Trump's deal is a catastrophic capitulation to Iran's aggressors, leaves Israel vulnerable and constrained

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58% : And every smart person in Israel knows that," he declared.
56% : An earlier version of this Editor's Note was sent out earlier Wednesday in ToI's weekly update email to members of the Times of Israel Community.
55% : " Trump asserted in remarks at the G7 summit on Tuesday that Israel should be showering him with gratitude, since it is only thanks to him that we were not already eliminated in an Iranian nuclear assault.
52% : The official also warned that if that central goal was not met, Israel would need to launch another operation in Iran to achieve it.
48% : This, from the president who, on February 28, as the US-Israel airstrikes began, told the Iranian public that, when the bombs stop, they need to "take over your government.
46% : According to the draft of the text obtained by The Times of Israel, CNN and Bloomberg on Wednesday, but not officially published at time of writing, the 14-point MOU potentially grants the regime hundreds of billions of dollars -- which it will doubtless utilize to help keep its restive population in line, to massively fund Hezbollah, Hamas and its other terrorist proxies, and to spend as needed on its nuclear and ballistic missile programs.
46% : The "status quo" under which Iran has run rings around the UN's nuclear inspectors, to the point where, as its negotiators boasted to Witkoff, it amassed enough near-weapons-grade uranium for 11 nuclear bombs, an underground stockpile that survived the US Army's B-2 bunker busters last June? Last month, a senior Israeli military official warned that if the stockpile was not removed in the wake of the war, the campaign should be considered "one big failure."
42% : Facing enemies bent on its destruction, Israel knows it must put lives on the line to survive in this treacherous region.
42% : " The 2026 US-Israel war against the Iranian regime was necessary.
41% : Without me, there'd be no Israel, because no other president was willing to do what I did [in tackling Iran]."
41% : The war was lost through inadequate strategic planning by the US and Israel, and subsequent US presidential weakness.
40% : Trump at the G7 also took public aim at Israel for its ostensibly disproportionate military action against Iran's Hezbollah terror proxy in Lebanon.
39% : "Without us, without the United States, there would be no Israel.
38% : The draft text of the MOU would prevent Israel from doing so.
38% : And it directly endangers and constrains Israel, with terminology that binds Israel to a ceasefire it had no part in negotiating: "The Islamic Republic of Iran and the United States, together with their allies in the current war, declare upon the signing of this Memorandum of Understanding an immediate and permanent end to the war on all fronts, including Lebanon, and undertake that from now on they will not launch any hostile action against each other, and will refrain from the threat or use of force against each other (italics added).
38% : " So he wants both a shorter war, and also a less damaging war, to tackle a vast terrorist army, emplaced within civilian areas, directed by Iran to batter northern Israel these past weeks.
36% : The danger now, as realistically seen by Israel, is that they will use the 60-day "status quo" to accelerate toward nuclear breakout. And yet, the same US administration negotiators who recoiled in horror at Iran's obduracy in January have now yielded to it in June.
33% : When the US and Israel struck, it had no hesitation in extorting the world via the Strait of Hormuz, and targeting anyone and anything it perceived to be vulnerable to attack, not only Israel (of course) but also its own regional neighbors, while lamenting that it did not (yet) have the capacity to strike directly back at the United States.
32% : " In upside-down Trump world, Israel is the ingrate for not appreciating his heroic interventions on our behalf, and the illegitimate aggressor for seeking to complicate his submission to Tehran and its terror proxies.
30% : Israel would have been blown off the face of the earth, 100 percent.
30% : The same, with dire implications for the security of Israel and its people, cannot be said of Trump.
29% : On March 2, the third day of the US-Israel war against Iran, US President Donald Trump's special envoy Steve Witkoff gave an interview to Fox News in which he explained why the administration's efforts to negotiate a deal with the regime in Tehran earlier in the year had failed.
28% : It leaves Israel more vulnerable than before it began, with a new US-Iran ceasefire agreement that aims to deny Israel the freedom to protect and defend itself.
25% : Using the language of Israel's bitterest critics, he charged that "Israel is fighting Hezbollah too long and too many people are being killed."
23% : The MOU directly endangers and constrains Israel, with terminology that binds Israel to a ceasefire it had no part in negotiating The deal manifestly empowers and finances a mass-murdering regime.
22% : "If it weren't for the United States of America -- with me, because Obama was the opposite -- Israel would not exist right now.
12% : A terrorist army dedicated, like Iran, to destroying Israel, and one that will invade northern Israel if given half a chance. Warming to his reality-challenged theme, Trump prescribed that Israel "let Syria take care of Hezbollah.

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