The Israeli government was not shown the memorandum of understanding drafted to end the war with Iran, an Israeli government official told NBC News on Wednesday, the latest sign of growing tension between the United States and Israel.

Shortly after Donald Trump said he had given a copy of the MOU to Israel, the same source said Israel still hadn’t seen the draft. The source wouldn’t comment on whether or not Israeli diplomats had asked for the text and were denied it.

The Israeli government’s absence in the negotiations leading up to the MOU has become a perilous hindrance for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who faces career-defining elections before the end of October. The deal framework was provided to NBC News by a senior U.S. official later on Wednesday.

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    I’m 99.99% sure Kamala wouldn’t have helped to attack Iran, and that was what Israel wanted.
    So the claim that she would have given everything is stupid. Trump gave Israel more than Kamala ever would.

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      I know you say you’re sure, but that’s more of an assumption really.

      We know from her own words that she wouldn’t do anything differently than Biden. Keeping in mind that Biden silenced and censored the USAID for calling out Israeli atrocities before Trump fully dismantled it.

      And here is a report that says that Israel and the US did joint bombing drills to attack Iran under Biden (in the end, the decision by Trump to attack took only a week, there definitely were drills before that).

      https://www.timesofisrael.com/us-israeli-militaries-jointly-drilled-iran-strike-during-biden-administration-report/

      So there were plans to attack Iran. And we haven’t seen Kamala’s actual record on militarism, but she supported the US’s involvement in international security matters and constantly affirmed “Israel’s right to defend itself”. She never said “no” to war.

      We can’t say that the US would have never attacked Iran under Kamala, but we can definitely say it wouldn’t be as big of a shit show and news spectacle as it is now.

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      Kamalas husband is a prominent zionist who was going to make his time as first lady all about aggressively going after antisemitism and promoting zionism. He said, in the UN no less, that “there should be consequences” for anyone speaking in antisemtic ways. He wanted to prosecute people for political speech he didnt like.

      https://apnews.com/article/politics-anti-semitism-united-nations-kamala-harris-california-a0fa6b93caf62f1f0823368f1efd682e

      Yeah Miss “I’m speaking” is a real hero who did so much for basic human dignity. Loved how she shut everyone who spoke about gaza out of the Democratic party convention. Gaza was clearly on her mind in one form or another. But yeah she would have held the line at attacking Iran for Israel, uh huh.

      Her husband and her brother in law literally ran her campaign. Its not like they were crazies off to the side. They told her what to say. This is who you have confidence in huh? this group of genocidal clowns?

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        Kamalas husband is a prominent zionist

        I didn’t know this, but the husband was not the basis for my response, because he has no real political power.
        There is little doubt that the Democrats would not allow a democratic president to behave as stupid as Trump, and made an enemy of almost the entire world.

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          Actually, that changes everything. If her husband advised her to attack Iran, she’d do so.

          She was a terrible candidate, regardless. If Democrats want to win elections, they have to have open and fair primaries, something that hasn’t happened since secretary Clinton’s primary.

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            If her husband advised her to attack Iran, she’d do so.

            No that’s not how this works, Harris is not Trump. Harris would have a competent administration, and ALL the traditionally qualified general advisors would warn her about exactly what happened.
            I’m not kidding you, I checked out of curiosity, and I’ve seen Youtubers warn about the exact scenario that occurred more than 3 years ago!!
            When Trump claims nobody could have known, it’s decidedly laughable, because for everybody qualified with even superficial interest on the subject, it was common knowledge that Iran would close the Hormuz strait, and Iran is more difficult to win against than Iraq and Afghanistan combined. So a hurried half assed effort never stood a chance, and that was what Trump was sold on!!

            She was a terrible candidate, regardless.

            Maybe but Trump was obviously way way worse. without comparison, because Trump is an obvious malignant narcissist, and that will always end worse than when he started. There is simply no way such a person can lead a country to progress.
            And now he has destroyed the American empire with certainty, it is only downhill from here for USA because of Trump, and because of the fact that the American population elected him.

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      Trump gave Israel more than Kamala ever would.

      and luckily (or predictably?) it’s blowing up in his face

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        Absolutely, and equally lucky is that it’s blowing up in Netanyahu’s face too.

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      First, I really wish I could put that many 9s on it. I agree with you, but it would be nice if Democrats ran as directly on “no more wars” as Trump did. I definitely wouldn’t rule out Harris allowing Israel to attack Iran, but just being more discrete and framing it as “Israel’s war” instead of ours.

      Second, folks should be wary: one of the things that makes Netanyahu so dangerous is that he’s genuinely a mastermind at planning AND pivoting: he’ll game out multiple sides of things, and when people say he’s cooked or is finally out of options he’ll pull out a move he had ready.

      My point is that he’s never taken by surprise, and he’s the undisputed master of pulling a rabbit out of his hat when everyone thinks they’ve got him cornered.

      Do not underestimate his ability to win reelection or retain his power even if he loses.

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        He’s not some impossible genius.

        Recall that the entire October 7th attack in 2023 happened at all because Bibi moved the soldiers out of posts to prevent attacks exactly like that to posts near the judges that were overseeing his criminal trials in order to intimidate them.

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              Maybe I’m just being overly cynical, but (based on Israel’s actions afterward) it seems to me like they must’ve been happy to have a casus bellum as an excuse to annex Gaza and now Lebanon.

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              I don’t think he expected or planned it, but this massive security failure does demonstrate my point.

              After the attacks, it was uniformly agreed that he was now politically dead. There was no coming back from a fuck up that massive.

              Yet here he stands. He turned Oct. 7 from the biggest political liability imaginable into a tremendous opportunity.

              Never assume he’s finished.

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          That or he let Hamas attack. They knew about the plans more than a year before it happened.

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        I definitely wouldn’t rule out Harris allowing Israel to attack Iran

        That is not the point you made, Trump helped attack Iran, and has spend way way more resources attacking Iran and protecting Israel than Israel themselves have. Kamala Harris would guaranteed not have followed Israel into a war against Iran.

        he’s genuinely a mastermind at planning AND pivoting:

        No he is not, what he is is a psychopath with no morals, he is just as much like Hitler as Trump is, and Kamala Harris is definitely not like Hitler.

        My point is that he’s never taken by surprise,

        That’s a pretty stupid statement given the current circumstances are directly contrary to what he planned.

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      I mean there’s a good chance she would’ve too, Democrat politicians have been been hammering about Iran and bowing to Israel for yesrs.

      But either way Israel got what it asked for, and in the end it’s a pile of steaming dog shit

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        I mean there’s a good chance she would’ve too

        How do you arrive at this conclusion? The Trump administration acted 100% alone, with a completely stacked deck of people who were selected exactly to support Trump in whatever insanity he wanted. Pete Hegseth is a Nazi that would love to nuke Iran, and he is in the position that should be first to warn Trump!! There is no way Harris would have a similar unqualified idiot secretary of defense.

        And as soon as the attack happened there was a storm of opposition against it! There has never been such immediate opposition to a military operation in USA! And there has never been such a consistent opposition to a military operation as the attack on Iran.