Benjamin Netanyahu just held a press conference to, first of all, disprove the rumors that he’s dead — which is never a great sign of how things are going. The Israeli prime minister also used the moment to assure the world that his relationship with Donald Trump’s administration is stronger than ever, and revealed that he’s working on a plan that would, in his view, make the costly war in Iran “worth it.”
Trump, for his part, has struggled to stick to a single, coherent justification for the war. Since about day three, he’s been on Truth Social doing the political equivalent of talking out of both sides of his mouth — declaring victory while simultaneously asking NATO members for help. And despite all that, not a single official explanation has fully clarified why the US joined Israel in the conflict in the first place. Netanyahu, however, may have just offered the clearest glimpse yet of what a “best case scenario” looks like from his perspective.
