The Washington Post now confirms that Israel’s strike on Iran was set months in advance and that Washington signed on not because of new intelligence but because Tel Aviv insisted the window for a low-cost hit was closing
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The Washington Post now confirms that Israel’s strike on Iran was set months in advance and that Washington signed on not because of new intelligence but because Tel Aviv insisted the window for a low-cost hit was closing. A senior Israeli official admitted, “We decided by March to strike Iran by June, with or without U.S. support.”
In that same month the U.S. intelligence community reaffirmed, through DNI Tulsi Gabbard’s briefing to Trump, that Iran had not ordered a bomb, yet the plan moved forward regardless. By 13 June, while television anchors still spoke of ongoing “negotiations,” B-2 bombers were already in the air: Iran’s radar net lay crippled, Mossad kill nodes were seeded inside the country, and CENTCOM commander Gen. Michael E. Kurilla, long regarded in Jerusalem as the indispensable American gatekeeper, was only weeks from retirement, a departure that might have brought a cooler successor and new scrutiny.
Kurilla had spent the past year weaving what Israeli analysts called “Kurilla’s umbrella,” a joint strike lattice that linked Israeli, Gulf, and U.S. assets under one rhythm; sources inside the Pentagon describe him not just as amenable to Israeli plans but actively championing them. Israel therefore pressed the launch button before that umbrella could fold, executing blueprints “carefully laid years in advance” against scientists and bunkers not because a nuclear breakout was imminent but because conditions were suddenly ideal.
Into this climate stepped Jacob Nagel, Netanyahu’s former national-security adviser, now a senior figure at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, declaring that there was “no smoking gun, just academic research, but Khamenei probably knew.” The FDD, bankrolled by pro-Israel donors and defense contractors, has for more than two decades manufactured pretexts for every war that increased Israel’s strategic depth; Nagel’s line offered Washington the ambiguity it needed to unleash force without proof.
The choreography is unmistakable: Israel conceived the strike, Beltway narrative factories laundered the rationale, and a pliant U.S. command structure executed before congressional debate or public awareness could intervene.
American strategy is an export function of Israeli doctrine. By the time policy reaches Capitol Hill, it’s already been drafted in Jerusalem.
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