Five decades of Israeli covert strategy to push US, Iran into confrontation
This expectation is grounded in a historical record spanning more than five decades.Declassified intelligence, memoirs by senior American officials, investigative reporting, and academic scholarship further reinforce this assessment. Several scholars, including Trita Parsi and David Menashri, argue that Israeli strategic thinking at the time favoured preventing either Iran or Iraq from securing a decisive victory or ending the war. A prolonged conflict, from this perspective, would leave both regional rivals militarily and economically weakened.
- ▪This expectation is grounded in a historical record spanning more than five decades.Declassified intelligence, memoirs by senior American officials, investigative reporting, and academic scholarship further reinforce this assessment.
- ▪Several scholars, including Trita Parsi and David Menashri, argue that Israeli strategic thinking at the time favoured preventing either Iran or Iraq from securing a decisive victory or ending the war.
- ▪A prolonged conflict, from this perspective, would leave both regional rivals militarily and economically weakened.
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OPINIONOPINION, Opinion|US-Israel war on IranFive decades of Israeli covert strategy to push US, Iran into confrontationSuccessive Israeli governments have undermined diplomatic efforts and stoked tensions between Washington and Tehran.By Javad ZarifPublished On 27 Jul 202627 Jul 2026SaveClick here to share on social mediashare-nodesSharefacebookxwhatsapp-strokecopylinkgoogleAdd Al Jazeera on GoogleinfoIsrael's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu points to a graphic of a bomb as he addresses the 67th United Nations General Assembly at the UN Headquarters in New York on September 27, 2012 [Lucas Jackson/Reuters]As Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu prepares to meet US President Donald Trump, there is good reason to expect that he will use the meeting to discourage any move towards…
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