MAJOR SHIFT: Will Trump Split From Israel? Israeli Journalist on the Critical Situation in Iran.

In the days before this conversation, Israel bombed Beirut, and the following night dozens of ballistic missiles flew over Tel Aviv. The journalist describes waking up to a ceasefire and going to sleep under missile fire. He estimates that roughly six million people across the Middle East have been expelled from their homes because of Israeli policy — two million in Gaza, one million in Lebanon, and previously two million in Iran. His central question, which he says is almost never asked inside Israel, is blunt: Is the country safer, or better off, than it was in 2023?

A war without an endgame

The journalist argues that Israel’s current military campaigns in Gaza, Lebanon, and against Iran lack any clear purpose. Israeli soldiers die daily in Lebanon, villages are destroyed systematically in a pattern similar to Gaza, and the war seems to have no end goal, no justification, and no exit. He says the Israeli public has been trained to believe that the only language the region understands is military force, as brutal as possible. This was true before Benjamin Netanyahu, he notes, but Netanyahu intensified it. The result is a country that has abandoned diplomacy and compromise entirely, pursuing war as the only solution to every problem.