Attempts to bait President Trump into reducing or abandoning support for Israel represent the latest iteration of a familiar set of strategic narratives within segments of the anti-Israel discourse. The claim that Israel pushed the United States into war with Iran rests on a tired and deeply flawed premise: that a small ally can commandeer American power and steer it toward conflict. President Trump has rejected that framing outright, pointing instead to two primary drivers of his decision-making, the shock of the October 7 attacks and escalating concern over Tehran’s nuclear ambitions. In his account, the issue was not foreign pressure, but a set of threats any US president would have been compelled to confront.

The suggestion that Israeli Jews somehow “dragged”........

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