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Michael Goodwin: Trump and Netanyahu have a shared goal for Iran — but the media pits them against each other

When it comes to the war against Iran, the first drafts of history are being especially unkind to the free world’s architects.

So much so that, in certain pathetic quarters, the ayatollah and his henchmen get better press coverage than President Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

The attacks from The New York Times and other American leftists accusing Trump of being duped by Netanyahu into joining the war are absurd, but it turns out the charges have an equally absurd counterpart in Israel.

There, the growing claim is that Netanyahu is such a wishy-washy junior partner that he refuses to stand up to Trump when the president supposedly makes decisions that are not in the best interests of Israel’s security.

There you have it, both men are simultaneously evil and craven.

As a recent headline in The Times of Israel put it, “Repeatedly Deferring to Trump, Netanyahu Subjects Israeli Security to US President’s Whim.”

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The author cites as an example Trump’s decision to halt the fighting and declare a two-week cease-fire so settlement talks with Iran could begin. Trump’s decision, writer Lazar Berman declared, amounted to “a rejection of Netanyahu’s unsuccessful lobbying against pausing or ending the war yet.”

He also notes that soon after the cease-fire was announced, “Netanyahu’s office conceded in a statement released only in English that ‘Israel supports President Trump’s decision to suspend strikes against Iran for two weeks.’ ”

Although neither leader is above criticism, the drumbeat of nasty charges in both countries strikes me as the bitter residue of sour political grapes.

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