Trump Goes Begging to Netanyahu; Iran Trap Closes
Trump's selling peace from one podium while Smotrich's promising to flatten Beirut from another. One Israeli strike ends the whole deal. Right, so Donald Trump is doing his strange little victory lap about an Iran peace deal that he says is largely negotiated, the Strait of Hormuz reopening on his terms, frozen funds about to move, the whole region apparently lining up to thank him for ending a war he started. And while he is doing that, Benjamin Netanyahu's government has spent the last week threatening to flatten Beirut's southern suburbs, pushing Israeli ground forces beyond the Yellow…
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