{"id":1535729,"date":"2025-05-13T06:45:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-13T10:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/?p=1535729"},"modified":"2025-05-13T06:45:00","modified_gmt":"2025-05-13T10:45:00","slug":"trumps-rift-with-bibi-might-be-irreconcilable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/trumps-rift-with-bibi-might-be-irreconcilable\/1535729\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump’s Rift With Bibi Might Be Irreconcilable"},"content":{"rendered":"

Trump’s Rift With Bibi Might Be Irreconcilable<\/span><\/p>\n

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Authored by Andrew Korybko via substack,<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

That would be a nightmare scenario from the perspective of Israeli interests…<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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A\u00a0report<\/a>\u00a0circulated last week alleging that Trump cut off all direct contact with Bibi after feeling manipulated by him. For as sensational as it sounds, the larger context suggests that it might be true. For starters, there was bad blood between them since late 2020 after Trump\u00a0reportedly felt betrayed<\/a>\u00a0by Bibi recognizing Biden\u2019s electoral victory while Trump was still challenging it in the courts.<\/strong><\/p>\n

This is a very personal issue for him seeing as how he continues to insist that he won so it wouldn\u2019t be surprising.<\/p>\n

More recently, Bibi has been pressuring Trump to bomb Iran, which Trump doesn\u2019t want to do since a large-scale war in West Asia would offset his planned \u201cPivot (back) to Asia\u201d for containing China. <\/strong>In connection with that, Trump reportedly dismissed former National Security Advisor Mike Waltz due to him supposedly\u00a0coordinating too closely<\/a>\u00a0with Israel. Also of relevance are the rumors that Israel was caught off guard by the US\u2019\u00a0resumption of talks<\/a>\u00a0with Iran and is against any agreement between them.<\/p>\n

Then there\u2019s the US\u2019\u00a0recent deal<\/a>\u00a0with the\u00a0Houthis<\/a>\u00a0that excludes Israel,\u00a0reports<\/a>\u00a0that the US will delink Saudi recognition of Israel from their civil nuclear talks, and even\u00a0speculation<\/a>\u00a0that Trump might recognize Palestine during his attendance at next week\u2019s Gulf-US Summit in Riyadh. Altogether, it\u2019s self-evident that US-Israeli ties are newly beset with a host of problems, thus lending credence to the earlier cited report about Trump cutting off all direct contact with Bibi.<\/p>\n

Their rift might even be irreconcilable depending on Trump\u2019s next steps.<\/strong> It was already bad enough from Israel\u2019s perspective that the US reached its own deal with the Houthis right after they announced their plans to impose an air blockade on Israel but delinking Saudi recognition of Israel from their civil nuclear talks, let alone recognizing Palestine, could cross the Rubicon. In that scenario, Israel and the US would remain at odds during the rest of Trump\u2019s term, and perhaps even afterwards if Vance succeeds him.<\/p>\n

The consequences of that happening would widely reverberate throughout the region.<\/strong> Without the continued support of its oldest and most reliable ally, which is still the strongest and most influential country in the world despite the\u00a0global systemic transition to multipolarity<\/a>, Israel would be left alone to deal with threats from Iran and\u00a0Turkiye<\/a>. To make matters worse, it can\u2019t be ruled out that the US might curtail or even suspend its military aid to Israel on whatever pretext, thus weakening its armed forces.<\/p>\n

This combination of factors could lead to Israel wildly lashing out against its regional adversaries in desperation before it loses its military-strategic advantages, which could spark a large-scale war, or being coerced into a series of compromises that accelerates the loss of these selfsame advantages. From the viewpoint of Israeli interests, this a zero-sum dilemma that it must avoid at all costs,<\/strong> yet Trump\u2019s potentially irreconcilable rift with Bibi could turn this nightmare scenario into a fait accompli.<\/p>\n

Nevertheless, as Trump\u2019s unexpected reconciliation\u00a0with Zelensky<\/a>\u00a0shows, there\u2019s always the chance that their tensions could be overcome.<\/strong> For that to happen, however, Bibi would likely have to give Trump something of equivalent strategic value to\u00a0Zelensky\u2019s minerals deal<\/a>. It\u2019s unclear what that might be, and it could come too late to stop the US from delinking Saudi recognition of Israel from their civil nuclear talks and\/or recognizing Palestine, but Bibi would do well to make Trump a peace offering pronto.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span>
\nTue, 05\/13\/2025 – 02:45<\/span><\/p>\n

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