Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, a key partner with President Trump in the lead-up to the February 28 attack on Iran, has been significantly sidelined from subsequent U.S.-Iran truce talks, a humbling setback with significant risks for Israel. Weeks after Netanyahu predicted a joint U.S.-Israeli strike could lead to the Islamic Republic's demise, Israeli leaders were cut almost entirely out of the loop by the Trump administration, forcing them to gather intelligence through regional contacts and their own surveillance from inside the Iranian regime.
This "banishment from the cockpit to economy class" carries substantial consequences for Israel and for Netanyahu, who faces an uphill re-election battle this year and had previously portrayed himself to Israeli voters as a "Trump whisperer" uniquely capable of enlisting the president’s support. He had led Israel to war with grand visions of achieving his decades-long goal of stopping Iran’s nuclear weapons push, initially hoping for regime change after the stunning decapitation of much of the Tehran government.
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