https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/05/12/trump-netanyahu-middle-east-trip/
Benjamin Netanyahu has long trumpeted his ties to Trump. But the president is sidelining him on urgent issues like the Iran nuclear talks and the conflict with Houthi rebels
Last week, Israelis believed they saw more cracks emerge between the “America First” president and Israel, after Trump said he had struck a truce with Yemen’s Houthi rebels that curbed the group’s attacks on U.S. ships — but did not cover Israel. Days later, reports emerged that Trump was considering offering Saudi Arabia access to civil nuclear technology without demanding that the kingdom normalize relations with Israel, a precondition that had been set by former president Joe Biden.
I obviously would prefer that Saudi Arabia would normalise relations with Israel. But you are forgetting one thing and that is that Saudi can make whatever choices they want. When previous administrations fails to take on Iran, the Saudis threatens they would make peace with Iran and that's what happened. When biden accused the Saudis of murdering kashoggi, and threatened to make them a pariah state. The Saudis then stopped helping America and kept oil production low to keep prices up.
ReplyDeleteThey import solar panels from China so they could easily import nuclear technology from them as well. In the long term, it's safer to keep them in the American orbits than to allow them to go under the chinese orbit.
Trump is the President of America, not the lapdog of Israel. He will do stuff that is in his interest and if it's also in Israel's great. That's what we need to pray for.
ReplyDeleteBut pay attention. Biden never seriously attacked the Houthis and kept warning Israel not to. Trump slapped them silly and supplied the Israels so they could to. And even now, yes he made a ceasefire deal without Israel. That means Israel can keep attacking them. That's a bad thing?