Israel, Stunned by Trump's Iran Deal, Sees It as a 'Catastrophic Capitulation' [View all]

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/18/world/middleeast/israel-iran-deal-reaction-netanyahu.html

Israel, Stunned by Trump’s Iran Deal, Sees It as a ‘Catastrophic Capitulation’
Analysts said the agreement accomplishes none of Israel’s war aims and leaves the country in worse shape on each of them.
By David M. Halbfinger
June 18, 2026

Israel awoke to a frightening new reality on Thursday as it absorbed, with disbelief and largely in silence, the terms of President Trump’s agreement to end the war with Iran.

It is a disastrous deal from Israel’s point of view, analysts said, because it accomplishes none of Israel’s war aims and arguably leaves the country in worse shape on each of them.

“It’s a bad agreement in which the Americans are paying with cash, and got, at the maximum, a letter of intent,” Yaakov Amidror, a hawkish former national security adviser to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel, said in an interview.

David Horovitz, the editor of The Times of Israel, called it “a catastrophic capitulation,” in the headline of a lengthy opinion column.

And Nir Dvori, an analyst for Israel’s Channel 12 News, likened the deal to a “diplomatic Oct. 7” — a cataclysmic disaster for which Israel was wholly unprepared.

Regime change? The government in Tehran is emerging from the war even more hard-line and emboldened, despite being decapitated at the outset of the conflict in late February. Some analysts said Iran had effectively chased the U.S. military out of the region, given the deal’s requirement that American forces retreat from the “proximity” of Iran within 30 days.

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Iran can use a tiny fraction of Trump's gift (300 BILLION) to revive Hamas and Hezbollah. And there will be a new stream of revenues from ships passing through Hormuz.