This analysis argues that Israel has drawn the United States into another war while sitting back as US taxpayers bear the cost, contending that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has for years pushed Washington toward a confrontation with Iran that is now playing out as a missile exchange between US forces and Iran.
It notes that US soldiers’ coffins are returning home from a war it says Israel initiated and US troops are fighting, even as Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth asks the Senate for more money to continue. Lawmakers, the piece says, are being asked to fund a war they never authorized, with no US-defined objectives and no clear end.
The analysis cites Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, who told a housing conference that Israel had no interest in joining the operation and that a limited US-Iran conflict was “the most correct and profitable” situation for Israel — which the piece reads as Israel content to watch Americans die and pay for the war.
It argues that as US air-defense interceptor stockpiles run low defending regional bases, Israel is conserving its own interceptors, waiting to sell them later at high prices to the United Arab Emirates and other Gulf states once American supplies are exhausted.
On Fox News, Netanyahu laid out war aims to the US audience; the analysis contends a foreign leader is effectively setting the terms and a deadline for a US war fought by US pilots and funded by US taxpayers, and that Netanyahu is imposing, not merely awaiting, an outcome on Israel’s terms.
The piece says Israel also shapes US diplomacy and trade. A day after Washington signed a civil nuclear cooperation deal with Saudi Arabia, it says, Trump shifted his position and declared that Riyadh must first normalize relations with Israel before the deal could go ahead. It cites Israeli Culture and Sports Minister Miki Zohar telling Army Radio that Israel is clear with the US about its “red lines” and that Washington heeds them.
The central question the analysis poses is why leaders across US parties allow a strategically small state such influence over US foreign policy. It argues the objection to a Saudi civil nuclear program was about sequencing — accepting it only after Saudi recognition of Israel — rather than non-proliferation, given long US tolerance of Israel’s undeclared nuclear arsenal.
Finally, it says Arab capitals seeking a relationship that protects their own security and economic interests must stop mistaking closeness for power, criticizing reliance on brokers such as Jared Kushner, whom it describes as an Israel-first advocate who built post–White House wealth on Arab capital. It cites the UAE’s experience with the Abraham Accords: Abu Dhabi normalized ties with Israel expecting 50 F-35 jets for $23 billion and quickly gave recognition, embassies and open skies, but the jets were long delayed.
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