Everyone knows that doing business with Donald Trump is problematic and Binyamin Netanyahu, who knows a thing or two about politics, knows this better than anyone. The American president is undoubtedly fond of Jews, surely much more than his predecessors, but first and foremost, he loves a man who goes by the name of Donald Trump. He loves him so much that he would be willing to sell the whole world in order to satisfy the whims and wants of that selfsame person, who, by coincidence, happens to be he himself. And en route, he recognizes no obstacles. He is prepared to sell them all down the river in order to achieve his objective, even if this seems to be an impossible one. And this can be said for the present subject at hand: a deal with Iran.
In Iranian terminology, there does not exist the concept of conceding. Submission is not a question at hand. There is the system of deception, of so-to-say, a temporary submission in order to arrive at the final objective. If this was true in the war of Shaagas Arye last year, it is sevenfold more true in its aftermath.
According to their lights, the Iranians successfully survived the American attack and are no longer afraid of the Americans. There is no denying that along the way, they suffered the decimation of their top brass, headed by their undisputed leader, Ali Khaminei, but in their eyes, it was an inevitable and worthwhile price.
Now they can proceed to their final goal — obtaining nuclear weaponry which can threaten the Zionist country. There is no way in the world that they would compromise on this subject and arrive at an agreement which will bury this dream. The question, in their eyes, is how to lead on the Americans and sign some not binding agreement and wait patiently a year or two in order to return to their original plan.
Along the way, they are acting as if they won the war, still threatening Israel and making a link between Lebanon and Teheran. The significance of this, from their viewpoint, is that Hizbullah can continue to fire on the northern settlements, harming soldiers and citizens alike, while Beirut will be protected by an agreement between Washington and Teheran.
And Trump, who so desires to finish this war against Iran, is prepared to buy everything from the Iranians. But Israel's knuckling under America has its limits and no one in Israel is prepared for such an equation. Trump, in his megalomaniac eruption, said this week, in a press conference after his talk with Netanyahu, "that Netanyahu will be forced to accept an agreement between America and Iran. Their attacks have not changed my desire to carry on with negotiations. I call the shots, not Netanyahu."
The problem is that the Iranian missiles are not aimed against Washington or New York but at Haifa and Tel Aviv. Therefore, it appears that Netanyahu will be forced to say to the American president the word 'don't' which the latter is so fond of. "Not this time, Mr. President. I have elections coming up in three months, and submitting to the Americans in this area will put you up against a different prime minister, Eisencott, in the best scenario, and the clown from Raanana in a lesser one."
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Is This What the Army Does to Chareidim?
Another incidental comment: A few days ago, Prime Minister Netanyahu paid a visit to the army training camp of the Chashmonaim Division (the unit which is referred to as 'the chareidi one' in the IDF). Yes, this is the division which the army is proud to have established and which, according to its forerunners, is comprised of young 'mainstream' chareidi inductees.
These soldiers are said to be not marginal youth but pure chareidim in every way who have decided to join the army in order to discharge their duty to the country, as the army boasts.
So what took place when Netanyahu paid them a visit? These young men received him with ecstatic warmth, as if he was a revered Rosh Yeshiva, with the very song reserved to welcome our great Torah leaders, lehavdil, which is sung when such a figure comes to a wedding and is surrounded by singing and dancing adulates.
Netanyahu, a Shabbos desecrater in public and sinner in many known other areas which we shall not enumerate, received this selfsame enthusiastic song-and-dance welcome. These are the very young men of whom the army is so proud as being the chareidim which it succeeded in enlisting in a division which will preserve their character so that they emerge the same way that they entered.
Perhaps they are correct - for anyone who can sing such a song to man who is so removed from mitzvos as is the east from the west, is no real chareidi, and if he were such upon entry, he surely has not remained thus, thanks to the army. There is not an iota of chareidi-ism in this division whose members can greet Netanyahu with such emotional exuberance. Netanyahu, of course, was pleased and happy at this welcome.
