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Israel, stunned by Trump’s Iran deal, sees it as a ‘catastrophic capitulation’
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) and top officials in his government offered no public comment on the agreement overnight.
PHOTO: REUTERS
David M. Halbfinger
JERUSALEM – Israel awoke to a frightening new reality on June 18 as it absorbed, with disbelief and largely in silence, the terms of US President Donald Trump’s preliminary agreement to end the war with Iran.
It accomplishes none of Israel’s war aims, analysts and officials said, and arguably leaves the country in worse shape on each of them.
