Forever War for Israel

April 17, 2026

President Trump has lost focus, or perhaps I should say he has refocused away from US domestic issues and is focused on how to save his and Netanyahu’s political bacon by extracting them from the war he foolishly let Netanyahu drag America into.

Trump’s biggest problem seems to be Netanyahu’s unwillingness to let Trump out of the war.  The fact that it is Netanyahu and not Trump and Vance who makes the decisions raises the question of American sovereignty.

Clint: The Man and the... Levy, Shawn Best Price: $14.08 Buy New $18.15 (as of 06:21 UTC - Details) There is no reason whatsoever for the US to be at war with Iran. Iran has done nothing to us, but the war is ruining us and Trump and the Republicans.  Energy prices are rising and as the higher prices work through the economy all prices will follow.  Markets are uncertain not knowing who or what to believe. First Trump wants to attack Iran for closing the Strait of Hormuz.  Now Trump wants to close the Strait himself.  Vice President Vance cannot negotiate with Iran without having to telephone Trump and Netanyahu to see what their decisions are. Recent local elections were a disaster for Republicans. By trying to restrict Iranian oil flows, Trump is causing the entire world problems and isolating the United States.  The longer the war goes on, the higher the hurt will mount.

Our concern should be why does Netanyahu want the war to go on when both Israel and the US have run out of interceptor missiles and are sitting ducks for Iran. Is it Netanyahu’s plan to mire Trump in a war he cannot win while Iranian missiles destroy Israel, hoping that Trump’s frustration together with pressure from the Israel Lobby will cause Trump to nuke Iran?  Nuking Iran is the only way such a large country can be moved out of the way of Greater Israel.

Netanyahu broke up the negotiations by bombing Lebanon, a violation of the terms on which Iran agreed to enter negotiations.  Clearly, Netanyahu does not want peace.  But the Israeli controlled American media and political system cannot say so. The Trump people will blame Iran, and the Democrats will blame Trump.

It seems we are stuck with a war, the cause of which cannot be acknowledged. 

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Paul Craig Roberts was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in the Reagan administration, associate editor and columnist for the Wall Street Journal, Business Week’s first outside columnist, columnist for the Scripps Howard News Service, contributor to the editorial page of the Los Angeles Times, and columnist for the main French and Italian newspapers, and for Creators Syndicate in Los Angeles. He served in numerous academic appointments in US universities and was  appointed to the William E. Simon Chair for Political Economy at Georgetown University’s Center for Strategic and International Studies where his colleagues were Henry Kissinger, Zbigniew Brzezinski, James R. Schlesinger (one of his former professors), and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Adm. Thomas Moorer. His article, “How the Law Was Lost,” was published in the January 1999 Cardozo Law Review.