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14. Seymour Hersh did an article on this today
Thu Feb 19, 2026, 04:58 PM
22 hrs ago

What Trump will do next in the Middle East is hard to predict. I have been told that Netanyahu wants the US to join him in “a massive crippling attack across a broad front” in Iran. His hope is to play “a major role in shaping US planning and execution of any US next step in Iran” and “to eliminate Iran as a potential threat forever.”

The Israeli prime minister also believes that Trump can be persuaded to give Israel what it wants because all he seems to focus on is Iran’s nuclear capability. The folly is that belief, one American official explained, because the US intelligence community has concluded that Iran “does not retain any viable nuclear attack capability.”

The Israeli veteran said that if Netanyahu carries out his current plan to stage an attack in late spring on Iran, with Trump’s support, Israel will also have to initiate yet another preemptive attack on Hezbollah in Lebanon.

What is coming next, if the president and Netanyahu get their way, as they have had since Trump began his second term, will be more hell on earth.

https://open.substack.com/pub/seymourhersh/p/inside-trump-and-netanyahus-meeting?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web

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Seymour Hersh did an article on this today Beringia 22 hrs ago #14
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