate Jerusalem from the Jews."

Some might view this judicial escapade, in cases of trumped-up charges, as political payback for Netanyahu's having tried to reform the judicial system after he was last re-elected in 2022. The judicial reforms are desperately needed, but would diminish the absolute power that Supreme Court judges arrogated to themselves starting in the 1990s, and which they appear autocratically determined to keep.

Do these seemingly vindictive judges really think that Netanyahu's cigars and champagne are not more important than Israel's war against Iran's "Axis of Resistance"?

There is no reason for the prime minister to spend several hours a day in court now, when Israel is at war and he is successfully protecting his people from enemies seeking his country's destruction and the murder of all Jews.

Do these judges actually want Israel to lose the war just so they can keep their absolute power?

[Zarif] starts by pretending that it is Iran's president and not the "Supreme Leader" who has the final word on all aspects of defense, security and foreign policy.

[Zarif] then adds, "Pezeshkian hopes for equal-footed negotiations," whatever that means, with America under President Donald J. Trump.

This is a bold statement, taking into account that only last week, Khamenei repeated his "no war-and-no-negotiations" mantra while Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi told the official media, "There is no basis for talks with the Americans."

Pezeshkian has not mentioned any of the "wants" that Zarif attributes to him, even obliquely.

In other words, Israel must cease to exist and in Zarif's words become "a viable democratic state," presumably like the Iran, but led by Hamas.

[Zarif] s says the US and European allies should help revive the deal which is a "unique example" of cooperation that allows Iran to pursue its nuclear program while benefiting from economic advantages.

To sum up: Pezeshkian, according to the carpet that Zarif weaves, wants the US and Iran to create a condominium in the Middle East, wipe Israel off the map with a referendum, and help Iran revive its moribund economy so that it can pay its costly proxies while speeding up its nuclear program.

Will Trump be tempted to buy such a carpet?