I'm full of admiration for Trump's acting skills. I never would have believed that he could have performed his part so brilliantly. To act like Antony Blinken and urge restraint should win him an honorary Oscar!
This deception was like the fake rubber tank army on D-Day
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From Gil Hoffman at The Jerusalem Post, 6/13/25:
"When Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke to a joint session of Congress on July 10, 1996, he already warned then that the deadline for stopping the nuclearization of Iran was "getting extremely close"
"We are confident that America, once again, will not fail to take the lead in protecting our free civilization from this ultimate horror," he said. "But, ladies and gentlemen, time is running out."
"After 30 years of Netanyahu trying to push the United States to take military action against Iran's nuclear program, it was not surprising that top media outlets around the world continued to report a non-existent US-Israel feud even after Israel attacked with the full backing of the president of the United States
"Diplomatic sources confirmed Friday that the international press and Hebrew media in Israel were deliberately misled in order to trick Iran into thinking no attack was imminent. Leaks of US President Donald Trump shouting at Netanyahu were part of that deception.
"This was a dance choreographed for months, a Holmesian hiding in plain sight. A sleight of hand. And it worked.
Trump gave Iran 60 days to negotiate
"Even after Trump praised Israel's attacks on the Wall Street Journal and other outlets, top media outlets still continued to report the lie that was part of the trap."Trump didn't want Israel to strike, but they did it anyway," was the headline of CNN's analysis by Andrew Liptak.
"The fact Israel went in anyway – without any US involvement, and against the president’s publicly stated wishes – now thrusts Trump into one of the biggest tests of his young presidency," Liptak wrote. "After promising as a candidate to end foreign wars and keep American troops out of faraway conflicts, his ability to avoid getting mired in a new Middle East war now faces reality."
"Actually, the reality was that Trump gave Iran 60 days to negotiate, and after the Islamic Republic didn't budge, Israel attacked on day 61 with his blessing.
"Guardian Washington correspondent Andrew Roth also fell for the maneuver.
"Israel’s strikes on Iran show Trump is unable to restrain Netanyahu as Middle East slips closer to chaos," was his headline.
"The unilateral strikes indicated a collapse of Donald Trump’s efforts to restrain the Israeli prime minister and almost certainly scuttled Trump’s efforts to negotiate a deal with Iran that would prevent the country from seeking a nuclear weapon," Roth wrote. "It also will probably lead to an Iranian retaliation that could develop into a larger war between Israel and Iran, a new conflict that Trump has publicly sought to avoid."
"So not only did Trump encourage, rather than restrain Netanyahu, it was Iran - not Israel - that did the scuttling. The conflict between Israel and Iran is far from new, and wasn't the region in chaos already?
"Was the October 7 massacre and its aftermath not chaotic enough for The Guardian?
"And for the Associated Press, whose headline was "Israel's attack on Iran raises potential for an all-out war"?
"That phrase was also used by the New York Times on Friday in a primer called "What to Know About Israel’s Strikes on Iran’s Nuclear Program."
"The strikes marked a dramatic escalation in the long-running shadow war between the Middle East’s two most powerful militaries, raising fears of an all-out war," the Times wrote.
"Israel has been at war for more than 600 days on seven military fronts, on college campuses around the world, in traditional media, and on every platform on social media. What's not all-out about that?
"What is true is that top media outlets were all-out misled by the administrations in Jerusalem and Washington. And they all-out fell for it.
The writer is the executive director of the pro-Israel media watchdog HonestReporting. He served as the chief political correspondent and analyst of The Jerusalem Post for 24 years.
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