Trump's War Alliance With Israel Is Reshaping the Middle East. But It Carries Risks. [View all]

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/us/politics/trumps-war-alliance-with-israel-is-reshaping-the-middle-east-but-it-carries-risks.html

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Trump’s War Alliance With Israel Is Reshaping the Middle East. But It Carries Risks.
President Trump is the first American leader to embrace fighting a full-fledged, joint war with Israel. Washington has tried to avoid that level of coordination in the past.
By Anton Troianovski
March 13, 2026

In 1991, American officials flew to Israel to keep the country from retaliating against Scud missile attacks and joining the Gulf War.

In 2002, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld warned it would be “in Israel’s overwhelming best interests not to get involved” in the looming invasion of Iraq.

In 2026, the United States went to war alongside Israel.

“It’s the first time,” said Amos Yadlin, a former head of Israeli military intelligence, “that Israel is going to war together with a superpower.”

The United States has been the Jewish state’s most important backer for decades, providing it with weaponry and working closely with the Israeli military. But successive U.S. administrations avoided fighting with Israel as a wartime ally. They were worried about losing U.S. support in the Arab world and have seen Israeli interests in the Middle East as divergent from American ones.

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The ayatollahs are assholes who should be dead, but Iran has never attacked the United States.