Lee Smith
Tablet, July 7, 2025
“Netanyahu spent nearly three decades waiting for an American leader who understood the stakes of Iran’s nuclear weapons program the way he did.”
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will meet Donald Trump today at the White House for their fourth meeting in a year. Last July, Netanyahu traveled to Palm Beach, Florida, to meet with candidate Trump at his Mar-a-Lago mansion. During their last official meeting at the White House on April 7, the president seemed to throw a curveball at Bibi when he announced that the administration would engage in direct talks with Iran over its nuclear program. Both the left-wing media and the Tucker Carlson-led faction of the right erupted with glee at the thought of the Israeli prime minister getting publicly spanked. As it turned out, the meeting was camouflage for Trump and Netanyahu’s joint plans to eliminate Iran’s nuclear program through military action—part of the most successful high-level deception operation since the Allied landing at Normandy.
This time, there’s little doubt about the strength of the relationship between the two world leaders, who will discuss plans for a cease-fire in Gaza and no doubt celebrate the historic victory they won together by destroying the bulk of Iran’s nuclear weapons program. “Bibi and I just went through HELL together,” Trump posted on Truth Social on June 25. “Bibi could not have been better, sharper, or stronger in his LOVE for the incredible Holy Land.” The American president added, “Perhaps there is no one that I know who could have worked in better harmony with the President of the United States, ME, than Bibi Netanyahu.”
Certainly, the relationship between the two men, each of whom prides himself on being at war with his country’s elites, has gone through some rocky patches. Still, it is nonetheless the most consequential relationship between world leaders since Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher teamed up to end the Cold War—and perhaps even since Winston Churchill enlisted Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s aid in defeating Nazi Germany. It’s easy to say that the Churchill-Roosevelt relationship was far more significant to the world at large than Trump’s partnership with Bibi to bomb Fordow. But we’ll never know the extent to which the Islamic Republic threatened to destabilize the world order, since the United States and Israel destroyed the terror regime’s nuclear weapons program before it tested our peace—a peace that has been kept by two resolute leaders. ….SOURCE