Axios reported that Trump exploded at Netanyahu. Called him “fucking crazy.” Said “you’d be in prison if it weren’t for me.” Said “everybody hates you now.”
The journalist is Barak Ravid again, we talked about it. Israeli. Based in Washington. Covers the Netanyahu-US relationship for Axios, and every latest deals to calm the markets.
This is the same journalist who wrote the exact same type of story about Biden. There is literally a book chapter about this pattern. It is called “Fuming Biden.” The same reporter. The same format. The same function. Different president.
Now watch the response.
Mark Levin, a close ally of both Trump and Netanyahu, did not deny the story. He demanded an FBI investigation into who leaked it. When your defense is “this should never have leaked” instead of “this never happened,” you have confirmed the call happened.
But here is the part that matters.
Why would Levin, a friend to BOTH men, confirm the most explosive account of their relationship ever published?
Because it serves both.
Trump gets to look tough. Not Netanyahu’s puppet. Willing to put Israel in its place. His base loves it.
Netanyahu gets cover. He “paused” the Beirut strike, but not because Iran threatened him. Because his “friend” asked him to. His base loves it too.
And look at what actually changed on the ground. Nothing.
Israel cancelled the Beirut strike. But the ground invasion of Lebanon continues. The IDF is still miles deep. A soldier died today from a Hezbollah drone. Netanyahu’s office said: “position unchanged.”
The performance was perfect. Trump gets the headline. Netanyahu gets the cover. The deal gets another 48 hours of “progress.” Markets get a reason to breathe.
And the war continues exactly as planned.
This is the same playbook. Every time public opinion turns against the war, a story appears showing the US president is “furious” with Israel. It creates the illusion of restraint while changing nothing.
Biden was “furious” for 14 months. The war never stopped.
Trump is “furious” now. The ground invasion is expanding.
The visible game is: Trump controls Netanyahu.
The real game is: both men are performing for their audiences while the machine moves forward.
Nothing has been signed. Nothing has stopped. The war is not winding down. It is being managed.
Neither one controls the other. They walk arm in arm. Know that.
“Glej kaj delajo, ne kaj govorijo”
To bi moralo biti osnovno pravilo vsakega, ki spremlja politiko. Vedno in povsod.
Leak? Dajte no, pogovori med državniki potekajo v zelo ozkem krogu, po kriptiranih kanalih. Če bi res prišlo do “puščanja”, bi odgovornega zelo hitro odkrili in sankcije bi bile ustrezne.
Razen, če ta ne predstavlja določenega pola politike oz. ima za sabo dovolj veliko politično moč. Slednje sem doživel, ko je član Pahorjeve vlade, kljub temu, da je bila točka ina seji vlade izrecno označena s stopnjo tajnosti, izdal moje pogovore v zvezi s sanacijo NLB, slovenskemu tisku. Se mu je kaj zgodilo? Niti preiskave ni bilo. Kar lepo ilustrira stanje slovenskih vlad in stopnjo državniške kulture. Čeprav je šlo za prestopek, ki bi v resni državi za sabo potegnil leta zapora.
Take stvari pridejo v javnost z namenom. Gornja analiza je vsekakor na mestu. Odlična analiza.
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