Bibi, the time has come.

From Boston lecture halls to the United Nations podium, you built your political career by denouncing bad Iran deals. You rightly warned that appeasement does not moderate terrorist regimes—it strengthens them. If you now quietly accept, sanitize, or soft-pedal this latest U.S.-Iran memorandum, you will not simply lose leverage. You will forfeit your political future.

Tying your political destiny to President Donald Trump was your gravest political miscalculation ever.

In recent days, Trump has cast himself as the one keeping you in line. He accused you of having “no f*cking judgment.” He said he was “pissed off” by Israeli operations in Lebanon. He treated Israeli military actions as an inconvenience to his diplomatic timetable. He even suggested leaving Iran’s enriched material in place. These are not isolated outbursts. They form a coherent pattern of public dominance and private pressure that demands Israel subordinate its security decisions to Washington’s political calendar—even as Israeli soldiers continue to die in southern Lebanon.

Vice President JD Vance has amplified that pressure with the familiar isolationist logic that dresses betrayal as realism. Like Trump, he also defended Iran’s ballistic missiles as “self-defense,” argued that Israel “can’t kill” its way out of every problem, and reminded you that........

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