Donald Trump is 'all in' with Benjamin Netanyahu's illegal war on Iran

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US president Donald Trump (right) shakes hands with Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) in the Oval Office of the White House in April. Far from a defensive necessity for Israel against an alleged nuclear threat, this escalation appears to be a calculated gamble born of Benjamin Netanyahu's long-held strategic ambitions and the alarming absence of a coherent strategy from the Trump administration, with Iran's nuclear program serving merely as a convenient — and increasingly threadbare — pretext for regime change in Tehran. File photo: Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images

The unfolding conflict between Israel and Iran is both far more complex and far simpler to understand than much of the reporting to date suggests.

Far from a defensive necessity for Israel against an alleged nuclear threat, this escalation appears to be a calculated gamble born of Benjamin Netanyahu's long-held strategic ambitions and the alarming absence of a coherent strategy from the Trump administration, with Iran's nuclear program serving merely as a convenient — and increasingly threadbare — pretext for regime change in Tehran.