Possible strike on Iran, pressure on Hamas: Israel holds breath for Trump
The Israeli government is hoping for carte blanche from President-elect Donald Trump on several issues, including combatting Hamas and attacking Iran’s nuclear program.
TEL AVIV — Many Israelis are eagerly awaiting Donald Trump’s next term in an almost mystical belief that his second term as president of the United States will put everything right.
The wait for him to walk into the Oval Office has put decisions of national importance on hold.
There is some evidence that casts doubt on this rosy vision of the future, such as when Trump’s vice presidential pick JD Vance said in an interview a week before the elections last October that “our interest very much is in not going to war with Iran.”
This week, Trump posted a video on his Truth Social media platform in which Columbia University economics professor Jeffrey Sachs, speaking last October to students at Cambridge, called Netanyahu a "deep, dark son of a bitch," accusing him of manipulating US foreign policy over the past 30 years by forcing successive administrations into wars in Iraq, Syria and now Iran.
