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HAARETZ EDITORIAL | NETANYAHU IS CONSIDERING A LIMITED STRIKE ON IRAN
– THAT IS COMPLETE INSANITY  
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Haaretz
April 20, 2025
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_ The above article is Haaretz's lead editorial, as published in the
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President Donald Trump with Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu at the White House on April 7, AP

 

Haaretz Editorial

Apr 20, 2025 4:51 am IDT

A few weeks ago, in a public act at the White House, with Benjamin
Netanyahu at his side, surprised, Donald Trump – the man whom the
prime minister and his followers are convinced they have in their
pocket – announced that the United States was opening direct,
high-level talks with Iran.

The gap between what the U.S. president is doing and what Netanyahu
wants received additional confirmation Wednesday when The New York
Times reported
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Israel had planned to strike Iranian nuclear sites in May but froze
the proposal after Trump vetoed it.

The report said that an Israeli commando operation was considered and
in the absence of readiness for a ground operation, an airstrike was
planned but not conducted.

The report confirms what had been implied for some time in Israeli
media outlets: Netanyahu planned to strike in the hope that Trump
would give the green light and perhaps even pitch in to help.

But Trump, it turns out, sees the Israeli threats not as an end but as
a means, a way to pressure Tehran into accepting a new nuclear
agreement. From the president's perspective, a military strike is a
last option, to be used if and when the talks fail.

Nevertheless, on Saturday Reuters reported, citing Israeli sources,
that a "limited strike" on Iran was still on the table
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even without full coordination with Washington. That is complete
insanity. Netanyahu has been calling for a strike on Iran for years,
first with President Barack Obama and now with Trump.

This insanity led Netanyahu to make a bitter mistake when he caused
the United States, during Trump's first term, to withdraw from the
nuclear agreement with Iran. Netanyahu has never admitted this
mistake, and now Israel is again trying to dictate aggressive moves at
a time when even Trump wants to exhaust the diplomatic option first.

It's important to stress that there's no such thing as "a limited
Israeli strike" on Iran's nuclear program. Any such military action
would almost certainly deteriorate into an all-out war, with
everything that it implies. It seems that even after the October 7
debacle, Netanyahu persists in his hubris and is liable to lead us
into another catastrophe.The U.S.-Iran negotiations, which began in
Oman last week and are continuing in Rome, 
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include direct meetings between senior officials. It is an opportunity
that must not be missed.

Any agreement that puts restrictions on Iran's nuclear program and
places it under supervision is infinitely preferable to war. Despite
all the uncertainty inherent in Trump's leadership, the move should be
supported. Diplomacy must be exhausted and irresponsible talk of an
Israeli strike on Iran must stop. Even if Trump's diplomatic move
fails, Israel need not and cannot act alone.

_The above article is Haaretz's lead editorial, as published in the
Hebrew and English newspapers in Israel._

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* Iran
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* United States
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* Donald Trump
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* Benjamin Netanyahu
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* nuclear weapons
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