“The fact that it is the president of the United States who is the one announcing a ceasefire only highlights how disconnected the prime minister of Israel is from the people, and from the reality of the residents of the north,” said Metula Mayor David Azoulay. “Your basic duty as prime minister of Israel is to provide security to the citizens of the state. In practice, you fail at this time after time.”
Five years after Netanyahu’s June 2021 Knesset speech, he is now the one being pilloried for being unable to stand up to a US president when needed.
“A pattern is developing where a ceasefire is being forced upon us,” said Yashar party chairman Gadi Eisenkot, a former head of the Israel Defense Forces. “In Gaza, in Iran, and now in Lebanon.”
Netanyahu may not be willing to challenge Trump, but Iran certainly is. After securing a ceasefire extension by refusing to even show up for talks being led by no less than US Vice President JD Vance, it then seized container ships trying to traverse the Strait of Hormuz, which Trump has insisted it reopen to free trade.
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